Showing 1 - 10 of 167
to shocks, the degree of urbanization and specialization. We take the Great Recession, the economic and financial crisis … period, we find that the degree and nature of regional urbanization and specialization are important drivers of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010337597
Individuals urbanize when the net benefits to urbanization exceed rural living conditions. Body mass, height, and … urban females, and urban females may not have been affected as much as males by urbanization. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014383762
This study argues that urbanization changed the relationship between the occupation of candidates running in … parliamentary elections and their electoral success. To identify local-level variation in urbanization, we leverage exogenous … suggest that urbanization was detrimental to the electoral success of lawyers but beneficial to that of employees and workers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014452376
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
This paper questions the widely applied parallelism of demographic and economic development in characterizing urban shrinkage in Germany, and argues that the usage of population change as a single indicator leads to incorrect policy recommendations for combating urban shrinkage. As the cases of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010479355
Tall buildings are central to facilitating sustainable urbanization and growth in cities worldwide. We estimate average …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014433980
through accessible data sets. Our predictions include an U-shaped relationship between the well-known measures of urbanization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011927895
Provided there are positive external benefits attached to the historic character of buildings, owners of properties in designated conservation areas benefit from a reduction in uncertainty regarding the future of their area. At the same time, the restrictions put in place to ensure the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010344812
This paper identifies a new factor, the age of the housing stock, that affects where high- and low-income neighborhoods are located in U.S. cities. High-income households, driven by a high demand for housing services, will tend to locate in areas of the city where the housing stock is relatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003202901
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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012696919