Ever wondered what housing value proxy for sales prices to use? Long story (in our @cesifo.org DP) short: Assessed values are good for quantification of QSMs. List prices better for hedonic valuation using panel identification. www.ifo.de/en/cesifo/pu... @hans-koster.bsky.social
Join #HousingLab & #CPB on 19 March to explore investing in affordable housing and bridge the gap between research and policy.
🗓️ 13:00-17:00
📍 CPB, The Hague
🌍 Dutch 🇳🇱
Topics:
- Rental sector investment
- Housing construction
Register: [email protected]
#Housing #Policy
Our research on #cycling is featured in de Volkskrant, De Telegraaf, and other media today! 🚲 Our study (with Tijl Hendrich, Nicole Loumeau, and Jos Van Ommeren) highlights how cycling makes #cities denser, reduces #congestion, and boosts overall #welfare. #UrbanMobility #SustainableCities
Yesterday on BNR Radio: Minister for Housing, Mona Keijzer, aims to ease regulations on housing construction, particularly by streamlining procedures for inner-city development. However, I am afraid this adjustment will not deliver the 100,000 homes the government promised for 2025.
🏡🏗️ Solutions for the Housing Crisis: Adding Floors ('optoppen') and Side Extensions ('aanplakken')?
🔹 On Housing Lab, we discuss the pros and cons of this approach.
🔹 Today on RTL News and RTL Z, I discuss this further, alongside real-world applications, see www.rtl.nl/nieuws/rtl-z...
In #publichousing systems rents are below the market level, implying a #rationing problem. How do you then ensure that you allocate housing to the person who values it the most? We study the #efficiency of the allocation in the Dutch public housing system in our Journal of Public Economics paper.
Leg aparte en vooral snelle fietspaden aan en de forens laat de auto staan om met de fiets naar het werk te gaan. Dat stelt het CPB, de rekenmeester van het kabinet. Vrijliggende fietspaden zorgen op ...
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Volgens Hans Koster, hoogleraar Stedelijke Economie en Vastgoed, wordt het met de restricties alleen maar lastiger om meer te bouwen.
De Nederlandse overheid heeft de ambitieuze doelstelling om tot en met 2030 zo’n 900.000 nieuwe woningen te realiseren. Een van de innovatieve manieren om dit te bereiken is door bestaande gebouwen te...
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We empirically investigate how rent control combined with the use of a non-market allocation mechanism – centralised waiting lists – affects the effic…
An article in @fd.nl discusses Egypt’s new capital, including my quotes on how agglomeration economies and amenities affect the success of this project. The new capital risks increasing inequality between rich residents in the new city and poorer people left behind in a dysfunctional metropolis.
Gabriel M Ahlfeldt
Netherlands-based researchers are invited to the inaugural Dutch Urban Economics and Trade (DUET) Workshop, taking place on 16 April 2025 at Erasmus University Rotterdam. All sessions are conducted in English. You can register here (forms.gle/nbedkCQagGGU...), which is open until 10 March 2025.
Ruim tien jaar wordt er al gewerkt aan de bouw van een nieuwe Egyptische hoofdstad. Met de uittocht van bewoners, bedrijven en ambassades uit het overbevolkte Caïro wil het nog niet zo vlotten. Is het...
We are hiring! VU Amsterdam (Dept of Spatial Economics) seeks AP in Urban and Real Estate Economics. Research fit: (spatial) general equilibrium + reduced-form work on land/housing, commuting, amenities, local public goods. RT. #UrbanEconomics #AcademicJobs
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📢 Today, we are launching the Housing Lab at the symposium on "Investing in the Public Housing Sector", organized with CPB.
🏡 Housing Lab provides research-based insights to support policy decisions on housing markets.
🔎 More information: housinglab.nl
#HousingLab #PublicHousing #UrbanEconomics
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Are you an ambitious economist with a special interest in urban economics and real estate? Join the Department of Spatial Economics at Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam!
