Discussion Papers

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14195

Welfare Effects of Property Taxation

Max Löffler, Sebastian Siegloch

IZA Discussion Paper No. 14170

Home Ownership and Home Equity Promote Entrepreneurial Activity

Wolter Hassink, Matteo Millone, Remco Mocking, Benedikt Vogt

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13553

Climate Risk and Beliefs in New York Floodplains

Matthew Gibson, Jamie Mullins

published as 'Climate risk and beliefs in New York floodplains' in: Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, 2020, 7 (6), 1069-1111.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 13467

COVID-19, Race, and Redlining

Graziella Bertocchi, Arcangelo Dimico

published in: Covid Economics, 2020, 38, 129-195

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12806

Urban Wage Premia, Cost of Living, and Collective Bargaining

Marianna Belloc, Paolo Naticchioni, Claudia Vittori

published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2023, 23 (1), 25–50.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12656

Making Use of Home Equity: The Potential of Housing Wealth to Enhance Retirement Security

Jorge Miguel Bravo, Mercedes Ayuso, Robert Holzmann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12631

Does Light Touch Cluster Policy Work? Evaluating the Tech City Programme

Max Nathan

published in: Research Policy, 2022, 51 (9), 1104138

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12474

Hurricanes, Flood Risk and the Economic Adaptation of Businesses

Agustín Indaco, Francesc Ortega, Süleyman Taspinar

published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2021, 21 (4), 557 - 591

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12402

Did the Post-1986 Decline in the Homeownership Rate Benefit the New Zealand Labour Market? A Spatial-Econometric Exploration

William Cochrane, Jacques Poot

published in: Asia-Pacific Journal of Regional Science, 2020, 4 (1), 261-284

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12225

Do Tax Incentives Affect Business Location and Economic Development? Evidence from State Film Incentives

Patrick Button

published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2019, 77, 315-339.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12047

The 2015 European Refugee Crisis and Residential Housing Rents in Germany

Kathleen Kürschner Rauck, Michael Kvasnicka

published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2025, 65, 1269-1302

IZA Discussion Paper No. 12007

Real Estate Prices and Corporate Investment: Theory and Evidence of Heterogeneous Effects across Firms

Denis Fougère, Rémy Lecat, Simon Ray

published in: Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 2019, 51(6), 1503-1546

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11856

Incubators, Accelerators and Regional Economic Development

Margarida Madaleno, Max Nathan, Henry Overman, Sevrin Waights

published in: Urban Studies, 2022, 59 (2) 281-300

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11811

Does Juan Carlos or Nelson Obtain a Larger Price Cut in the Spanish Housing Market?

Catia Nicodemo, Josep M. Raya

published in: Urban Affairs Review, 2020, 56 (5), 1581–1604

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11810

The Effects of Flood Insurance on Housing Markets

Agustín Indaco, Francesc Ortega, Süleyman Taspinar

published in: Cityscape, 2019, 21 (2), 129-156.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11726

The Impact of the Announcement of Temporary Building Sites for Refugees on House Prices in Gothenburg

Josef Kjellander, Viktor Nilsson, Aico van Vuuren

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11636

Labor Demand Shocks and Housing Prices across the US: Does One Size Fit All?

Michael J. Osei, John V. Winters

published in: Economic Development Quarterly, 2019, 33(3), 212-219

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11527

Can Public Housing Decrease Segregation? Lessons and Challenges from Non-European Immigration in France

Gregory Verdugo, Sorana Toma

published in: Demography, 2018, 55 (5), 1803-1828

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11497

Do House Prices Sink or Ride the Wave of Immigration?

Matthew P. Larkin, Zohid Askarov, Chris Doucouliagos, Chris Dubelaar, Maria Klona, Joshua Newton, T. D. Stanley, Andrea Vocino

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11036

Planning Ahead for Better Neighborhoods: Long Run Evidence from Tanzania

Guy Michaels, Dzhamilya Nigmatulina, Ferdinand Rauch, Tanner Regan, Neeraj Baruah, Amanda Dahlstrand

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10873

The Value of a Healthy Home: Lead Paint Remediation and Housing Values

Stephen B. Billings, Kevin T. Schnepel

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2017, 153, 69 - 81

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10614

Women's Homelessness: International Evidence on Causes, Consequences, Coping and Policies

Guy Johnson, David C. Ribar, Anna Zhu

published in: in Susan Averett, Laura Argys and Saul Hoffman (eds.), Oxford Handbook on the Economics of Women and the Economy, New York, Oxford University Press, 2018.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10434

Unawareness and Selective Disclosure: The Effect of School Quality Information on Property Prices

John de New, Syed Hasan, Nikhil Jha, Mathias Sinning

published in: Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 2018, 145, 449-464

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10374

Rising Sea Levels and Sinking Property Values: The Effects of Hurricane Sandy on New York's Housing Market

