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The Investment Incentive Effects of Land Use Regulations

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  • Geoffrey Turnbull

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    This paper provides an overview and synthesis of the results from recent studies of how different types of land use regulations affect land development incentives. The presentation is nontechnical and focuses on uncovering general principles for the dynamic effects of such policies. It explains why the risk of regulation leads to faster development of unregulated land and how the effect on structural densities reflects the underlying pattern of growth in the demand for land by competing uses. It also discusses how the general pattern of timing and density responses for regulated property reflect the same growth patterns in demand. Copyright Springer Science + Business Media, Inc. 2005

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    Article provided by Springer in its journal The Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics.

    Volume (Year): 31 (2005)
    Issue (Month): 4 (December)
    Pages: 357-395

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    Handle: RePEc:kap:jrefec:v:31:y:2005:i:4:p:357-395
    DOI: 10.1007/s11146-005-3288-y
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    Keywords: land development; land use regulation; regulatory risk; takings;

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