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Brown growth, green growth, and the efficiency of urbanization

Quaas, Martin F.; Smulders, Sjak - 2012

We analyze the efficiency of urbanization patterns in a stylized dynamic model of urban growth with three sectors of …'). If, however, production becomes cleaner over time ('green growth') the equilibrium urbanization path reaches the … efficient urbanization path after finite time without need of a coordinating mechanism. The results may be generalized to take …

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A threshold model of urban development

Vesperoni, Alberto; Schweinzer, Paul - 2018

through accessible data sets. Our predictions include an U-shaped relationship between the well-known measures of urbanization …

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The skyscraper revolution : global economic development and land savings

Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Baum-Snow, Nathaniel; Jedwab, Remi - 2023

Tall buildings are central to facilitating sustainable urbanization and growth in cities worldwide. We estimate average …

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Cities, aggregate welfare, and growth

Gehr, Katja; Pflüger, Michael - 2025

perspective, allowing us to offer novel facts, theory, and methodology. Our focus is on Germany, a compelling case exemplifying …

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Rush hours and urbanization

Seidel, Tobias; Wickerath, Jan - 2019

We use a spatial general equilibrium model with potential commuting of workers between their place of work and their place of residence to analyze the effects of rush hours on the spatial allocation of employment and population, average labor productivity and the housing market. Abolishing...

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Welfare benefits of agglomeration and worker heterogeneity

Teulings, Coen N.; Ossokina, Ioulia V.; Groot, Henri L. … - 2014

The direct impact of local public goods on welfare is relatively easy to measure from land rents. However, the indirect effects on home and job location, on land use, and on agglomeration benefits are hard to pin down. We develop a spatial general equilibrium model for the valuation of these...

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Pollution and city size : can cities be too small?

Borck, Rainald; Tabuchi, Takatoshi - 2016

We study the optimal and equilibrium size of cities in a city system model with environmental pollution. Pollution is related to city size through the effect of population on production, commuting, and housing consumption. With symmetric cities, if pollution is local or per capita pollution...

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On the productivity advantage of cities

Jacob, Nick; Mion, Giordano - 2020

Ever since Marshall (1890) agglomeration externalities have been viewed as the key factor explaining the existence of cities and their size. However, while the various micro foundations of agglomeration externalities stress the importance of Total Factor Productivity (TFP), the empirical...

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Skilled scalable services : the new urban bias in economic growth

Eckert, Fabian; Ganapati, Sharat; Walsh, Conor - 2020

Since 1980, economic growth in the U.S. has been fastest in its largest cities. We show that a group of skill- and information-intensive service industries are responsible for all of this new urban bias in recent growth. We then propose a simple explanation centered around the interaction of...

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Top lights : bright cities and their contribution to economic development

Bluhm, Richard; Krause, Melanie - 2018

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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