Distortions Resulting from Residential Land Use Controls in Metropolitan Areas

Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics

Volumn 46, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 193-202

  Jansen, Brian N ^a   Mills, Edwin S ^b  

^a Bain and Company   (United States)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Density controls; Employment; Housing prices; Land index; Logged variables; Metropolitan statistical areas; Panel data; Population; Real incomes; Residential land use controls; Spatial equilibrium distribution; Stringent restrictions

Indexed keywords

EID: 84871940128     PISSN: 08955638     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11146-011-9310-7     Document Type: Article

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