Archive - Michael Wiebe

Inclusionary zoning works in theory, but not in practice

Parcel-level calibration is not realistic

May 31 • Michael Wiebe

YIMBY research wanted: upzoning and land prices

Does upzoning reduce the price of existing high-density land?

May 26 • Michael Wiebe

April 2026

YIMBY research wanted: demand cascade

We have no studies of the key mechanism driving the housing crisis

Apr 28 • Michael Wiebe

Induced demand has to come from somewhere

Amenity effects reallocate demand, they don't create it

Apr 6 • Michael Wiebe

March 2026

Can AI do replications? GPT5.2 vs GPT5.4 vs refine.ink

AI on ten issues in Moretti (2021)

Mar 17 • Michael Wiebe

Collinearity in mover event studies

A note for economists

Mar 13 • Michael Wiebe

What's going on with the event study in Moretti (2021)?

An explainer for economists

Mar 13 • Michael Wiebe

Moretti replication published in AER

How I found ten problems in a paper from a top economics journal

Mar 13 • Michael Wiebe

How to fix Moretti (2021)

Advice for economists

Mar 13 • Michael Wiebe

Three misconceptions about inclusionary zoning

Who really pays for IZ

Mar 12 • Michael Wiebe

September 2025

Condonomics Debunked

A review of Patrick Condon's 'Broken City'

Sep 2, 2025 • Michael Wiebe

August 2025

A review of Murray's 'Great Housing Hijack'

In The Great Housing Hijack, Cameron Murray sets up a framework with five equilibria (asset price, rental, spatial, density, and absorption rate), which…

Aug 19, 2025 • Michael Wiebe

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