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The Economic Value of Cultural Diversity: Evidence from US Cities
Ottaviano, Gianmarco; Peri, Giovanni - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
We use data on wages and rents in different US cities to assess the amenity effects on production and consumption of cultural diversity as measured by diversity of countries of birth of city residents. We show that US-born citizens living in metropolitan areas where the share of foreign-born...
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Spatial Asset Pricing: A First Step
Ortalo-Magné, François; Prat, Andrea - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
People choose where to live and how much to invest in housing. Traditionally, the first decision has been the domain of spatial economics, while the second has been analyzed in finance. Spatial asset pricing is an attempt to combine equilibrium concepts from both disciplines. In the finance...
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Property Tax and Urban Sprawl. Theory and Implications for U.S. Cities
Song, Yan; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
This article attempts a formal analysis of the connection between property tax and urban sprawl in U.S. cities. We develop a theoretical model that includes households (who are also landlords) and land developers in a regional land market. We then test the model empirically based on a national...
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New Economic Geography: an appraisal on the occasion of Paul Krugman's 2008 Nobel Prize in Economics
Fujita, Masahisa; Thisse, Jacques-François - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
succeed in combining imperfect competition, increasing returns, and transportation costs in new and powerful ways.Yet, not … in urban economics and location theory. Our purpose in this paper is to shed new light on economic geography through the …
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How Urbanization Affect Employment and Social Interactions
Sato, Yasuhiro; Zenou, Yves - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
We develop a model where the unemployed workers in the city can find a job either directly or through weak or strong ties. We show that, in denser areas, individuals choose to interact with more people and meet more random encounters (weak ties) than in sparsely populated areas. We also...
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The Geography of Development within Countries
Desmet, Klaus; Henderson, J Vernon - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
This chapter describes how the spatial distribution of economic activity changes as economies develop and grow. We start with the relation between development and rural-urban migration. Moving beyond the coarse rural-urban distinction, we then focus on the continuum of locations in an economy...
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Environmental Innovation Policy and International Competition
Carraro, Carlo; Siniscalco, Domenico - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1991
competition, Bertrand and Cournot oligopoly) international competition forces the national government to subsidize innovation. The …
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Anti-Trust Policy and National Growth: Some Evidence from Italy
Allegra, Elisabetta; Forni, Mario; Grillo, Michele; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004
downstream sectors, which often face tough international competition. Such firms lose market share, thus worsening the economic … performance of the country. We try to document the importance of this link between competition problems and growth by analysing … from competition problems perform worse in terms of net exports, export growth and output growth. …
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Industrial Policy and Competition
Aghion, Philippe; Dewatripont, Mathias; Du, Liqun; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
enterprises for the period 1998 through 2007 to test for complementarity between competition and industrial policy. A main … competition-friendly and therefore more growth-enhancing. …
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Add-on Pricing, Naive Consumers, and the Hidden Welfare Costs of Education
Kosfeld, Michael; Schüwer, Ulrich - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2011
Previous research shows that firms shroud high add-on prices in competitive markets with naive consumers leading to inefficiency. We analyze the effects of regulatory intervention via educating naive consumers on equilibrium prices and welfare. Our model allows firms to shroud, unshroud, or...
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