The evolution during the Anthropocene is analyzed through the interaction between economic and technological … development, characterized by the role of fossil fuels and by the progressive dominance of those with a higher energy and density … power. The challenge is how to make the rising demand for economic growth, mainly coming from developing and emerging …

strong, positive impact of policy and globalization on cross-border patent flows, especially from North to South. A …We build a stylized model that captures the relationships between cross-border patenting, globalization, and … development. Our theory delivers a gravity equation for cross-border patents. To test the model's predictions, we compile a new …

Urban renewal areas are popular but empirically understudied spatial planning instruments designed to prevent urban … decline and induce renewal. We use a quasi-experimental research design to study the effects of 22 renewal areas implemented … in Berlin, Germany, to increase housing and living quality in the aftermath of the city’s division during the Cold War …

parameters that shape the urban height profile along with a summary of the related theoretical and empirical literature. Fourth … vertical urban growth has gained pace over the course of the 20th century. Second, we lay out a simple theoretical model of … distances, such as durability of the structures, height competition, and building regulations. Fifth, we suggest priority areas …

topics are relevant for the purposes of policy evaluation, political economy, and the broadest questions of governance and of … implications of resource mobility for our understanding of the efficiency and distributional impacts of public policies. These … public sector organization at all levels of government, from the purely local to the global. …

different aversions to risk and intertemporal fluctuations, convex damages, uncertainties in economic growth, atmospheric carbon … sensitivity and damage rate hedging effects to deal with future economic and climatic and damage risks. … incorporates the effects of uncertainties associated with climate and the economy from a calibrated DSGE model. We allow for …

the period 2000-2011 for the top 2,000 corporate research and development (R&D) investors worldwide to consider the … advantage offered through patent box regimes is found to deter local innovative activities, whereas R&D development conditions … taxation from the tax advantage of patent boxes. We also exploit a new and original dataset on patent box features such as the …

geographic distance and pre-migration wage profiles, we find that migrants demand a (indexed with respect to local rents) wage … cost as the wage premium for moving to a culturally different location. We combine administrative social security panel … males, more pronounced for geographically short moves, and persistent over time. …

New firm location decisions, relative to incumbents may be based on a choice between two types of advantages: natural … analyze the relative importance of geographically bounded location factors based on data from 103 manufacturing industries … across 327 West German and 111 East German districts. Our micro-geographic analysis reveals that the two parts of the country …

scale. The analysis reveals that the observed location decisions made between 2001 and 2015 underestimate the endogenous …This paper proposes a novel approach to evaluate location decisions for public facilities. The approach addresses, not … only the standard distance-minimizing problem, but also the endogenous location decisions of individuals. To do so, I …