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Imitation in location choice
Berg, Nathan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
later movers to condition choice of location on earlier movers’ locations. When this occurs, firms sometimes find it … facilitates normative analysis of imitation in location choice by explicitly quantifying losses in aggregate efficiency following …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008693537
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Axiomatic foundation for Lindahl pricing in the NIMBY context
Laurent-Lucchetti, Jérémy; Leroux, Justin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
The siting of public facilities, such as prisons, airports or incinerators for hazardous waste typically faces social rejection by local populations (the "NIMBY" syndrome, for Not In My BackYard). These public goods exhibit a private bad aspect which creates an asymmetry: all involved...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004961519
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Territorial development reconsidered
Sucháček, Jan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Lamentations on societal and environmental developments become increasingly audible in our times. Currently, we can hear almost every day about reaching the balance in a very sensitive triangle economic sustainability-social sustainability-environmental sustainability. It is largely omitted that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005105664
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Mapping the ICT in EU Regions: Location, Employment, Factors of Attractiveness and Economic Impact
Barrios, Salvador; Mas, Matilde; Navajas, Elena; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
present study documents the regional impact of ICT by mapping the location of the ICT industry in the EU25, analysing the … ICT business location and, finally, assessing the contribution of ICT investment to regional growth and convergence. The …. These factors also seem to explain much of the recent trends in ICT multinationals firms' location over the past decade. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005621502
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Entry in Greek manufacturing industry: Athens vs the rest of Greece
Louri, H.; Anagnostaki, V. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1994
The paper reports an attempt to estimate the determinants of entry in Greek manufacturing industry in the 1984-87 period and to identify the differences between locatio nal entry preferences. Entry in Athens is found to be hesitant with respect to factors such as profitability and increased...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008919786
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Human migration: theoretical and empirical results
Graves, Philip E.; Linneman, Peter D. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1979
I am unable to copy/paste a rather lengthy abstract, but the paper provides a detailed theoretical model of human migration which is then tested using a discrete choice probit model.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008567657
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On the role of amenities in models of migration and regional development
Knapp, Thomas A.; Graves, Philip E. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1989
While unable to copy/paste the abstract, the paper discusses the importance of regionally-varying amenities to migration and regional development.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008567659
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The role of equilibrium and disequilibrium in modeling regional growth and decline: a critical reassessment
Graves, Philip E.; Mueser, Peter R. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1993
While unable to copy/paste the abstract, the paper argues that regional differentials in wages and rents are overwhelmingly of an equilibrium nature, with disequilibrium forces having little systematic influence
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008567668
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An Analysis of Expansion and Relocation Sites for Major League Soccer
Rascher, Daniel A.; Baehr, Matthew J.; Wolfe, Jason; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This research develops a model of optimal locations for Major League Soccer teams and investigates the important underlying factors.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008685490
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Why Geographic Factors are Necessary in Development Studies
Ballinger, Clint - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper proposes that the resurgence of geographic factors in the study of uneven development is not due simply to the recurrent nature of intellectual fashions, nor necessarily because arguments that rely on geographic factors are less simplistic than before, nor because they avoid...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008876877