Papers in the following series are intended for both a professional and general audience.
Tsur Somerville and Blake Taylor
Economic Impact of the 2014 Special Olympics summer Games on the B.C. Economy. October 1, 2014
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Tsur Somerville and Jake Wetzel
Real Estate Capital Gains and CCA Recapture Tax Deferral. November 2013
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Tsur Somerville
Politics and Performance: British Columbia's Economic and Fiscal Experience under the NDP and BC Liberals (1991 - 2013). May 2013
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Tsur Somerville, Azim Wazeer and Jake Wetzel
Affordable Housing Needs of Ethnic Seniors in Vancouver. September 2011
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Tsur Somerville and Jake Wetzel
Hunting for the Olympics Bounce: Any Evidence in Real Estate. January 2010
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Tsur Somerville
Efficiency in Canadian Housing Markets: Would Reform of CMHC Help? March 2009
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Tsur Somerville
Are Renters Being Left Behind? Homeownership and Wealth Accumulation in Canadian Cities. February 2007
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Tsur Somerville
British Columbia Real Estate's Place in an Investment Portfolio. November 2006
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Michael A. Goldberg
Regional Economic Development in British Columbia: Innovation and Renewal for BC's Two Economies. January 2004
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Michael A. Goldberg
Rx for an Ailing Regional Economy: Thoughts on the Economic Future of the Vancouver Region. February 2003
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C. Tsuriel Somerville
Institutional Features of Canadian Real Estate. November 2002
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Michael A. Goldberg
Innovation in British Columbia and Canada: The Role of Urban and Regional Triple-Helix Innovation Strategies and Policies. November 2002
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Michael A. Goldberg
Local Property Markets and Effective Flexible Market Institutions: Key Strategic Elements for Competing in the Global Urban Economy. February 2002
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Papers in the following series are intended for an academic audience.
Andrey Pavlov and Tsur Somerville
Immigration and Real Estate Returns
February 2016
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Thomas Davidoff
Reverse Mortgage Demographics and Collateral Performance
February 25, 2014
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Thomas Davidoff and Jake Wetzel
Do Reverse Mortgage Borrowers Use Credit Ruthlessly?
June 15, 2013
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Nathan Schiff
Cities and Product Variety
May 2013
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Thomas Davidoff
Can "High Costs" Justify Weak Demand for the Home Equity Conversion Mortgage?
September 14, 2012
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Brian Knight and Nathan Schiff
Momentum and Social Learning in Presidential Primaries
October, 2010
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Sanghoon Lee and Qiang Li
Uneven Landscape and City Size Distribution
September 2010
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Judith Clarke, Marsha Courchane, Cynthia Holmes, and Tsur Somerville
Are Canadian House Prices More Closely Linked to Fundamentals than U.S. House Prices?
July 2010
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Brian Knight and Nathan Schiff
Spatial Competition and Cross-border Shopping: Evidence from State Lotteries
July 2010
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Thomas Davidoff
Supply Elasticity and the Housing Cycle of the 2000s
March 2010
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Judith Clarke, Marsha Courchane, Cynthia Holmes, and Tsur Somerville
The Subprime Crisis Weathering the Storm in the U.S., Canada and Australia
January, 2010
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Tsur Somerville and Kitson Swann
Are Canadian Housing Markets Over-priced? August 2008
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Robert W. Helsley and William C. Strange
A Game-Theoretic Analysis of Skyscrapers. August 2007
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Yong Tu, Shi Ming Yu and Hua Sun
Spatial Autocorrelations and Urban Housing Market Segmentation
October 2005
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Sanghoon Conan Lee
Ability Sorting and Consumer City
October 2005
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Sanghoon Conan Lee
The Timing of Signaling: To Study in High School or College?
October 2005
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Robert W. Helsley and William C. Strange
Agglomeration, Opportunism, and the Organization of Production
October 2005
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Robert W. Helsley and William C. Strange
Social Interactions and Urban Spatial Structure
October 2005
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Neo Poh Har, Ong Seow Eng and Tsur Somerville
Loss Aversion: The Reference Point Matters
June 2005
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John Ries and Tsur Somerville
School Quality and Residential Values: Evidence from Vancouver Zoning
December 2004
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Ayesha Hafeez
An Economic Analysis of the Effects of the U-Pass on Transit and Single-Occupant Vehicle Ridership
August 2003
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Robert W. Helsley and William C. Strange
Agglomeration, Opportunism, and the Organization of Production
May 2003
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Robert W. Helsley and William C. Strange
Mixed Markets and Crime
May 2003
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Michael A. Goldberg, Robert L. Heinkel and Maurice D. Levi
Foreign Direct Investment: The Human Dimension
May 2003
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Robert W. Helsley
Urban Political Economics
May 2002
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Fu Yuming, Daniel P. McMillen, and Tsur Somerville
Land Assembly: Measuring Holdup
December 2002
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Laarni Bulan, Christopher Mayer and C. Tsuriel Somerville
Irreversible Investment, Real Options and Competition: Evidence from Real Estate Development
November 2002
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Cornelia Kullmann and Stephan Siegel
Real Estate and its Role in Asset Allocation - An Empirical Investigation
September 2002
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C. Tsuriel Somerville
Does the Lender Matter? Lender Type and Home Office Location and Real Estate Development Lending
August 2002
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Chin-Oh Chang, Shu-Mei Chen, C. Tsuriel Somerville
Economic and Social Status in Household Decision Making: Evidence from Extended Family Mobility
July 2002
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Cornelia Kullmann
Real Estate and Its Role in Asset Pricing
June 2002
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C. Tsuriel Somerville and Christopher J. Mayer
Government Regulation and Changes in the Affordable Housing Stock
May 2002
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Robert W. Helsley and William C. Strange
Knowledge Barter
February 2002
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C. Tsuriel Somerville
Permits, Starts, and Completions: Structural Relationships vs. Real Options
December 2001
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Robert W. Helsley and William C. Strange
Innovation and Input Sharing
February 2001
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