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Patterns in US urban growth (1790-2000)

González-Val, Rafael; Lanaspa-Santolaria, Luis Fernando - 2013

This paper reconsiders the evolution of the growth of American cities since 1790 in light of new theories of urban growth. Our null hypothesis for long-term growth is random growth. We obtain evidence supporting random growth against the alternative of mean reversion (convergence) in city sizes...

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History and urban primacy : the effect of the Spanish reconquista on Muslim cities

Cuberes, David; González-Val, Rafael - 2013 - This version: February 2013

This paper aims to study the effect of a major historical event on the Spanish city size distribution, the Spanish Reconquista. This was a long military campaign that aimed to expel Muslims from the Iberian Peninsula. The process started in the early 1200s and ended around 1500, when the entire...

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Job hopping and economic agglomeration in Germany

Fuchs, Michaela - 2012

This paper investigates whether labor mobility varies with the degree of agglomeration and, if so, how the differences … market, one of Marshall's famous three sources of agglomeration economies. Only a small number of studies have so far … to the still sparse literature on the effect of both urban and industrial agglomeration on labor market pooling. Taking …

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Sequential city growth in the US : does age matter?

González-Val, Rafael; Sánchez-Vidal, María; … - 2013

We provide empirical evidence of the dynamics of city size distribution for the whole of the twentieth century in U.S. cities and metropolitan areas. We focus our analysis on the new cities that were created during the period of analysis. The main contribution of this paper, therefore, is the...

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How important are agglomeration effects for plant performance? : empirical evidence for Germany

Fuchs, Michaela; Ludewig, Oliver - 2010 - Preliminary version

The question whether agglomeration effects are of importance for regional development has a long tradition in regional … science. This paper asks if regional characteristics and specifically ag-glomeration effects influence the performance of … regional agglomeration effects for Germany. Second, while earlier papers looked only at few sectors of the economy or only at …

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How important are plant and regional characteristics for labor demand? : plant-level evidence for Germany

Brixy, Udo; Fuchs, Michaela - 2010

Empirical research on agglomeration and regional economic growth puts high emphasis on the impact of specialization …

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What makes cities bigger and richer? : new evidence from 1990 - 2000 in the US

González-Val, Rafael - 2011

This paper analyses the determinants of growth of American cities, understood as growth of the population or of per capita income, from 1990 to 2000. This empirical analysis uses data from all cities with more than 25,000 inhabitants in the year 2000 (1154 cities). The results show that while a...

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The pre-exit performance of German plants : how long is the "shadow of death"?

Fuchs, Michaela; Weyh, Antje - 2014 - Preliminary version

This paper deals with the question whether firms' employment performance in the periods preceding their exit can be regarded as casting a 'Shadow of Death' on their final leaving the market. This aspect is of high relevance for politicians and other decision-makers, because by knowing more about...

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Size distributions for all cities : lognormal and q-exponential functions

González-Val, Rafael; Ramos-Gutiérrez, Arturo; Sanz, … - 2011

This paper analyses in detail the features offered by a function which is practically new to Urban Economics, the q-exponential, in describing city size distributions. We highlight two contributions. First, we propose a new and simple procedure for estimating their parameters. Second, and more...

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Measurement of use value and non-use value of environmental quality consistent with general equilibrium approach

Sakamoto, Naoki; Nakajima, Kazunori - 2014

This paper proposes the consistent method with general equilibrium models to measure use value and non-use value of large-scale change in environmental quality. First, we develop a general equilibrium model that parameters of the utility function with environmental quality as a dependent...

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