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Assuming Shanghai's land market is efficient and the market values of land-use rights converge to the option values of land, the model identifies the maximum values of tenants' resettlement and infrastructure components of the total land values developers can rationally pay to avoid negative-NPV investment decisions. The model suggests a compensation cost function of about 51 percent of total land value (conveyance fee plus resettlement and infrastructure cost), or 26 percent of the underlying asset value upon sales of the residential development. It is the recommendation of this thesis that the Chinese government reexamines the existing land conveyance system to formally include tenants' resettlement compensation and infrastructural fees as part of the land-use rights bidding package. 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