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Great Britain's Second-Order City Regions in Recessions, 1978-2010

Champion, Tony; Townsend, Alan - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2012

While it is now accepted that the 2008-09 recession accentuated regional differences in Britain, it is more difficult to identify the role of major cities, especially over a longer time scale. Using previously established methods focussed on employment, this paper assesses the record of nine...

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The Fluctuating Record of Economic Regeneration in Englands Second-Order City Regions, 1984-2007

Champion, Tony; Townsend, Alan - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2009

This study examines how far and in what way 'Our cities are back', as claimed by England's Core Cities Group. It focuses on 1984-2007 employment changes for the eight Core Cities and their city regions: Birmingham, Bristol, Leeds, Liverpool, Manchester, Newcastle, Nottingham and Sheffield. City...

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Assessing Agglomeration Economies in a Spatial Framework with Endogenous Regressors

Artis, Michael; Miguélez, Ernest; Moreno, Rosina - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2009

This paper is concerned with the influence of agglomeration economies on economicoutcomes across British regions. The concentration of economic activity in one place canfoster economic performance due to the reduction in transportation costs, the readyavailability of customers and suppliers, and...

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Specialization and Regional Economic Development

Kemeny, Thomas; Storper, Michael - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2012

Debates about urban growth and change often center on specialization.However, arguments linking specialization to metropolitan economic development contain diverse, and sometimes conflicting, claims. Is it better to be highly specialized or diversified? Does specialization refer to the absolute...

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The Size Distribution Across All "Cities": A Unifying Approach

Giesen, Kristian; Suedekum, Jens - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2012

Older cities in the US tend to be larger than younger ones. The distribution of city sizes is, therefore, systematically related to the country's city age distribution. We introduce endogenous city creation into a dynamic economic model of an urban system. All cities exhibit the same long-run...

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Family Types and the Persistence of Regional Disparities in Europe

Duranton, Gilles; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés; Sandall, Richard - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2008

extremely resilient or else they have in the past beeninternalized within other social and economic institutions as they …

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Valuing Iconic Design: Frank Lloyd Wright Architecture in Oak Park, Illinois

Ahfeldt, Gabriel M.; Mastro, Alexandra - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2011

This study investigates the willingness of homebuyers to pay for co-location with iconic architecture. Oak Park, Illinois was chosen as the study area given its unique claim of having 24 residential structures designed by world-famous American architect Frank Lloyd Wright, in addition to dozens...

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Employment and Technological Change: On the Geography of Labour Market Adjustments

Gagliardi, Luisa - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2014

This paper investigates the impact of technological change on local labour market outcomes in Britain. Using a newly assembled panel database for the period 2000-2007 and a directly observed measure of technological change based on patent records, the analysis suggests that employment levels are...

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From Periphery to Core: Measuring Agglomeration Effects Using High-Speed Rail

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Feddersen, Arne - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2015

We analyze the economic impact of the German high-speed rail (HSR) connecting Cologne and Frankfurt, which provides plausibly exogenous variation in access to surrounding economic mass. We find a causal effect of about 8.5% on average of the HSR on the GDP of three counties with intermediate...

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Exploring the Geography of China's Airport Networks: A Hybrid Complex-Network Approach

Dong, Zhengbin; Wu, Wenjie - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2015

. This is particularly the case in developing countries with rapid airport network expansions. This paper explores the … structure and evolution of the trunk airport network of China (ANC) in major years during 1980s-2000s. We generalise the complex … network approach developed in existing studies and further test for statistical properties of weighted network characteristics …

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