SSRN Urban Research eJournal

1.

Underwater and Not Walking Away: Shame, Fear and the Social Management of the Housing Crisis

Wake Forest Law Review, Vol. 45, p. 971, 2010, Arizona Legal Studies Discussion Paper No 09-35

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 27 Oct 2009 Last Revised: 09 May 2015

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Brent T. White

University of Arizona - James E. Rogers College of Law

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2.

Explaining the Housing Bubble

Georgetown Law Journal, Vol. 100, No. 4, pp. 1177-1258, University of Pennsylvania Institute for Law & Economics Research Paper No. 10-15, Georgetown Public Law Research Paper No. 10-60, Georgetown Law and Economics Research Paper No. 10-16

Number of pages: 82 Posted: 01 Sep 2010 Last Revised: 07 May 2015

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Adam J. Levitin and Susan M. Wachter

Georgetown University Law Center and University of Pennsylvania - Wharton School, Department of Real Estate

Downloads 7,544

3.

There's an App for That: Mobile Applications for Urban Planning

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 30 Oct 2011

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Jennifer S. Evans-Cowley

Ohio State University (OSU)

Downloads 4,211

4.

The Importance of Transportation in Tourism Sector

7th Silk Road International Conference “Challenges and Opportunities of Sustainable Economic Development in Eurasian Countries”, May 24, 2012 – May 26, 2012,

Number of pages: 6 Posted: 11 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 22 Mar 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Rufat Mammadov

Qafqaz University

Downloads 4,048

5.

The Impacts of Electronic Banking on Customer Satisfaction in Ethiopian Banking Industry (The Case of Dashen and Wogagen Banks in Gondar City)

Number of pages: 84 Posted: 14 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 14 Mar 2015

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Milion Assefa Tafa

Independent

Downloads 3,581

6.

Rural-Urban Migration in Developing Countries: A Survey of Theoretical Predictions and Empirical Findings

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3915

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 26 Jul 2006

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Somik V. Lall, Harris Selod and Zmarak Shalizi

World Bank, National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) and World Bank - Research Department

Downloads 3,069

7.

The Real-Time City? Big Data and Smart Urbanism

A revised version of this paper, including two new sections, has been published in GeoJournal 79(1):1-14, 2014

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 04 Jul 2013 Last Revised: 11 Jan 2015

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Rob Kitchin

National University of Ireland, Maynooth (Maynooth University) - NIRSA

Downloads 2,927

8.

Corporate Governance in Hong Kong: Key Problems and Prospects

CUHK Centre for Accounting Disclosure and Corporate Governance Research Paper No. 1

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 10 Oct 2003

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Simon S. M. Ho

Hong Kong Baptist University

Downloads 2,732

9.

An Economic Theory of Infrastructure and Commons Management

Minnesota Law Review, Vol. 89, pp. 917-1030, April 2005

Number of pages: 114 Posted: 14 Sep 2004

Accepted Paper Series

Brett M. Frischmann

Villanova University - School of Law

Downloads 2,694

10.

Housing in the New Millennium: A Home Without Equity is Just a Rental with Debt

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 21 Jul 2008 Last Revised: 19 May 2015

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Joshua Rosner

Graham Fisher & Co.

Downloads 2,691

11.

A Long Run House Price Index: The Herengracht Index, 1628-1973

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 01 Mar 1996

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Piet M. A. Eichholtz

University of Maastricht - Limburg Institute of Financial Economics (LIFE)

There are 2 versions of this paper

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12.

Why Has Regional Income Convergence in the U.S. Declined?

HKS Working Paper No. RWP12-028

Number of pages: 66 Posted: 11 Jun 2012 Last Revised: 08 Jun 2015

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Peter Ganong and Daniel Shoag

Harvard University and Harvard University - Harvard Kennedy School (HKS)

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,427

13.

Corruption and Decentralized Public Governance

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 3824

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 25 Jan 2006

Working Paper Series

Anwar Shah

World Bank

Downloads 2,267

14.

The U.S. Financial Crisis: A Summary of Causes & Consequences

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 22 Aug 2012

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Brian J. Bolton

Portland State University - School of Business Administration

Downloads 2,109

15.

