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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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Decentralization and natural disasters

Goodspeed, Timothy J. - 2013

This paper surveys recent research on decentralization and natural disasters. The first part discusses results from theoretical models that have been used to study the issues that arise when natural disasters occur in a country with more than one level of government. The next section discusses...

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Gentrification and affordable housing policies

Borck, Rainald; Gohl, Niklas - 2021

We use a quantitative spatial equilibrium model to evaluate the distributional and welfare impacts of a recent temporary rent control policy in Berlin, Germany. We calibrate the model to key features of Berlin’s housing market, in particular the recent gentrification of inner city locations....

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Fiscal competition in space and time

Wildasin, David E. - 2000

This paper analyzes fiscal competition among numerous spatially- separated jurisdictions in an explicitly dynamic framework. The degree of factor mobility between jurisdictions is imperfect because it is costly and time-consuming to adjust factor stocks. Even if it is harmful in the long run, a...

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Cointegration of matched home purchases and rental price indexes : evidence from Sinpagore

Baltagi, Badi H.; Li, Jing - 2015

This paper exploits the homogeneity feature of the Singapore private residential condominium market and constructs matched home purchase price and rental price series using the repeated sales method. These matched series allow us to conduct time series analysis to examine the long-term present...

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Open economy public finance

Wildasin, David E. - 2021

Many important questions in the field of public finance can be viewed as problems involving public policies in open economies. This paper draws together, from that perspective, a wide range of topics in public economics, emphasizing the implications of resource mobility for our understanding of...

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How the rise of teleworking will reshape labor markets and cities

Gokan, Toshitaka; Kichko, Sergei; Matheson, Jesse A.; … - 2022

In recent years the land-rent gradient for the city of London has flattened by 17 percentage points. Further, teleworking has increased 24 percentage point for skilled workers, but much less for unskilled workers. To rationalize these stylized facts, we propose a model of the monocentric city...

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How trust in social dilemmas evolves with age

Kocher, Martin - 2015

trusting and trustworthy behavior in social dilemmas is related to age and aging. A few papers use data from surveys such as … the World Values Survey to address a potential connection between trust and age. In this chapter, we will mainly focus on … age until adolescence. Trustworthiness reaches the level of adults at an earlier age (at around 15-16 years of age) than …

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Gender quotas : challenging the boards, performance, and the stock market

Ferrari, Giulia; Ferraro, Valeria; Profeta, Paola; … - 2016

In 2011, Italy introduced gender quotas for boards of directors of companies listed on its stock market. Comparing before and after the reform within firms, we find that quotas are associated with a higher share of female board directors, higher levels of education of board members, and a lower...

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Spill-over effects of affirmative action : political representation and the power of the elderly

Baltrunaite, Audinga; Casarico, Alessandra; Profeta, Paola - 2014

There is evidence that age matters in politics. In this paper we study whether implementation of affirmative action … policies on gender can generate additional effects on an alternative dimension of representation, namely, the age of … municipalities and use a Difference in differences estimation to analyze the effect of gender quotas on the age of elected …

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