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House price trends in each of New Zealand and Australia are frequently discussed as national level developments. Sub … (differential income patterns) or by supply factors (geographical or regulatory restrictions). At a broader scale, it is possible … prices in Australia. One reason this could occur is if international macroeconomic and asset price trends dominate housing …
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This study assesses the effects of urban governance structure on the spatial expansion of metropolitan areas. A more fragmented governance structure, represented by a high number of administrative units with decision power on land use per inhabitant, is expected to increase the competition...
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Defenders of suburban sprawl assert that sprawl is inevitable in affluent societies, based on trends in Western Europe. According to supporters of this Inevitability Theory, European cities have decentralized and become more car-dependent, thus proving that even where governments are more...
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The purpose of this article is to show that, in Canada as in the United States, government regulation promotes sprawl through anti-density zoning, minimum parking requirements, and overly wide streets. However, Canadian cities are less "sprawling" than American cities- perhaps because at least...
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A Bayesian supply function equilibrium is characterized in a market where firms have private information about their … uncertain costs. It is found that with supply function competition, and in contrast to Bayesian Cournot competition …, competitiveness is affected by the parameters of the information structure: supply functions are steeper with more noise in the …
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A finite number of sellers (n) compete in schedules to supply an elastic demand. The costs of the sellers have … uncertain common and private value components and there is no exogenous noise in the system. A Bayesian supply function …. Price-cost margins and bid shading are affected by the parameters of the information structure: supply functions are steeper …
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