A History of Housing Prices in Australia 1880-2010

UNSW Australian School of Business Research Paper No. 2010 ECON 18

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 19 Nov 2010

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Nigel Stapledon

UNSW Australia Business School, School of Economics

Downloads 2,037

16.

The Role of Urban Planning in Achieving Sustainable Urban Development

OIDA International Journal of Sustainable Development, Vol. 2, No. 11, pp. 23-26, 2011

Number of pages: 4 Posted: 07 Jan 2012

Accepted Paper Series

Fereshte Ahmadi and Shirin Toghyani

Islamic Azad University (IAU) - Department of Art and Architecture, Science and Research Branch and Islamic Azad University - Faculty of Art & Architecture; Urbanism Collage, Najafabad Branch

Downloads 1,917

17.

Corporate Governance and Social Responsibility of Family Firms in Hong Kong: A Case Study of Hutchison Whampoa Limited (HWL)

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 06 Oct 2006

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Hubert Shea

LVMH Moet Hennessy Louis Vuitton China

Downloads 1,842

18.

An Examination of the Effects of Budgetary Control on Performance: Evidence from the Cities

AAA 2008 MAS Meeting Paper

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 31 Jul 2007 Last Revised: 10 Oct 2013

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Carolyn M. Callahan and Tammy Renea Waymire

University of Louisville - College of Business and Northern Illinois University - Department of Accountancy

Downloads 1,809

19.

Taxi Industry Regulation, Deregulation, and Reregulation: The Paradox of Market Failure

University of Denver College of Law, Transportation Law Journal, Vol. 24, Issue 1, pp. 73-120 (1996)

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 29 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 20 Nov 2015

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Paul Stephen Dempsey

McGill University

Downloads 1,769

20.

How Overregulation Creates Sprawl (Even in a City without Zoning)

Wayne Law Review, Vol. 50, p. 1171, 2005, GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 170

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 28 Oct 2005

Accepted Paper Series

Michael Lewyn

Touro College - Jacob D. Fuchsberg Law Center

Downloads 1,679

21.

Does the Structure and Composition of the Board Matter? The Case of Nonprofit Organizations

Yale SOM Working Paper No. PM-04

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 01 Oct 2002

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Sharon M. Oster and Katherine M. O'Regan

Yale School of Management and New York University (NYU) - Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,676

22.

Risk, Race, & Recidivism: Predictive Bias and Disparate Impact

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 08 Nov 2015 Last Revised: 15 Jun 2016

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Jennifer L. Skeem and Christopher T. Lowenkamp

University of California, Berkeley and Government of the United States of America - Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts

Downloads 1,623

23.

On Local Housing Supply Elasticity

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 05 Aug 2008

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Albert Saiz

University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School

Downloads 1,452

24.

Infrastructure and Growth in Developing Countries: Recent Advances and Research Challenges

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4460

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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Stéphane Straub

University of Toulouse 1 - Toulouse School of Economics (TSE)

Downloads 1,394

25.

The Impact of Building Restrictions on Housing Affordability

Economic Policy Review, Vol. 9, No. 2, June 2003

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 25 Aug 2005

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Edward L. Glaeser and Joseph Gyourko

Harvard University - John F. Kennedy School of Government, Department of Economics and University of Pennsylvania - Real Estate Department

Downloads 1,375

26.

Delusion and Deception in Large Infrastructure Projects: Two Models for Explaining and Preventing Executive Disaster

California Management Review, vol. 51, no. 2, pp. 170-193

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 08 Mar 2013 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2013

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Bent Flyvbjerg, Massimo Garbuio and Dan Lovallo

University of Oxford - Said Business School, The University of Sydney and The University of Sydney

Downloads 1,358

27.

Infrastructure and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

World Bank Policy Research Working Paper No. 4712

Number of pages: 70 Posted: 20 Apr 2016

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César Calderón and Luis Servén

World Bank and World Bank - Office of the Chief Economist

Downloads 1,321

28.

