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Land Scarcity and Urban Density within Cities

Krause, Melanie; Seidel, André - 2021

This paper studies how limitations on land suitable for development affect within-city variation in urban density and its three components: crowding, residential coverage, and building height. We use the high variation in geographical obstacles − such as steep land slopes and the presence of...

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Household Expenditures, Wages, Rents

Davis, Morris A.; Ortalo-Magné, François - 2021

We provide new evidence from the 1980, 1990, and 2000 Decennial Census of Housing that the expenditure share on housing is constant over time and across U.S. metropolitan areas (MSA). Consistent with this observation, we consider a basic model in which identical households with Cobb-Douglas...

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The impact of urbanization on CO2 emissions: evidence from developing countries

Martínez-Zarzoso, Inmaculada - 2008

This paper analyzes the impact of urbanization on CO2 emissions in developing countries, taking into account the … different for upper, middle, and low- income countries, urbanization, demonstrate a very different impact on emissions for low …

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Growth, foreign direct investment and urban concentrations: unbundling spatial lags

Poelhekke, Steven; van der Ploeg, Frederick - 2008

Cross-country regressions suggest that urbanization and FDI are important drivers of growth. However, it is not clear …

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Urban squatting with rent-seeking organizers

Brueckner, Jan K. - 2012

This paper extends a new line of research on urban squatting that focuses on the role of the squatter organizer. The model replaces the benevolent organizer from previous studies with a collection of competing, rent-seeking squatter organizers, a structure that may offer a realistic picture of...

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Brown growth, green growth, and the efficiency of urbanization

Quaas, Martin F.; Smulders, Sjak - 2012

We analyze the efficiency of urbanization patterns in a stylized dynamic model of urban growth with three sectors of …'). If, however, production becomes cleaner over time ('green growth') the equilibrium urbanization path reaches the … efficient urbanization path after finite time without need of a coordinating mechanism. The results may be generalized to take …

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Rush Hours and Urbanization

Seidel, Tobias - 2019

We use a spatial general equilibrium model with potential commuting of workers between their place of work and their place of residence to analyze the effects of rush hours on the spatial allocation of employment and population, average labor productivity and the housing market. Abolishing...

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Household expenditures, wages, rents

Davis, Morris A.; Ortalo-Magné, François - 2007

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Cities in fiscal equalization

Buettner, Thiess; Holm-Hadulla, Fédéric - 2008

Redistributive grants schemes, such as fiscal equalization, are a common characteristic of local public finance in several countries. However, large and small jurisdictions are treated differently by the respective fiscal equalization schemes that often tend to favour larger jurisdictions. This...

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Labor market pooling, outsourcing and labor contracts

Picard, Pierre M.; Wildasin, David E. - 2009

Economic regions, such as urban agglomerations, face external demand and price shocks that produce income risk. Workers in large and diversified agglomerations may benefit from reduced wage volatility, while firms may outsource the production of intermediate goods and realize benefits from...

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