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Brown growth, green growth, and the efficiency of urbanization
Quaas, Martin F.; Smulders, Sjak - 2012
We analyze the efficiency of urbanization patterns in a stylized dynamic model of urban growth with three sectors of …'). If, however, production becomes cleaner over time ('green growth') the equilibrium urbanization path reaches the … efficient urbanization path after finite time without need of a coordinating mechanism. The results may be generalized to take …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009688520
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Skilled scalable services : the new urban bias in economic growth
Eckert, Fabian; Ganapati, Sharat; Walsh, Conor - 2020
Since 1980, economic growth in the U.S. has been fastest in its largest cities. We show that a group of skill- and information-intensive service industries are responsible for all of this new urban bias in recent growth. We then propose a simple explanation centered around the interaction of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012315946
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010479355
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The political geography of cities
Bluhm, Richard; Lessmann, Christian; Schaudt, Paul - 2021
, such as market access, and that the effect is greater in countries where urbanization and industrialization occurred later …
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Do political parties matter for local land use policies?
Solé-Ollé, Albert; Viladecans Marsal, Elisabet - 2013
Despite interest in the impact of land use regulations on housing construction and housing prices, little is known about the drivers of these policies. The conventional wisdom holds that homeowners have an influence on restrictive local zoning. In this paper, we contend that the party...
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Rush hours and urbanization
Seidel, Tobias; Wickerath, Jan - 2019
We use a spatial general equilibrium model with potential commuting of workers between their place of work and their place of residence to analyze the effects of rush hours on the spatial allocation of employment and population, average labor productivity and the housing market. Abolishing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011996174
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003887324
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Structural change, urban congestion, and the end of growth
Grossmann, Volker - 2011
change ; urbanization …
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Urban squatting with rent-seeking organizers
Brueckner, Jan K. - 2012
traditional industry setting. -- squatting ; rent-seeking ; urbanization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009621780
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Lumpy countries, urbanization, and trade
Brakman, Steven; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2011
factors and as a consequence different patterns of urbanization between countries might cause trade patterns to differ from HO … predictions on the basis of the overall availability of production factors. We argue that urbanization indeed affects trade … patterns. The consequence of this result is that urbanization should be included in empirical trade analysis; urbanization …
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