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The informal settlements in Butuan City, Philippines, pose the intractable problem of housing and providing services …
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strong demand for housing as a hedging tool. On the other hand, a loose monetary policy and artificially low interest rates … have made the property market tempting for developers. Over-construction and over-consumption in the housing sector …
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The town of Wolfville, Nova Scotia is a small historic community, economically dominated by Acadia University. It is located on the north slope of a ridge, affording views of the Minas Basin, at the eastern end of the Bay of Fundy. The upper boundary of the town is a major provincial highway. A...
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Land prices within monocentric cities typically decline from the centre to the urban periphery. More complex patterns are observed in polycentric and coastal cities; discrete jumps in value can occur across zoning boundaries. Auckland (New Zealand) is a polycentric, coastal city with clear-cut...
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by meansof international case studies. In these different case studies it was found thatdemand and supply, therefore … separated effectively and it willonly be successful if there is a significant difference in demand elasticity betweenthe …, also situated in the North West). It was found that acustomer with low price elasticity is less deterred by a higher price …
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dynamics of both housing supply and demand from a microeconomics perspective. The dissertation includes two papers which … development decisions of land owners as a dynamic discrete choice problem to recover the primitives of housing supply. The second … incorporate unique micro data with new methodological approaches to examine housing market dynamics. The first paper models the …
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This paper uses panel analyses to estimate relationships for agricultural planted area and beef cattle numbers at the state level in Mexico during the periods 1970-85, in order to determine the main factors affecting forest land conversion. Of the key policy variables, maize and fertilizer...
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Based on an inter-temporal general equilibrium model, we rigorously derive a measurement method using dynamic changes in cross-sectional hedonic prices to estimate the willingness to pay for urban esthetic projects. The method has advantages in common with a difference-in-differences approach....
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acceptance from the citizens of Madrid. Critical aspects in this context are affordable housing for potential residents …
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This research examines the challenges and barriers that Public-Private Partnerships (PPPs) face in implementing sustainable building initiatives in developing countries. The study addresses financial, regulatory, technical, risk management, and social-environmental factors that influence the...
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