Big cities often witness land price outgrowing structure price. For such cities this paper derives two predictions regarding the dynamics between house prices, rent and structure age. First, older houses have a higher price growth rate than young ones, even after controlling for location and...

This paper studies to what extent subway demand increased after the Beijing city government imposed restrictions on private driving in October, 2008. Utilizing a pseudo-repeat sale approach in a short sample period that includes 6 months before and after this exogenous shock, we mitigate the...