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The Crisis and Regional Resilience in Europe : On the Importance of Urbanization and Specialization

Brakman, Steven - 2015

Using a rich data set on the EU regions, we analyze the relevance of two possible determinants of a region's resilience to shocks, the degree of urbanization and specialization. We take the Great Recession, the economic and financial crisis that started in 2008, as our shock and then analyze how...

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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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TransNIEMO: Economic Impact Analysis Using a Model of Consistent Interregional Economic and Network Equilibria

Cho, JoongKoo; Gordon, Peter; II, James E. Moore; Pan, … - CESifo - 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...

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Smart Cities are Big Cities - Comparative Advantage in Chinese Cities

Hu, Shiwei; Brakman, Steven; Marrewijk, Charles van - CESifo - 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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The Size Distribution across all "Cities": A Unifying Approach

Giesen, Kristian; Suedekum, Jens - CESifo - 2012

In this paper we show that the double Pareto lognormal (DPLN) parameterization provides an excellent fit to the overall US city size distribution, regardless of whether “cities” are administratively defined Census places or economically defined area clusters. We then consider an economic...

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

Bosker, Maarten; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; … - CESifo - 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...

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The Crisis and Regional Resilience in Europe: On the Importance of Urbanization and Specialization

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Marrewijk, Charles van - CESifo - 2014

Using a rich data set on the EU regions, we analyze the relevance of two possible determinants of a region’s resilience to shocks, the degree of urbanization and specialization. We take the Great Recession, the economic and financial crisis that started in 2008, as our shock and then analyze...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010756164

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

Schmidheiny, Kurt; Suedekum, Jens - CESifo - 2015

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A Spatial Perspective on European Integration : Heterogeneous Welfare and Migration Effects from the Single Market and the Brexit

Henkel, Marcel - 2017

of trade barriers in Europe has led to a more homogeneous spatial distribution of economic activity. With regard to the … Brexit, we find moderate welfare losses for the UK of -0.44 percent in the most pessimistic scenario while continental Europe …

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Resilience, Supply Chains and the Great Recession

Brakman, Steven - 2017

using gross-export data. Regarding value added measures we find, in general, no effect. Only if we separate out Europe do we … find that the trough in Europe occurs about 0.17 years later and the recovery (for the countries that have recovered) about … 1.55 years later. Moreover, the duration of the decline in Europe is about 4 months longer and of the recovery about 17 …

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