It is systemic to expound how that the speculative behaviors are driven by the number of a series housing policies promulgated by China's government for the real estate market. The market is resulted in full of speculative behaviors, and has been booming since the beginning of this decade, even...

This paper investigates the determinants of skyscraper building cycles in Manhattan from 1895 to 2004. We first provide a simple model of the market for tall buildings. Then we empirically estimate the determinants of the time series of the number of skyscraper completions and their average...

This paper investigates the determinants of skyscraper height. First a simple model is provided where potential developers desire not only profits but also status, as measured by their rank in the height hierarchy. The optimal height in equilibrium is a function of the cost and benefits of...

Choosing an appropriate benchmark is not unproblematic for academics or practitioners. Index construction methodologies vary from index to index as tradeoffs are made between the breadth of market coverage and the investability of the securities in the index. This paper examines the nuances...

This study describes the land information systems, their evolution, and the market for land information in Finland. We describe the availability and quality of price information both in urban (residential, office and industrial markets) and rural markets (arable and forest land). In addition to...

The aim of this article is to investigate locational attributes of commercial real estate which are defined in terms of a collection of qualitative appreciations by office users in the Geneva region in Switzerland. The empirical analysis of these environmental quality appreciations was carried...

We abstract from whatever possible merits that may be attributed to rising land values or land speculation and focuses instead on their ill effects that are of most concern among developing countries.

Using the hedonic pricing approach, we investigate how the information released on public registries of contaminated and potentially contaminated sites affects nearby commercial and industrial properties in Baltimore, Maryland. We find that commercial and industrial properties are virtually...

Il saggio affronta cinque temi ancora controversi relativi al rapporto tra perequazione, diritti edificatori e piani urbanistici. Il primo paragrafo considera l’impiego generalizzato della perequazione su tutti i suoli urbani. Il secondo considera il tema dell’indice unico contrapposto alla...

The production of natural gas is strongly increasing around the world. Long-run negative external effects of extraction are understudied and often ignored in social) cost-benefit analyses. One important example is that natural gas extraction leads to soil subsidence and subsequent induced...