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1. Interjurisdictional Competition Under U.S. Fiscal Federalism

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2008
   Sally Wallace

   Similar to the decentralization of environmental policy, scholars and analysts also express concerns about the welfare effects of interjurisdictional competition on economic development under U.S....

2. Fiscal Decentralization and Income Distribution

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2008
   Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Cristian Sepulveda

   A major challenge of fiscal decentralization is its effects on income distribution. Theoretical discussions have questioned whether decentralization increases regional disparities when subnational...

3. 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...

4. Community Associations

   Decentralizing Local Government Privately
   Ponencias
   Mayo 2008
   Robert H. Nelson

   In this paper, Robert H. Nelson describes an important change in local governance structure under the U.S. federal system. There has been a rapid increase in the number of residence-based, voluntary...

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. Land Value Taxation as a Method of Financing Municipal Expenditures in U.S. Cities

   Ponencias
   Mayo 2007
   Richard W. England

   To what extent could local governments employ land and property taxation to recoup a portion of these land values for financing local services and infrastructure? Richard W. England tackles this...

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. Community Land Trusts and Housing Affordability

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   Mayo 2007
   Steven C. Bourassa

   The U.S. government housing programs for assisting low-income families are administered largely at the state and local levels, and they include the Section 8 (Housing Choice Voucher) program, Section...

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. Brazil’s Urban Land and Housing Markets

    How Well Are They Working?
    Ponencias
    Mayo 2007
    David E. Dowall

    As does the United States, Brazil faces many housing policy challenges. David E. Dowell points out that Brazilian housing is expensive and lacks local services and secure land tenure—a phenomenon...