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Time-To-Plan Lags for Commercial Construction Projects / Jonathan N. Millar, Stephen D. Oliner, Daniel E. Sichel.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Millar, Jonathan N.
- Series:
- Working Paper Series (National Bureau of Economic Research) no. w19408.
- NBER working paper series no. w19408
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource: illustrations (black and white);
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. National Bureau of Economic Research 2013.
- Summary:
- We use a large project-level dataset to estimate the length of the planning period for commercial construction projects in the United States. We find that these time-to-plan lags are long, averaging about 17 months when we aggregate the projects without regard to size and more than 28 months when we weight the projects by their construction cost. The full distribution of time-to-plan lags is very wide, and we relate this variation to the characteristics of the project and its location. In addition, we show that time-to-plan lags lengthened by 3 to 4 months, on average, over our sample period (1999 to 2010). Regulatory factors are associated with the variation in planning lags across locations, and we present anecdotal evidence that links at least some of the lengthening over time to heightened regulatory scrutiny.
- Notes:
- Print version record
- September 2013.
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