Combining a spatial equilibrium model with a search-matching unemployment model, this paper analyzes the willingness to pay for regional amenities and the regional quality of life when wages, rents, and unemployment risk compensate for local amenities and disamenities. The results are compared...

The city of Brussels has a unique position in Europe. It is not only the capital city of the European Union, it also the capital of federal state of Belgium, of its two different language communities and of the government of the Brussels region. Independent of this, the city itself is composed...

The last one and a half centuries have witnessed dramatic changes in the world economy. The service (tertiary) sector, which at the beginning of the 20th century was of little importance relative to agriculture and manufacturing, has become the dominant sector today, accounting for 80% and more...

Infrastructure and especially mass transit play a major role in urban economics and are the centre of many research questions. Probably due to simultaneous determination of infrastructure supply and demand most research is only carried out on the supply side driven relationship explaining how...

City size distributions are known to be well approximated by power laws across many countries. One popular explanation for such power-law regularities is in terms of random growth processes, where power laws arise asymptotically from the assumption of iid growth rates among all cities within a...

The progress in logistics industry is highly dependent upon international and domestic trade performance of a city. In the literature various studies deal with economic development and its influence on urban growth and land use. Agglomeration theory and cluster theory try to identify the factors...

Economic Integration, Institutional Differences and Regional growth Carlie Geerdink, University of Twente, The Netherlands Peter J. Stauvermann, Changwon National University, Republic of Korea Abstract General theme T JEL R11/13, O47 Despite the process of economic integration, recently we have...

This paper evaluates the systemic impact of climate variations in a regional perspective using an interregional CGE model integrated with a physical model estimated for agriculture in order to catch the effects of climate change. The methodological approach adopted to conduct such analysis was...

In classical Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) models all decisions are about continuous quantities, represented by non-negative real numbers. In a spatial framework it is however natural to allow for discrete choices, like choice location of residence and/or and location of work. Another...

We construct a two-country international trade model with national and multinational (multiplant) firms and we investigate the effect of economic integration on welfare both at the country and at the world level. Results crucially depend on the share of industrial profits owned by a country....