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The Determinants of Quality Specialization
Dingel, Jonathan I. - 2016
A growing literature suggests that high-income countries export high-quality goods. Two hypotheses may explain such specialization, with different implications for welfare, inequality, and trade policy. Fajgelbaum, Grossman, and Helpman (2011) formalize the Linder hypothesis that home demand...
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Climate Change Adaptation : Lessons from Urban Economics
Kahn, Matthew E. - 2014
to explore how the “menu” offered by a system of cities insures us against emerging risks. Insights from urban economics …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013043276
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Causal Inference in Urban and Regional Economics
Baum-Snow, Nathaniel - 2014
discusses strategies that have been successfully used in urban and regional economics for recovering such causal relationships …
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Urban Economics and Entrepreneurship
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2014
influences the choices of entrepreneurs; entrepreneurial success influences the local economy. Yet modern urban economics has … paid relatively little attention to entrepreneurs. This essay introduces a special issue of Journal of Urban Economics …
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The Economics of Urban Density
Duranton, Gilles; Puga, Diego - 2022
Urban density boosts productivity and innovation, improves access to goods and services, reduces typical travel distances, encourages energy-efficient construction and transport, and facilitates sharing scarce amenities. However, density is also synonymous with crowding, makes living and moving...
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The Economics Approach to Cities
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2021
economics in the past 20 years. The builder's equilibrium condition pushes us to understand the causes of supply differences … and high prices. Since the economic theory of cities emphasizes a search for exogenous causes of endogenous outcomes like …
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Fiscal Policies in Open Cities with Firms and Households
Haughwout, Andrew; Inman, Robert P. - 2021
With the renewed interest in cities as economic centers comes a need to understand how local public services and local taxes are likely to affect city economic performance. This paper provides an equilibrium model of an open city economy with mobile firms and resident workers. Given household...
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Micro-Foundations of Urban Agglomeration Economies
Duranton, Gilles; Puga, Diego - 2021
This handbook chapter studies the theoretical micro-foundations of urban agglomeration economies. We distinguish three types of micro-foundations, based on sharing, matching, and learning mechanisms. For each of these three categories, we develop one or more core models in detail and discuss the...
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Learning in Cities
Glaeser, Edward L. - 2021
informational role of cities is a primary reason for" their continued existence. This paper formalizes Marshall's theory in a model … of other implications of the theory are corroborated" empirically …
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What Can Economics Say About Alzheimer's Disease?
Chandra, Amitabh - 2020
States. We describe the central economic questions raised by AD. While there is overlap with the economics of aging, the … defining features of the ‘economics of Alzheimer's Disease' is an emphasis on cognitive decline, choice by cognitively impaired … public programs for AD. These topics overlap with many areas of economics -- labor economics, health economics, public …
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