Financial independence, with the help of paid FET subscribers, consulting clients, and workshop attendees, is what buys Cameron and Tim the time to make academic contributions.
Academic papers
Supply skepticism needs economic theory. Housing Policy Debate. 2025. With Tim Helm.
Pricing upzoning: A reply to critics. Housing Policy Debate. 2023. With Josh Gordon.
Land as airspace: How rezoning privatizes public space (and why governments should not give it away for free). Housing Policy Debate. 2023. With Josh Gordon.
Evidence-lite zone: The weak evidence behind the economic case against planning regulation. Town Planning Review. 2023. With Peter Phibbs.
Ownership illusions: When ownership really matters for economic analysis. Real World Economic Review. 2023. With Tim Helm.
We zoned for density and got higher house prices: Supply and price effects of upzoning over 20 years. Urban Policy and Research. 2022. With Mark Limb. (free version)
A housing supply absorption rate equation. Journal of Real Estate Finance and Economics. 2022. (free version)
When homes earn more than jobs: The rentierization of the Australian housing market. Housing Studies. 2021. With Josh Ryan-Collins. (free version)
Land value is a progressive and efficient property tax base: Evidence from Victoria. Australian Tax Forum. 2021. With Jesse Hermans. (free version)
The Australian Housing Supply Myth. Australian Planner. 2021. (free version)
Is transparency an anti-corruption myth?. Journal of Behavioral Economics for Policy. 2021. With Paul Frijters and Markus Schaffner. (free version)
Marginal and average prices of land lots should not be equal: A critique of Glaeser and Gyourko’s method for identifying residential price effects of town planning regulations. Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space. 2021. (free version)
Time is money: How landbanking constrains housing supply. Journal of Housing Economics. 2020. (free version)
The City Under COVID‐19: Podcasting As Digital Methodology. Journal of Economic and Social Geography. 2020. With many others.
A theory of return-seeking firms. Australian Economic Papers. 2019. (free version)
Developers pay developer charges. Cities. 2018. (free version)
Light Rail, Land Values and Taxes. Economic Record. 2017. (free version)
The back-scratching game. Journal of Economic and Behavioral Organization. 2017. With Paul Frijters. (free version)
Clean Money in a Dirty System: Relationship Networks and Land Rezoning. Journal of Urban Economics. 2016. With Paul Frijters. (free version)
What if consumers decided to all ‘go green’? Environmental rebound effects from consumption decisions. Energy Policy. 2013. (free version)
What’s the rush? New housing market absorption rate metrics and the incentive to slow housing supply. OSF Preprints.
Do political donations buy reputation in an elite gift-exchange game? OSF Preprints.
Explainers
Explainer: Supply Constraints do not Explain House Price and Quantity Growth
Explainer: Markets efficiently delay building feasible new homes
Explainer: How the visa system affects net overseas migration (NOM)
Explainer: Do taxes on property cause high house prices? No.
Feasibility guide for town planners. Henry Halloran Trust report.
Policy reports
HouseMate: A proposed national institution to build new homes and sell them cheap to any citizen who does not own a home. 2022. Henry Halloran Trust Discussion paper.
Scrap superannuation. 2020. Fresh Economic Thinking Policy Report (slideshow here)
Submissions to recent government inquiries
Submission to Productivity Commission’s 2026 Housing Supply Regulation Inquiry.
Submission to NSW inquiry into Development of the Transport Oriented Development Program, 2024
Submission to “The worsening rental crisis in Australia” Senate Inquiry. 2023.
Submission to Senate Inquiry into the Housing Australia Future Fund Bill 2023 and other bills (FET article here and submission document here)
Submission to the House of Representatives Standing Committee on Tax and Revenue’s inquiry into Housing Affordability and Supply. 2021.
Submission to the NSW Housing Strategy. 2020. FET article here and submission document here.
Submission to the Review of the Petroleum Resource Rent Tax (PRRT). 2017.
Submission to NSW Review of Infrastructure Contributions. 2020. FET article here and submission document here.
Submission to NSW ICAC review of regulation and lobbying. 2019.
Articles at The Conversation
Find them all here.
Google Scholar profile
All of my published research is listed in my Google Scholar profile.
CV
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