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Is the sky the limit? an analysis of high-rise office buildings
Koster, Hans R.A.; Rietveld, Piet; van Ommerren, Jos N. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
Modern central business districts are characterised by high-rise office buildings. Helsley and Strange (2008) argue that skyscrapers are caused by agglomeration economies and a prize for being the tallest, so a reputation effect. We aim to test the relevance of this model by investigating the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126103
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The learning process and the market: the Japanese capital goods sector in the early twentieth century
Nakaoka, Tetsuro - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1994
Professor Tetsuro Nakaoka, formerly of Osaka University, and now of the Faculty of Management, Osaka University of Economics, gave a seminar on Japanese industrial development at the Suntory-Toyota Centre during 1992. Although it was not possible to publish that paper as a STICERD discussion...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010745230
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Fifty years of urban accessibility: the impact of the urban railway network on the land gradient in Berlin 1890-1936
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Wendland, Nicolai - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2011
As the first to use an archival data set on historical land values in Berlin, Germany, from 1890 to 1936, we investigate the impact of the rapid transport system on urban decentralization, using comparative statics of classical rent theory as a benchmark. We find that the monocentric model...
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Rocketing rents the magnitude and attenuation of agglomeration economies in the commercial property market
Koster, Hans R. A. - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
Rocketing rents in urban areas are likely explained by agglomeration economies. This paper measures the impact of these external economies on commercial property values using unique micro�]data on commercial rents and employment. A measure of agglomeration is employed that is continuous over...
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How polycentric is a monocentric city?: centers, spillovers and hysteresis
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Wendland, Nicolai - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2013
We assess the extent to which firms in an environment of decreasing transport costs and industrial transformation value the benefits of proximity to a historic CBD and agglomeration economies in their location decisions. Taking a hybrid perspective of classical bid-rent theory and a world where...
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A general framework for analysing endogenous trade divergences
Walsh, Patrick - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1991
is determined by the market structure chosen to endogenise the divergence. The magnitude of the subsidy in all models is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884498
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New media competition and access: the scarcity-abundance dialectic
Mansell, Robin - London School of Economics (LSE) - 1999
services decline in price and as customers and producers engage in new market relationships. Following this line of argument … market competition that fully protects the interests of all consumers and citizens. In fact, empirical evidence suggests that … dynamics of tension between abundance and scarcity in the market place. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010884499
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In search of value-for-money in collective bargaining: an analytic-interactive mediation process
Schilling, Martin S.; Mulford, Matthew - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2007
In this paper we introduce an analytic-interactive mediation approach to facilitate conflict resolution in collective bargaining. Based on field observations of labor-management negotiations in the German railway industry, we develop an approach which combines human mediation with IT-based...
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A commentary on the research evidence regarding the effects of food promotion on children: prepared for the research department of the Office of Communications (OFCOM)
Livingstone, Sonia - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2004
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Strong-form efficiency with monopolistic insiders
Chau, Minh; Vayanos, Dimitri - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2005
We study market efficiency in an infinite-horizon model with a monopolistic insider. The insider can trade with a … competitive market maker and noise traders, and observes privately the expected growth rate of asset dividends. In the absence of … chooses, however, to reveal the information very quickly, within a time converging to zero as the market approaches continuous …
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