Sahil Gandhi
@gandhisahil.bsky.social
Assistant Professor, University of Manchester @OfficialUoM Urban Economics | Real Estate Economics | India
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Forthcoming in the AER: "Work From Home and the Office Real Estate Apocalypse" by Arpit Gupta, Vrinda Mittal, and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
Work From Home and the Office Real Estate Apocalypse
(Forthcoming Article) - We show remote work led to large drops in lease revenues, occupancy,
and market rents in the commercial office sector. We revalue New York City office buildings taking into acc...
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October 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM
Forthcoming in the AER: "Work From Home and the Office Real Estate Apocalypse" by Arpit Gupta, Vrinda Mittal, and Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh. www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=...
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Excited to see the new Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics (Volume 6), edited jointly with Dave Donaldson come out: www.sciencedirect.com/handbook/han.... Fantastic set of chapters on recent advances and pointing the way to exciting further research @treballen.bsky.social @siepr.bsky.social
Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics | Volume 6, Issue 1: Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics | ScienceDirect.com by Elsevier
Read the latest chapters of Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics at ScienceDirect.com, Elsevier’s leading platform of peer-reviewed scholarly literature
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September 17, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Excited to see the new Handbook of Regional and Urban Economics (Volume 6), edited jointly with Dave Donaldson come out: www.sciencedirect.com/handbook/han.... Fantastic set of chapters on recent advances and pointing the way to exciting further research @treballen.bsky.social @siepr.bsky.social
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Our Assistant Professor of Real Estate and Urban Economics @gandhisahil.bsky.social tells @bloomberg.com that the rising cost of housing in Mumbai is squeezing out lower and middle income workers 👉 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
A High-Rise Push Is Helping Mumbai Squeeze in Pools, Gyms and Greenery
In the space-crunched city, developers are making more room for amenities as living spaces shrink.
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September 18, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Our Assistant Professor of Real Estate and Urban Economics @gandhisahil.bsky.social tells @bloomberg.com that the rising cost of housing in Mumbai is squeezing out lower and middle income workers 👉 www.bloomberg.com/news/article...
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🆕 Reforming India’s housing market: How disclosure laws boosted efficiency
Today on VoxDev, Vaidehi Tandel (@manchester.ac.uk), Sahil Gandhi, Anupam Nanda & Nandini Agnihotri (WRI India) discuss the impact of mandatory disclosures in the Mumbai housing market: voxdev.org/topic/public...
Today on VoxDev, Vaidehi Tandel (@manchester.ac.uk), Sahil Gandhi, Anupam Nanda & Nandini Agnihotri (WRI India) discuss the impact of mandatory disclosures in the Mumbai housing market: voxdev.org/topic/public...
Reforming India’s housing market: How disclosure laws boosted efficiency
Mandatory disclosures in housing markets reduce market inefficiencies and improve access to information, as evidenced by disclosure laws in India.
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August 12, 2025 at 8:50 AM
🆕 Reforming India’s housing market: How disclosure laws boosted efficiency
Today on VoxDev, Vaidehi Tandel (@manchester.ac.uk), Sahil Gandhi, Anupam Nanda & Nandini Agnihotri (WRI India) discuss the impact of mandatory disclosures in the Mumbai housing market: voxdev.org/topic/public...
Today on VoxDev, Vaidehi Tandel (@manchester.ac.uk), Sahil Gandhi, Anupam Nanda & Nandini Agnihotri (WRI India) discuss the impact of mandatory disclosures in the Mumbai housing market: voxdev.org/topic/public...
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Delighted that after many years of hard work, Barriers to Global Capital Allocation (written jointly with Bruno Pellegrino and Enrico Spolaore), will be coming out in the QJE. academic.oup.com/qje/article-...
Barriers to Global Capital Allocation*
Abstract. Observed international investment positions and cross-country heterogeneity in rates of return to capital are hard to reconcile with frictionless
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June 30, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Delighted that after many years of hard work, Barriers to Global Capital Allocation (written jointly with Bruno Pellegrino and Enrico Spolaore), will be coming out in the QJE. academic.oup.com/qje/article-...
