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Local governments are becoming an increasingly important arm of governance and public goods provision. As the role of counties and municipalities continues to expand so must our understanding of their inner workings and relationships to...
Over the past decade, there has been significant volatility in the housing market. During the first half of the decade, housing prices increased at an unprecedented rate and homeownership rates reached an all time high. With an...
The world is experiencing a rapid urbanization process since decades ago, and more than half of the world’s population now are living in urban areas. United Nations has projected that the population growth in urban areas will continue...
The capture theory of regulation concludes that regulatory agencies tend to be captured by the firms they are regulating, so that regulations benefit those regulated firms. This paper examines the cumulative effects of federal...
Urban growth or sprawl has been an interesting research topic for contemporary urban studies. The availability of remote sensing and GIS techniques facilitate a large number of empirical and practical studies in addition to traditional...
Recent literature on comparative institutional analysis has found that the set of institutions consistent with the concept of economic freedom correlates with higher levels of per capita income (Gwartney, Holcombe, and Lawson 2004), more...
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