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Growth effects of spatial redistribution policies
Arcalean, Calin; Glomm, Gerhard; Schiopu, Ioana Cosmina - 2012
-national policy instruments were created to correct them. To explain these evolutions, we develop a two-region, two-sector model with … structural funds, modelled on the EU policy. In a numerical example calibrated to Portugal, we find that, to diminish the initial … policy ; European Union …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009488855
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Government-directed urban growth, firm entry, and industrial land prices in Chinese cities
Brueckner, Jan K.; Liu, Wenhua; Xiao, Wei; Zhang, Junfu - 2022
We examine the effect of a large-scale administrative reorganization in China, where counties are annexed into cities to accommodate urban growth. We present a simple model to illustrate how this annexation may affect firm entry decisions and in turn land market outcomes. Using nationwide data...
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The impact of the shale oil revolution on U.S. oil and gasoline prices
Kilian, Lutz - 2016
This article examines how the shale oil revolution has shaped the evolution of U.S. crude oil and gasoline prices. It puts the evolution of shale oil production into historical perspective, highlights uncertainties about future shale oil production, and cautions against the view that the U.S....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011417696
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Testing, not modelling, the impact of cohesion support : a theoretical framework and some preliminary results for the Spanish regions
Fuente, Ángel de la - 2010
investment in the Spanish regions. -- Cohesion policy effectiveness ; structural fund evaluation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003928834
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Application of regionally varying additionality degrees in the practice of EU cohesion policy
Nam, Chang-woon; Wamser, Georg - 2010
national regional policy funds. The benchmark for the co-funding is that the EU bears 50% of total costs associated with … additionality degrees is largely in line with EU cohesion policy goals. Most notably, higher shares of EU funds are provided to … policy ; EU regions ; matching grant ; growth and distribution …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003940115
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Homevoters vs. leasevoters : a spatial analysis of airport effects
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Maennig, Wolfgang - 2013 - Version: March 2013
We use a public referendum on a new air traffic concept in Berlin, Germany as a natural experiment to analyze how the interaction of tenure and capitalization effects shapes the outcome of direct democracy processes. We distinguish between homevoters, i.e., voters who are homeowners, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009764375
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Après nous le déluge? : direct democracy and intergenerational conflicts in ageing societies
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Maennig, Wolfgang; Steenbeck, Malte - 2016 - Version: January 2016
To assess the likely effects of population ageing on the outcomes of direct democracy, we analyze the effect of age on voting decisions in public referenda. To this end, we provide the first quantitative review of the literature and a case study of the Stuttgart 21 referendum on one of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434471
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Lisbon agenda, regional innovation system and the new EU cohesion policy
Nam, Chang-woon; Schoenberg, Alina M.; Wamser, Georg - 2011
The EU's cohesion policy should now be confluent with the goals of the Lisbon strategy by promoting growth and … degrees of innovation promotion by the EU from one region to another. Since regional-policy strategies should have been …-financing policy of innovation projects changed for the 2007-2013 program period compared with the 2000-2006 period. According to our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009273908
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Extending the limits of the abatement cost
Meunier, Guy; Ponssard, Jean-Pierre - 2022
The paper examines the relevant cost benefit framework for public authorities investigating the potential of local projects to mitigate climate change. Because these projects are typically limited in time and space, continuation pathways need be introduced to capture the benefits provided by a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013177137
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Prime locations
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Albers, Thilo N. H.; Behrens, Kristian - 2020
We harness big data to detect prime locations - large clusters of knowledge-based tradable services - in 125 global cities and track changes in the within-city geography of prime service jobs over a century. Historically smaller cities that did not develop early public transit networks are less...
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