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A mean variance king? Creation and resolution of uncertainty under the employment report's reign
Hautsch, Nikolaus; Hess, Dieter E. - 2001
This paper delineates the simultaneous impact of non-anticipated information on first and second moments of the … about the precise price impact of this information. Analyzing the US employment report, we find that headline information is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297797
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Cities and Satellites: Spatial Effects and Unobserved Heterogeneity in the Modeling of Urban Growth
Vance, Colin; Iovanna, Rich - 2008
The confluence of factors driving urban growth is highly complex, resulting from a combination of ecological and social determinants that co-evolve over time and space. Identifying these factors and quantifying their impact necessitates models that capture both why urbanization happens as well...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010264714
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Urban Growth in Germany – The Impact of Localization and Urbanization Economies
Illy, Annette; Hornych, Christoph; Schwartz, Michael; … - 2009
Untersuchung für die Städte in Deutschland deuten auf eine Uförmige Beziehung zwischen Spezialisierung und Stadtwachstum hin …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271397
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How the EU constructs the European public sphere: seven strategies of information policy
Brüggemann, Michael - 2005
's information poli-cy as it constitutes the most direct link between the institution and the EPS. Seven different strategies of … information policy will be presented which vary in their potential of creating or suppressing the evolution of a democratic public … hand. While the Commission pursued arcane policies for a long time, its approach to information has changed during the last …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010299205
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City beautiful
Carlino, Gerald A.; Saiz, Albert - 2008
The city beautiful movement, which in the early 20th Century advocated city beautification as a way to improve the living conditions and civic virtues of the urban dweller, had languished by the Great Depression. Today, new urban economic theory and policymakers are coming to see the provision...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269126
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The size distribution across all "cities": A unifying approach
Giesen, Kristian; Suedekum, Jens - 2012
In this paper we show that the double Pareto lognormal (DPLN) parameterization provides an excellent fit to the overall US city size distribution, regardless of whether cities are administratively defined Census places or economically defined area clusters. We then consider an economic model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280815
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The size distribution across all "cities": A unifying approach
Giesen, Kristian; Suedekum, Jens - 2012
In this paper we show that the double Pareto lognormal (DPLN) parameterization provides an excellent fit to the overall US city size distribution, regardless of whether cities are administratively defined Census places or economically defined area clusters. We then consider an economic model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010282153
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"Small cities blues": Looking for growth factors in small and medium-sized cities
Erickcek, George A.; McKinney, Hannah - 2004
The purpose of this exploratory study is to attempt to identify particular public policies which have the potential to increase the economic viability of smaller metropolitan areas and cities. We identify characteristics associated with smaller metro areas that performed better-than-expected...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288021
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Price discovery on traded inflation expectations: does the financial crisis matter?
Schulz, Alexander; Stapf, Jelena - 2009
during the financial crisis. The quicker information is processed on one market and the less one market is disrupted by the … financial crisis the more valuable is its information for central banks and market participants. We use a new high frequency … data set on inflation-indexed and nominal government bonds as well as inflation swaps to calculate information shares of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298999
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The processing of non-anticipated information in financial markets: Analyzing the impact of surprises in the employment report
Hautsch, Nikolaus; Hess, Dieter - 2002
This paper delineates the simultaneous impact of non-anticipated information on mean and variance of the intraday … the precise price impact of this information. Focussing on the US employment report, we find that headline information is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324062