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Wrede, Matthias - 2014

This paper analyzes a closed, essentially linear polycentric city with homogenous households who probabilistically select their workplace and residence locations. The study utilizes a continuous logit model to describe household location choices. In contrast to the classic urban model with...

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Parking and Urban Form

Brueckner, Jan K. - 2015

This paper analyzes the provision of residential parking in a monocentric city, with the ultimate goal of appraising the desirability and effects of regulations such as a minimum-parking requirement (MPR) per dwelling. The analysis considers three different regimes for provision of parking...

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Do Economic Crises Lead Tourists to Closer Destinations? An Analysis of Italy's Regional Data

Cafiso, Gianluca - 2015

This article investigates whether the distance between origin and destination has played an increased role in shaping Italy's domestic tourism flows during the recent years of economic recession. Indeed, the occurrence of closer tourism destinations, as a consequence of the economic crisis, has...

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City Competition for the Creative Class

Buettner, Thiess - 2013

This paper explores the conditions under which decentralization and fiscal competition lead to a policy of subsidizing cultural activities. A theoretical analysis discusses these subsidies as a form of local public good provision which makes a city more attractive to highly educated individuals....

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Town Twinning and German City Growth

Brakman, Steven - 2014

After World War II, town twinning became popular, notably in Germany. This was mainly a reaction to the war experience … other countries. The contacts created by town twinning also resulted in increased international access of the cities …. In this paper we investigate the effects of town twinning on population growth in German counties and municipalities. Our …

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Smart Cities are Big Cities -- Comparative Advantage in Chinese Cities

Hu, Shiwei - 2014

The literature on China indicates that the concentration of economic activities in China is less than in other industrialized countries. Institutional limits are largely held responsible for this finding (e.g. the Hukou system); firms and workers are not able to take full advantage of the...

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Growth, Foreign Direct Investment and Urban Concentrations : Unbundling Spatial Lags

Poelhekke, Steven - 2014

Cross-country regressions suggest that urbanization and FDI are important drivers of growth. However, it is not clear that primacy eventually hurts growth performance. Since it is tough to interpret cross-country growth regressions, we provide detailed evidence on the determinants of outward FDI...

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Effects of Prenatal and Early Life Malnutrition : Evidence from the Greek Famine

Neelsen, Sven; Stratmann, Thomas - 2021

This paper examines the long run education and labor market effects from early-life exposure to the Greek 1941-42 famine. Given the short duration of the famine, we can separately identify the famine effects for cohorts exposed in utero, during infancy and at one year of age. We find that...

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Urban Resurgence as a Consumer City : A Case Study for Weimar in Eastern Germany

Bartholomae, Florian W. - 2017

Weimar achieved urban recovery as a ‘consumer city' with sub-brandings like a population magnet with a high living-quality, a cultural city with touristic attractions, and a university city. Its intensive cultural promotion policies combined with urban regeneration programs have contributed to...

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Implementation of Communication Equilibria by Correlated Cheap Talk : The Two-Player Case

Vida, Peter - 2011

We show that essentially every communication equilibrium of any finite Bayesian game with two players can be implemented as a strategic form correlated equilibrium of an extended game, in which before choosing actions as in the Bayesian game, the players engage in a possibly infinitely long (but...

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