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Racial prejudice in a search model of the urban housing market
(Elsevier, 1978-07)
A simple model of buyer search in an urban housing market is employed to demonstrate that if some whites are unwilling to sell housing to blacks competitive equilibria in which blacks pay more for housing than whites are ...
On the effects of federal capital taxation on growing and declining areas
(Elsevier, 1983-09)
It has often been claimed that measures designed to stimulate capital formation at the national level will accelerate the decline of regions that are not growing. A number of simple models are employed to evaluate this ...
On the measurement of benefits in an urban context: Some general equilibrium issues
(Elsevier, 1978-07)
The validity of using local market data to measure the benefits associated with policies adopted in an urban area is investigated. It is shown that the rest of the world is affected by taxing decisions undertaken in a ...
Centralization of school finance in Michigan
(John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 1997)
School finance reform in Michigan involved centralization (at the state level) of spending decisions about schools, a large tax shift (mostly from property to sales), and a small tax cut. The changes came about after two ...
Robbing Peter to pay Peter: The economics of local public residency requirements
(Elsevier, 1988-05)
On the effect of fiscal zoning on land and housing values
(Elsevier, 1976-01)
The note is a comment on and extension of "The Effect of Zoning on Land Value," by J. C. Ohls, R. C. Weisberg, and M. J. White. It is suggested that some of the results of that paper are very sensitive to the way in which ...
A general equilibrium model of heterogeneous local property taxes
(Elsevier, 1977-12)
A formal model of an economy consisting of many production centres, each of which levies property taxes at a different rate, is developed and analyzed. In the context of the model, it is shown that holders of capital may ...
On the welfare effects of tax limitation
(Elsevier, 1981-12)
Much recent literature has been devoted to providing theoretical and empirical analysis of the proposition that government is `too large'. Far less attention has been paid to the issue of whether tax and expenditure ...
Averting expenditure and the cost of pollution
(Elsevier, 1981-12)
The paper considers the relationship between the willingness to pay for environmental quality and averting expenditures--that is, the costs of measures undertaken in efforts to counteract the consequences of pollution. The ...