Originally published on Progress and Poverty on October 7, 2026. Republished on Progress.org with permission. Land stands out as an economic asset because, among other reasons, it is necessary for ...
Troup Howard (University of Utah) and Francis Wong (LMU Munich), "The Size and Scope of Commercial Property Tax Misvaluation," working paper dated 8 October 2026 (SSRN 7585598), is a national, ...
The standard deadweight-loss (DWL) triangle — the Harberger measure used to estimate the efficiency cost of a tax or a monopoly — rests on an assumption that is rarely stated and almost never checked: ...
São Paulo is the best-documented case of a large city that sells the right to build above a baseline. Under the 2002 Strategic Master Plan and Land Use Law 13,885 of 2004, a plot has a basic ...
Oil, Gas, and Coal Royalties: Raising Federal Rates Could Decrease Production on Federal Lands but Increase Federal Revenue (GAO-17-540, June 2017, 36 pp.) is a report by the U.S. Government ...
Yunho Cho, Jinseong Park and Sisi Zhang, "Taxing homeowners in China: Who are the winners and losers?," Real Estate Economics (published online 17 September 2026), asks two questions about a recurrent ...
Heidi Falkenbach, Oskari Harjunen, Erik Mäkelä and Elias Oikarinen, "Information Capitalization in the Housing Market: Evidence from Land Leases," Real Estate Economics (2026; open access under a ...
"Efficient Economic Rent Taxation under a Global Minimum Corporate Tax" is a working paper by Shafik Hebous and Andualem Mengistu, both of the IMF's Fiscal Affairs Department, dated 6 August 2024, ...
The model and its three channels. The paper models a large economy of small markets, each populated by a limited number of firms competing in oligopoly (Cournot in the baseline, with a Bertrand ...
The definition (p. 698). The authors set the anticommons explicitly against its mirror image: "A resource is prone to overuse in a tragedy of the commons when too many owners each have a privilege to ...
Seeraj Mohamed — Deputy Director for Economics at South Africa's Parliamentary Budget Office and adjunct professor at the University of the Western Cape — applies a heterodox development-economics ...
Lawrence C. Walters, in "Are Property-Related Taxes Effective Value Capture Instruments?," chapter 8 of Gregory K. Ingram and Yu-Hung Hong, eds., Value Capture and Land Policies (Cambridge, MA: ...