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Migration, Congestion Externalities, and the Evaluation of Spatial Investments
Dinkelman, Taryn; Schulhofer-Wohl, Sam - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
The direct benefits of infrastructure in developing countries can be large, but if new infrastructure induces in-migration, congestion of other local publicly provided goods may offset the direct benefits. Using the example of rural household electrification in South Africa, we demonstrate the...
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The Impact of Trade on Labor Market Dynamics
Caliendo, Lorenzo; Dvorkin, Maximiliano; Parro, Fernando - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2015
We develop a dynamic labor search model where production and consumption take place in spatially distinct labor markets with varying exposure to domestic and international trade. The model recognizes the role of labor mobility frictions, goods mobility frictions, geographic factors, and...
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Is India's Manufacturing Sector Moving Away From Cities?
Ghani, Ejaz; Goswami, Arti Grover; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal and informal sectors. We find that plants in the formal sector are moving away from urban and into rural locations, while the informal sector is moving from rural to urban...
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Tax Benefits to Housing and Inefficiencies in Location and Consumption
Albouy, David; Hanson, Andrew - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
Tax benefits to owner-occupied housing provide incentives for housing consumption, offsetting weaker disincentives of the property tax. These benefits also help counter the penalty federal taxes impose on households who work in productive high-wage areas, but reinforce incentives to consume...
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The Comparative Advantage of Cities
Davis, Donald R.; Dingel, Jonathan I. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
What determines the distributions of skills, occupations, and industries across cities? We develop a theory to jointly address these fundamental questions about the spatial organization of economies. Our model incorporates a system of cities, their internal urban structures, and a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010950777
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Market Size, Trade, and Productivity
Melitz, Marc J.; Ottaviano, Gianmarco I.P. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
We develop a monopolistically competitive model of trade with firm heterogeneity - in terms of productivity differences - and endogenous differences in the 'toughness' of competition across markets - in terms of the number and average productivity of competing firms. We analyze how these...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005084483
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Local Revenue Hills: Evidence from Four U.S. Cities
Haughwout, Andrew F.; Craig, Steven G.; Inman, Robert P.; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003
We provide estimates of the impact and long-run elasticities of tax base with respect to tax rates for four large U.S. cities: Houston (property taxation), Minneapolis (property taxation), New York City (property, general sales, and income taxation), and Philadelphia (property, gross receipts,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005085044
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Micro-Foundations of Urban Agglomeration Economies
Puga, Diego; Duranton, Giles - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003
This handbook chapter studies the theoretical micro-foundations of urban agglomeration economies. We distinguish three … precise characterisation of some of the main theoretical underpinnings of urban agglomeration economies, to discuss modelling … issues that arise when working with these tools, and to compare different sources of agglomeration economies in terms of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005085227
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Evaluating the Efficiency and Equity of Federal Fiscal Equalization
Albouy, David - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
In theory, federal transfers that make household location decisions efficient should ignore local cost differences, subsidize positive externalities, and offset differences in federal-tax payments and local taxes levied on non-residents, but not local tax revenues from residents. Transfers that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008627159
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Optimal Emission Pricing in the Presence of International Spillovers: Decomposing Leakage and Terms-of-Trade Motives
Lange, Andreas; Rutherford, Thomas F.; Böhringer, Christoph - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
Carbon control policies in OECD countries commonly differentiate emission prices in favor of energy-intensive industries. While leakage provides a efficiency argument for differential emission pricing, the latter may be a disguised beggar-thy-neighbor policy to exploit terms of trade. Using an...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008628423