Regulation and Housing Supply

Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics

Volumn 5, Issue , 2015, Pages 1289-1337

  Gyourko, Joseph ^a,b   Molloy, Raven ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL BUREAU OF ECONOMIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c FEDERAL RESERVE BOARD   (United States)

Author keywords

Housing supply; Land use; Regulation; Zoning

Indexed keywords

EID: 84929000271     PISSN: 15740080     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-59531-7.00019-3     Document Type: Chapter

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