Affordable housing programs as place-based programs in the United States have an impact on the neighborhoods, but little is known about the impact of affordable housing construction on individuals living in the neighborhoods hosting these projects. This paper investigates the effects of...

Over the first two decades of the 21st century, there has been a high correlation betweenbalance of payment measures and housing price indexes. The international finance theory hasfocused on determining the cause of this relationship. The theory has found that deregulationin credit markets,...

We analyze land-use regulation and the determinants thereof across Swiss municipalities. We construct several residential development stringency indices based on a comprehensive survey. These indices capture various aspects of local regulation and land-use coordination across jurisdictions....

This paper explores rent control regulations, the resurgence of the topic in political speech, and the reasons why the policy does not work as intended. The inquiry will focus on examining the reasons why rent control always leads to a shortage in housing supply, higher rent prices in...

We use the price effects caused by the passage of rent control in St. Paul, Minnesota in 2021, to study the transfer of wealth across income groups. First, we find that rent control caused property values to fall by 6-7%, for an aggregate loss of $1.6 billion. Both owner-occupied and rental...

I propose a solution to content removal bias in statistics from web-scraped data. Content removal bias occurs when data is removed from the web before a scraper is able to collect it. The solution I propose is based on inverse probability weights, derived from the parameters of a survival...

Over time, cities expand their physical footprint on land and new cities emerge. The shape of the built environment can affect several domains which are policy relevant, such as carbon emissions, housing affordability, infrastructure costs, and access to services. This study lays a...

The paper introduces a novel, granular house-price dataset sourced from a network of public and private data providers. It offers the first results of investigations into changes in the urban geography of housing markets following the COVID-19 pandemic. The rapid rise of working from home...

A lack of co-movement among the national housing markets in the euro monetary union makes the job of the ECB difficult. If markets are depressed in some countries, while booming in others, the ECB would be unable to create simultaneous loose and tight monetary conditions tailored to each...

We investigate the endogenous emergence of residential and industrial districts around a central shopping district (CSD). Households wish to locate near firms and near the CSD due to commuting costs proportional to distance. Firms wish to locate near households because this reduces the wage they...