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Urban Structure and Housing Prices: Some Evidence from Australian Cities

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  • Mariano Kulish

    (Reserve Bank of Australia)

  • Anthony Richards

    (Reserve Bank of Australia)

  • Christian Gillitzer

    (Reserve Bank of Australia)

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This paper studies determinants of some aspects of the structure of cities, including density and the price of land and housing. We use a version of the Alonso-Muth-Mills model, calibrated to broadly match some of the features of a representative large city. While the calibrated model omits many real-world features, it can nonetheless be used to explore the impact of factors such as: (i) the provision of transport infrastructure; (ii) zoning policies that limit housing density; (iii) frictions on the production of housing; and (iv) population size. The empirical section of the paper shows that the model is consistent with some empirical regularities for large Australian cities. The results of the paper draw attention to structural factors that may have contributed to developments in the Australian housing market in recent years.

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Keywords: housing; housing prices; land prices; zoning; land use;

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  • R00 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General - - - General
  • R52 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Regional Government Analysis - - - Land Use and Other Regulations
  • R58 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Regional Government Analysis - - - Regional Development Planning and Policy

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  1. Christian Gillitzer & Jin Cong Wang, 2015. "Housing Wealth Effects: Cross-sectional Evidence from New Vehicle Registrations," RBA Research Discussion Papers rdp2015-08, Reserve Bank of Australia.
  2. Abelson, Peter & Joyeux, Roselyne & Mahuteau, Stephane, 2012. "NILS Working paper no 181. Modelling house prices across Sydney with estimates for access, property size, public transport, urban density and crime," NILS Working Papers 26086, National Institute of Labour Studies.
  3. Arthur Grimes & Eyal Apatov & Larissa Lutchman & Anna Robinson, 2014. "Infrastructure’s Long-Lived Impact on Urban Development: Theory and Empirics," Working Papers 14_11, Motu Economic and Public Policy Research.
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  5. Yanotti, Maria Belen, 2013. "A review of the Australian mortgage market," Working Papers 2014-01, University of Tasmania, Tasmanian School of Business and Economics, revised 01 Aug 2013.
  6. Ryan Greenaway-McGrevy & Arthur Grimes & Mark Holmes, 2016. "Two countries, sixteen cities, five thousand kilometres: How many housing markets?," ERSA conference papers ersa16p49, European Regional Science Association.
  7. Xiangling Liu & Glenn Otto, 2014. "Housing Supply Elasticity in Sydney Local Government Areas," Discussion Papers 2014-13, School of Economics, The University of New South Wales.
  8. Ryan Fox & Richard Finlay, 2012. "Dwelling Prices and Household Income," RBA Bulletin, Reserve Bank of Australia, pages 13-22, December.
  9. Judith Yates, 2011. "Housing in Australia in the 2000s: On the Agenda Too Late?," RBA Annual Conference Volume,in: Hugo Gerard & Jonathan Kearns (ed.), The Australian Economy in the 2000s Reserve Bank of Australia.

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