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1. Local Revenues Under Fiscal Decentralization in Developing Countries

   Linking Policy Reform, Governance, and Capacity
   Artigos de Conferências
   Maio 2008
   Paul Smoke

   Paul Smoke examines local revenue generation under fiscal decentralization in developing countries. He finds that local capacity for generating own-source funds is rare due to a lack of attention to...

2. How Alternative Revenue Structures Are Changing Local Government

   Artigos de Conferências
   Maio 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...

3. Political Structure and Exclusionary Zoning

   Are Small Suburbs the Big Problem?
   Artigos de Conferências
   Maio 2008
   William A. Fischel

   In this paper, William A. Fischel argues that metropolitan areas with more fragmented and decentralized government structures are more likely to have a lower elasticity of housing supply than those...

4. An Evaluation of China’s Land Policy and Urban Housing Markets

   Artigos de Conferências
   Novembro 2015
   Joyce Y. Man

   In this paper, Joyce Y. Man examines the evolution of Chinese housing policies and the growth of the Chinese housing market since the reforms of 1998, when the Chinese government ended its...

5. Property Rights and Real Estate Privatization in Russia

   A Work in Progress
   Artigos de Conferências
   Maio 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...

6. Should Decreases in Property Value Caused by Regulations Be Compensated?

   Artigos de Conferências
   Maio 2009
   Abraham Bell

   Ideally, government could recoup the benefits of land use planning and redistribute them to those who bear the costs. In this case takings compensation is justified. Given the reciprocal nature of...

7. Land Value Capture and Justice

   Artigos de Conferências
   Maio 2012
   Susan S. Fainstein

   In this paper, Susan S. Fainstein examines the arguments for using land value capture for distributive purposes. Her assertion is founded on Henry George’s idea that land value increments created by...

8. The Affordability Challenge

   Inclusionary Housing and Community Land Trusts in a Federal System
   Artigos de Conferências
   Maio 2012
   Richard P. Voith and Susan M. Wachter

   Richard P. Voith and Susan M. Wachter discuss the relationship between building durable affordable housing and land value capture, using inclusionary housing requirements and community land trusts (...

9. The Use of Eminent Domain in São Paulo, Bogotá, and Mexico City

   Artigos de Conferências
   Maio 2009
   Antonio Azuela

   In this paper, Antonio Azuela examines the conditions under which eminent domain is used in São Paulo, Bogotá, and Mexico City. Brazil, Colombia, and Mexico all went through democratic transitions...