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The IOC's Midas Touch: Summer Olympics and City Growth

Nitsch, Volker; Wendland, Nicolai - CESifo - 2013

Hosting a mega-event is a costly activity of short duration. Still, cities frequently compete to become host of all types of events. This paper examines the effect of staging the largest and most important sporting event in the world, the Summer Olympic Games, on the host city. Applying a...

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A Spatial Approach to Energy Economics: Theory, Measurement and Empirics

Moreno-Cruz, Juan; Taylor, M. Scott - CESifo - 2014

This paper sets out a simple spatial model of energy exploitation to ask how the location and productivity of energy resources may affect the distribution of economic activity around the globe. We combine elements from resource and energy economics into one framework linking the spatial...

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The Penn Effect within a Country - Evidence from Japan

Cheung, Yin-Wong; Fujii, Eiji - CESifo - 2012

To control for product quality and exchange rate effects, we use the Japanese regional data to study the Penn effect – the positive relationship between price and income levels. Comparable with the evidence from international data, the Penn effect is significant in the Japanese prefectural...

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Reflections on Cluster Policies

Brakman, Steven; Marrewijk, Charles van - CESifo - 2012

formulate and promote policies that foster clustering of economic activity. Paradoxically, although agglomeration rents are …

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Welfare Benefits of Agglomeration and Worker Heterogeneity

Teulings, Coenraad N.; Ossokina, Ioulia V.; Groot, … - CESifo - 2014

effects on home and job location, on land use, and on agglomeration benefits are hard to pin down. We develop a spatial …

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Taxes in Cities

Brülhart, Marius; Bucovetsky, Sam; Schmidheiny, Kurt - CESifo - 2014

vertically), jurisdictional size asymmetries, and the potential for agglomeration economies. We survey the relevant theoretical … and of taxation in the presence of agglomeration rents. …

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The Location of Cross-Border Mergers & Acquisitions in the USA

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Marrewijk, Charles van - CESifo - 2015

The research on the location choice for Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) is traditionally restricted to a choice between countries. The within-country location choice is less prominent in the literature. If within-country location decisions are considered it is mostly limited to Greenfield...

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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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Why Does Educational Attainment Differ Across U.S. States?

Hendricks, Lutz - CESifo - 2004

. Theories based on agglomeration economies offer natural explanations for these observations. …

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Capital Tax Competition with Heterogeneous Firms and Agglomeration Effects (new title: Tax competition with heterogeneous firms)

Burbidge, John; Cuff, Katherine; Leach, John - CESifo - 2004

Our paper extends the capital tax competition literature by incorporating heterogeneous capital and agglomeration. Our … model nests the standard tax competition model as well as the special case in which there is agglomeration but no firm …/capital heterogeneity and the opposite case, firm heterogeneity with no agglomeration. We build on the existing tax competition literature …

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