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The IOC's Midas Touch: Summer Olympics and City Growth
Nitsch, Volker; Wendland, Nicolai - CESifo - 2013
cities in the control group. Our results indicate that being awarded the Summer Olympics has, on average, a negative impact …
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Income Inequality and Oligarchs in Russian Regions : A Note
Fidrmuc, Jarko - 2017
We trace the rise of the so called oligarchs in post-Soviet Russia and examine their relationship to income distribution in Russia. When Russia moved to a market economy in the 1990s a new business elite evolved. Russia's distinctive path towards market economy, among other factors, gave rise to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012955282
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Urban Shrinkage in Eastern Germany
Bartholomae, Florian W. - 2015
This paper questions the widely applied parallelism of demographic and economic development in characterizing urban shrinkage in Germany, and argues that the usage of population change as a single indicator leads to incorrect policy recommendations for combating urban shrinkage. As the cases of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013027097
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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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Urban Shrinkage in Eastern Germany
Bartholomae, Florian W.; Nam, Chang Woon; Schoenberg, Alina - CESifo - 2015
This paper questions the widely applied parallelism of demographic and economic development in characterizing urban shrinkage in Germany, and argues that the usage of population change as a single indicator leads to incorrect policy recommendations for combating urban shrinkage. As the cases of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011165506
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Should We Be Worried About the Green Paradox? Announcement Effects of the Acid Rain Program
Di Maria, Corrado - 2013
This paper presents the first empirical test of the green paradox hypothesis, according to which well-intended but imperfectly implemented policies may lead to detrimental environmental outcomes due to supply side responses. We use the introduction of the Acid Rain Program in the U.S. as a case...
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Pollution, Shadow Economy and Corruption : Theory and Evidence
Biswas, Amit K. - 2013
We study how the shadow economy affects pollution and how this effect depends on corruption levels in public administration. Production in the shadow economy allows firms to avoid environmental regulation policies; a large informal sector may be accompanied by higher pollution levels. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013092159
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Market Power in Emission Permit Markets : Theory and Evidence
Hintermann, Beat - 2013
A well-known result about market power in emission permit markets is that efficiency can be achieved by full free allocation to the dominant firm. I show that this result breaks down when taking the interaction between input and output markets into account, even if the firm perceives market...
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Quiet Please! Adverse Effects of Noise on Child Development
Makles, Anna - 2017
Noise pollution is detrimental to health and to cognitive development of children. This is not only true for extreme levels of noise in the neighborhood of an airport but also to traffic noise in urban areas. Using a census of preschool children, we show that children who are exposed to...
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Housing Environmental Risk in Urban Areas : Cross Country Comparison and Policy Implications
Chiarini, Bruno - 2018
The main aim of this paper is to assess whether there is a statistically significant environmental impact of cities … within European countries. Second, starting from the estimated environmental impact of cities within European countries, the … can play a role in mitigating such an impact. We start from individual evidence (EU-SILC data) to obtain a measure of the …
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