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Microeconomic consequences of urban sprawl : a quasi-experimental research on household budgets in Poland
Lityński, Piotr - In: European research studies 24 (2021) 1, pp. 248-268
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Mutations urbaines, mutations démographiques. Contribution à l'explication de la déprise démographique des villes-centres
Rérat, Patrick - In: Revue d'économie régionale et urbaine décembre (2006) 5, pp. 725-750
The new modalities of urbanisation have resulted among others in a phenomenon of sprawl and of population … households, we can get a precise grasp of the nature of this demographic loss. The fact that the city saw during the same time …-span an increase of 2 000 households leads us to reject the hypotheses related to the destruction of dwellings, to the …
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Housing Trends in China and India
Patrick D’Arcy; Veroude, Alexandra - In: RBA Bulletin (2014) March, pp. 63-68
size to that of China. However, despite its faster population growth, India's slower pace of urbanisation and less …
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The Perils of Regulatory Property in Land Use Regulation
Eagle, Steven - 2014
"Regulatory property" is the right to engage in specified activities, made valuable by government prohibitions against competitors, and protected by de jure or de facto status as property. This Article explores regulatory property and focuses upon its applications in land use regulation. It...
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Construction industry : high price momentum continues, industry performing well despite COVID-19
Gornig, Martin; Michelsen, Claus; Pagenhardt, Laura - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 12 (2022) 1/2, pp. 3-13
Sales in the construction industry will continue to increase strongly in 2022 and 2023. Overall, DIW Berlin estimates a nominal increase in construction volume of almost 13 percent in 2022 and six percent in 2023 to 585 billion euros. In 2021, construction volume increased by ten percent to 488...
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Construction industry momentum continues : state stimulus impacts prices
Gornig, Martin; Michelsen, Claus; Bruns, Martin - In: DIW weekly report : economy, politics, science : a … 9 (2019) 1/2, pp. 3-14
According to the German Institute for Economic Research construction volume forecast, the country’s construction industry will continue to flourish in the coming years. Companies can count on a rise in the nominal construction volume of around 7.5 percent in 2019 and 6.5 percent next year. The...
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How Full Is the tank? – Insights on Short-run Fuel Price Reactions from German Travel Diary Data
Ritter, Nolan; Schmidt, Christoph M.; Vance, Colin - 2013
We provide evidence that motorists respond to short-run fluctuations in fuel prices at the gas pump and not on the road. Employing variants of censored panel regression to control for unobserved heterogeneity and censoring of the dependent variable, we find that the fuel price has a large and...
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Coping Strategies in Post-War Rural Mozambique
Brück, Tilman - 2005
This paper analyses post-war coping strategies by farm households in developing countries. The analysis is based on a … differ from pre- and mid-crisis coping strategies. War-affected households are forced to adopt very risky coping strategies … that re-enforce their vulnerability. Households choose between market and non-market forms of exchange and even exit …
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Identifying Conflict and Violence in Micro-Level Surveys
Brück, Tilman; Justino, Patricia; Verwimp, Philip; … - 2010
, and across time, how individuals, households and communities are affected by violent conflict. The report provides an … affect the welfare characteristics and choices of individuals and households in conflict areas. …
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Foreign Currency Borrowing: The Case of Hungary
Pellényi, Gábor; Bilek, Péter - 2009
We use household survey data from Hungary to analyse the determinants of foreign currency (FX) borrowing. We do not find evidence that Hungarian FX borrowers are better educated, wealthier or more risk-loving than their peers. In fact, FX borrowing is a common phenomenon driven mostly by...
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