This paper provides some background for the book, Handbook of Real Estate and Macroeconomics. It gives an overview of different chapters and how various themes and ideas can be connected. Directions for future research are also discussed.

This paper provides some background for the book, Handbook of Real Estate and Macroeconomics. It gives an overview of different chapters and how various themes and ideas can be connected. Directions for future research are also discussed.

La relevancia de las economías de aglomeración tipo urbanización sobre múltiples variables y/o dinámicas económicas se encuentra ampliamente documentada en la literatura. Sin embargo, es difícil ofrecer una medida sintética del nivel de aglomeración urbana que alcanza un territorio. En...

In this paper, we put forth the view that the potential for urbanisation economies increases with interaction opportunities. On the basis of that premise, three properties are key to an agglomeration index, which should: (i) increase with the concentration of population and conform to the...

The paper investigates the relationship between the announcement of a proposed haul route and its impact on nearby property values. A large number of studies have been conducted using hedonic property value models to show the impact of environmental disamenities on property values, but to our...

A plethora of literature exists on irrigation development. However, only a few studies analyse the distributional issues associated with irrigation induced technological changes (IITC) in the context of commodity markets. Furthermore, these studies deal with only the theoretical arguments and to...

Many of the costs associated with greenfield residential development are apparent and tangible. For example, regulatory fees, government taxes, acquisition costs, selling fees, commissions and others are all relatively easily identified since they represent actual costs incurred at a given point...