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Firm Formation and Agglomeration under Monopolistic Competition
Brunow, Stephan; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
In the presence of agglomeration economies one might expect a relocation and concentration of industries. Then firm start-up activities may be assumed to reveal those effects. We introduce an empirical testable model inspired by the New Economic Geography and human capital externalities...
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The Impact of Rail Transport on Real Estate Prices: An Empirical Analysis of the Dutch Housing Market
Debrezion, Ghebreegziabiher; Pels, Eric; Rietveld, Piet - Tinbergen Institute - 2006
A hedonic pricing model is estimated to analyse the impact of railways on house prices in terms of distance to railway station, frequency of railway services and distance to the railway line. Correcting for a wide range of other determinants of house prices we find that dwellings very close to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005137136
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The Impact of Rail Transport on Real Estate Prices: An Empirical Analysis of the Dutch Housing Market
Debrezion, Ghebreegziabiher; Pels, Eric; Rietveld, Piet - Tinbergen Instituut - 2006
A hedonic pricing model is estimated to analyse the impact of railways on house prices in terms of distance to railway station, frequency of railway services and distance to the railway line. Correcting for a wide range of other determinants of house prices we find that dwellings very close to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257549
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The Death of Distance Revisited: Cyberplace, Physical and Relational Proximities
Tranos, Emmanouil; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
unidimensional way. Our paper builds upon recent studies in economic geography and relational proximities, and aims to study whether … physical distance survives in virtual geography even after controlling for relational proximities. In order to do so, a unique … proximities, have a significant impact on the intensity of the Internet infrastructure, highlighting the spatiality of the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255714
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The Formation of a Core Periphery Structure in Heterogeneous Financial Networks
Daan in 't Veld; Leij, Marco van der; Hommes, Cars - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
Recent empirical evidence suggests that financial networks exhibit a core periphery network structure. This paper aims at giving an economic explanation for the emergence of such a structure using network formation theory. Focusing on intermediation benefits, we find that a core periphery...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011272587
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Remittances and their Effect on Emigration Intentions in Egypt, Morocco and Turkey
Dalen, Hendrik P. van; Groenewold, George; Fokkema, Tineke - Tinbergen Instituut - 2005
What determines remittances – altruism or enlightened self-interest - and do remittances trigger additional migration? These two questions are examined empirically in Egypt, Turkey and Morocco for households with family members living abroad. Results show, first, that one cannot clearly...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011255585
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The Industrial Organisation of the Dance Industry in the Netherlands: a Transaction Cost Perspective on Hybrid Forms of Organisation
Butter, Frank A.G. den; Joustra, Jelle - Tinbergen Instituut - 2014
The organization of Electronic Dance Music (EDM) events has become a major export product in the Netherlands. In order to respond quickly to the new trends and needs, innovative forms of cooperation between producers are to be set up for the organization of exciting new events. A case study on...
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Confirming Information Flows in Networks
Billand, Pascal; Bravard, Christophe; Kamphorst, Jurjen; … - Tinbergen Instituut - 2012
Social networks, be it on the internet or in real life, facilitate information flows. We model this by giving agents incentives to link with others and receive information through those links. In many networks agents will value confirmation of the information they receive from others. Our paper...
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Simultaneous Search and Network Efficiency
Gautier, Pieter A.; Holzner, Christian L. - Tinbergen Instituut - 2011
When workers send applications to vacancies they create a network. Frictionsarise because workers typically do not know where other workers apply to and firmsdo not know which candidates other firms consider. The first coordination frictionaffects network formation, while the second coordination...
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Diffusion of Behavior in Network Games Orchestrated by Social Learning
Huang, Jia-Ping; Koster, Maurice; Lindner, Ines - Tinbergen Instituut - 2013
The novelty of our model is to combine models of collective action on networks with models of social learning. Agents are connected according to an undirected graph, the social network, and have the choice between two actions: either to adopt a new behavior or technology or stay with the default...
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