Fast Food: Oppression Through Poor Nutrition

California Law Review, Vol. 95, No. 2221, 2007

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 14 Jul 2010

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Andrea Freeman

University of Hawai'i William S. Richardson School of Law

Downloads 1,282

29.

It Takes a Village: Municipal Condemnation Proceedings and Public/Private Partnerships for Mortgage Loan Modification, Value Preservation, and Local Economic Recovery

Stanford Journal of Law, Business, and Finance, Vol. 18, No. 121, 2013, Cornell Legal Studies Research Paper No. 12-12

Number of pages: 56 Posted: 11 Jun 2012 Last Revised: 05 Apr 2013

Accepted Paper Series

Robert C. Hockett

Cornell University - Law School

Downloads 1,233

30.

An Event Study of Reverse Stock Splits in Hong Kong Market

EFMA 2003 Helsinki Meetings

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 04 Jun 2003

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Lihua Jing

affiliation not provided to SSRN

Downloads 1,217

31.

Sustainable Cities: Oxymoron or the Shape of the Future?

Harvard Business School Organizational Behavior Unit Working Paper No. 11-062, Harvard Business School Technology & Operations Mgt. Unit Working Paper No. 11-062

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 17 Dec 2010 Last Revised: 29 Apr 2015

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Annissa Alusi, Robert G. Eccles, Amy C. Edmondson and Tiona Zuzul

Harvard Business School, Harvard Business School, Harvard University - Technology & Operations Management Unit and Harvard Business School

Downloads 1,197

32.

The City as a Commons

34 Yale L. & Pol'y Rev. 281 (2016)

Number of pages: 69 Posted: 30 Aug 2015 Last Revised: 31 Jul 2016

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Sheila Foster and Christian Iaione

Georgetown University and Università degli Studi Guglielmo Marconi

Downloads 1,187

33.

Sprawl and Urban Growth

Harvard Institute of Economic Research Discussion Paper No. 2004

Number of pages: 74 Posted: 13 May 2003

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Edward L. Glaeser and Matthew E. Kahn

Harvard University - John F. Kennedy School of Government, Department of Economics and University of Southern California

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,159

34.

Are House Prices Rising Too Fast in China?

IMF Working Paper No. 10/274

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 01 Feb 2011

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Ashvin Ahuja, Lillian Cheung, Gaofeng Han, Nathan Porter and Wenlang Zhang

International Monetary Fund (IMF), Hong Kong Monetary Authority, Hong Kong Monetary Authority, International Monetary Fund (IMF) and Independent

Downloads 1,136

35.

France's Burning Issue: Understanding the Urban Riots of November 2005

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 19 Nov 2008

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Raphaël Canet, Laurent Pech and Maura Stewart

Faculty of Social Sciences - University of Ottawa, Middlesex University - School of Law and National University of Ireland, Galway - Department of French

Downloads 1,121

36.

Lessons from Gurgaon, India's Private City

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 14-32

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 25 Oct 2014

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Shruti Rajagopalan and Alexander T. Tabarrok

Department of Economics, SUNY Purchase College and George Mason University - Department of Economics

Downloads 1,119

37.

Machine Learning and the Spatial Structure of House Prices and Housing Returns

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 15 Dec 2008

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Andrew Caplin, Sumit Chopra, John V. Leahy, Yann LeCun and Trivikraman Thampy

New York University (NYU) - Department of Economics, affiliation not provided to SSRN, New York University (NYU) - Department of Economics, Courant Institute of Mathematical Sciences and New York University

Downloads 1,108

38.

Entrepreneurship and Urban Success: Toward a Policy Consensus

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 28 Feb 2008 Last Revised: 28 Sep 2014

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Zoltan J. Acs, Edward L. Glaeser, Robert E. Litan, Lee Fleming, Stephan J. Goetz, William R. Kerr, Steven Klepper, Stuart S. Rosenthal, Olav Sorenson and William C. Strange

Schar School of Policy and Government, Harvard University - John F. Kennedy School of Government, Department of Economics, Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) - Council on Foreign Relations- Washington D.C., Harvard University - Technology & Operations Management Unit, Pennsylvania State University - The Northeastern Regional Center for Rural Development, Harvard University - Entrepreneurial Management Unit, Carnegie Mellon University - David A. Tepper School of Business, Syracuse University - Department of Economics, Yale School of Management and University of Toronto - Rotman School of Management

Downloads 1,065

39.

