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Land markets and land market regulation : progress towards understanding

Cheshire, P. C.; Sheppard, Stephen Charles - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004

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 …

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Supply constraints and housing market dynamics

Paciorek, Andrew - In: Journal of Urban Economics 77 (2013) C, pp. 11-26

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 …

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Housing supply and land use regulation in the Netherlands

Vermeulen, Wouter; Rouwendal, Jan - 2007 - Version July 2007

In spite of a growing recognition of the importance of supply conditions for the level and volatility of house prices, empirical work on housing supply outside the US is scarce. This paper considers various measures of housing supply in the Netherlands, where real house prices have roughly...

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Do land use regulations stifle residential development? : evidence from California cities

Jackson, Kristoffer - In: Journal of urban economics 91 (2016), pp. 45-56

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Chapter 19. Regulation and Housing Supply

Gyourko, Joseph; Molloy, Raven - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 5, (pp. 1289-1337). 2015

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 …

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Does land use planning shape regional economies?

Vermeulen, Wouter; Ommeren, Jos van - 2008

Why has job growth over the past decades been weaker in the Dutch Randstad area than in surrounding regions? In a simultaneous equations analysis, we find that employment adjusts to the regional supply of labour. Net internal migration is predominantly determined by regional housing supply and...

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The question of land and infrastructure development in India : urgently required reforms for fairness and infrastructural development

Morris, Sebastian; Pandey, Ajay - 2010

Land in India is problematic largely because of archaic and perverse provisions in the practice and the law. The new Land Acquisition Amendment Bill does go some way to correct the anti-democratic and imperial provisions of the old 1894 Act. Other regulatory restraints stand in the way of fair...