Paul Cheshire

Title

Professor Emeritus of Economic Geography

Departments

Department of Geography and Environment

Biography

An economist by training, Paul Cheshire is Emeritus Professor of Economic Geography working half time. He has a strong interest in policy analysis and policy related fields. With E. S. Mills he co-edited Handbook of Regional & Urban Economics, Vol. 3: applied urban economics (Amsterdam: North Holland, 1999), and with Gilles Duranton he co-edited Recent Developments in Urban and Regional Economics, (Aldershot: Edward Elgar, 2004). He is the author/co-author of more than 100 papers and was the 1989 winner of the Donald Robertson Memorial Prize and the Royal Economic Society's Prize for the best paper in the Economic Journal in 2004. He is an elected Fellow of the Academy of the Social Sciences and of the Weimer School. He held a Leverhulme Research Fellowship in 2000/01 and was a Visiting Fellow of the Lincoln Institute of Land Policy in 2002. He is the current President of the European Regional Science Association. Apart from his academic work he has spent time as an advisor and as a consultant for both the European Commission, the World Bank, the OECD, the UN and other international organisations as well as the UK government, including being a member of the Expert Panel for the Barker Review of the Planning system, an Academic Friend of the Eddington Transport Study. He is a Board member of the National Housing and Planning Advice Unit and a member of two of the Department of Communities and Local Government's Expert Panels.

Research interests and areas of supervision

The spatial applications of economics
Urban policy
Growth and territorial competition
Urban land and housing markets
The economic consequences of land use regulation

Selected recent publications

P.Cheshire and W. Vermeulen, (2009) 'Land Markets and their Regulation: The welfare economics of planning', in H.S.Geyer (ed) International Handbook of Urban Policy, Aldershot: Edward Elgar (PDF)
'Urban Growth Drivers in a Europe of Sticky People and Implicit Boundaries', Journal of Economic Geography, 9, 1, 85-115, 2009. (with Stefano Magrini)
'Reflections on the Nature and Policy Implications of Planning Restrictions on Housing Supply' Oxford Review of Economic Policy, 24, 1, 50-58, 2008. (PDF)
'Office Space Supply Restrictions in Britain: The political economy of market Revenge' Economic Journal, 118, (June) F185-F221, 2008. (with Christian Hilber) (PDF)
'Policies for Mixed Communities: Faith-based displacement activity?' International Regional Science Review, 32 (3),343-375, 2009 (PDF)
Segregated Neighbourhoods and Mixed Communities: a critical analysis, Joseph Rowntree Foundation, York, 2007, 43 (PDF)
'Introduction of Price Signals into Land Use Planning: Are they applicable in China?', in Song, Y, and C. Ding (eds) Urbanization in China: Critical Issues in an era of rapid growth, Cambridge MA: Lincoln Institute, 2007 (PDF)
'Resurgent Cities, Urban Myths and Policy Hubris: What we need to know', Urban Studies, 43, 8, 1231-46, July 2006 (PDF)
'Population Growth in European Cities: weather matters - but only nationally', Regional Studies, 40, 1, 23-37 (February 2006) (with Stefano Magrini) (PDF)
'The Introduction of Price Signals into Land Use Planning Decision-making: a Proposal', Urban Studies, 42, 4, 647-663, April 2005. (with Stephen Sheppard)(PDF)
'Land markets and land market regulation: progress towards understanding', Regional Science and Urban Economics 34, 619- 637, 2004. (with Stephen Sheppard) (PDF)
'Capitalising the Value of Free Schools: The Impact of Supply Characteristics and Uncertainty', Economic Journal November, F397-424, 2004 (with S. Sheppard) (PDF)
'Welfare Economics of Land Use Regulation', Journal of Urban Economics, 52, 242-69, 2002 (with S. Sheppard)

For more publications, please see his personal page

Contact details

E-mail: p.cheshire@lse.ac.uk
|Tel: [44] (0)20 7955 7586
Fax: [44] (0)20 7955 7412
Room: S405, St Clement's Building, LSE