Event at the University of Santiago de Compostela tackling pressing policy challegns in contemporary democracies.

Theres is very little knowledge about the management of municipal urban land patrimony in Spain. This lack of transparency creates an environment in which these practices flourish: alicanteplaza.es/alicanteplaz...

"Large language models (LLMs) are increasingly applied to scientific research, yet prevailing science benchmarks probe decontextualized knowledge and overlook the iterative reasoning, hypothesis generation, and observation interpretation that drive scientific discovery" arxiv.org/pdf/2512.15567

In this new paper with Fabián Reyes-Bueno, we compare Spain's centralized vs Ecuador's decentralized cadastral systems. We find that centralization brings equity/stability, while decentralization offers local flexibility but generates territorial fiscal inequities. papiro.unizar.es/ojs/index.ph...

My new paper jointly with José María Tubío, @leiceaga.bsky.social and @mariacadaval.bsky.social already available at the website of IDEAGOV 52f4a7ac-eac2-4f5a-a314-c817b298d171.usrfiles.com/ugd/52f4a7_2...

Cities surrounded by expensive farmland are denser and agricultural productivity growth has lowered urban density over time in France. Our multi-region structural change framework can explain it. New paper by Coeurdacier, Teignier & @floswald.bsky.social www.restud.com/structural-c... #econsky

Insighftul cartogram by Arundel and colleagues mapping changes in housing values in Spain between 2012-2022. doi.org/10.1177/0308...

⚠️New paper in Cities: “Uneven value capture in Spain: implications for wealth distribution and property prices.” We find that value capture (property taxes and developer obligations) decrease in booming urban areas, weakening wealth distribution and worsening housign affordability.

"We find that growing unaffordability creates support for less government intervention in labour market inequality or housing and, consequently more support for the political right". An interesting paper by @benansell.bsky.social y.social‬ and @aslicansunar.bsky.social doi.org/10.1177/0958...71

An interesting paper by Caravaggio and colleagues examines the determinants of EU development fund allocation in Italy during the 2014–2020 period www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Sounds like outcomes UK Treasury should be interested in. More details of how to do it laid out in my report for UK housing department drawing on blueprint from @fairershare.bsky.social www.ucl.ac.uk/bartlett/pub...

Real estate agent: “Who looks 20 years out? Nobody does.”

Los ingresos por alquileres marcan récord y el capital ya supera el 10% de todas las rentas por primera vez desde 2008, via @eldiario.es www.eldiario.es/economia/ing...

Even these solutions (infill development, missing-middle housing, and zoning reform) are likely to have less impact than expected in housing prices, unless housing is offered below market prices (e.g., social housing).

"Our results suggest a muted response to information shocks. Specifically, the baseline estimate implies that Iowa farmland professionals update their information sets every four months or weight new information by two-thirds in forming farmland price expectations."

Report by @adamleaver.bsky.social and colleagues. "This failure is partly the result of national policies, where national planning guidance in 2012 strengthened the capacity of developers to avoid affordable housing requirements on the grounds of ‘viability’47. www.sheffield.ac.uk/crafic/news/...

Source: Disease, Race, Inequality and Urban Land, by Patrick M. Condon (2021) uploads-ssl.webflow.com/5efd1c1c4e27...

Dear @maragay.bsky.social, It's no surprise that someone who has invested their life savings in housing is reluctant to lose it. The real question is why people have to do this to secure a home, and whether land policies are the right solution. www.nytimes.com/2023/03/22/o...

"A central governance challenge is the existence of what Guillermo O’Donnell (1993) termed “brown areas” on the map: subnational regions in which societal elites capture entrenched power in place of an absent state, leveraging their wealth or status to engage in clientelist politics "

part II: “How Land Made Our Greatest Problems".