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Just published in @jpube.bsky.social:
"Do mandatory disclosures squeeze the lemons? The case of housing markets in India"
By @vaidehitandel.bsky.social, @gandhisahil.bsky.social, Anupam Nanda, & Nandini Agnihotri
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#econsky #publiceconomics #HousingMarket
"Do mandatory disclosures squeeze the lemons? The case of housing markets in India"
By @vaidehitandel.bsky.social, @gandhisahil.bsky.social, Anupam Nanda, & Nandini Agnihotri
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#econsky #publiceconomics #HousingMarket
June 26, 2025 at 2:10 PM
Just published in @jpube.bsky.social:
"Do mandatory disclosures squeeze the lemons? The case of housing markets in India"
By @vaidehitandel.bsky.social, @gandhisahil.bsky.social, Anupam Nanda, & Nandini Agnihotri
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
#econsky #publiceconomics #HousingMarket
"Do mandatory disclosures squeeze the lemons? The case of housing markets in India"
By @vaidehitandel.bsky.social, @gandhisahil.bsky.social, Anupam Nanda, & Nandini Agnihotri
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#econsky #publiceconomics #HousingMarket
Real Estate Regulatory Authority was introduced in 2016 to bring transparency in the Indian real estate
What was its impact on outcomes? We answer this question in our new @jpube.bsky.social paper "Do mandatory disclosures squeeze the lemons?"
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1/6
What was its impact on outcomes? We answer this question in our new @jpube.bsky.social paper "Do mandatory disclosures squeeze the lemons?"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
1/6
Do mandatory disclosures squeeze the lemons? The case of housing markets in India
What is the impact of mandatory disclosures of quality on market outcomes? Does the impact differ across income groups due to a difference in abilitie…
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June 19, 2025 at 1:58 AM
Real Estate Regulatory Authority was introduced in 2016 to bring transparency in the Indian real estate
What was its impact on outcomes? We answer this question in our new @jpube.bsky.social paper "Do mandatory disclosures squeeze the lemons?"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
1/6
What was its impact on outcomes? We answer this question in our new @jpube.bsky.social paper "Do mandatory disclosures squeeze the lemons?"
www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
1/6
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One week to go.
Two more weeks left to apply for our @urbaneconomics.bsky.social summer school. Details below.
PhD students interested in urban: Apply to join us at Tufts University for summer school July 21–23.
Learn from leading scholars, including @alvinmurphy.bsky.social, @econhist-allday.bsky.social. Get feedback on your research and meet other urban economists.
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Learn from leading scholars, including @alvinmurphy.bsky.social, @econhist-allday.bsky.social. Get feedback on your research and meet other urban economists.
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May 9, 2025 at 12:39 PM
One week to go.
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📢Heavily revised working paper on AI + Zoning —
with @alexbartik.bsky.social and Dan Milo, we have a new draft of our paper which expands on our method to understand housing regulations with AI.
Incudes a new public data release with more housing regulation data:
with @alexbartik.bsky.social and Dan Milo, we have a new draft of our paper which expands on our method to understand housing regulations with AI.
Incudes a new public data release with more housing regulation data:
April 22, 2025 at 1:53 PM
📢Heavily revised working paper on AI + Zoning —
with @alexbartik.bsky.social and Dan Milo, we have a new draft of our paper which expands on our method to understand housing regulations with AI.
Incudes a new public data release with more housing regulation data:
with @alexbartik.bsky.social and Dan Milo, we have a new draft of our paper which expands on our method to understand housing regulations with AI.
Incudes a new public data release with more housing regulation data:
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NIMBY restrictions on housing are well understood; but they also serve to hold back a host of other businesses too
December 22, 2024 at 11:15 PM
NIMBY restrictions on housing are well understood; but they also serve to hold back a host of other businesses too
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My obituary for the urban planner and civil engineer - and mentor to me - Shirish Patel, who died on Friday at 92. scroll.in/article/1077...
