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Town twinning and German city growth
Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Oumer, Abdella - 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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The strategic bombing of German cities during World War II and its impact on city growth
Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Schramm, Marc - 2002
We construct a unique data set to analyze whether or not a large temporary shock had an impact on German city growth and city size distribution. Following recent work by Davis and Weinstein (2001) on Japan, we take the strategic bombing of German cities during WWII as our example of such a...
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Mean reversion of the German city system after the WWII bombing of cities : what is the mean?
Nguyen, Duc A.; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; … - 2024
We study the post-war effects of the bombing of German cities during WWII on urban growth and use the synthetic control method (SCM) to construct comparison units for affected West-German cities. The reason to use SCM is that cities might experience structural changes that have nothing to do...
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Urban shrinkage in Eastern Germany
Bartholomae, Florian W.; Nam, Chang-woon; Schoenberg, … - 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...
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How low business tax rates attract multinational headquarters : municipality-level evidence from Germany
Becker, Sascha O.; Egger, Peter; Merlo, Valeria - 2009
Most existing empirical evidence on the impact of profit taxation on multinational firm activity is based on cross-country data. One major drawback of such data is that countries differ not only with regard to taxes but along other dimensions which might be hard to capture by means of observable...
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Immigration, regional conditions, and crime : evidence from an allocation policy in Germany
Piopiunik, Mark; Ruhose, Jens - 2015
After the collapse of the Soviet Union, more than 3 million people with German ancestors immigrated to Germany under a special law granting immediate citizenship. Exploiting the exogenous allocation of ethnic German immigrants by German authorities across regions upon arrival, we find that...
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Do immigrants affect crime? : evidence from panel data for Germany
Maghularia, Rita; Übelmesser, Silke - 2019
The paper analyses the empirical relationship between immigrants and crime using panel data for 391 German administrative districts between 2003 and 2016. Employing different standard panel estimation methods, we show that there is no positive association between the immigrant rate and the crime...
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Harnessing the wind : the impact of wind farm development on municipal finances
Serra-Sala, Claudia - 2024
Wind farm development, despite offering global benefits, often encounters local opposition fostered by local negative externalities and uncertain benefits. This study investigates the financial impact of wind farm development on host municipalities using Spanish municipality-level budget data...
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The apple doesn't fall far from the tree : location of start-ups relative to incumbents
Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - 2008
New firm location decisions, relative to incumbents may be based on a choice between two types of advantages: natural advantages or those that arise from social embeddedness, the latter of which may particularly include knowledge spillovers. We analyze the relative importance of geographically...
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A happy way to grow old? : grandparent caregiving, quality of life and life satisfaction
Wang, Hao; Fidrmuc, Jan; Luo, Qi - 2019
Utilizing the 2015 wave of the China Health and Retirement Longitudinal Study (CHARLS) that covers 7045 households, we study the effect of grandparents looking after grandchildren on quality of life and life satisfaction of grandparents. We find evidence of important favorable effects of...
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