The paper analysis rental contracts in a two-period model of thehousing market with uncertain 'outside option', accounting for non-contractible mobility-cost and consumption indivisibilities. The mainndings are: (i) Bilaterally ecient contracts set rents which are lessvolatile than market rents...

The California Statistical Abstract is a publication that provides a wide-range of statistics about California.

I analyze empirically the effects of both urban and industrial agglomeration on men’s andwomen’s search behavior and on the efficiency of matching. The analysis is based on the ItalianLabor Force Survey micro-data, which covers 520 randomly drawn Local Labor Market Areas(66 per cent of the...

Both educational attainment and school quality are typically lower indisadvantaged areas than others and much recent policy attention has beenfocused on each. This paper looks at the quality problem, exploring therelationships between disadvantaged contexts, what schools do, and the qualityof...

Area-based programmes have long been a feature of urban policy in the UK.One rationale is that they are an effective means to target poor people. Areadeprivation indices are used to identify areas for targeting. This paper reviewsthe different results produced by these indices. It then examines...

Durch die Modellierung der Sicherheit betrieblicherInformationssysteme kann die Komplexität des Sicherheitsproblems in einerOrganisation und ihren Geschäftsprozessen reduziert werden. Das Erkennen vonSicherheitsanforderungen sowie optimaler Handlungsalternativen in Formgeeigneter...

The assessment of capacity credits for wind energy and the value interpretation is reviewed critically. It is shown that the electricity market values the contribution to system reliability with market prices in a more precise way ...

Platforms operators act as private regulators to increase usage and maximize profits. Their goals depend on the development of the platform: overcoming the chicken-egg problem early on requires attracting platform participants while quality becomes more important later on. Private regulators...