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Property Tax and Urban Sprawl

Theory and Implications for U.S. Cities

Yan Song and Yves Zenou

Janeiro 2005, inglês


This article attempts a formal analysis of the connection between property tax and urban sprawl in U.S. cities. We develop a theoretical model that includes households (who are also landlords)and land developers in a regional land market. We then test the model empirically based on a national sample of urbanized areas. The results we obtained from both theoretical and empirical analyses indicate that increasing property tax rates reduces the size of urbanized areas.


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Desenvolvimento Comunitário, Desenvolvimento Econômico, Gestão do Crescimento, Tributação Imobiliária, Tributação, Urbano, Desenvolvimento Urbano, Espraiamento Urbano, Tributação de Valores