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Property Tax in Africa
Status, Challenges, and ProspectsLibrosJunio 2017Edited by Riël Franzsen and William McCluskey“This one-of-a-kind study is an indispensable source for academics and policy makers who seek to explore the virtues of the property tax. The relevance of this volume clearly transcends the...
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Detroit and the Property Tax
Strategies to Improve Equity and Enhance RevenueEnfoques en políticas de sueloNoviembre 2015Gary Sands and Mark SkidmoreThis report outlines the problems underlying the erosion of Detroit's property tax base—a factor that contributed to the city's bankruptcy in 2013. It offers recommendations for reform...
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Zoning Rules!
The Economics of Land Use RegulationLibrosJulio 2015“Fischel . . . does for the housing debate what zoning once did for cities: brings order and coherence to what’s otherwise a mess.” — Ezra Klein, New York Times This best-...
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Use-Value Assessment of Rural Land in the United States
LibrosJunio 2014This work explains and analyzes critical questions raised by the use-value assessment (UVA) policy for farmland preservation. It covers the origins, key features, impacts, and flaws of UVA programs...
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Instrumentos notables de políticas de suelo en América Latina
LibrosAbril 2014Edited by Martim O. Smolka and Fernanda FurtadoBased on work presented at the May 2013 Latin American Forum on Noteworthy Instruments of Urban Intervention, this book (which includes work written in Spanish and Portuguese) presents 21 case...
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Challenging the Conventional Wisdom on the Property Tax
LibrosEnero 2010Edited by Roy Bahl, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Joan YoungmanThis book reviews the role of the property tax, addresses the reasons behind its poor performance in practice, and critiques the conventional wisdom in academic literature on the subject. It also...
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Public Acceptability and Land Value Taxation
An Experimental Economics InvestigationDocumentos de trabajoEnero 2017Joshua M. Duke and Tianhang GaoThis research seeks to use economic experiments to investigate how different property tax institutions affect homeowners’ investment behavior and whether land value taxation (LVT) is acceptable...
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Faculty Profile
Carlos Morales-SchechingerRevista Land LinesEnero 2013Carlos Morales-Schechinger joined IHS, the Institute for Housing and Urban Development Studies at Erasmus University in Rotterdam, The Netherlands, in 2008. This international institute attracts...
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Perfil académico
Carlos Morales-SchechingerRevista Land LinesEnero 2013Carlos Morales-Schechinger ingresó al IHS, el Instituto de Estudios sobre la Vivienda y el Desarrollo Urbano de la Universidad Erasmus en Rotterdam, Holanda, en el año 2008. Dicho instituto...