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Econographics
Chapman, Jonathan; Dean, Mark; Ortoleva, Pietro; … - 2018
empirical basis for more comprehensive theories of decision-making. We elicit 21 behaviors using an incentivized survey on a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011897575
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Limited self-knowledge and survey response behavior
Falk, Armin; Neuber, Thomas; Strack, Philippe - 2021
develop a choice model of survey response behavior under the assumption that the respondent has imperfect self-knowledge about …We study response behavior in surveys and show how the explanatory power of self-reports can be improved. First, we … high self-knowledge. These examples illustrate how using the estimator may improve inference from survey data. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012597266
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Shedding light on the shadow economy : a global database and the interaction with the official one
Medina, Leandro; Schneider, Friedrich - 2019 - 2nd version
estimating the size of the shadow economy for 157 countries over 1991 to 2017. The results suggest that the OECD countries are by … far the lowest with values below 20% of off official GDP and the shadow economy is larger in Latin America and Sub ….9 %. What is really remarkable, that the average decline of the shadow economy from 1991 to 2017 is 6.8 percentage points. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138830
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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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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009724002
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781651
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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
topics are relevant for the purposes of policy evaluation, political economy, and the broadest questions of governance and of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012489638
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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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