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The Long-Run Effects of Neighborhood Change on Incumbent Families

Baum-Snow, Nathaniel - 2019

A number of prominent studies examine the long-run effects of neighborhood attributes on children by leveraging variation in neighborhood exposure through household moves. How-ever, much neighborhood change comes in place rather than through moving. Using an urban economic geography model as a...

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Free Neighborhood Choice Boosts Socially Optimal Outcomes in Stag-Hunt Coordination Problem

Riedl, Arno; Rohde, Ingrid M. T.; Strobel, Martin - 2021

Situations where independent agents need to align their activities to achieve individually and socially beneficial outcomes are abundant, reaching from everyday situations like fixing a time for a meeting to global problems like climate change agreements. Often such situations can be described...

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The sustainability of Chinese growth and the aggregate factor substitution elasticity

Whalley, John; Xing, Chunbing - 2012

We discuss the sustainability of Chinese high growth relative to growth experience elsewhere, and specifically Soviet Russia in the 1950s to the 1960s by asking if the aggregate technology can eventually similarly constrain high growth performance in the Chinese case as argued by Weitzman in a...

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Employer-Paid Parking, Mode Choice, and Suburbanization

Brueckner, Jan K.; Franco, Sofia F. - 2017

choice, road investment and suburbanization. The model simplifies urban space by dividing it into two zones (islands), center … increase in suburbanization. …

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Express Delivery to the Suburbs. The Effect of Transportation in Europe's Heterogeneous Cities

Garcia-López, Miquel-Àngel; Pasidis, Ilias; Marsal, … - 2016

This paper provides evidence for the causal effect of the highway and railway infrastructure on the suburbanization of … suburbanization using a two-step panel approach. Our main results suggest that an additional highway ray displaced approximately 4% of … railways on average. However, railways did cause suburbanization those located in Central-North Europe. When employing the full …

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Looking for Appropriate Forms of Intergovernmental Transfers for Municipalities in Transition Economies

Nam, Chang Woon; Parsche, Rüdiger - 2001

parallel development of fiscal capacity between the state and municipalities, as Saxony already has done, the intergovernmental …

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Forecasting GDP at the regional level with many predictors

Lehmann, Robert; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2012

quarterly frequency. We forecast gross domestic product (GDP) for two German states (Free State of Saxony and Baden …

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Commuting subsidies with two transport modes

Borck, Rainald; Wrede, Matthias - 2007

We study a simple model of commuting subsidies with two transport modes. City residents choose where to live and which mode to use. When all land is owned by city residents, one group gains from subsidies what the other loses. With absentee landownership, city residents as a group gain at the...

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The political economy of regional integration projects at borders where rich and poor meet: the role of cross-border shopping and community sorting

Dascher, Kristof; Haupt, Alexander - 2008

At borders where rich and poor countries meet, services prices differ hugely. In principle, price differentials could be exploited to mutual benefit, offering improved job opportunities to the poor as well as better shopping opportunities to the rich. However, cross-border shopping is often...

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On the equivalence of location choice models : conditional logit, nested logit and poisson

Schmidheiny, Kurt; Brülhart, Marius - 2009

It is well understood that the two most popular empirical models of location choice - conditional logit and Poisson - return identical coefficient estimates when the regressors are not individual specific. We show that these two models differ starkly in terms of their implied predictions. The...

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