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Government-Directed Urban Growth, Firm Entry, and Industrial Land Prices in Chinese Cities
Brueckner, Jan K.; Liu, Wenhua; Xiao, Wei; Zhang, Junfu - 2022
We examine the effect of a large-scale administrative reorganization in China, where counties are annexed into cities to accommodate urban growth. We present a simple model to illustrate how this annexation may affect firm entry decisions and in turn land market outcomes. Using nationwide data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014290091
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Government-Directed Urban Growth, Firm Entry, and Industrial Land Prices in Chinese Cities
Brueckner, Jan K.; Liu, Wenhua; Xiao, Wei; Zhang, Junfu - 2023
We examine the effect of a large-scale administrative reorganization in China, where counties are annexed into cities to accommodate urban growth. We present a simple model to illustrate how this annexation may affect firm entry decisions and in turn land market outcomes. Using nationwide data...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014263917
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Growth effects of spatial redistribution policies
Arcalean, Calin; Glomm, Gerhard; Schiopu, Ioana Cosmina - 2012
Regional income disparities have increased in many European countries recently, even as national and supra-national policy instruments were created to correct them. To explain these evolutions, we develop a two-region, two-sector model with migration and public investment in infrastructure and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280813
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Application of regionally varying additionality degrees in the practice of EU cohesion policy
Nam, Chang Woon; Wamser, Georg - 2010
regional projects eligible for EU support. In some regions, however, the EU contribution has reached 85% of total costs. This … regions with lower GDP per capita. Furthermore, while the share of service-sector employees in a region is negatively related …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010266079
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Lisbon agenda, regional innovation system and the new EU cohesion policy
Woon Nam, Chang; Schoenberg, Alina; Wamser, Georg - 2011
EU's regional policy strategy in general. We confirm this result when focusing on less-developed Objective 1 regions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010277398
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Local Employment Multiplier: Evidence from Relocation of Public-Sector Entities in South Korea
Lee, Hwanoong; Ko, Changsu; Kim, Wookun - 2023
We exploit a series of public-sector entity relocations in South Korea as an exogenous source of variation in public sector employment to estimate the local employment multiplier. We find that the introduction of one public sector employment position increases private sector employment by one...
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Do Economic Crises Lead Tourists to Closer Destinations? An Analysis of Italy's Regional Data
Cafiso, Gianluca; Cellini, Roberto; Cuccia, Tiziana - 2015
dataset is made of inter-regional tourism flows among Italian regions over the 2000-12 period; across this period, 2008 to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010500418
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TransNIEMO: Economic Impact Analysis Using a Model of Consistent Interregional Economic and Network Equilibria
Cho, JoongKoo; Gordon, Peter; II, James E. Moore; Pan, … - 2014
We describe a model that integrates a multi-regional input-output model of the U.S. (50 states and the District of Columbia) with the national highway network. Interstate commodity shipments are placed on a congestible highway network. Simulations of major choke-point disruptions redirect...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333399
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The Crisis and Regional Resilience in Europe: On the Importance of Urbanization and Specialization
Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; van Marrewijk, Charles - 2014
Using a rich data set on the EU regions, we analyze the relevance of two possible determinants of a region’s resilience … that started in 2008, as our shock and then analyze how the NUTS II EU regions differ in their resilience to the crisis in … terms of unemployment and real GDP per capita. In prior research it has been well established that (EU) regions differ in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010352435
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A Spatial Perspective on European Integration: Heterogeneous Welfare and Migration Effects from the Single Market and the Brexit
Henkel, Marcel; Seidel, Tobias - 2016
,318 regions. The model suggests that an increase of trade barriers to the level of 1957 reduces welfare by about 1-2 percent on … average, depending on the presumed trade elasticity. However, remote regions may face initial welfare losses of up to 4 …
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