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Checkerboards and coase : the effect of property institutions on efficiency in housing markets/

Akee, Randall

Checkerboards and coase : the effect of property institutions on efficiency in housing markets/ created by Randall Akee - Journal of Law and Economics Volume 52, number 2 .

In the late 1800s, Palm Springs, California, was evenly divided into 1‐mile‐square blocks—like a checkerboard—and property rights were assigned in alternating blocks to the Agua Caliente tribe and a non‐Indian landowner by the U.S. federal government. The quasi‐experimental nature of land assignment holds land quality constant across the two types of landowners. Sales, mortgaging, and leasing restrictions on the Agua Caliente Reservation land created large transaction costs to development on those lands; consequently, there was very little housing investment. The non‐Indian blocks, which were extensively developed, provide a benchmark for efficient outcomes for the Agua Caliente lands. Once the restrictions on Agua Caliente lands were relaxed in 1959, the number of homes and real estate values converged to t

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Housing--Land trusts--Land tenure
Land use change--Native Americans--Leases
Property trusts--Real estate taxes--Real estate investment trusts

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