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1. Lessons from Sandy

   Federal Policies to Build Climate-Resilient Coastal Regions
   Enfoques en políticas de suelo
   Abril 2014
   Robert Pirani and Laura Tolkoff

   This report, spurred by aftermath of Hurricane Sandy, identifies a set of policies, regulations, and administrative practices that federal agencies can adopt to help coastal metropolitan regions...

2. Conservation Catalysts

   The Academy as Nature’s Agent
   Libros
   Noviembre 2014
   Edited by James N. Levitt with a foreword by Stephen Woodley

   “We can gain encouragement from the coalition of groups that have rallied together to promote conservation and embrace connectivity: universities, environmental groups, land trusts, churches,...

3. New Estimates of the Elasticity of Substitution Between Land and Capital

   Documentos de trabajo
   Septiembre 2014
   Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt and Daniel P. McMillen

   We reconcile conflicting evidence on the magnitude of the elasticity of substitution between land and capital, which is a key determinant of the relationship between the price of land and the density...

4. Competition and Property Tax Limit Overrides

   Revisiting Massachusetts’ Proposition 2 ½
   Documentos de trabajo
   Septiembre 2014
   Zackary B. Hawley and Jonathan C. Rork

   This paper looks at the role of spatial proximity of other town’s decision to hold an override vote on the decision of a Massachusetts town to hold an initial override vote under Proposition 2...

5. Technological Changes Enabling a Shift Toward a Distributed, Decentralized and Diverse Model of Energy Generation and Distribution

   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2014
   Fiona Cousins, Adam Friedberg, and Chris Brosz

   This paper provides an overview of the technological changes that can complement the legacy electric grid as the New York metropolitan region shifts towards a more distributed, decentralized, and...

6. Defining an Engagement Strategy to Create and Implement the Fourth Regional Plan in the New York-New Jersey-Connecticut Region

   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2014
   Juliette Michaelson

   There are several reasons why public engagement is an indispensible component of the Fourth Regional Plan. The first and most important reason is because it is the right thing to do—the Plan...

7. A Three-Part Literature Review

   Proposition 2½ Overrides, the Efficiency of Public Goods Provision, and the Capitalization of Unfunded Pension Obligations
   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2014
   Jeffrey Zabel

   This is a literature review covering three areas related to a forthcoming study entitled “Massachusetts Proposition 2½ Overrides as Voluntary Taxes: Do Residents Get What They Want or Do...

8. The Window Tax

   A Case Study in Excess Burden
   Documentos de trabajo
   Abril 2014
   Robert M. Schwab and Wallace E. Oates

   The window tax in Great Britain (1696-1851) provides a remarkable case of tax-induced distortions in resource allocation. Tax liabilities on dwelling units depended on the number of windows in the...

9. The Effects of the Two-Rate Property Tax

   What Can We Learn from the Pennsylvania Experience?
   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2014
   Zhou Yang

   This paper empirically investigates the effects of the two-rate (split-rate) property taxation on the capital intensity of land development in Pennsylvania. This study makes the first attempt to...

10. Foro periodístico sobre el suelo y el entorno edificado

    Revista Land Lines
    Julio 2014
    Anthony Flint

    Cuarenta periodistas se reunieron en Cambridge (EE.UU.) la primavera pasada para hablar sobre infraestructura: para quién es, cómo planificarla y pagarla, y por qué se necesitan...