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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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level of government. The next section discusses the empirical results that have been found in the literature. A third …
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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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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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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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public sector organization at all levels of government, from the purely local to the global. …
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In recent years the land-rent gradient for the city of London has flattened by 17 percentage points. Further … production, cannot. We show that increased teleworking flattens the land-rent gradient, and eventually skilled workers move from …
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alternative mechanism known as divided government. By dividing government control between the executive and legislative branches … states from 1975 to 2000, it is shown that the probability of divided government is 10-15 percent higher when governors are … control an otherwise unaccountable executive. -- divided government ; lame duck ; term limit ; accountability …
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This paper studies how divided government - arising when control of the government branches is split between parties … they serve in a divided government than they are in a fully unified government. We find similar but smaller effects for …. However, in terms of policy implementation, we find evidence of moderation: when a unified Republican government loses a …
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The formation and expansion of the European Union (EU) have attracted much attention. However, the impact on the level of corruption in a nation after joining the Union has not been formally studied. Any nation that joins the European Union potentially faces two different and opposite effects on...
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