On the basis of assessment data on land prices in Danish city areas, a model showing land rent gradients approximated by a third degree polynomial is estimated for 48 individual Danish cities. The intra-urban structure is connected to an inter-urban model by the expansion method, where the...

Linder's theory, which states that industrialized countries import the same kinds of goods as they export, has been tested with different degrees of success. In this article its performance is investigated within the context of the formation of the EEC trade block. The formation of trade blocks...

The focus of this paper is upon the effects of women's economic progress on housing demand. The theoretical segment of the paper hypothesises that women's empowerment brings about an increase in the demand for housing space in less affluent environments, while instead it has the opposite effect...

China's policy on Special Economic Zones has attracted increasing flows of direct foreign investment to China. The investment has been very unequally distributed among China's 30 regions. <p> The article focuses on the regional economic growth as a result of the direct foreign investment in the...</p>

China?s open-door policy has attracted foreign investment to China. The foreign direct investment is unequally distributed in Chinese thirty regions. The regions can be grouped after different critiria: the coastal area, the central area and the western area by geographical critirion, or...

The residual in an estimated equation is composed by measuring errors and omitted variables. If an omitted variable is autocorrelated it can to some degree be included in the model by the lagged autocorrelated residual. It can be shown that in a variable coefficient built after the principle of...