The Incidence of Housing Voucher Generosity

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 24 Apr 2013 Last Revised: 01 Jul 2016

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Robert A. Collinson and Peter Ganong

New York University and Harvard University

Downloads 1,062

40.

Smart Grid Economics: Policy Guidance Through Competitive Simulation

ERIM Report Series Reference No. ERS-2010-043-LIS

Number of pages: 20 Posted: 14 Nov 2010

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Wolfgang Ketter, John Collins and Carsten A. Block

University of Cologne - Institute of Energy Economics, University of Minnesota - Twin Cities and Karlsruhe Institute of Technology

Downloads 1,059

41.

The Changing Forces of Urban Economic Development: Globalization and City Competitiveness in the 21st Century

Cityscape, Vol. 3, No. 3, 1998

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 05 Apr 1999

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Dennis A. Rondinelli, James H. Johnson Jr. Jr. and John D. Kasarda

Duke University - Management, University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Management-Strategy Area and University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill - Management-Strategy Area

Downloads 1,059

42.

Theoretical Framework of Financing Subsidized Housing in a Developing Environment

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 19 Oct 2007

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Nidal Rashid Sabri

Birzeit University

Downloads 1,044

43.

Impact of Packaging on the Buying Behaviour of Consumers in a Communicationally Remote Urban Area

Research Bulletin of the Institute of Cost and Works Accountants of India, Vol. 27, pp. 200-204, 2005

Number of pages: 12 Posted: 26 Jun 2010

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Bidyut Jyoti Bhattacharjee and Dibyojyoti Bhattacharjee

affiliation not provided to SSRN and Assam University

Downloads 1,027

44.

Does Government Funding Alter Nonprofit Governance? Evidence from New York City Nonprofit Contractors

Yale SOM Working Paper No. PM-03

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 13 Aug 2001

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Katherine M. O'Regan and Sharon M. Oster

New York University (NYU) - Robert F. Wagner Graduate School of Public Service and Yale School of Management

Downloads 1,016

45.

A Review of the Chinese Gini Coefficient from 1978 to 2008

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 19 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 14 Mar 2014

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Jiandong Chen, Wenxuan Hou and Shenwu Jin

Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, University of Edinburgh - Business School and affiliation not provided to SSRN

Downloads 1,014

46.

Some Urban Problems in Dhaka City of Bangladesh and Proposal for Introducing 'Service Tunne' (Setu) and 'Planned Urban Residential Area' (Pura)

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 08 Mar 2010

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Bijon B. Sarma

Ahsanullah University of Science and Technology - Department of Architecture

Downloads 998

47.

Housing as an Internal Leading Sector In The Palestinian Economy

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 26 Feb 2008

Accepted Paper Series

Nidal Rashid Sabri

Birzeit University

Downloads 982

48.

Subprime Lending and the Housing Bubble: Tail Wags Dog?

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 03 Sep 2008

Working Paper Series

KhasadYahu ZarBabal, Michael LaCour-Little and Kerry D. Vandell

affiliation not provided to SSRN, California State University at Fullerton and University of California, Irvine - Paul Merage School of Business

Downloads 969

49.

Bike-Share Systems: Accessibility and Availability

Chicago Booth Research Paper No. 15-04

Number of pages: 52 Posted: 26 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 16 Jul 2016

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Ashish Kabra, Elena Belavina and Karan Girotra

INSEAD - Technology and Operations Management, The University of Chicago Booth School of Business and INSEAD - Technology and Operations Management

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50.

Poverty, Social Exclusion and Neighbourhood: Studying the Area Bases of Social Exclusion

LSE STICERD Research Paper No. CASE022

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 14 Jul 2008

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Howard Glennerster, Ruth Lupton, Philip Noden and Anne Power

London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE), London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE), affiliation not provided to SSRN and London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE)

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