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Agglomeration, Integration, and Territorial Authority Scale in a System of Trading Cities. Centralisation versus Devolution
Del Gatto, Massimo - 2004
'agglomeration in a system of cities' in which both intra-city trade and inter-city trade are considered. Enriching both the … literature on integration/agglomeration and that on city size and formation, we show that: i) devolution results in over-agglomeration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011324971
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Agglomeration, integration, and territorial authority scale in a system of trading cities : centralisation versus devolution
Del Gatto, Massimo - 2004
'agglomeration in a system of cities' in which both intra-city trade and inter-city trade are considered. Enriching both the … literature on integration/agglomeration and that on city size and formation, we show that: i) devolution results in over-agglomeration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011603547
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Farmland Preservation Programs In West Virginia: A Preliminary Inquiry into the Merits of Purchase Development Rights
Stalebrink, Odd; Wilkinson, Samuel - Regional Research Institute (RRI), West Virginia University - 2007
To prevent the loss of farmland in West Virginia, the Voluntary Farmland Protection Act (VFPA) was passed in 2000. This act gives counties and the State authority to develop and fund local farmland protection programs, which typically involve a voluntary sale by a landowner of the right to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010929362
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Farmland Preservation Programs In West Virginia: A Preliminary Inquiry into the Merits of Purchase Development Rights
Stalebrink, Odd; Wilkinson, Samuel - Regional Research Institute (RRI), West Virginia University - 2007
To prevent the loss of farmland in West Virginia, the Voluntary Farmland Protection Act (VFPA) was passed in 2000. This act gives counties and the State authority to develop and fund local farmland protection programs, which typically involve a voluntary sale by a landowner of the right to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010779266
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Spatial policies and land use patterns : optimal and market allocations
Kyriakopoulou, Efthymia; Xepapadeas, Anastasios - 2014
-off between the agglomeration and dispersion forces, in the form of pollution from stationary forces, environmental policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010238330
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Spatial Policies and Land Use Patterns: Optimal and Market Allocations
Kyriakopoulou, Efthymia; Xepapadeas, Anastasios - 2014
-off between the agglomeration and dispersion forces, in the form of pollution from stationary forces, environmental policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398412
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Effects of protected areas on forest cover change and local communities : evidence from the Peruvian Amazon
Miranda, Juan José; Corral, Leonardo; Blackman, Allen; … - 2014
Protected areas are a cornerstone of forest conservation in developing countries. Yet we know little about their effects on forest cover change or the socioeconomic status of local communities, and even less about the relationship between these effects. This paper assesses whether 'win-win'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011289495
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Trade and Agglomeration: the Strategic use of Protection Revisited
Thede, Susanna - 2007
The purpose of this paper is to examine whether the strategic motive for protection present in trade and agglomeration … agglomeration industry. We first investigate unilateral trade policy effects on the international production and trade pattern and … the resulting national welfare levels in a new economic geography model including several agglomeration industries. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013208511
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Spoils of war: Trade shocks and segmented labor markets in Spain during WWI
Fuchs, Simon - 2021
How does intranational factor mobility shape the welfare effects of a trade shock? I provide evidence that during WWI, a demand shock emanated from belligerent countries and affected neutral Spain. Within Spain, labor predominantly reallocated locally, while the most affected provinces...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012653502
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A Sub-national CGE Model for Italy
Standardi, Gabriele; Bosello, Francesco; Eboli, Fabio - 2014
This paper describes a methodology to develop a Computable General Equilibrium model with a sub-national detail starting from a global database and model presenting the country-level as the highest resolution. This procedure is demonstratively applied to Italy, but can be transferred to any...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010398416