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In a recent working paper, Chad Bown, Paola Conconi, Aksel Erbahar and Lorenzo Trimarchi calculate the higher cost of imported inputs caused by those tariffs leveled at China caused the U.S. economy to create ... Read more...
08 February 2021
The German bombing offensive brings lessons about worker density and zoning restrictions in London - and perhaps New York and Tokyo, write Gerard Dericks and Hans Koster. ... Read more...
25 June 2018
This is hardly a fringe view. Economists Christian Hilber and Wouter Vermeulen point out that house prices would be 35 per cent lower if the most restrictive parts of the country (the South-East) were merely a... Read more...
08 May 2018
Snippet: ... signs of faltering market with a slight drop in house prices month on month quarter-on-quarter but they're still up on a year ago a man quoted in many areas house prices crash stories was Prof... Read more...
09 July 2017
Decades of planning policies that constrain the supply of houses and land and turn them into something like gold or artworks is to blame for the current housing crisis in the UK rather than foreign buyers, according to a... Read more...
17 August 2016
Article by Christian Hilber In the first of a two-part article discussing the British planning system, Christian Hilber, Associate Professor of Economic Geography at the London School of Economics, argues that the UK pl... Read more...
06 July 2016
We already have two sets of pioneering work being undertaken in the UK to address this very problem. One is the JPMorgan Foundation funded work at the Institute of Public Policy Research working with US business Burning ... Read more...
30 September 2015