Papers for Past Webinars

Christian Bontemps, Frederic Cherbonnier, and Thierry Magnac

This report, by Frederic Cherbonnier, uses the institutional and data setting of France, where transactions taxes are some of the highest in Europe, and evaluate the counterfactual impact of reducing transaction taxes from 14% to 6%, similar to US levels.

Georg U. Thunecke

This report, by Georg U. Thunecke, studies the real effects of property taxation on housing markets using variation in

Sarah Baker

This report, by Sarah Baker, provides new evidence that a landlord’s property tax bill does affect rent for new tenants, violating the law of one price.

Evelyn Smith

This report, by Evelyn Smith, examines accuracy and fairness in property tax assessments.

Ankit Kalda, Vikas Soni and Qianfan Wu

This report, by Ankit Kalda, documents a political partisanship-based assessment gap that imposes a disproportionate fiscal burden on political minorities.

Cameron LaPoint, Aymeric Bellon, Francesco Mazzola, and Guosong Xu

This report, by Cameron LaPoint, collects new PACE loan-level data and develop a novel approach to recover households’ home improvement investment decisions from permit descriptions.

Yugang Tang, Zhihao Su, Yilin Hou, and Zhendong Yin

This report, by Yilin Hou, examines the fiscal motives behind the allocation of land in Chinese cities by municipal governments for commercial and residential use. 

Thomas Brosy and Chiara Ferrero

This report, by Thomas Brosy, explores the impact of the Great Recession and falling housing prices on local property tax revenues.

Amrita Kulka, Aradhya Sood, and Nicholas Chiumenti

This report, by Amrita Kulka, finds that relaxing density restrictions (such as minimum lot size), alone or combined with relaxing other regulations, is most effective at increasing housing supply, particularly of multifamily properties, and reducing per-housing-unit rents and prices.

Shinya Inukai

This report, by Shinya Inukai, estimates the impacts of declining populations on municipalities and housing