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The sustainability of Chinese growth and the aggregate factor substitution elasticity

Whalley, John; Xing, Chunbing - 2012

We discuss the sustainability of Chinese high growth relative to growth experience elsewhere, and specifically Soviet Russia in the 1950s to the 1960s by asking if the aggregate technology can eventually similarly constrain high growth performance in the Chinese case as argued by Weitzman in a...

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Express delivery to the suburbs : the effects of transportation in Europe's heterogeneous cities

Garcia-López, Miquel-Àngel; Pasidis, Ilias; … - 2016

This paper provides evidence for the causal effect of the highway and railway infrastructure on the suburbanization of … suburbanization using a two-step panel approach. Our main results suggest that an additional highway ray displaced approximately 4% of … railways on average. However, railways did cause suburbanization those located in Central-North Europe. When employing the full …

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Highways, market access, and spatial sorting

Fretz, Stephan; Parchet, Raphaël; Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric - 2017

We design a spatial model featuring workers embodied with heterogeneous skills. In equilibrium, locations with improved market access become relatively more attractive to the high-skilled, high-income earners. We then empirically analyze the effects of the construction of the Swiss highway...

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Nowcasting regional GDP : the case of the Free State of Saxony

Henzel, Steffen; Lehmann, Robert; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2015

useful information for the prediction of regional GDP in Saxony. Unlike national GDP forecasts, the performance of regional …

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Self-preserving leviathans : evidence from regional-level data

Kluge, Jan; Markwardt, Gunther; Thater, Christian - 2015

This paper investigates the impact of the intensity of political competition on the leviathan behavior by political incumbents. Using panel data from German municipalities, we test whether the relative political strength of parties in local councils influences the spending behavior of...

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Forecasting GDP at the regional level with many predictors

Lehmann, Robert; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2012

quarterly frequency. We forecast gross domestic product (GDP) for two German states (Free State of Saxony and Baden …

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Sprawl and blight

Brueckner, Jan K.; Helsley, Robert W. - 2009

The objective of this paper is to show how the same market failures that contribute to urban sprawl also contribute to urban blight. The paper develops a simple dynamic model in which new suburban and older central-city properties compete for mobile residents. The level of housing services...

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Tax competition and income sorting : evidence from the Zurich metropolitan area

Schaltegger, Christoph A.; Somogyi, Frank; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2009

In this paper, we provide empirical evidence for the influence of income taxes on the choice of residence of taxpayers at the local level. The fact that Swiss communities can individually set tax multipliers thereby shifting the progressive tax scheme which is fixed at the cantonal (state) level...

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On the equivalence of location choice models : conditional logit, nested logit and poisson

Schmidheiny, Kurt; Brülhart, Marius - 2009

It is well understood that the two most popular empirical models of location choice - conditional logit and Poisson - return identical coefficient estimates when the regressors are not individual specific. We show that these two models differ starkly in terms of their implied predictions. The...

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Residential mobility of the European elderly

Angelini, Viola; Laferrère, Anne - 2010

With the ageing of the European population, the housing choices of the elderly will have consequences on the whole housing market. In this paper we use data from the first two waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) to analyse the residential mobility decisions of...

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