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Homeownership and NIMBYism: A Spatial Analysis of Airport Effects
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Maennig, Wolfgang - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2011
This study evaluates the cost of aircraft noise in Berlin, Germany, on the background of the home-voter hypothesis, which has received increasing attention in the literature. First, we use exogenous variation in airport noise provided by a series of effective and announced closures and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009220239
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Homevoters vs. leasevoters: a spatial analysis of airport effects
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Maennig, Wolfgang - Institut d'Economia de Barcelona (IEB), Facultat … - 2013
We use a public referendum on a new air traffic concept in Berlin, Germany as a natural experiment to analyze how the interaction of tenure and capitalization effects shapes the outcome of direct democracy processes. We distinguish between homevoters, i.e., voters who are homeowners, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010699012
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Chicken or egg? the PVAR econometrics of transportation
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Moeller, Kristoffer; Wendland, Nicolai - London School of Economics (LSE) - 2014
To analyze the mutually dependent relationship between local economic performance and the demand for and supply of transport services, we employ the structural panel VAR method that is popular in the macroeconomic literature, but which has not previously been applied to the modeling of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011126639
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Après nous le déluge? Direct democracy and intergenerational conflicts in aging societies
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Maennig, Wolfgang; Steenbeck, Malte - 2016
To assess the likely effects of population ageing on the outcomes of direct democracy, we analyze the effect of age on voting decisions in public referenda. To this end, we provide the first quantitative review of the literature and a case study of the Stuttgart 21 referendum on one of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011585223
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Spatial Determinants of CBD Emergence: A Micro-level Case Study on Berlin∗
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Wendlan, Nicolai - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
access generated by rail-based public transport. Our results suggest that city planners could successfully promote the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005617089
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Ease vs. noise: Long-run changes in the value of transport (dis)amenities
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Nitsch, Volker; Wendland, Nicolai - 2019
-in-differences and spatial differencing to estimate the land price capitalization effects of metro rail in Berlin, Germany today and a … century ago. Over this period, the negative implicit hedonic price of rail noise tripled. Our results imply income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012169067
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Chicken or Egg? The PVAR Econometrics of Transportation
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Moeller, Kristoffer; Wendland, Nicolai - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2014
To analyze the mutually dependent relationship between local economic performance and the demand for and supply of transport services, we employ the structural panel VAR method that is popular in the macroeconomic literature, but which has not previously been applied to the modeling of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010754465
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Après nous le déluge? : direct democracy and intergenerational conflicts in ageing societies
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Maennig, Wolfgang; Steenbeck, Malte - 2016 - Version: January 2016
To assess the likely effects of population ageing on the outcomes of direct democracy, we analyze the effect of age on voting decisions in public referenda. To this end, we provide the first quantitative review of the literature and a case study of the Stuttgart 21 referendum on one of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011434471
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Ease vs. noise : on the conflicting effects of transportation infrastructure
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Nitsch, Volker; Wendland, Nicolai - 2016 - Version: August, 2016
methods to disentangle the offsetting noise and accessibility effects of one technology of mass transit, metro rail, analyzing … land price effects of the opening of the first German electrified metro rail line in Berlin in 1902. Examining a long … underground as opposed to elevated rail lines is therefore stronger today than a century ago. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011523729
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Chicken or egg? : transport and urban development in Berlin
Möller, Torsten Kristoffer; Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; … - 2013
Infrastructure and especially mass transit play a major role in urban economics and are the centre of many research questions. Probably due to simultaneous determination of infrastructure supply and demand most research is only carried out on the supply side driven relationship explaining how...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011537687