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relationship between agglomeration externalities and the level of education. While the positive relationship between economic …
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It has been argued that the growth of cities is increasingly determined by the presence of amenities. We study the economic effects of large scale subsidised investments in historic amenities, by looking at their impact on house prices. We aim to distinguish between the direct and indirect...
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Based on micro-data on individual workers for the period 2000-2005, we show that wage differentials in the Netherlands … Marshall-Arrow-Romer externalities, where doubling the share of a (2-digit NACE) industry results in a 2.4 percent higher … productivity. We find evidence for a negative effect of competition (associated with Porter externalities) and diversity …
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for a wetlands area in the Netherlands, the Vecht area. This is the floodplain of river Vecht, located in the centre of … the Netherlands. The study has resulted in a set of linked spatial hydrological, ecological and economic models …, infrastructure, agriculture, recreation and nature conservation. The formulation of alternative development scenarios is dominated by …
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This article presents a model of sequential decisions about investments in environmentally dirty and clean technologies, which extends the path-dependence framework of Arthur (1989). This allows us to evaluate if and how an economy locked into a dirty technology can be unlocked and move towards...
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This paper discusses a number of issues that will become increasingly important nowthat the concept of marginal external cost pricing becomes more likely to be implementedas a policy strategy in transport in reality. The first part of the paper deals with thelong-run efficiency of marginal...
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. However, if the programme generates externalities for non-participants such an approach will capture only part of the …
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We derive and discuss a general, but simple geographical economics model with congestion, allowing us to explain the economic viability of small and large locations. The model generalizes some previous work and lends itself to analyzing the impact of public policy in terms of infrastructure...
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This paper analyses the adoption of energy-efficiency enhancing technologies by heterogeneous firms. The fact that energy use does not only cause external environmental costs through pollution, but also directly affects the profitability of the firm and hence its behaviour on input and output...
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