Our research serves to establish the economic, legal, and moral arguments for charter cities. Research topics include urbanization, special economic zones, effective altruism, private governance, and more.
September 27, 2019
June 2, 2021
The Charter Cities Institute (CCI) accepts submissions for research paper ideas related to charter cities and innovative urban governance.
Kurtis Lockhart
August 13, 2019
CCI's first academic publication on Honduras' charter cities law.
Jeffrey Mason
April 20, 2021
In a world with increasing numbers of forcibly displaced persons, this paper explores how charter cities can generate more effective responses to refugee movements and place refugee and local community needs firmly at the center of local governance.
Sarah Doyel
November 12, 2020
Mark Levin offers lessons for charter cities from his four decades of experience in city management.
Mark Levin
July 7, 2020
July 8, 2020
Paul Healy and Matt Prewitt detail three RadicalxChange policies for improving charter city governance.
Paul Healy
September 23, 2019
Sustained economic growth is the world’s best poverty reduction tool. In this paper, Research Associate Jeffrey Mason argues that charter cities are a highly cost-effective way to ignite long-run growth.
August 14, 2019
February 4, 2019
We have a new working paper by Jorge Colindres and myself (Mark Lutter) on how charter cities can make Honduras great.
Jorge Colindres
April 11, 2018
The Case of the Honduran ZEDE Regime
