Oliver Marc Hartwich

Dr Oliver Marc Hartwich is a Research Director at Policy Exchange with responsibility for economic competitiveness. He was born in 1975 and studied Business Administration and Economics at Bochum University (Germany). After graduating with a Master's Degree, he completed a PhD in Law at the universities of Bochum and Sydney (Australia) while working as a Researcher at the Institute of Commercial Law of Bonn University (Germany).

Oliver is also the UK representative of the German think tank Institut für Unternehmerische Freiheit (Institute for Free Enterprise).

With Alan W. Evans he has co-authored a series of reports for Policy Exchange; Unaffordable Housing - Fables and Myths (2005); Bigger Better Faster More - Why some countries plan better than others (2005); Better Homes, Greener Cities (2006); The Best Laid Plans - How planning prevents economic growth (2007)

Through Policy Exchange Oliver has also co-edited with James Panton Science vs Superstition: The case for a new scientific enlightenment (2006), distributed by The University of Buckingham Press

Oliver has written for Schweizer Monatshefte (Zurich), The Financial Times (London), The Washington Times, Die Welt (Berlin), The Sunday Telegraph (London), European Voice (Brussels), Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Zurich), The Guardian (London), Business Day (Cape Town), The Straits Times (Singapore) and The Providence Journal (Rhode Island). Oliver is a regular contributor to Capital magazine (Cologne).

Website: www.policyexchange.org.uk and his own website of personal writing www.oliver-marc-hartwich.de

e-mail: oliver.hartwich@policyexchange.org.uk

14.00 to 15.30 on Friday 18 May 2007

How development control affects property markets

In this session, chaired by Oliver, Wendell Cox, Yolande Barnes, John Stewart, and Michael Savage will discuss the way the land use planning system, particularly in Britain, affects and is affected by property markets. The focus will be on residential markets, where public and private rental housing providers co-existing with the larger owner occupation sector, while planning policy aims to ensure housing for all.

Wendell Cox, St Louis, USA, visiting Professor at the Conservatoire National des Arts et Metiers, Paris, co-author of the annual Demographia International Housing Affordability Survey, and author of War on the Dream: How Anti-Sprawl Policy Threatens the Quality of Life (2006) - Town Planning: The Negative Externalities

Yolande Barnes, Director, Savills Research - Land markets and housing supply: How the regulation of place impacts on value

John Stewart, Director of Economic Affairs at the Home Builders Federation, editor of the monthly Housing Market Report, author of Building a Crisis (2002) and Room to Move? - Reconciling Housing Consumption Aspirations and Land-use Planning (2005) - Planning the English housing market

Michael Savage, Manager, Derivatives Credit Policy, Global Banking and Markets, Royal Bank of Scotland - The causes and consequences of the house price boom, and what to do about it

How development control affects property markets

More to follow shortly...

What priorities do we want reflected in land use planning?

Has the notion of a distinct town and country become unsustainable?

Can planners reconcile government policies with where and how people actually want to live?

Is it justified to describe policies based on constraining building activity as "planning"?

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