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Stress That Doesn't Pay: The Commuting Paradox

Stutzer, Alois; Frey, Bruno S. - 2004

People spend a lot of time commuting and often find it a burden. According to economics, the burden of commuting is chosen when compensated either on the labor or on the housing market so that individuals' utility is equalized. However, in a direct test of this strong notion of equilibrium, we...

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Limits to industrial agglomeration

Junius, Karsten - 1996

This paper presents an economic geography model to show the spatial effects of economic integration. While other authors mainly focused on the explanation of cumulative causation effects that lead to complete concentration or absolutely equal dispersion of industries, this paper explains why...

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Strategic location behaviour: Temporal and spatial proximity in situation of agglomeration effects

Mayer, Thierry; Mucchielli, Jean-Louis - 1996

We address the question of competition within the location choices of firms. In a framework of agglomeration effects, both spatial and temporal dimensions of the firms' decisions are studied. We show that the competition consequences of preemptive move and optimal time of entry can interfere...

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Concentration and Specialisation Trends in Germany since Reunification

Suedekum, Jens - 2004

1993 and 2001. Somewhat contrary to theoretical expectations derived from the recent literature in location theory, we …

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Location theory and multi-criteria decision making: An application of the MOORA method

Brauers, Willem K. - In: Contemporary Economics 12 (2018) 3, pp. 241-252

The first systematic research on Location Theory dates back to 1826. Quantitative approaches came much later. On the … Analysis, is composed of two methods: Ratio Analysis and Reference Point Theory and responds to the different conditions of …. The simulation used was limited in its applications. Clearly if this simulation has no practical consequences, it still …

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CAP-reform and the provision of non-commodity outputs in Brandenburg

Happe, Kathrin; Damgaard, Martin; Osuch, Amanda; … - In: Agrarwirtschaft: Zeitschrift für Betriebswirtschaft, … 55 (2006) 5/6, pp. 268-279

This paper presents an attempt to model the response of selected farms to decoupled direct payments and the associated impact on the provision of a defined set of non-commodity outputs (NCO's) using a combined modelling approach consisting of the AgriPoliS and MODAM models. AgriPoliS focuses on...

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Environmental Policy, Firm Location, And Product Differentiation: The Role of Green Preferences and Inter-firm Pollution

Kuhn, Michael - 1997

Endogenous firm location is analyzed in a discrete two-region-two-firm model of product differentiation. In a non-cooperative game, two regional governments first decide on the imposition (or lifting) of domestic production standards; firms then choose technology (clean or polluting), location...

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Globalization of the World Economy: What Happened in 1985?

Kleinert, Jörn - 2000

This paper brings forward a three-country model to analyze the internationalization process in the age of globalization. It is shown that investment of one company increases not only the incentive to invest in another country for every national competitor but for third country's companies as...

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Economic Integration, Wage Policies and Social Policies

Pflüger, Michael - 2003

This paper sets up a two country monopolistic competition model with intra-industry trade to study the effects of an exogenous differential in wage and social policies on the location of industry. Two model scenarios are considered. In the traditional one with physical capital, such a...

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Does city Structure affect the labor market outcomes of black workers?

Selod, Harris; Zenou, Yves - 2003

In this paper, location choices are driven by households (both blacks and whites) consciously choosing to trade off proximity to neighbors of similar racial backgrounds for proximity to jobs. Because of coordination failures in the location choices, multiple urban equilibria emerge. There is a...

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