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Handbook of real estate and macroeconomics : an introduction
Leung, Charles Ka Yui - 2021 - This version: August 2021
This paper provides some background for the book, Handbook of Real Estate and Macroeconomics. It gives an overview of different chapters and how various themes and ideas can be connected. Directions for future research are also discussed.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012595326
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Indicators of sustainable development for the city and the lagoon of Venice
Ramieri, Emiliano; Cogo, Valentina - 1998
In the past few years sustainability and sustainable development have become important concepts widespread over the world. There is no agreement on a common definition of sustainability, but there is a general need to measure and assess sustainability in different geographical and spatial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608425
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Why not in your backyard?: on the location and size of a public facility
Bellettini, Giorgio; Kempf, Hubert - 2008
In this paper, we tackle the issue of locating a public facility which provides a public good in a closed and populated territory. This facility generates differentiated benefits to neighborhoods depending on their distance from it. In the case of a Nimby facility, the smaller is the distance,...
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A theory of urban squatting and land-tenure formalization in developing countries
Brueckner, Jan Keith; Selod, Harris - 2008
This paper offers a new theoretical approach to urban squatting, reflecting the view that squatters and formal residents compete for land within a city. The key implication of this view is that squatters squeeze" the formal market, raising the price paid by formal residents. The squatter...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271850
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Sprawl and blight
Brueckner, Jan Keith; Helsley, Robert W. - 2009
mobile residents. The level of housing services generated by older properties depends on current maintenance or reinvest … suburban development, also depress central-city housing prices and undermine maintenance incentives, leading to deficient … higher levels of reinvestment in central-city housing, therefore reducing blight. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271865
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Sprawl and blight
Brueckner, Jan K.; Helsley, Robert W. - 2009
mobile residents. The level of housing services generated by older properties depends on current maintenance or reinvest … suburban development, also depress central-city housing prices and undermine maintenance incentives, leading to deficient … higher levels of reinvestment in central-city housing, therefore reducing blight. -- urban sprawl ; blight ; market failures …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003887324
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The impact of agglomeration economies on hospital input prices
Friedson, Andrew I.; Li, Jing - In: Health economics review 5 (2015) 38, pp. 1-15
This paper examines the extent to which agglomeration of the hospital service industry enhances the productivity of producing health care. Specifically, we use a large set of private insurance claims from the FAIR Health database to show that an increasing spatial concentration of hospital...
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EU regional policy : its theoretical foundations and their policy conclusions revisited
Schmidt, Peter - 2014 - Draft
This paper reconsiders the theoretical foundations of EU regional policy in economics. It begins with a discussion of the line of thought of its prevalent explanation in equilibrium economics which is focusing on market failures as its key underpinning and which is the major toolkit of...
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A quantitative approach to measure tax competitiveness between EU countries
Liapis, Konstantinos J.; Galanos, Christos L.; Politis, … - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 7 (2014) 3, pp. 7-23
The basic purpose of the study is to find a metric-variable of competitiveness for each country's tax regime and to assess the impact of tax regime differentiation across the common market. A country adopting competitive taxation policies manages to attract productive factors, funds and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010509202
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Do Supply Restrictions Raise the Value of Urban Land? The (Neglected) Role of Production Externalities
Chatterjee, Satyajit - 2013
Supersedes Working Paper 12-25.Restriction on the supply of new urban land is commonly thought to raise the value of existing urban land. Our paper questions this view. We develop a tractable production-externality-based circular city model in which firms and workers choose locations and...
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