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The Effect of Agglomeration Size on Local Taxes

Luthi, Eva; Schmidheiny, Kurt - CESifo - 2011

peripheral regions as the firms would forego ‘rents’ from agglomeration economies. In this paper, we study whether local policy … makers effectively tax such agglomeration rents. We test this with panel data from Swiss municipalities between 1985 and 2005 … introduce an new measure of cluster intensity which considers the varying intensities in agglomeration economies across sectors. …

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Relaxing Hukou - Increased Labor Mobility and China's Economic Geography

Bosker, Erik Maarten - 2010

China's Hukou system poses severe restrictions on labor mobility. This paper assesses the consequences of relaxing these restrictions for China's internal economic geography. We base our analysis on a new economic geography model. First, we obtain estimates of the important model parameters on...

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State Tax Differentials, Cross-Border Commuting, and Commuting Times in Multi-State Metropolitan Areas

Agrawal, David R. - 2014

We examine the effects of differences in income tax rates on commuting times within multi-state MSAs. Our theoretical model introduces a border into a model of an urban area and shows that differences in average tax rates distort commute times and interstate commutes. Empirically examining...

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The Pan-European Population Distribution Across Consistently Defined Functional Urban Areas

Schmidheiny, Kurt - 2015

We analyze the first data set on consistently defined functional urban areas in Europe and compare the European to the US urban system. City sizes in Europe do not follow a power law: the largest cities are “too small” to follow Zipf's law

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Lumpy Countries, Urbanization, and Trade

Brakman, Steven; Marrewijk, Charles van - CESifo - 2011

Lumpiness of production factors within a country might overturn the predictions for the structure of trade by the factor-abundance (HO) model. Trade patterns, as predicted by this model, can both be magnified or reversed by uneven concentration of production factors within a country. Cities are...

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Fiscal Competition, Convergence and Agglomeration

Fenge, Robert; Ehrlich, Maximilian Von; Wrede, Matthias - CESifo - 2007

efficiency arises since the efficient distribution of regional infrastructure requires full agglomeration for sufficiently low …

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Inefficient Lock-in and Subsidy Competition

Borck, Rainald; Koh, Hyun-Ju; Pflüger, Michael - CESifo - 2009

This paper shows that subsidy competition may be efficiency enhancing. We model a subsidy game among two asymmetric regions in a new trade model, where capital can freely move among regions, but capital rewards are repatriated. We study subsidy competition, starting from an equilibrium where the...

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Biodiversity and Geography

Barbier, Edward B.; Rauscher, Michael - CESifo - 2007

The paper combines an economic-geography model of agglomeration and periphery with a model of species diversity and …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005406256

Ehrlich, Maximilian Von; Seidel, Tobias - CESifo - 2012

In contrast to what several papers have argued recently, we show that firm heterogeneity fosters agglomeration of … propensity to export. This renders the home market more important speaking against agglomeration. We also relate changes in firm …

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The Persistent Effects of Place-Based Policy : Evidence from the West-German Zonenrandgebiet

von Ehrlich, Maximilian - 2015

spatial regression discontinuity design allows us to control for all spatially-continuous determinants of agglomeration (e …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021421

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