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Die Qualität historischer Stadträume hat seit jeher eine besondere Faszination auf Stadtplaner*innen und Architekt*innen ausgeübt. Mit der Kritik an der modernen Stadt nach 1960 erfuhr die Betrachtung der alten Städte einen neuen Aufschwung. In Kombination unter anderem mit den...
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We investigate how port privatization affects port charges, firm profits, and welfare. Our model consists of an … prices for port usage, although neither government has an incentive to privatize its port. The equilibrium governmental …'s government is more likely to privatize its port, although the larger country's government is more likely to nationalize its port …
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The label expatriates is increasingly used by and applied to a growing number of persons who do not fit classical concepts of company-driven expatriation. While relevant research is engaged in establishing interaction with smaller samples of self- initiated expatriates, the present article...
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It is difficult to estimate the impact of geographic clustering on productivity because of endogeneity issues. I use birthplace-cluster distance as an instrumental variable for the incidence of clustering of prominent classical composers born between 1750 and 1899. I find that geographic...
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This study investigates agglomeration effects for classical music production in a wide range of cities for a global sample of composers born between 1750 and 1899. Theory suggests a trade-off between agglomeration economies (peer effects) and diseconomies (peer crowding). I test this hypothesis...
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Economic historians have traditionally argued that urban growth in England was driven primarily by prior improvements in agricultural supply in the two centuries before the industrial revolution. Recent revisionist scholarship by writers such as Jan Luiten van Zanden and Robert Allen has...
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This paper studies inter- and intramodal competition in the London-Paris passenger market. Using revealed preference … data, we estimate nested and mixed multinomial logit models to examine passenger behaviour in the London-Paris market. We …
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I study the business practices of the Comédie française, the main theater in Paris, between 1680 and 1793. The theater … increased in the second half of the 18th century as demand for entertainment in Paris boomed. The increase came in part from box …
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-de-France region (Paris Greater Area). In order to characterize these imbalances, we estimate a proportional hazard model stratified by …
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