This paper analyses the impact and cost of the high level of power load shedding to domestic consumers in 2012 by a survey based approach. The paper develops a methodology for quantification of the cost of outages by deriving the utility loss, cost of self-generation and other costs incurred....

This paper sets up a model of housing markets with a seasonal peak in demand. Rent levels, rent gradients, consumption of housing services, and the spatial distribution and density of population are derived for peak and off-peak periods under conditions of intertemporal locational equilibrium...

Pilgrims to Makkah in Saudi Arabia have a strong preference for locating in the central area of the city, in proximity to the Haram (a mosque). Available evidence suggests that this has led to considerable overcrowding and congestion. The objective of this paper is to identify the scope for...

The paper has applied a conventional framework of analysis of implicit markets to determine the characteristics of demand for housing attributes of quantity and quality in the urban areas of a large, low-income developing country like Pakistan. Income elasticities generally appear to be low,...

This paper identifies the principal motivations for resort to land rationing in the form of maximum lot size zoning in developing countries. Consequences of such regulation on utility levels, land values and metropolitan area are analysed within the spatial, general equilibrium framework of a...

The paper analyses the sharing of the burden of a land tax between consumers and owners of land at different points in a 'semi-closed' city. The basic conclusion is that the pattern of differential incidence of the tax depends upon the magnitude of the elasticity of substitution between land and...