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Tax Policy, Location Choices, and Market Structure
Pfann, Gerard A.; van Kranenburg, Hans - 2002
increase product prices, lower competition, and reduce the availability of new products in small markets. The model?s test is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274360
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Survival in a Concentrating Industry: The Case of Daily Newspapers in the Netherlands
van Kranenburg, Hans L.; Palm, Franz; Pfann, Gerard A. - 2002
This paper studies the effects of aggregate, industry-, and firm-specific factors on the exit hazard rates in the market for daily newspapers in The Netherlands from 1950 to 1996. We present a brief overview of the exit literature. On the basis of the existing empirical evidence, we decided to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276138
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Tax Policy, Location Choices, and Market Structure
Pfann, Gerard A.; van Kranenburg, Hans - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
increase product prices, lower competition, and reduce the availability of new products in small markets. The model’s test is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005566538
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Survival in a Concentrating Industry: The Case of Daily Newspapers in the Netherlands
Kranenburg, Hans L. van; Palm, Franz C.; Pfann, Gerard A. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2002
This paper studies the effects of aggregate, industry-, and firm-specific factors on the exit hazard rates in the market for daily newspapers in The Netherlands from 1950 to 1996. We present a brief overview of the exit literature. On the basis of the existing empirical evidence, we decided to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005700941
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House Prices and Employment Reallocation: International Evidence
Jimeno, Juan F; Bover, Olympia - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
Over the last decade house prices increased remarkably in many countries. However, while in several countries there was … explains many of the international differences in the response of sectoral reallocation of employment to house prices … display larger elasticities of labor demand in the construction sector with respect to house prices than countries that seem …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005822115
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The Production Function for Housing: Evidence from France
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - 2016
-land inputs. Differences in non-land inputs are caused by differences in land prices that reflect differences in the demand for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011584688
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How Do Households Discount over Centuries? Evidence from Singapore's Private Housing Market
Fesselmeyer, Eric; Liu, Haoming; Salvo, Alberto - 2016
We examine Singapore's fairly homogeneous private-housing market and show that new apartments on historical multi-century leases trade at a non-zero discount relative to property owned in perpetuity. Descriptive regressions indicate that new apartments with 825 to 986 years of tenure remaining...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011479380
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Understanding Urban Economies, Land Use, and Social Dynamics in the City: Big Data and Measurement
Saiz, Albert; Salazar-Miranda, Arianna - 2023
Recent advancements in data collection have expanded the tools and information available for urban and spatial-based research. This paper presents an overview of spatial big data sources used in urban science and urban economics, with the goal of directing and enriching future research by other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014469787
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How Partisan is the Press? Multiple Measures of Media Slant
Gans, Joshua S.; Leigh, Andrew - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
We employ several different approaches to estimate the political position of Australian media outlets, relative to federal parliamentarians. First, we use parliamentary mentions to code over 100 public intellectuals on a left-right scale. We then estimate slant by using the number of mentions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009371869
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Media Exposure and Internal Migration: Evidence from Indonesia
Farré, Lídia; Fasani, Francesco - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
This paper investigates the impact of television on internal migration in Indonesia. We exploit the differential introduction of private television throughout the country and the variation in signal reception due to topography to estimate the causal effect of media exposure. Our estimates reveal...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325431