Thursday, 29 August 2019

Dirty Density: Air Quality and the Density of American Cities

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Air pollution tends to be worst in large cities and their urban cores. As a result, it is urban air pollution that makes the headlines ...
Monday, 19 August 2019

Why banning the construction of second homes in St. Ives and elsewhere has been a bad idea and what to do instead

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By Christian Hilber, LSE Department of Geography and Environment c.hilber@lse.ac.uk In May 2016 the local residents of St. Ives approve...
Friday, 26 April 2019

Financial innovation in mortgage products spurred the rapid increase in credit and house price growth during the last housing boom

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The dominance of the 30-year fixed rate mortgage is a defining feature of the United States’ housing market. For a brief period in the mi...
Tuesday, 2 April 2019

Valuing the environmental benefits of canals using house prices

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Britain has an extensive canal and navigable river network, which played a vital role in transporting goods from the Industrial Revolution t...
Tuesday, 11 December 2018

Do foreign migrants ‘grease the wheels’ of the labour market?

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[by Michael Amior] Recent political developments in the US and Europe have led to renewed interest in the large and persistent regional di...
Monday, 19 November 2018

The Economic Impacts of Constraining Second Home Investments

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[by Christian Hilber] Investment in second homes has been surging around the world . This surge has triggered a serious political backlash...
Tuesday, 13 November 2018

Measuring Urban Economic Density

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[By Dzhamilya Nigmatulina] What makes cities productive? For a long time, researchers have known that city size matters a lot – people who...