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1. Nationwide Mass Appraisal Modeling in China

   Feasibility Analysis for Scalability Given Ad Valorem Property Tax Reform
   Documentos de trabajo
   Abril 2019
   Peadar Davis, Michael McCord, Paul Bidanset, and Margie Cusack

   Since 2003, the Chinese government has considered introducing an annual property tax, and while it selected six pilot cities for experimenting with the viability of a mass appraisal system rollout,...

2. Toward Holistic Landscape Conservation in the 21st Century

   Documentos de trabajo
   Diciembre 2019
   Michael B. Whitfield

   In America we enjoy an amazing conservation legacy. However, all of Planet Earth is in the midst of an environmental and social crisis. Here in the United States, observers often see conflict between...

3. Harnessing Technology to Accelerate Land Protection

   GIS at The Trust for Public Land
   Documentos de trabajo
   Diciembre 2019
   Will Rogers

   By developing and using sophisticated mapping and spatial analysis tools, The Trust for Public Land (TPL) has been able to dramatically increase its effectiveness in delivering its land-for-people...

4. Institutional Investment in China’s Infrastructure

   Documentos de trabajo
   Noviembre 2019
   Weiping Wu

   Rapid growth in post-reform China has resulted in a high demand for infrastructure and the need for sustained mechanisms of financing. As public finances are already overstretched at the local level...

5. Are Land Use and Development Changes Associated with Value Capture as a Result of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) Investments?

   A Longitudinal Land Parcel Data Analysis of the First Phase of the BRT System in Bogota, Colombia
   Documentos de trabajo
   Agosto 2019
   C. Erik Vergel-Tovar and Patrick Welch

   There has been a rapid growth of bus rapid transit (BRT) systems in the world. Currently, more than 200 cities have this type of mass transportation system. Few studies have examined the association...

6. Taxes and Economic Development

   An Update on the State of the Economics Literature
   Documentos de trabajo
   Agosto 2019
   Andrew Hanson

   There is a large literature examining the effect of taxes and tax concessions on local economic development, but the last comprehensive review of taxes and economic development was Wasylenko (1997),...

7. Agentes económicos en el mercado del suelo urbano de Santiago de Chile, período 2010–2015

   Aportes a la discusión pública
   Documentos de trabajo
   Agosto 2019
   Pablo Wainer Infante, Ivo Gasic Klett, and Rodrigo Sánchez Leiva

   Se estudia la formación de reservas de suelo urbano por agentes de intermediación financiera, en especial compañías aseguradoras, y de qué forma dichos agentes econ...

8. Exploring the Use of Land Value Capture Instruments for Green Resilient Infrastructure Benefits

   A Framework Applied in Cali, Colombia
   Documentos de trabajo
   Julio 2019
   Stelios Grafakos, Alexandra Tsatsou, Luca D'Acci, James Kostaras, Adriana Patricia López Valencia, Nohemi Ramirez Aranda, and Barbara Summers

   Building resilient infrastructure is one of the major challenges cities face due to urbanization rates and climate change. Financing these investments is an additional challenge particularly for...

9. Financing Transit Oriented Development by Value Capture

   Negotiating Better Public Infrastructure
   Documentos de trabajo
   Junio 2019
   Erwin van der Krabben, Ary Samsura, and Jinshuo Wang

   A recent World Bank report warns of the increasing problems of car-dependent urbanization (Suzuki et al. 2015), particularly in rapidly growing cities in developing countries. The integration of...

10. Land Conversion and Misallocation Across Cities in China

    Documentos de trabajo
    Junio 2019
    Shihe Fu, Xiaocong Xu, and Junfu Zhang

    The Chinese government has been using quotas to control the amount of farmland that can be converted for urban uses in different cities every year. Using a sample of more than 1.5 million land-lease...