Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/124509 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
54th Congress of the European Regional Science Association: "Regional development & globalisation: Best practices", 26-29 August 2014, St. Petersburg, Russia
Publisher: 
European Regional Science Association (ERSA), Louvain-la-Neuve
Abstract: 
In 2001, the AZF plant exploded in Toulouse (France). The accident was unexpected, it strongly damaged local housing and benefited from a wide media coverage. It provides a rare opportunity to analyze the consequences of a shift in risk perception on housing markets and neighborhoods subject to industrial risk. Using a difference-in-difference matching strategy, this paper shows that although transaction prices do not change as a result of this shift, local housing markets are indeed affected. In particular, the vacancy rate increases, and the standard of living in the at-risk areas tends to deteriorate.
JEL: 
R20
R21
R23
C21
Document Type: 
Conference Paper

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