Shirish Patel: The man and the public good
With practical utility and elegance, the talented civil engineer and urban planner executed an array of people-centric projects.
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December 24, 2024 at 8:09 PM
My obituary for the urban planner and civil engineer - and mentor to me - Shirish Patel, who died on Friday at 92. scroll.in/article/1077...
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The Journal of Urban Economics turns 50 years old: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Forward to the Special Issue “Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Journal of Urban Economics”
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November 17, 2024 at 2:53 PM
The Journal of Urban Economics turns 50 years old: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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One thing I don’t understand about the incidence of tariffs is how much foreign inputs feature in goods.
Ie, coffee beans are roughly 10% of the cost of coffee. So assuming full passthrough, a 10% tariff would increase coffee prices paid by the consumer by 1%.
What does that look like in general?
Ie, coffee beans are roughly 10% of the cost of coffee. So assuming full passthrough, a 10% tariff would increase coffee prices paid by the consumer by 1%.
What does that look like in general?
November 18, 2024 at 2:12 AM
One thing I don’t understand about the incidence of tariffs is how much foreign inputs feature in goods.
Ie, coffee beans are roughly 10% of the cost of coffee. So assuming full passthrough, a 10% tariff would increase coffee prices paid by the consumer by 1%.
What does that look like in general?
Ie, coffee beans are roughly 10% of the cost of coffee. So assuming full passthrough, a 10% tariff would increase coffee prices paid by the consumer by 1%.
What does that look like in general?
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This is a fantastic opportunity for urban and housing economics job market candidates to do a postdoc with
@HansKoster9 and Jos van Ommeren
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#urbaneconomics
@HansKoster9 and Jos van Ommeren
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#urbaneconomics
Vacancy — Postdoctoral Researcher: The Economics of Housing Affordability
The Department of Spatial Economics is looking for a Postdoc Researcher for a 3-year position on a project examining housing affordability and urban economics, focusing on key issues in housing market...
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November 16, 2024 at 4:33 AM
This is a fantastic opportunity for urban and housing economics job market candidates to do a postdoc with
@HansKoster9 and Jos van Ommeren
workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/po...
#urbaneconomics
@HansKoster9 and Jos van Ommeren
workingat.vu.nl/vacancies/po...
#urbaneconomics
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When home heating prices are lower, fewer people die each winter, particularly in high-poverty communities. That's the punchline of my paper with Janjala Chirakijja and Pinchuan Ong on heating prices and mortality in the US, just published in the Economic Journal. 📉📈 academic.oup.com/ej/advance-a...
December 7, 2023 at 6:35 PM
When home heating prices are lower, fewer people die each winter, particularly in high-poverty communities. That's the punchline of my paper with Janjala Chirakijja and Pinchuan Ong on heating prices and mortality in the US, just published in the Economic Journal. 📉📈 academic.oup.com/ej/advance-a...
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Constructing influence: Political turnover reveals quid pro quo arrangements in Mumbai’s real estate.
Today on VoxDev, Vaidehi Tandel, Sahil Gandhi & Alex Tabarrok outline their research on the politician-developer nexus in #India: voxdev.org/topic/migrat...
Today on VoxDev, Vaidehi Tandel, Sahil Gandhi & Alex Tabarrok outline their research on the politician-developer nexus in #India: voxdev.org/topic/migrat...
Constructing influence: Political turnover reveals quid pro quo arrangements in Mumbai’s real esta...
Political party turnover in a local election increased completion times of real estate projects in Mumbai
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November 30, 2023 at 9:09 AM
Constructing influence: Political turnover reveals quid pro quo arrangements in Mumbai’s real estate.
Today on VoxDev, Vaidehi Tandel, Sahil Gandhi & Alex Tabarrok outline their research on the politician-developer nexus in #India: voxdev.org/topic/migrat...
Today on VoxDev, Vaidehi Tandel, Sahil Gandhi & Alex Tabarrok outline their research on the politician-developer nexus in #India: voxdev.org/topic/migrat...