Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/112952 
Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
Beiträge zur Jahrestagung des Vereins für Socialpolitik 2015: Ökonomische Entwicklung - Theorie und Politik - Session: Lobbying No. B12-V2
Publisher: 
ZBW - Deutsche Zentralbibliothek für Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Leibniz-Informationszentrum Wirtschaft
Abstract: 
We examine the effect of citizen initiatives on finished residential area in the German federal state of Bavaria. There is already a prominent literature on the fiscal effect of initiatives and political economic reasons that drive urban development. Yet, there is almost no literature that links the effect of citizen participation to local land use patterns. This paper attempts to fill this gap. By using neighboring initiatives as an instrument for the occurrence of an initiative in a given municipality, we identify a negative impact of initiatives on finished residential area per capita. Evaluated at the mean, this effect amounts to about 10\% regarding the finished residential area per capita. This effect takes place five to nine years after the initiative was conducted.
JEL: 
D72
Q15
R52
Document Type: 
Conference Paper

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