This paper shows that rising real estate prices reduce industry productivity, because they lead to a reallocation of capital and labor towards inefficient firms. I establish that the rise in real estate value during the US housing boom relaxes firms' financial constraints. Companies borrow...

Chapter 1. Statistical multi-dimensional scaling under the geographical constraints: The development of Bayesian Multi-dimensional Scaling and its application to time-space mapping -- Chapter 2. Structure of Place Attachment, and Relationship with Predictors and Consequences of Place Attachment...