Urban studies in Germany are traditionally oriented towards large cities. The structures, meanings and functions of small towns are not sufficiently perceived and differentiated in scientific or political debates. Adequate research on small towns requires systematic, comparative, inter- and...

We build an equilibrium job search model, where workers engage in both off- and on-the-job search over a set of cities, to quantify the impact of spatial matching frictions and mobility costs on the job search process. Migration decisions, based on a dynamic utility trade-off between locations,...

Public Private Partnership (PPP) nimmt in Deutschland an Bedeutung zu, betrachtet man die Gründung von PPP-Institutionen auf Bundes- und auf Länderebene, Standardisierungsansätze, Leitfäden, Fachtagungen und Fachveröffentlichungen.Gleichwohl ist noch keineswegs sicher, ob neuartige Formen...