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Strategic housing policy, migration and sorting around population thresholds
De Witte, Kristof; Geys, Benny - 2015
. We provide evidence that strategic housing policy decisions - i.e. granting additional building permits early in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011397184
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Tall building and land values : height and construction cost elasticities in Chicago, 1870 - 2010
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; McMillen, Daniel P. - 2017
Cities around the world are experiencing unprecedented vertical growth. Yet, the economics of skyscrapers remain empirically understudied. This paper analyzes the determinants of the urban height profile by combining a micro-geographic data set on tall buildings with a unique panel of land...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011750107
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Will skyscrapers save the planet? : building height limits and urban greenhouse gas emissions
Borck, Rainald - 2014
This paper studies the effectiveness of building height limits as a policy to limit greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. It … shows that building height limits lead to urban sprawl and higher emissions from commuting. On the other hand, aggregate … total GHG emissions may be lower under building height restrictions, but only when they are very strict. Welfare is not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010347028
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Efficient adaptation to flood risk
Hovekamp, Winston P.; Wagner, Katherine R. H. - 2023
This paper studies whether private adaptation to flood risk is economically efficient. We estimate the return to elevating houses, one of the most significant private defensive investments against flooding, using two decades of microdata on the universe of houses and flood damages in high-risk...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013503365