The deployment of onshore wind power is an important means to mitigate climate change. However, wind turbines also produce local disamenities to residents living next to them, mainly due to noise emissions and visual effects. Our paper analyzes how the presence of local disamenities affects the...

Überall auf der Welt findet eine zunehmende Versiegelung des Bodens statt. Die Gründe für den steigenden Flächenbedarf – hauptsächlich Bevölkerungs- und/oder Wirtschaftswachstum – unterscheiden sich nicht wesentlich in den verschiedenen Ländern. Gleiches gilt für die Auswirkungen von...

Anhand der empirischen Untersuchung der Bodenrichtwertentwicklung und der Zahl der Grundstücksübertragungen (Kauffallgeschehen) in festgesetzten Überschwemmungsgebieten können Zusammenhänge zwischen Wertentwicklung und Hochwasser abgeleitet werden. Ausgewählte Aspekte der...

The deployment of onshore wind power is an important means to mitigate climate change. However, wind turbines also have negative impacts at the local scale, like disamenities to residents living nearby, changes in landscape quality, or conflicts with nature conservation. Our paper analyses how...

This paper analyses wage differentials between the formal and informal sectors in urban Bolivia using household survey data. As in other studies the wage differential between the formal and the informal sector is found to be quite large. The wage gap is estimated by a human capital model...

The literature on the wage curve provides considerable evidence in favor of a negative relationship between unemployment and wages. It is thus often seen as a refutation of the Harris-Todaro model, who point to a positive relationship. This paper shows that both strands of literature are special...

Using entropy indices and associated bootstrap tests, we describe the distribution of economic sectors across Western European regions over the 1975-2000 period. We decompose geographic concentration into its within-country and between-country components. In addition, we estimate...

Households in real cities are heterogeneous regarding their size and composition. An aspect usually neglected in urban models used to study economic and policy issues that arise in today's cities. We develop an urban general equilibrium model that takes a more complex household structure...

Households in real cities are heterogeneous regarding their size and composition. This implies that the household structure -i.e. the (average) household size, the composition, the relative share of different household types, and the number of households - differs across cities. This aspect is...

Germany like many other European countries subsidize commuting by granting the right to deduct commuting expenses from the income tax base. This regulation has often been changed and has regularly been under debate during the last decades. The pros (e.g. causing efficiency gains with respect to...