We introduce the papers in this volume and put them into the context of the literature on land use regulation. We then … synthesise and draw some conclusions from existing research on land use regulation and interpret the evidence currently available … use regulation is, compared to regulation in other contexts, significantly neglected. We hope that this special issue …

house prices and the regulation of new housing supply. I then employ a dynamic structural model of housing investment to …: First, regulation lowers the elasticity of new housing supply by increasing lags in the permit process and adding to the … that regulation and geographic constraints play critical and complementary roles in decreasing the responsiveness of …

this chapter, we review the literature on the causes and effects of this type of regulation. We begin with a discussion of … how researchers measure regulation empirically, which highlights the variety of methods that are used to constrain … development. Many theories have been developed to explain why regulation arises, including the role of homeowners in the local …

corrective taxation and to regulation. …

This paper is the second of two parts of a general theory of regulation. An effective regulatory system, whether … regulation and that the major cause of regulatory failure, ranging from weak to catastrophic, is from incoherence between one or …