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Natural Gas Extraction, Earthquakes and House Prices

Koster, Hans R.A.; van Ommeren, Jos N. - 2015

leads to soil subsidence and subsequent induced earthquakes that may occur only after a couple of decades. We show that … induced earthquakes that are noticeable to residents generate substantial non-monetary economic effects, as measured by their … earthquakes do not occur randomly over space, we use temporal variation in the occurrence of noticeable earthquakes while …

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The Impact of Mixed Land Use on Residential Property Values

Koster, Hans R.A.; Rouwendal, Jan - 2010

Contemporary European urban planning policies aim to mix land uses in compact neighbourhoods. It is presumed that mixing land uses yields socio-economic benefits and therefore has a positive effect on housing values. In this paper, we investigate the impact of mixed land use on housing values...

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Place-based policies and the housing market

Koster, Hans R.A.; van Ommeren, Jos - 2017

We study the economic effects of place-based policies in the housing market taking into account search frictions. Theory indicates that beneficial policies increase house prices, but temporarily reduce sales times of owner-occupied properties. We investigate both effects for a place-based...

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Historic Amenities and Housing Externalities: Evidence from The Netherlands

Koster, Hans R.A.; Rouwendal, Jan - 2015

It has been argued that the growth of cities is increasingly determined by the presence of amenities. We study the economic effects of large scale subsidised investments in historic amenities, by looking at their impact on house prices. We aim to distinguish between the direct and indirect...

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Floods and financial stability: Scenario-based evidence from below sea level

Caloia, Francesco G.; van Ginkel, Kees C. H.; Jansen, … - 2023

We study whether floods can affect financial stability through a credit risk channel. Our focus is on the Netherlands, a country situated partly below sea level, where insurance policies exclude property damages caused by some types of floods. Using geocoded data for close to EUR 650 billion in...

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The Impact of Parking Policy on House Prices

de Groote, Jesper; van Ommeren, Jos; Koster, Hans R.A. - 2017

Paid parking is the recommended policy tool by economists to deal with excess demand for street parking. However, we know very little about the effects of this policy on residents. This is particularly important in the context that residents have political power and usually vote against paid...

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Spatial Planning and Segmentation of the Land Market

Levkovich, Or; Rouwendal, Jan - 2016

In this paper we provide evidence of segmentation of the Dutch land markets by spatial planning into three compartments referring to agricultural, industrial and residential use. We analyze transactions of ready-to-be developed land provided by the Dutch Land Register (Kadaster) and find that...

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Behavioural Real Estate

Salzman, Diego A.; Zwinkels, Remco C.J. - 2013

The behavioural approach to decision making under uncertainty combines insights from psychology and sociology into economic decision making. It steps away from the normative homo economicus and introduces a positive approach to human decision making under uncertainty. We provide an overview of...

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Do highway widening reduce congestion?

Ossokina, Ioulia; van Ommeren, Jos; van Mourik, Henk - 2022

Highway construction occurs nowadays mainly through widening of ex- isting roads rather than building new roads. This paper documents that highway widenings considerably reduce congestion in the short run, defined here as 6 years. Using longitudinal microdata from highway detector loops in the...

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House Prices, Second Mortgages and Household Savings; An Empirical Investigation for the Netherlands, 1987-1994

Rouwendal, Jan; Alessie, Rob - 2002

Since the beginnings of the eighties house prices in the Netherlands haveincreased steadily and considerably. In this paper we study the effect of this developmenton the demand for second mortgages and on the savings of Dutch households. We use the dataof the Dutch socio-economic panel for the...

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