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Kahn, Matthew E. - 2014

This paper explores the challenges and opportunities that government officials face in designing coherent ‘rules of the game’ for achieving urban sustainability during times of growth. Sustainability is judged by three criteria. The first involves elements of day-to-day quality of life, such...

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Sustainable and smart cities

Kahn, Matthew E. - 2014

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Sustainable and Smart Cities

Kahn, Matthew E. - 2017

This paper explores the challenges and opportunities that government officials face in designing coherent' rules of the game' for achieving urban sustainability during times of growth. Sustainability is judged by three criteria. The first involves elements of day-to-day quality of life, such as...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973213

Does pollution hinder urban competitiveness?

Kahn, Matthew E.; Lozano Gracia, Nancy; Soppelsa, Maria E. - 2019

This paper surveys the recent literature exploring the causes of urban pollution in the developing world and the … implications of such pollution for a city's competitiveness. Within a system of cities, cities compete for jobs and people. Those … pollution inhibit urban competitiveness? Second, why is this effect likely to grow in importance over time? Third, why have …

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Chapter 56. Sprawl and Urban Growth

Glaeser, Edward L.; Kahn, Matthew E. - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 4, …, (pp. 2481-2527). 2004

Cities can be thought of as the absence of physical space between people and firms. As such, they exist to eliminate transportation costs for goods, people and ideas and transportation technologies dictate urban form. In the 21st century, the dominant form of city living is based on the...

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Long-term macroeconomic effects of climate change : a cross-country analysis

Kahn, Matthew E.; Mohaddes, Kamiar; Ng, Ryan N. C.; … - 2019

We study the long-term impact of climate change on economic activity across countries, using a stochastic growth model where labour productivity is affected by country-specific climate variables. defined as deviations of temperature and precipitation from their historical norms. Using a panel...

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Long-term macroeconomic effects of climate change : a cross-country analysis

Kahn, Matthew E.; Mohaddes, Kamiar; Ng, Ryan N. C.; … - 2019

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Will climate change cause enormous social costs for poor Asian cities?

Kahn, Matthew E. - In: Asian development review 34 (2017) 2, pp. 229-248

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How do airlines cut fuel usage, reducing their carbon emissions?

Brueckner, Jan K.; Kahn, Matthew E.; Nickelsburg, Jerry - 2023

Airline fuel consumption is costly for the firms and for society as well due to a climate-change externality. We study how fuel price changes affect cost-minimizing choices by airlines that have implications for the extent of this externality. The airline industry's capital stock can be easily...

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Particulate pollution trends in the 1980s

Kahn, Matthew E. - 1995

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