Public Finance

STAREBEI - Land Value Finance as a Tool to Diminish Municipal Bond Risk

SPONSOR: European Investment Bank

DURATION: 11/2012 - 11/2013


Revenue municipal bonds are debt obligations issued by local authorities for raising funds in order to finance a vast array of investment projects. The objective of this research is to examine if and how the land value finance approach (LVC) can be used as a method for lowering the cost of borrowing of municipal bonds issued by local authorities to finance urban investment.

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STAREBEI  - Transport Infrastructure Financing Through Land Value Capture: Application to Estonia

SPONSOR: European Investment Bank

DURATION: 11/2009 - 05/2010

The work evaluates through standard econometric analyses the effects of the speculative trend in real estate prices in Tallinn and investigates the influence of public transport cost on real estate prices; in particular, we inquire whether public transport costs mitigate cyclical economic downturn effects.

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Transport Infrastructure Financing Through Land Value Capture: Application to the Warsaw Underground System

SPONSOR: Ernst & Young Better Government Programme

DURATION: 01/2010 - 06/2010

The project estimates the capitalised evaluation of the extension of line 2 in Warsaw by calculating the effect of metro access on property price in two selected districts in Warsaw: Bielany, with its existing metro line and Targówek, where the planned metro line 2 will pass.

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