In this paper, we begin by documenting substantial variation in house price growth across
neighborhoods within a city during city-wide housing price booms. We then present a model …

In 1980, housing prices in the main US cities rose with distance to the city center. By 2010,
that relationship had reversed. We propose that this development can be traced to greater …

This paper studies the urban structure of Detroit—one that is clearly not optimal for its size—
which features a business district immediately surrounded by largely vacant neighborhoods …

Environmental harm from plastic pollution partly results from compliance failure at the
individual level. Three prevalent non-compliant motivations for polluting plastics include …

This article assesses the predictive power of variables that measure market tightness, such
as seller's bargaining power and sale probabilities, on future home prices. Theoretical …

While supply elasticity can explain why housing prices appreciate by different amounts
across cities, it may play a lesser role in smaller geographic units, such as neighbourhoods …

Small and midsized cities played a key role in the Industrial Revolution in the United States
as hubs for the shipping, warehousing, and distribution of manufactured products. But as the …

One striking characteristic of shrinking metropolitan statistical areas such as Detroit and
Cleveland is the amount of vacant land and number of abandoned buildings in close …

To quantify downside risks to housing markets, we apply and extend the house price-at-risk
methodology to a sample of 37 cities across the United States and Canada using quarterly …

Neighbourhood socioeconomic change is a complex phenomenon which is driven by
multiple processes. Most research has focused on the role of urban-level processes, which …