syndicate speculating in Amsterdam in 1772 went bankrupt, many lenders were exposed. In the end, none of them actually lost … leverage in the Amsterdam stock market declined as a result. …

factors constrain access to safe drinking water and proper sanitation in India for both the urban and rural poor, and that … their own water and sanitation schemes, not just in rural areas but in urban ones as well. There are definite advantages to …

This paper builds a dynamic general equilibrium model of cities and uses it to analyze the role of local housing … compile using more than 350 U.S. cities for the years 1984 to 2008. Based on this measurement, we find that our model is …

cities were closed in the sense of explicitly limiting growth of city population from migration, it was difficult to assess … the effectiveness of these controls. We analyze a sample of 308 Soviet cities to isolate the impact of closure regulations … and declining thereafter, there are also pervasive differences between controlled and uncontrolled cities, the later …

cities located in 71 Russian provinces (oblast level). We examine the role of both general socio-economic characteristics and … growth, controlling for the usual types of forces used to explain the attractiveness of different cities. We find that even … Russian cities in the immediate pre-transition era. …

examine net migration rates for a sample of 171 medium and large cities for the period 1960 through 2002. We conclude that … unrestricted cities. This pattern seemingly came to an end in the late 1990s. …

microdata. We find that invention and manufacturing developed similarly in cities closer to and farther from universities in the … international awards for innovation were higher near universities. …