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Carbon Leakage and Capacity-Based Allocations. Is the EU right?

Meunier, Guy; Ponssard, Jean-Pierre; Quirion, Philippe - CESifo - 2012

Two main approaches have been implemented in regional CO2 markets to address competitiveness and carbon leakage: output based allocation (Australia, California, New Zealand) and capacity based allocation (EU). This paper characterizes the best policy, given that auctioning with border adjustment...

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Highway to Economic Growth? Competition in Public Works Tenders in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Galletta, Sergio; Jametti, Mario; Redonda, Agustin - CESifo - 2012

an essential part to bring the country on the path of economic growth, and competition within the sector is crucial to …

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Continuous Logit Polycentric City Model

Wrede, Matthias - CESifo - 2014

This paper analyzes a closed, essentially linear polycentric city with homogenous households who probabilistically select their workplace and residence locations. The study utilizes a continuous logit model to describe household location choices. In contrast to the classic urban model with...

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Parking and Urban Form

Brueckner, Jan K.; Franco, Sofia F. - CESifo - 2015

This paper analyzes the provision of residential parking in a monocentric city, with the ultimate goal of appraising the desirability and effects of regulations such as a minimum-parking requirement (MPR) per dwelling. The analysis considers three different regimes for provision of parking...

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Wages, Rents, Unemployment, and the Quality of Life

Wrede, Matthias - CESifo - 2012

Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the regional quality of life when wages, rents, and unemployment risk compensate for local amenities and disamenities. In particular, the paper shows for quasi-linear utility that the effects of any...

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Commuting Subsidies with two Transport Modes

Borck, Rainald; Wrede, Matthias - CESifo - 2007

We study a simple model of commuting subsidies with two transport modes. City residents choose where to live and which mode to use. When all land is owned by city residents, one group gains from subsidies what the other loses. With absentee landownership, city residents as a group gain at the...

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Gentrification and Neighborhood Housing Cycles: Will America's Future Downtowns be Rich?

Brueckner, Jan K.; Rosenthal, Stuart S. - CESifo - 2005

spatial variation in dwelling ages were eliminated, longstanding central city/suburban disparities in neighborhood economic …-city/suburban differences in economic status will widen somewhat in smaller cities but narrow sharply in the largest American cities as they …

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Supply Constraints and Housing Prices

Aura, Saku; Davidoff, Thomas - CESifo - 2006

This paper analyzes the effects of land use constraints on housing prices. We provide a new framework for evaluating policy when mobility across regions is allowed but limited. A key result is that loosening regulatory constraints within individual regions would have little effect on prices for...

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Subsidies for Intracity and Intercity Commuting

Borck, Rainald; Wrede, Matthias - CESifo - 2008

This paper analyzes subsidies for intracity and intercity commuting in an urban economics framework with two cities and agglomeration externalities, where workers may commute within and between cities. First, commuting subsidies serve to internalize agglomeration externalities: Intracity...

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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 … inevitably impaired by anthropogenic impact. Thus, the economic and the ecological system compete for space and the question … (endemism vs. redundancy of species) and the patterns of economic geography (centrifugal and centripetal forces). As regards the …

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