A spatial analysis of residential land prices in Belgium: accessibility, linguistic border and environmental amenities

Florence Goffette-Nagot, Isabelle Reginster () and Isabelle Thomas
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Isabelle Reginster: IWEPS Institut Wallon d'Evaluation de Prospective et de Statistique, 5001 Namur, Belgium

No 929, Working Papers from Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Economique Lyon St-Étienne (GATE Lyon St-Étienne), Université de Lyon

Abstract: This paper explores the spatial variation of land prices in Belgium. The originality of the methodology is threefold : (1) to work at the spatial extent of an entire country, (2) to compute several accessibility measures to all jobs and several representations of the environmental amenities and, more importantly, (3) to test the hypothesis that jobs influence land prices only in the same linguistic region. Spatial autocorrelation is accounted for by estimating spatial models. The results show that the linguistic border acts as a strong barrier in the spatial pattern of land prices and that environmental variables have no significant effect at this scale of spatial analysis.

Keywords: land price; accessibility; border effect; environment; Belgium (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: R14 R21 R31 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 38 pages
Date: 2009
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Journal Article: Spatial Analysis of Residential Land Prices in Belgium: Accessibility, Linguistic Border, and Environmental Amenities (2011)
Working Paper: Spatial analysis of residential land prices in Belgium: accessibility, linguistic border, and environmental amenities (2011)
Working Paper: A spatial analysis of residential land prices in Belgium: accessibility, linguistic border and environmental amenities (2011)
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