Imperial College London

ProfessorJamesSefton

Business School

Chair in Economics
 
 
 
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Contact

 

+44 (0)20 7594 9128j.sefton Website CV

 
 
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Location

 

3.0853 Prince's GateSouth Kensington Campus

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Miles:2021:ej/ueaa088,
author = {Miles, D and Sefton, J},
doi = {ej/ueaa088},
journal = {The Economic Journal},
pages = {1815--1848},
title = {House prices and growth with fixed land supply},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueaa088},
volume = {131},
year = {2021}
}

RIS format (EndNote, RefMan)

TY  - JOUR
AB - We analyse housing costs and patterns of residential development over the long term in a dynamic general equilibrium. We show that in a growing economy the speed of travel improvements is crucial to the evolution of land and house prices. We derive a condition for the rate of change in transport efficiency that generates flat land and house prices on a balanced growth path. We present evidence that this condition was satisfied in many countries between the mid-nineteenth century and the mid-twentieth century, but since then passenger transport improvements have slowed down with major implications for how house prices evolve.
AU - Miles,D
AU - Sefton,J
DO - ej/ueaa088
EP - 1848
PY - 2021///
SN - 0013-0133
SP - 1815
TI - House prices and growth with fixed land supply
T2 - The Economic Journal
UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueaa088
UR - https://academic.oup.com/ej/article-abstract/doi/10.1093/ej/ueaa088/5870104
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/79780
VL - 131
ER -