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1. How Alternative Revenue Structures Are Changing Local Government

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2010
   Tracy M. Gordon and Kim Rueben

   In this paper, Tracy M. Gordon and Kim Rueben note that the revenue mix for local government changes frequently in response to economic shocks, policy shifts, and technological advances in tax...

2. Property Rights and Real Estate Privatization in Russia

   A Work in Progress
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2009
   Bertrand Renaud, Joseph K. Eckert, and R. Jerome Anderson

   Russia 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...

3. Property Rights Created Under a Federalist Approach to Tradable Emissions Policy

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2009
   Dallas Burtraw and Richard Sweeney

   Property rights approaches can be employed to achieve environmental conservation. Two specific topics are examined here: tradable emission permits and conservation easements. The implementation of...

4. Public and Private School Competition and U.S. Fiscal Federalism

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2008
   Thomas J. Nechyba

   The traditional public school finance system under U.S. fiscal federalism has generated concern that the use of housing markets to ration resources and students to public schools may increase income...

5. The Economics of Conservation Easements

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2007
   Andrew J. Plantinga

   Environmental preservation—or more specifically conservation easements—is an area of public action that affects property values. According to Andrew J. Plantinga, by 2005 about 3.9 million acres of...

6. Taxing Land and Property in Emerging Economies

   Raising Revenue . . . and More?
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2007
   Richard M. Bird and Enid Slack

   Richard M. Bird and Enid Slack examine the potential of land and property taxation in developing and transition countries. Bird and Slack present a less optimistic view of the use of land and...

7. The United Kingdom’s Experience in Revitalizing Inner Cities

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2007
   Peter Hall

   Peter Hall discusses chronologically the urban regeneration effects undertaken in the United Kingdom over the past 30 years. The British urban development patterns discussed by Hall are very...

8. U.S. Urban Revitalization in the Twenty-First Century

   Hopeful Signs
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2007
   Eugénie L. Birch

   Eugénie L. Birch discusses past attempts by municipalities to revitalize U.S. inner cities. The U.S. urban renewal strategies described by Birch are similar in many ways to the British urban...

9. Multiple-Home Ownership and the Income Elasticity of Housing Demand

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2007
   Eric Belsky, Zhu Xiao Di, and Dan McCue

   An interesting trend in the U.S. housing market is the growing number of households owning second homes. This topic is of interest because households that divide their consumption of housing services...

10. Zoning Rules!

    The Economics of Land Use Regulation
    Libros
    Julio 2015
    William A. Fischel

    “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-...