Gabriel M Ahlfeldt

@ahlfeldt.bsky.social

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HU Berlin (full professor), LSE (visiting professor), BSoE (faculty), RSUE (editor) CEPR (Affiliate) CESIfo (fellow) LSE-CEP (Affiliate) http://bqse.de

Title page and abstract of “The Skyscraper Revolution: Global Economic Development and Land Savings” by Gabriel M. Ahlfeldt, Nathaniel Baum-Snow, and Remi Jedwab. The abstract reports that removing height constraints raises welfare in developing economies, tall buildings foster urban growth and compactness, and indirect inference yields a density-disamenity elasticity of −0.11.