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Public Debt and Economic Geography
Trionfetti, Federico - HAL - 2012
This paper studies the consequences of debt policies on the spatial distribution of output in a two-country model. It departs from the usual set up of local public finance by relaxing the assumption of balanced budget. Further, to single out the pure effect of debt the paper eliminates effects...
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The Impact of the German Autobahn Net on Regional Labor Market Performance: A Study Using Historical Instrument Variables
Möller, Joachim; Zierer, Marcus - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
This paper analyzes the impact of the German autobahn net on the economic performance of German regions. To address endogeneity and reverse causation problems, we use historical instrument variables, i.e. a plan of the railroad net in 1890 and a plan of the autobahn net in 1937. We find a...
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Towards a Unifying Approach of the 'New Economic Geography'
Pflüger, Michael; Südekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
Models of the new economic geography share a number of common conclusions, but also exhibit notable differences, in particular with respect to the shape of the location pattern and the efficiency of the market equilibrium. This reflects the fact that these models rely heavily on specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005233783
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Enlargement and the EU Periphery: The Impact of Changing Market Potential
Brülhart, Marius; Crozet, Matthieu; Koenig, Pamina - HAL - 2004
We study the impact of changing relative market access in an enlarged EU on the economies of incumbent Objective 1 regions. First, we track the impact of external opening on internal spatial configurations in a three-region economic geography model. External opening gives rise to potentially...
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On Pitchforks and Tomahawks
Pflüger, Michael; Südekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
The core-periphery model by Krugman (1991) has two 'dramatic' implications: catastrophic agglomeration and locational hysteresis. We study this seminal model with CES instead of Cobb-Douglas upper tier preferences. This small generalization suffices to change these stark implications. For a wide...
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Industry Churning and the Evolution of Cities: Evidence for Germany
Findeisen, Sebastian; Suedekum, Jens - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
In this paper we show that the recent model by Duranton (AER, 2007) performs remarkably well in replicating the city size distribution of West Germany, much better than the simple rank-size rule known as Zipf’s law. The main mechanism of this theoretical framework is the "churning" of...
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A small model of equilibrium mechanisms in a city
Palma, André De; Proost, Stef; Loo, Saskia Van Der - HAL - 2013
We use a simple economy with two interconnected geographical zones. Individuals can live and work in one of the two zones or can commute between them. This model is used to explore the dynamics of housing and work decisions after a permanent shock in labour demand occurred in one of the two...
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Where in cities do "rich" and "poor" people live? The urban economics model revisited
Lemoy, Rémi; Raux, Charles; Jensen, Pablo - HAL - 2013
We exploit the power of the Alonso-Mills-Muth (AMM) urban economics model and show that various utility functions and plausible conditions offer alternative explanations of households' location by income within a city. These include the existence of a "rich" center and more complex socio-spatial...
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The Effect of Location on Finding a Job in the Greater Paris Area
Gobillon, Laurent; Magnac, Thierry; Selod, Harris - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
There are large spatial disparities in unemployment durations across the 1,300 municipalities in the Ile-de-France region (Paris Greater Area). In order to characterize these imbalances, we estimate a proportional hazard model stratified by municipality on an exhaustive dataset of all...
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How Urbanization Affects Employment and Social Interactions
Sato, Yasuhiro; Zenou, Yves - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2014
ties) than in sparsely populated areas. We also demonstrate that, for a low urbanization level, there is a unique steady …-state equilibrium where workers do not interact with weak ties, while, for a high level of urbanization, there is a unique steady … when social interactions are optimal, we show that there is over-urbanization in equilibrium. …
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