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1. Towards Property Tax Compliance

   A Case Study of Attitudes Toward Paying Property Taxes in Jamaica
   Documentos de trabajo
   Diciembre 2016
   Tina M. F. Beale, Rochelle A. Channer Miller, Amani Ishemo, and Cadien A. Murray-Stuart

   Jamaica’s property tax compliance rate has consistently been described as “low,” “dismal,” and “inadequate.” Its performance is of utmost importance to the...

2. Potencial e Exploração do Imposto Patrimonial Imobiliário no Brasil

   Uma Análise do IPTU a Partir da Teoria dos Conjuntos Fuzzy
   Documentos de trabajo
   Noviembre 2016
   José Roberto R. Afonso, Kleber Pacheco de Castro, and Fabrício Marques Santos

   A fim de identificar os determinantes do potencial de arrecadação do IPTU (Imposto sobre Propriedade Predial e Territorial Urbana), bem como a utilização dessa capacidade...

3. Could Land-Based Financing Help Create Fiscal Space for Investment by Brazil’s Municipalities?

   Documentos de trabajo
   Octubre 2016
   David Michael Vetter and Marcia Vetter

   Within a framework of tight fiscal controls and fiscal discipline, could Brazil’s municipalities generate fiscal space for investment and provision of social needs by increased use of land-...

4. Regional Governance and Institutional Collective Action for Environmental Sustainability in China

   Documentos de trabajo
   Septiembre 2016
   Richard C. Feiock

   Over the past decade, Chinese local governments have adopted numerous innovations to address pressing social, economic, and environmental concerns. Realizing the limitations of unilateral actions,...

5. Mortgage Enforcement and Public Regulatory Actions in China in Selected Chinese Cities

   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2016
   Xinrui Shi

   This paper serves as a primer to examine the issues extant in the Chinese mortgage enforcement system; to analyze overbuilding and vacancy in three Chinese cities; and to explore the possibility of...

6. Leadership of Land Trusts

   Generational Transition and Preparing for the Future
   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2016
   Jean Hocker

   This paper, part of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy’s Kingsbury Browne fellowship awarded in conjunction with the Land Trust Alliance’s 2014 Kingsbury Browne Conservation Leadership...

7. Zoning for Affordability

   Using the Case of New York to Explore Whether Zoning Can Be Used to Achieve Income-Diverse Neighborhoods
   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2016
   Vicky Chau and Jessica Yager

   Harnessing the strength of the real estate market in high cost cities to support the production of affordable housing can be an important strategy to maintain economically diverse neighborhoods. A...

8. Real Estate Development and Financial Crises

   A Comparative Study Between China and World Major Economies 1980–2014
   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2016
   Simon X. Zhao and Bryane Michael

   This report represents an international, comparative, empirical study of the relationship between financial crises and real estate development—with a focus on Japan, Hong Kong, the U.S., some...

9. The Political Economy of Voter Support for School Property Taxation

   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2016
   Lindsay Amiel, Jared Knowles, and Andrew Reschovsky

   Like a number of other states, Wisconsin places revenue limits on its local school districts. This paper explores the factors that lead school boards to hold referenda to override the limits, and...

10. Bubble Economics

    How Big a Shock to China’s Real Estate Sector Will Throw the Country into Recession, and Why Does It Matter?
    Documentos de trabajo
    Mayo 2016
    Bryane Michael and Simon X. Zhao

    How far do China’s property prices need to drop in order to send the country into a recession? What does this question tell us about the way Bubble Economies work? In this paper, we develop a...