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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010933809
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Trade Integration and Business Tax Differentials: Theory and Evidence from OECD Countries
Exbrayat, Nelly; Geys, Benny - HAL - 2011
Building on recent contributions to the New Economic Geography literature, this paper analyses the relation between asymmetric market size, trade integration and business income tax differentials across countries. First, relying on a foot-loose capital model of tax competition, we illustrate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009278309
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010750755
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899603
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010633192
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Polycentric city and multi-worker households: an agent-based microeconomic model
Lemoy, Rémi; Raux, Charles; Jensen, Pablo - HAL - 2013
Polycentrism in cities is studied with the help of an agent-based model grounded in the Alonso, Muth, Mills (AMM) framework, using microeconomic interactions between heterogeneous agents. This model is shown to reproduce the standard urban equilibrium with two income groups. Two job centers at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009147734
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Monocentric analysis of restricting the budget share of housing alone or with transportation
Coulombel, Nicolas - HAL - 2008
Considering the prolonged rise of energy price and the still elevated housing prices, the policy to limit the share of housing expenses in the households' budget, so as to secure their solvability, has been criticized. Supposedly, it induces people to get farther from the city center in search...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008793542
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Does Urbanization Help Poverty Reduction in Rural Areas? Evidence from Vietnam
Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Youssef, Adel Ben; … - HAL - 2014
Urbanization and poverty have a two-way relationship. Using fixed-effects regression andpanel data from household … surveys, we estimate the effect of urbanization on welfare andpoverty of rural households in Vietnam. We find that … urbanization tends to increaselandlessness of rural households and to reduce their farm income. However, urbanizationhelps rural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010930218
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Effects of urbanization on economic growth and human capital formation in Africa
Arouri, Mohamed El Hedi; Youssef, Adel Ben; … - HAL - 2014
The objective of this paper is to investigate the impacts of urbanization on human capital andeconomic growth in Africa …. It seeks to contribute to the urbanization-growth debate byinvestigating how urbanization is linked to human capital … accumulation and economic growth.More precisely, compared to previous studies on the urbanization-growth nexus, we (i …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010930231
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Urbanism, an overview
Palma, André De; Guimard, Alexandre - HAL - 2014
Past and current experiences can be studied in order to understand the main phenomena driving urbanization and thus to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010899733