How the City was Owned : Property Markets, Property Rights, and Entrepreneurship in Stockholm, Sweden 1726-2018

Author: Klas A. M. Eriksson; Rodney Edvinsson; Bo Franzén; Christian Sandström; Erik Lakomaa; Stockholms Universitet; []

Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCES; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP; SOCIAL SCIENCES; real estate; law; private property; public property; Stockholm; PBL; planning and building law; urban; Sweden; New Institutional Economics; long-term; mixed methods; 18th century; 19th century; 20th century; 21st century; general; specific; formulations; entrepreneurship; regulations; sharing; owning; digital entrepreneurship; digital innovation; cities; agglomeration; institutional entrepreneurship; field conditions; regulatory capture; price index; Economic History; ekonomisk historia;

Abstract: In this dissertation three central themes concerning the ownership and allocation in the city of Stockholm over long periods are examined.The first theme property markets involves constructions of real estate price indexes spanning from 1726 to 2018. The second theme property rights concerns the regulation of private and public ownership of real estate from 1874 to 2010. The third theme entrepreneurship in urban environments is an examination of the efforts to influence property markets and property rights through entrepreneurship in difference sectors from the 1920s to the 2010s.With an extensive amount of empirical material, this dissertation examines and relates the three themes to each other and shed new light on urban dynamics from an historical perspective. This dissertation is particularly important today when ownership and prices of real estate in cities are burning issues, and entrepreneurship is of central importance for development. The dissertation is a compilation thesis consisting of six articles.

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