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cities host more firms setting lower prices whereas for sectors with intermediate land shares larger cities accommodate more … firms charging higher prices. Softer land-use regulations and/or lower commuting costs reinforce pro-competitive effects …, making larger cities more attractive for residents via lower prices and broader product diversity. …
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We analyse how spatial disparities in innovation activities, coupled with migration costs, affect economic geography, growth and regional inequality. We provide conditions for existence and uniqueness of a spatial equilibrium, and for the endogenous emergence of industry clusters. Spatial...
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greater dampening of competition. We also derive comparative statics on the prices of the acquiring firm, the acquired firm …
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We study a two-sided markets model of two competing television stations that offer content of differentiated quality to ad-averse consumers and advertising space to firms. As all consumers prefer high over low quality content, competition for viewers is vertical. By contrast, competition for...
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Media content is an important privately supplied public good. While it has been shown that contributions to a public good crowd out other contributions in many cases, the issue has not been thoroughly studied for media markets yet. We show that in a standard model of commercial media bias,...
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goals. The classical ones are entry prices and free entry. The museum club solution or exit donations allow for various … additional goals. Each scheme has clear advantages and disadvantages. We propose an innovative pricing instrument: Exit prices … better choice available to the visitors, which increases their satisfaction. -- prices ; museums ; culture ; donations ; homo …
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This paper examines the effects of real estate transfer taxes (RETT) on property prices using a rich micro dataset of …. Twelve months after a reform, a one percentage point increase in the tax rate reduces property prices by on average 3 …
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The environmental regulations US firms are exposed to are often place-based, incentivizing firms to move to less regulated counties or states. Consistent with this argument, multiplant firms partially regulated under the ozone regulations of the US Clean Air Act offset regulation-induced...
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child care coverage with central government financing, we investigate the relationship between child care and housing prices … in coverage were mandated. The results show that housing prices respond to child care and are consistent with the recent … deviation, raises house prices by 3%. We conclude that child care reform initiates adjustments at housing markets and confirms …
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This paper provides an overview of RePEc a digital platform for the dissemination of research in economics. Specifically, the focus is on RePEc's main author ranking, which aggregates 36 different rankings based on a range of criteria. The paper first describes the logic behind the ranking and...
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