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China’s Land System
Past, Present, and FuturePonenciasMayo 2009Dwight H. PerkinsIn this paper, Dwight H. Perkins discusses how the development of Chinese real estate markets has generated tensions between different segments of the population and between the government and...
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Property Rights and Real Estate Privatization in Russia
A Work in ProgressPonenciasMayo 2009Bertrand Renaud, Joseph K. Eckert, and R. Jerome AndersonRussia has attempted to develop property rights institutions to facilitate the development of private real estate markets since 1991. As of 2008 only one city (Veliky Novgorod) of 171 medium and...
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Property Rights Created Under a Federalist Approach to Tradable Emissions Policy
PonenciasMayo 2009Dallas Burtraw and Richard SweeneyProperty rights approaches can be employed to achieve environmental conservation. Two specific topics are examined here: tradable emission permits and conservation easements. The implementation of...
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Private Conservation Easements
Balancing Private Initiative and the Public InterestPonenciasMayo 2009A commonly used property rights approach to conserving the environment is private conservation easements. Gerald Korngold discusses the benefits of this policy and proposes methods to mediate some of...
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Land Lines, January 2009
Revista Land LinesEnero 2009Edited by Ann LeRoyerThis issue looks at the key components of a national infrastructure and economic development plan for the U.S.; an explanation of the benefits and controversies surrounding property taxes; and...
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Municipally Imposed Tax and Expenditure Limits
Revista Land LinesAbril 2009Leah Brooks and Justin PhillipsFor many years, researchers have puzzled over the causes and consequences of voter-approved tax and expenditure limits (TELs), a fiscal rule that weakens the ability of elected officials to raise...