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Spatial Model for Determining the Optimum Placement of Logistics Centers in a Predefined Economic Area
Țarțavulea (Dieaconescu), Ramona Iulia; Belu, Mihaela … - In: Amfiteatru Economic Journal 18 (2016) 43, pp. 707-725
The process of globalization has stimulated the demand for logistics services at a level of speed and increased … transportation costs. The utilization of spatial modeling for determining the optimal locations for logistics centers in a predefined … programming. The output data of the model are the precise placement of one up to ten logistics centers, in terms of minimum …
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The residency discount for rents in Germany and the Tenancy Law Reform Act 2001: Evidence from quantile regressions
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Fuchs, Benjamin - 2016
Most countries show a residency discount in rents for sitting tenants. In the wake of strong rent increases and housing shortages, Germany implemented a reform in 2001 to curtail rent increases. Based on linked housing-tenant data for Germany, this paper estimates panel OLS and quantile...
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The residency discount for rents in Germany and the Tenancy Law Reform Act 2001: Evidence from quantile regressions
Fitzenberger, Bernd; Fuchs, Benjamin - 2016
Most countries show a residency discount in rents for sitting tenants. In the wake of strong rent increases and housing shortages, Germany implemented a reform in 2001 to curtail rent increases. Based on linked housing-tenant data for Germany, this paper estimates panel OLS and quantile...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011454473
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Location, location, location: Extracting location value from house prices
Kolbe, Jens; Schulz, Rainer; Wersing, Martin; Werwatz, Axel - 2012
The price for a single-family house depends both on the characteristics of the building and on its location. We propose a novel semiparametric method to extract location values from house prices. After splitting house prices into building and land components, location values are estimated with...
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A rental-equivalence index for owner-occupied housing in West Germany 1985 to 1998
Kurz, Claudia; Hoffmann, Johannes - 2004
In this paper, we review the German practice of imputing the costs of owner-occupied housing by increasing the relative weight of actual rents in the CPI. As the structure of owner-occupied housing differs substantially from that of rental housing, this variant of the imputation method may cause...
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Urban house prices: A tale of 48 cities
Kholodilin, Konstantin A.; Ulbricht, Dirk - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 9 (2015) 2015-28, pp. 1-43
In this paper, the authors construct a unique data set of Internet offer prices for flats in 48 large European cities across 24 countries. The data collected between January and May 2012 from 33 websites, are drawn from Internet advertisements of dwellings. Using the resulting sample of more...
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Spatial Dependence in House Prices: Evidence from China's Interurban Housing Market
Gong, Yunlong; Boelhouwer, Peter; de Haan, Jan - 2014
"Spatial thinking" is increasingly popular in housing market studies and spatial dependence across properties has been widely investigated in the intra-city housing market. The contribution of this paper is to study the spatial dependence and spillover effect of house prices from an interurban...
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Estoque de capital em residências no Brasil (1970-1999)
Reiff, Luís Otávio; Reis, Eustáquio José - 2016
Capital stock in residential structures, as well as the distribution of its appropriation and ownership among families are fundamental determinants of the wealth, welfare and productivity of the economy. As part of a broad project on the stock of capital of the Brazilian economy in the 20th...
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Spatial Estimation of the Impact of Airport Noise on Residential Housing Prices
Salvi, Marco - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 144 (2008) 4, pp. 577-606
The paper applies spatial econometric techniques to measure the impact of airport noise on the price of single-family homes in the Zurich Airport area. We exploit a large database of geo-referenced noise measurements to investigate the reaction of prices to different noise metrics. The...
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Valuation of Environmental Goods in Profit and Non-Profit Housing Sectors: Evidence from the Rental Market in the City of Zurich
Banfi, Silvia; Filippini, Massimo; Horehájová, Andrea - In: Swiss Journal of Economics and Statistics 144 (2008) 4, pp. 631-654
This paper analyses the impact of electromagnetic pollution, noise and air pollution on the rent level for the aggregated and disaggregated market in the city of Zurich, Switzerland. Although there is no conclusive assessment about the health impacts of electromagnetic radiation people are...
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