Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/30565 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Series/Report no.: 
CESifo Working Paper No. 2792
Publisher: 
Center for Economic Studies and ifo Institute (CESifo), Munich
Abstract: 
The objective of this paper is to show how the same market failures that contribute to urban sprawl also contribute to urban blight. The paper develops a simple dynamic model in which new suburban and older central-city properties compete for mobile residents. The level of housing services generated by older properties depends on current maintenance or reinvest-ment expenditures. In this setting, market failures that reduce the cost of occupying suburban locations, thus leading to excessive suburban development, also depress central-city housing prices and undermine maintenance incentives, leading to deficient levels of central-city rein-vestment. Corrective policies that shift population from the suburbs to the center result in higher levels of reinvestment in central-city housing, therefore reducing blight.
Subjects: 
urban sprawl
blight
market failures
JEL: 
R00
Document Type: 
Working Paper
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