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Interjurisdictional Capitalization of a New Metro Line on Housing Values
Registro en:
Documentos de Investigación 244: 2010, p. 1-22
Autor
Agostini, Claudio
Palmucci, Gastón
Institución
Resumen
Many governments continue constructing new subway lines with the goal of reducing
congestion and pollution in large cities. Besides the potential global effects on reducing
negative externalities in the city, there are some local positive effects in terms of lower
commuting time and distance for residents living close to the subway stations. These
benefits of the public transport services should capitalize totally or partially on housing
prices. Most of the empirical work has estimated the effects on housing prices after the
public transit infrastructure is operating and implicitly assumed homogeneous capitalization
across jurisdictions. However, due to differences on local public goods provision
and residents’ characteristics across jurisdictions, two identical housing units located at
the same distance to the nearest metro station but in different local markets would not
necessarily have the same degree of capitalization.
Using parametric and non-parametric methods and transaction data for Santiago,
Chile, we estimate the anticipated capitalization of a new metro line across counties in
the city. The results show significant anticipated effects, between 3.6% and 5.3%, and
also large interjurisdictional differences in capitalization degrees, ranging between -6%
and 40%.