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Macro and Micro Spatial Equilibrium
D'Acci, Luca - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
These pages briefly mention the assumption of indifference between residing in different locations which is embodied in spatial equilibrium. Sometimes, for a person, a pure indifference may result, namely gains and costs (monetary or not) are entirely compensated among locations; but sometimes...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011108486
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On Measuring the Complexity of Urban Living
Hasan, Lubna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
rankings and related literature is carried out to suggest a framework for measuring Pakistani cities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005260270
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On Measuring the Complexity of Urban Living
Hasan, Lubna Hasan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
rankings and related literature is carried out to suggest a framework for measuring Pakistani cities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789694
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Good Governance, Trade and Agglomeration
Candau, Fabien - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
We develop a model for developing countries that investigates the factors behind agglomeration of activities in urban giants. Firstly we show that relatively easier market access to external demand provided by the urban giant tends to attract entrepreneurs to this place. Secondly we find that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836639
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Cities and Quality of Life-Should We Monitor Pakistani Cities?
Hasan, Lubna - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
cities and the Quality of Life (QoL) of urban residents, to gain insights into the well-being of the citizens and the state … quality of life in Pakistani cities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836716
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Deviations from Zipf’s Law for American cities: an empirical examination
Rafael, González-Val - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
distribution element by element, taking data from all American cities in 2000, and explain the deviation of the size predicted by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836824
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Nursery cities: urban diversity, process innovation and the life-cycle of products
Duranton, Gilles; Puga, Diego - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2000
specialised cities coexist. New products are developed in diversified cities, trying processes borrowed from different activities …. On finding their ideal process, firms switch to mass-production and relocate to specialised cities with lower costs. When … in equilibrium, this configuration welfare-dominates those with only diversified or only specialised cities. We find …
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Cities in Germany and their climate commitments: More hype than substance?
Sippel, Maike - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
greenhouse gas policies. For a more meaningful contribution to the battle against climate change, cities could follow a double …While nation states debate climate policy at an international scale, on a local level, cities across the globe have … against their targets. Official information material from large cities in Germany was collected and complemented with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008587847
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City of dreams
De la Roca, Jorge; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I. P.; Puga, Diego - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
Higher ability workers benefit more from bigger cities while housing costs there are higher for everyone, and yet there …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126686
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Zipf's law for cities: a cross country investigation
Soo, Kwok Tong - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
This paper assesses the empirical validity of Zipf¿s Law for cities, using new data on 73 countries and two estimation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011071193