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Commuting, Residence and Workplace Location Attractiveness and Local Public Goods
Nowotny, Klaus - 2010
Being at the heart of today's working life, commuting is of central interest to geographers, policy makers, transport … planners and economists alike. This article analyses aggregate commuting using various groups of variables. A special focus is … facilities, and local amenities affect commuting decisions on the aggregate level and to what extent commuting can be explained …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011435275
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Exponential or Power Distance-decay for Commuting? An Alternative Specification
de Vries, Jacob J.; Nijkamp, Peter; Rietveld, Piet - 2004
In this paper we determine the effect of transport cost on commuting flows, on the basis of an analysis of home …-to-work journeys between municipalities in Denmark. Special attention is given to a proper estimation method and the form of the … of commuting reaches a value of –4 for distances around 24 km, while it is close to 0 for both very short and very long …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325561
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Are Workers with A Long Commute Less Productive? An Empirical Analysis of Absenteeism
van Ommeren, Jos; Gutierrez-i-Puigarnau, Eva - 2009
whether the commute has a positive effect on worker’s absenteeism. Our estimates for Germany indicate that commuting distance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010325675
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Determinants of FDI inflows into the Baltic countries: Empirical evidence from a gravity model
Raudonen, Svetlana; Freytag, Andreas - 2012
estimation allow us to explain how difference in corporate taxation between countries, geographical and cultural distance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010291839
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Multilateralism versus Regionalism!?
Herz, Bernhard; Wagner, Marco - 2010
The well-known question whether regional trade agreements (RTAs) and the multilateral trading system (MTS) are strangers, friends, or foes (Bhagwati and Panagariya, 1996) has gained new importance with the widespread proliferation of RTAs in recent years. Based on an extensive data set which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294692
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Turkey and the Ankara Treaty of 1963: What can Trade Integration Do for Turkish Exports
Nowak-Lehmann D., Felicitas; Herzer, Dierk; … - 2005
This paper investigates the trade effects of Turkey?s trade integration into the EU. To this end sectoral trade flows to the EU based on panel data from the period 1988 to 2002 are examined concentrating on Turkey?s sixteen most important export sectors. Emphasis is placed on the role of price...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010296392
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Integration, disintegration and trade in Europe: Evolution of trade relations during the 1990s
Fidrmuc, Jarko; Fidrmuc, Jan - 2000
The gravity model of trade is used to assess the economic consequences of new borders, which arose in the wake of break-ups of multinational federations in Eastern Europe. The intensity of trade relations among the constituent parts of Czechoslovakia, Soviet Union and the Baltics was very high...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301308
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The determinants of cross-border bank flows to emerging markets: New empirical evidence on the spread of financial crises
Herrmann, Sabine; Mihaljek, Dubravko - 2010
This paper studies the nature of spillover effects in bank lending flows from advanced to the emerging market economies and identifies specific channels through which such effects occur. Based on a gravity model we examine a panel data set on cross-border bank flows from 17 advanced to 28...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301350
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Payment decoupling and the intra-European calf trade
Prehn, Sören; Brümmer, Bernhard; Thompson, Stanley R. - 2010
The 2003 reforms of the Common Agricultural policy of the European Union introduced decoupled income transfers as the most prominent policy instrument. However, member states were given substantial discretion over the degree and timing of the reform implementation. As a result, different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010303892
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Epidemic trade
Börner, Lars; Severgnini, Battista - 2011
This paper studies the spread of the Black Death as a proxy for the ow of medieval trade between 1346 and 1351. The Black Death struck most areas of Europe and the wider Mediterranean. Based on a modified version of the gravity model, we estimate the speed (in kilometers per day) of transmission...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010306210