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Trade and Environment Beyond Singapore
Whalley, John - 1996
upcoming ministerial meeting in Singapore this December. It makes a number of points. Progress within the GATT/WTO on this … paper also argues that despite (and beyond) Singapore, one has to go further than the GATT/WTO to see the potential …
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Does Government Investment in Local Public Goods Spur Gentrification? Evidence from Beijing
Zheng, Siqi - 2011
In Beijing, the metropolitan government has made enormous place based investments to increase green space and to improve public transit. We examine the gentrification consequences of such public investments. Using unique geocoded real estate and restaurant data, we document that the construction...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461656
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The Evolving Geography of China's Industrial Production : Implications for Pollution Dynamics and Urban Quality of Life
Zheng, Siqi - 2013
China's rapid economic growth has been fueled by industrialization and urbanization. Given its export focus, this … quality of life in China's cities. We focus on the interaction between firms, local governments and the central government … that together determine the new economic geography of industry and pollution within China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012459037
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Incentives and Outcomes : China's Environmental Policy
Wu, Jing - 2013
In generating fast economic growth, China is also generating growing concern about its environmental record. Using 2000 …
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Housing Externalities
Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban - 2008
Using data compiled from concentrated residential urban revitalization programs implemented in Richmond, VA, between 1999 and 2004, we study residential externalities. Specifically, we provide evidence that in neighborhoods targeted by the programs, sites that did not directly benefit from...
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Is Urban Decay Bad? Is Urban Revitalization Bad Too?
Vigdor, Jacob L. - 2007
Many observers argue that urban revitalization harms the poor, primarily by raising rents. Others argue that urban decline harms the poor by reducing job opportunities, the quality of local public services, and other neighborhood amenities. While both decay and revitalization can have negative...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012465701
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Creative Destruction : Barriers to Urban Growth and the Great Boston Fire of 1872
Hornbeck, Richard - 2014
Historical city growth, in the United States and worldwide, has required remarkable transformation of outdated durable buildings. Private land-use decisions may generate inefficiencies, however, due to externalities and various rigidities. This paper analyzes new plot-level data in the aftermath...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458201
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Urban Renewal and Inequality : Evidence from Chicago's Public Housing Demolitions
Almagro, Milena; Chyn, Eric; Stuart, Bryan A. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper studies one of the largest spatially targeted redevelopment efforts implemented in the United States: public housing demolitions sponsored by the HOPE VI program. Focusing on Chicago, we study welfare and racial disparities in the impacts of demolitions using a structural model that...
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Converting Brown Offices to Green Apartments
Gupta, Arpit; Martinez, Candy; Nieuwerburgh, Stijn van - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The conversion of brown office buildings to green apartments can contribute towards a solution to three pressing issues: oversupply of office in a hybrid-and-remote-work world, shortage of housing, and excessive greenhouse gas emissions. We propose a set of criteria to identify commercial office...
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Economic Behavior, Market Signals, and Urban Ecology
Abbott, Joshua K. - 2015
Urban ecologists have extended the bounds of this field to incorporate both the effects of human activities on ecological processes (e.g., humans as generators of disturbances), and the ways in which the structures, functions, and processes of urban ecosystems, and human alterations to them, in...
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