Francesc Ortega, Süleyman Taspinar

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2018, 105, 81 - 100

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10373

The Production Function for Housing: Evidence from France

Pierre-Philippe Combes, Gilles Duranton, Laurent Gobillon

published in: Journal of Political Economy, 2021, 129 (10), 2766–281

IZA Discussion Paper No. 10336

Misalignment of Productivity and Wages across Regions? Evidence from Belgian Matched Panel Data

François Rycx, Yves Saks, Ilan Tojerow

published in: Regional Studies, 2018, 52 (12), 1697-1707

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9899

Superstition, Conspicuous Spending, and Housing Markets: Evidence from Singapore

Sumit Agarwal, Jia He, Haoming Liu, I. P. L. Png, Tien Foo Sing, Wei-Kang Wong

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9862

How Do Households Discount over Centuries? Evidence from Singapore's Private Housing Market

Eric Fesselmeyer, Haoming Liu, Alberto Salvo

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9745

The Effect of Housing Wealth on Labor Force Participation: Evidence from China

Shihe Fu, Yu Liao, Junfu Zhang

published in: Journal of Housing Economics, 2016, 33, 59-69

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9692

The Effectiveness of Medical and Vocational Interventions for Reducing Sick Leave of Self-Employed Workers

Stijn Baert, Bas van der Klaauw, Gijsbert van Lomwel

revised version published in: Health Economics, 2018, 27 (3), e139 - e152

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9502

Bright Minds, Big Rent: Gentrification and the Rising Returns to Skill

Lena Edlund, Cecilia Machado, Maria Micaela Sviatschi

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9427

Trend-Spotting in the Housing Market

Nikos Askitas

published in: Cityscape - A Journal of Policy Development and Research, 2016, 18 (3), 185-198

IZA Discussion Paper No. 9423

Bobos in Paradise: Urban Politics and the New Economy

Gilles Saint-Paul

published in: Economics, 2018, 12 (1), 20180056

IZA Discussion Paper No. 8536

House Price Expectations

Geng Niu, Arthur van Soest

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7163

Competing with Asking Prices

Benjamin R. Lester, Ludo Visschers, Ronald P. Wolthoff

published in: Theoretical Economics, 2017, 12 (2), 731-770

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7027

The Costs of Agglomeration: Land Prices in French Cities

Pierre-Philippe Combes, Gilles Duranton, Laurent Gobillon

published in: Review of Economic Studies, 2019, 86(4), 1556-1589

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7002

House Lock and Structural Unemployment

Robert G. Valletta

published in: Labour Economics, 2013, 25, 86–97

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6503

Change in the Distribution of House Prices across Spanish Cities

Catia Nicodemo, Josep M. Raya

published in: Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2012, 42 (4), 739–748

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6383

Fiscal Zoning, Sales Taxes, and Employment: Do Higher Sales Taxes Lead to More Jobs in Retailing and Fewer Jobs in Manufacturing?

Daria Burnes, David Neumark, Michelle J. White

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6106

The Effect of School Construction on Test Scores, School Enrollment, and Home Prices

Christopher A. Neilson, Seth D. Zimmerman

published in: Journal of Public Economics, 2014, 120 , 18-31

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6016

Firm-Worker Matching in Industrial Clusters

Octávio Figueiredo, Paulo Guimaraes, Douglas Woodward

published in: Journal of Economic Geography, 2014, 14 (1), 1 - 19

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5895

Detecting Mortgage Delinquencies

Nikos Askitas, Klaus F. Zimmermann

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5686

Immigration and Innovation

David C. Maré, Richard Fabling, Steven Stillman

published as 'Innovation and the Local Workforce' in: Papers in Regional Science, 2014, 93(1), 183–201

IZA Discussion Paper No. 5557

Social Housing and Location Choices of Immigrants in France

Denis Fougère, Francis Kramarz, Roland Rathelot, Mirna Safi

published in: International Journal of Manpower, 2013, 34 (1), 56-69.

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4671

Directed Search in the Housing Market

James Albrecht, Pieter A. Gautier, Susan Vroman

published in: Review of Economic Dynamics, 2016, 19, 218-231

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4573

Some Evidence on the Nature of Urbanization Economies

Douglas J. Krupka

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4415

Does Local Business Ownership Insulate Cities from Economic Shocks?

Jed Kolko, David Neumark

published in: Journal of Urban Economics, 2010, 67(1), 103-15

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4333

Immigration and Housing Booms: Evidence from Spain

Libertad González, Francesc Ortega

published in: Journal of Regional Science, 2013, 53 (1), 37-59

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4308

Neighborhood Dynamics and the Housing Price Effects of Spatially Targeted Economic Development Policy

Douglas J. Krupka, Douglas S. Noonan

IZA Discussion Paper No. 4110

Making – or Picking – Winners: Evidence of Internal and External Price Effects in Historic Preservation Policies

Douglas S. Noonan, Douglas J. Krupka

published in: Real Estate Economics, 2011, 39 (2), 379-407