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Urban Resilience: Store Location Dynamics and Cultural Heritage
Duijn, Mark van; Rouwendal, Jan; Loon, Ruben van - European Regional Science Association - 2014
In this paper we study the relationship between cultural heritage and retail store dynamics at the neighbourhood level in the Netherlands. We analyze the total number of stores, number of vacant stores and number of stores by retail sub-industry in neighbourhoods, thereby focusing on the impact...
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Location of national manufacturing in international context (the case of U.S.)
Kurichev, Nikolay - European Regional Science Association - 2014
The case study of United States shows that global economic processes significantly influence the location of manufacturing. Analysis of multidimensional data covering 1860-2010 shows several stylized facts. Intensity of U.S. involvement in global economy by set of indicators is characterized by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011075844
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Spatial Externalities and Place-Based Policies: Evidence from the Netherlands
Koster, Hans; Ommeren, Jos Van - European Regional Science Association - 2013
We study neighbourhood externalities caused by large public investments in poor neighbourhoods. A stylised theory of a linear city is proposed to guide interpretation of the magnitude and attenuation of the external effects generated by these public investments. We use a large Dutch nationwide...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010740380
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Hub Airports, the knowledge economy and how close is close? Evidence from Europe
Thierstein, Alain; Conventz, Sven - European Regional Science Association - 2014
Airports have stepped beyond the stage of being simply pure infrastructure facilities. Hub airports in particular are considered to function as supra-regional and international gateway infrastructure thus having a decisive impact on firms' competitiveness and stimulating urban development. Hub...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011076038
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Exploring the geography of closing businesses in the crisis-stricken Athens city centre
Kavroudakis, Dimitris; Ballas, Dimitris; Monastiriotis, … - European Regional Science Association - 2013
learn from the observed geography/patterns of closures about the underlying market functioning (or non-functioning?) What …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010740513
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Do we go shopping downtown or in the 'burbs? Why not both?
Ushchev, Philip; Sloev, Igor; Thisse, Jacques-Francois - European Regional Science Association - 2014
We combine spatial and monopolistic competition to study market interactions between downtown retailers and an outlying … shopping mall. Consumers shop at either marketplace or at both, and buy each variety in volume. The market solution stems from … the interplay between the market expansion eff_x001B_ect generated by consumers seeking more opportunities, and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011075834
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Coherence of the EU cohesion policy and national regional policy: the case of the Czech Republic
Novosák, Jiøí - European Regional Science Association - 2014
There is a high research and political interest in regional disparities now. Regional disparities are at the heart of prominent theories of regional development as well as of the ambitious project of European integration. Moreover, regional policies at various spatial levels are formulated in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011131950
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THE EFFECT ON FIRMS? PRODUCTIVITY OF ACCESSIBILITY. THE SPANISH MANUFACTURING SECTOR
Martín-Barroso, David; Núñez, Juan A.; Velázquez, … - European Regional Science Association - 2013
This paper evaluates the impact of accessibility on the productivity of Spanish manufacturing firms. We suggest the use of accessibility indicators to workers and commodities, integrating transport, land use, and individual components in their measurement, and computing real distances or...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011131958
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Sequential city growth in the US: Does age matter?
Sánchez-Vidal, María; González-Val, Rafael; … - European Regional Science Association - 2013
We provide empirical evidence of the dynamics of city size distribution for the whole of the twentieth century in U.S. cities and metropolitan areas. We focus our analysis on the new cities that were created during the period of analysis. The main contribution of this paper, therefore, is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011131987
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Do public transport improvements increase employment and income in a city?
Bacares, Carlos Augusto Olarte - European Regional Science Association - 2013
transports. The aim of this research is to analyze the relationship between the size of labor market, the income and the … depend on the size of companies established on each zone. In essence, the number of jobs, the size of the labor market and … contrast, the size of labor market, defined as the number of reachable jobs on a specific time, is not a cause of the degree of …
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