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Article: To build above the limit? Implementation of land use regulations in urban China
Title | To build above the limit? Implementation of land use regulations in urban China |
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Keywords | Compliance China Corruption Floor-to-area ratios Land development |
Issue Date | 2017 |
Citation | Journal of Urban Economics, 2017, v. 98, p. 223-233 How to Cite? |
Abstract | © 2016 Elsevier Inc.This paper studies the implementation of land use regulations in urban China. In particular, we investigate land developers' compliance with floor-to-area ratio (FAR) regulations using a unique set of residential land parcel data from 30 major Chinese cities matched with the corresponding residential development projects built on those parcels. In our sample, in more than 20% of the cases, developers built above the regulatory FAR limits in the ex post land development, and the total floor area built in those cases increased 21.5% over the regulatory limit. Our analysis finds that attractive land location attributes tend to induce developers to pursue upward adjustments of FAR. Moreover, developers who are more likely to have special relationships with government officials tend to make larger upward adjustments. Our estimates suggest that there exists a significant gap between the privately optimal FAR that maximizes land value and the regulatory FAR. This gap is only modestly reduced by corrupt ties with government officials, implying that FAR regulations have imposed a highly restrictive constraint on China's urban land development even given imperfect compliance. |
Persistent Identifier | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/241906 |
ISSN | 2023 Impact Factor: 5.7 2023 SCImago Journal Rankings: 4.314 |
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dc.contributor.author | Cai, Hongbin | - |
dc.contributor.author | Wang, Zhi | - |
dc.contributor.author | Zhang, Qinghua | - |
dc.date.accessioned | 2017-06-23T01:56:05Z | - |
dc.date.available | 2017-06-23T01:56:05Z | - |
dc.date.issued | 2017 | - |
dc.identifier.citation | Journal of Urban Economics, 2017, v. 98, p. 223-233 | - |
dc.identifier.issn | 0094-1190 | - |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10722/241906 | - |
dc.description.abstract | © 2016 Elsevier Inc.This paper studies the implementation of land use regulations in urban China. In particular, we investigate land developers' compliance with floor-to-area ratio (FAR) regulations using a unique set of residential land parcel data from 30 major Chinese cities matched with the corresponding residential development projects built on those parcels. In our sample, in more than 20% of the cases, developers built above the regulatory FAR limits in the ex post land development, and the total floor area built in those cases increased 21.5% over the regulatory limit. Our analysis finds that attractive land location attributes tend to induce developers to pursue upward adjustments of FAR. Moreover, developers who are more likely to have special relationships with government officials tend to make larger upward adjustments. Our estimates suggest that there exists a significant gap between the privately optimal FAR that maximizes land value and the regulatory FAR. This gap is only modestly reduced by corrupt ties with government officials, implying that FAR regulations have imposed a highly restrictive constraint on China's urban land development even given imperfect compliance. | - |
dc.language | eng | - |
dc.relation.ispartof | Journal of Urban Economics | - |
dc.subject | Compliance | - |
dc.subject | China | - |
dc.subject | Corruption | - |
dc.subject | Floor-to-area ratios | - |
dc.subject | Land development | - |
dc.title | To build above the limit? Implementation of land use regulations in urban China | - |
dc.type | Article | - |
dc.description.nature | link_to_subscribed_fulltext | - |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1016/j.jue.2016.03.003 | - |
dc.identifier.scopus | eid_2-s2.0-84962016842 | - |
dc.identifier.hkuros | 287649 | - |
dc.identifier.volume | 98 | - |
dc.identifier.spage | 223 | - |
dc.identifier.epage | 233 | - |
dc.identifier.isi | WOS:000398742100014 | - |
dc.identifier.issnl | 0094-1190 | - |