Is the Risk of Sea Level Rise Capitalized in Residential Real Estate?
利用沿海房屋销售数据与海拔高度信息,通过垂直陆地运动导致的相对海平面上升差异,研究了海平面上升风险对房价的影响,发现影响有限。
Abstract Using a comprehensive database of coastal home sales merged with data on elevation relative to local tides, we compare prices for houses based on their inundation threshold under projections of sea level rise. The analysis separates the sensitivity of housing to rising seas from other confounding characteristics by exploiting cross-sectional differences in relative sea level rise due to vertical land motion. This provides variation in the expected time to inundation for properties of similar elevation and distance from the coast. In a variety of specifications and test settings, we find precisely estimated null results suggesting limited price effects.