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The Effect of Agglomeration Size on Local Taxes

Luthi, Eva; Schmidheiny, Kurt - CESifo - 2011

peripheral regions as the firms would forego ‘rents’ from agglomeration economies. In this paper, we study whether local policy … makers effectively tax such agglomeration rents. We test this with panel data from Swiss municipalities between 1985 and 2005 … introduce an new measure of cluster intensity which considers the varying intensities in agglomeration economies across sectors. …

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Lumpy Countries, Urbanization, and Trade

Brakman, Steven; Marrewijk, Charles van - CESifo - 2011

Lumpiness of production factors within a country might overturn the predictions for the structure of trade by the factor-abundance (HO) model. Trade patterns, as predicted by this model, can both be magnified or reversed by uneven concentration of production factors within a country. Cities are...

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Fiscal Competition, Convergence and Agglomeration

Fenge, Robert; Ehrlich, Maximilian Von; Wrede, Matthias - CESifo - 2007

efficiency arises since the efficient distribution of regional infrastructure requires full agglomeration for sufficiently low …

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Inefficient Lock-in and Subsidy Competition

Borck, Rainald; Koh, Hyun-Ju; Pflüger, Michael - CESifo - 2009

This paper shows that subsidy competition may be efficiency enhancing. We model a subsidy game among two asymmetric regions in a new trade model, where capital can freely move among regions, but capital rewards are repatriated. We study subsidy competition, starting from an equilibrium where the...

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Biodiversity and Geography

Barbier, Edward B.; Rauscher, Michael - CESifo - 2007

The paper combines an economic-geography model of agglomeration and periphery with a model of species diversity and …

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Ehrlich, Maximilian Von; Seidel, Tobias - CESifo - 2012

In contrast to what several papers have argued recently, we show that firm heterogeneity fosters agglomeration of … propensity to export. This renders the home market more important speaking against agglomeration. We also relate changes in firm …

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Urbanity

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel - CESifo - 2013

I define a composite amenity that provides aesthetic and consumption value to local residents: Urbanity. A novel data set of geo-tagged photos shared in internet communities serves as a proxy for urbanity. From the spatial pattern of house prices and photos I identify the value of urbanity in...

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No Price Like Home: Global House Prices, 1870-2012

Knoll, Katharina; Schularick, Moritz; Steger, Thomas - CESifo - 2014

How have house prices evolved over the long-run? This paper presents annual house prices for 14 advanced economies since 1870. Based on extensive data collection, we show that real house prices stayed constant from the 19th to the mid-20th century, but rose strongly during the second half of the...

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Does the Market Value Value-Added? Evidence from Housing Prices after a Public Release of School and Teacher Value-Added

Imberman, Scott Andrew; Lovenheim, Michael - CESifo - 2013

Value-added data are an increasingly common evaluation tool for schools and teachers. Many school districts have adopted these methods and released the results publicly. In this paper, we study the release of value-added data in Los Angeles by the Los Angeles Times newspaper to identify how...

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On the Equivalence of Location Choice Models: Conditional Logit, Nested Logit and Poisson

Schmidheiny, Kurt; Brülhart, Marius - CESifo - 2009

It is well understood that the two most popular empirical models of location choice - conditional logit and Poisson - return identical coefficient estimates when the regressors are not individual specific. We show that these two models differ starkly in terms of their implied predictions. The...

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