Research

Summary

• Download my CV here.
• See all my research and reports at my Google Scholar page.
• You can read my articles in The Conversation.

Publications

• We zoned for density and got higher house prices: Supply and price effects of upzoning over 20 years. With Mark Limb. OSF Preprints. 
• When homes earn more than jobs: The rentierization of the Australian housing market. With Josh Ryan-Collins. UCL Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose Working Paper.
• A housing supply absorption rate equation. Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics 2021.
• Do political donations buy reputation in an elite gift-exchange game? OSF Preprints. 
• Feasibility guide for town planners. Henry Halloran Trust report. 
• Time is money: How landbanking constrains housing supply. Journal of Housing Economics. 2020. (free version)
• Do political donations buy reputation in an elite gift-exchange game? OSF Preprints.
• The City Under COVID‐19: Podcasting As Digital Methodology. Journal of Economic and Social Geography. 2020. 
• Marginal and average prices of land lots should not be equal: A critique of Glaeser and Gyourko’s method for identifying residential price effects of town planning regulations. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. 2020. (free version)
• Land value is a progressive and efficient property tax base: Evidence from Victoria. OSF Preprints.
• The Australian Housing Supply Myth. OSF Preprints. 2019.
• A theory of return-seeking firms. Australian Economic Papers. 2019. (free version).
• Developers pay developer charges. Cities. 2018. (free version)
• Game of Mates: How favours bleed the nation. Book, with Paul Frijters
• Light Rail, Land Values and Taxes. Economic Record. 2017. (free version)
• The back-scratching game. Journal of Economic and Behavioral Organization. 2017. (free version)
• Clean Money in a Dirty System: Relationship Networks and Land Rezoning. Journal of Urban Economics, 2016, with Paul Frijters. (free version)
• What if consumers decided to all ‘go green’? Environmental rebound effects from consumption decisions. Energy Policy. 2013. (free version)

Data

• Data from "Marginal and Average Prices of Land Lots Should Not Be Equal: A Critique of Glaeser and Gyourko's Method for Identifying Residential Price Effects of Town Planning Regulations." A critique of Glaeser and Gyourko (2003). Download the paper here and the data here (Updated Feb 2019)
• Australian listed developer landbank database. Download the paper here and the data here. (Updated Feb 2019)
• Site value and capital improved value data for Victoria, Australia. Download here. (Updated Nov 2019)