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What are the long run consequences of planning and providing basic infrastructure in neighborhoods, where people build …, half of which provided infrastructure in previously unpopulated areas (de novo neighborhoods), while the other half …
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The commonly-used satellite images of nighttime lights fail to capture the true brightness of most cities. We show that night lights are a reliable proxy for economic activity at the city level, provided they are first corrected for top-coding. We present a stylized model of urban luminosity and...
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The research agenda of Europeanization is currently highly focused on issued related to what accounts for the 'horizontal' interaction between domestic actors and how these actors make use of stimuli originating from the EU. This paper aims to contribute to this line of inquiry through the case...
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There is a large literature on the role infrastructure plays in economic development, but few papers document the … causal effect of infrastructure on the sustainability of natural resources. We examine the effect of the arrival of two new … of new infrastructure building may be significant and needs to be incorporated in benefit-cost analysis. …
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This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity …
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solution to environmental problems (such as climate control), automobile dependence, economic development, infrastructure costs …
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trade-driven growth through increased intraregional infrastructure connectivity and regional economic integration. In 1992 … connectivity as well as infrastructure financing needs in Asia. It also examines the nature and characteristics of existing and new … an institutional architecture consisting of new "Asian Infrastructure Coordination Facility (AICF)" involving major …
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This paper develops a new approach for measuring the stringency of a major form of land-use regulation, building-height restrictions, and it applies the method to an extraordinary dataset of land-lease transactions from China. Our theory shows that the elasticity of land price with respect to...
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This paper considers the problem of a water management authority faced with the threat of a drought that hits at an uncertain date. Three management policies are investigated: i) a laissez-faire (open-access) policy of automatic adjustment through a zero marginal private net benefit condition,...
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