Watering Arizona
01.23.2012
Boulder-based Lincoln Institute fellow Peter Pollock is among the planning experts participating in Urbanization, Uncertainty and Water: Planning for Arizona's Second Hundred Years, a major conference sponsored by the the Water Resources Research Center at the University of Arizona, with the Arizona State University Morrison Institute for Public Policy. A workshop beginning today is hosted by Western Lands and Communities, a joint venture of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy and the Sonoran Institute, to review water issues in the Sun Corridor.
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Black swan hunting
01.18.2012
If housing bubbles are like extreme weather events, Jim Follain has been chasing tornadoes. He's been fascinated with the idea that on the 2008 crash was not widely predicted by economists, and developed advanced econometric modeling techniques to indentify the factors present when bubbles burst. He shared his findings, already in a working paper, "A Look at US House Price Bubbles from 1980-2010 and the Role of Local Market Conditions," at a Lincoln Lecture in November 2011.
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Teardowns and the value of land
01.16.2012
Teardowns are controversial for neighbors, in established neighborhoods with good density teardowns are considered green -- taking advantage of existing urban infrastructure, recycling demolition materials, building new with greater energy efficiency. Teardowns also reveal the value of the land where the doomed house sits: the location of the parcel is what's desirable. Lincoln Institute visiting fellow Daniel P. McMillen has been researching this topic, and presented at the American Economic Association conference in Chicago earlier this month.
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