We find evidence that water stress of physical assets is an additional component of risk for investors. The World Resources Institute (WRI) found that 1 in 5 people are living in areas at high risk of water scarcity. Recently, the WRI Aqueduct 3.0 model provided new data and insights for...

We find a significant price premium ($21,000+ per house on average) for houses with energy-saving (green) features. Using hand-collected data to estimate the house-specific NPV of individual green features, we find that the economic value of green feature(s) cannot explain the green price...

Large-scale flooding is becoming increasingly common due to prolonged and intensive rainfall caused by climate change. Communities have mitigated this risk by building flood protection, though it is unclear whether residents are aware of these public works or the protection they confer. We...

This paper studies how greenhouse gas emissions (GHGe) mitigation policy (i.e., Greenhouse Gas Pollution Pricing Act or GHGPPA) impacts sellers’ and buyers’ behaviors in housing transactions due to these participant’s different reactions to the Act’s effect on housing transactions from...

Budget-constrained environmental agencies across the United States are limited in their ability to monitor water quality changes using traditional in situ sampling. Satellite-based monitoring systems represent a lower-cost alternative. It is unclear, however, how this transition will impact...

Green leases in commercial real estate have gained widespread attention from real estate investors in recent years. As an appendix to the lease contract, a green lease is designed to reduce energy consumption in buildings and ensure compliance with climate targets in their markets. Using a...

This paper investigates price differentials between organically and conventionally farmed arable land. Organic commodities offer higher prices and environmental benefits such as improved soil constitution, where land buyers gauge these benefits against lower yields at higher risk, switching and...

El objetivo de este trabajo es analizar el impacto medioambiental de los hogares en una economía regional, incluyendo, no sólo el impacto directo, sino también el indirectamente generado a través de la producción de los bienes y servicios que demandan. Con este trabajo también se pretende...

Hedonic models are subject to spatially correlated errors which are a symptom of omitted spatial variables, mis-specification or mismeasurement. Methods have been developed to address this problem through the use of spatial econometrics or spatial fixed effects. However, often spatial...

Hedonic property value models have been frequently used to value environmental amenities because markets for these goods usually do not exist. Typically, researchers cite Rosen’s (1974) seminal work, which allows one to interpret functions of the hedonic regression coefficients as the marginal...