. First, we explore the role of commuting for local labor markets and their capacity to absorb productivity shocks. Second, we … address the role of housing markets for quantitative analyses. Germany is an exciting laboratory because commuting across …

. The profound change in urban mobility patterns supports the often-held view that reducing the number of commuting trips … their location in the long run toward longer commuting trips, but cheaper housing, implying an adjustment in the real … commuting trip length …

-level productivity and scale effects. I show here that the incorporation of theory-based endogenous markups into AGE models is not …

This paper analyzes subsidies for intracity and intercity commuting in an urban economics framework with two cities and … agglomeration externalities, where workers may commute within and between cities. First, commuting subsidies serve to internalize … agglomeration externalities: Intracity commuting subsidies give incentives to move to the larger city and intercity commuting …

argued that the cost of commuting to work should not be deductible as commuting does not increase taxable income. The …

-level complementarities implied by recent theory …

We study a simple model of commuting subsidies with two transport modes. City residents choose where to live and which …