Narrow search
Showing 1 - 10 of 17,221
Cover Image
Latin American urban development into the 21st century: Towards a renewed perspective on the city
Rodgers, Dennis; Beall, Jo; Kanbur, Ravi - 2011
This paper argues for a more systemic engagement with Latin American cities, contending it is necessary to reconsider their unity in order to nuance the 'fractured cities' perspective that has widely come to epitomise the contemporary urban moment in the region. It begins by offering an overview...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280244
Cover Image
Brown growth, green growth, and the efficiency of urbanization
Quaas, Martin F.; Smulders, Sjak - 2012
We analyze the efficiency of urbanization patterns in a stylized dynamic model of urban growth with three sectors of …'). If, however, production becomes cleaner over time ('green growth') the equilibrium urbanization path reaches the … efficient urbanization path after finite time without need of a coordinating mechanism. The results may be generalized to take …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291550
Cover Image
On amenities, natural advantage and agglomeration
Krupka, Douglas J. - 2008
production, or urbanization economies in consumption. On their own, none of these urban scale effects generate the observed …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268665
Cover Image
Growth, foreign direct investment and urban concentrations: unbundling spatial lags
Poelhekke, Steven; van der Ploeg, Frederick - 2008
Cross-country regressions suggest that urbanization and FDI are important drivers of growth. However, it is not clear …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010276225
Cover Image
Urban squatting with rent-seeking organizers
Brueckner, Jan K. - 2012
This paper extends a new line of research on urban squatting that focuses on the role of the squatter organizer. The model replaces the benevolent organizer from previous studies with a collection of competing, rent-seeking squatter organizers, a structure that may offer a realistic picture of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288251
Cover Image
Europe In The Global Economy: Matching The U.S.?
Ude, Christian; Teltschik, Horst; Sinn, Hans-Werner - In: CESifo Forum 04 (2003) 2, pp. 3-7
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011695727
Cover Image
Search and the City
Teulings, Coen N.; Gautier, P.A. - 2002
We develop a model of an economy with several regions, which differ in scale. Within each region, workers have to search for a job-type that matches their skill. They face a trade-off between match quality and the cost of extended search. This trade-off differs between regions, because search is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325015
Cover Image
The Penn effect within a country: Evidence from Japan
Cheung, Yin-Wong; Fujii, Eiji - 2012
To control for product quality and eliminate the exchange rate volatility effect, we use the Japanese regional data to study the Penn effect - the positive relationship between price and income levels. Similarly to what is widely documented with international data, the price and income levels...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010288476
Cover Image
Openness, Intermediate Imports and Growth
Kopp, Andreas - 2000
We consider two channels via which foreign inputs into industrial production may lead to productivity effects. The first one concerns dynamic externalities between firms which share technical and organizational knowledge which is vital for the productivity growth of a particular industry. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010260438
Cover Image
The Health Penalty of China's Rapid Urbanization
de Poel, E. Van; O'Donnell, O.; Doorslaer, E. Van - 2009
Rapid urbanization could have positive and negative health effects, such that the net impact on population health is … China’s unprecedented urbanization. We construct an index of urbanicity from a broad set of community characteristics and … define urbanization in terms of movements across the distribution of this index. We use difference-in-differences estimators …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325929