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Commuting, externalities, and the geographical sizes of metropolitan areas
Bode, Eckhardt - 2006
The paper proposes an econometric approach for quantifying jointly the geographical scope of commuting as well as the various forms of agglomeration economies originating from metropolitan centers. Adopting an urban economics perspective, and using land prices to measure their aggregate effects,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273114
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Contagion and the beginning of the crisis - Pre-Lehman period
Király, Júlia; Nagy, Márton; Szabó, Viktor E. - 2008
asset price rises due to sub-prime mortgage credit securitisations (the originate-and-distribute model) as well as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010322410
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On some fiscal effects on mortgage debt growth in the EU
Wolswijk, Guido - 2005
This paper analyses some fiscal aspects of mortgage debt in the EU. It first describes the main fiscal instruments that … governments use to affect mortgage-financed home-ownership. In the empirical part, real mortgage debt growth is analysed for 15 EU … for mortgage debt growth are house prices, financial deregulation, and stock markets while the effects of household income …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011604572
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Zur Ökonomik des Falschparkens
Follert, Florian; Emrich, Eike - In: List Forum für Wirtschafts- und Finanzpolitik 46 (2020) 1, pp. 55-73
Derzeit versucht eine Initiative verschiedener Organisationen, im Rahmen einer Petition für eine Erhöhung der Strafen für Falschparken zu werben. Der vorliegende Beitrag nimmt dies zum Anlass, die Hintergründe des Vorhabens ökonomisch zu analysieren. Dafür bietet sich die Theorie...
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Agglomeration, Integration, and Territorial Authority Scale in a System of Trading Cities. Centralisation versus Devolution
Del Gatto, Massimo - 2004
This paper emphasises the importance of the political-institutional dimension in the understanding of the spatial distribution of economic activity. We introduce the notion of Territorial Authority Scale, which refers to the degree of devolution (towards sub-national tiers of government)...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011324971
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Urban Sustainability, Agglomeration Forces and the Technological Deus ex Machina
Verhoef, Erik; Nijkamp, Peter; Daniel, Joe - 2001
This paper aims to analyze and depict urban equilibrium from the perspective of acomplex force field between (positive) agglomeration economies and (negative) environmentalexternalities. Based on a simplified representation of a linear urban economy, anarchetypical model based on general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010324960
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Externalities in the Urban Economy
Verhoef, Erik T.; Nijkamp, Peter - 2003
This paper is concerned with the economics of urban externalities. We start by reviewing the literature on urban externalities, and observe that although many interesting contributions have been made, there seems to be sufficient scope and need for further research, both theoretically and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325060
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Some evidence on the nature of urbanization economies
Krupka, Douglas J. - 2009
Urbanization economies - the effects on productivity and utility created endogenously by larger cities - are a … amongst these variables depends on the nature of the dominant urbanization economy (or diseconomy). This paper looks at the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269597
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Productivity and the density of human capital
Abel, Jaison R.; Dey, Ishita; Gabe, Todd M. - 2010
We estimate a model of urban productivity in which the agglomeration effect of density is enhanced by a metropolitan area's stock of human capital. Estimation accounts for potential biases due to the endogeneity of density and industrial composition effects. Using new information on output per...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010287097
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Who Is Your Company? Where to Locate to Compete in Emerging Markets
Michael, Bryane - 2013
Who’s your city? For companies in the developing world, this question determines their market sizes, access to innovative ideas, regulatory environment and proximity to innovative staff. In this brief, we identify the most attractive metropolitan areas to locate in to sell in emerging markets....
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