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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...

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Why not in your backyard?: on the location and size of a public facility

Bellettini, Giorgio; Kempf, Hubert - 2008

territory. This facility generates differentiated benefits to neighborhoods depending on their distance from it. In the case of … government. Some interesting results arise in the case where only a subset of neighborhoods lobby. First, the solution of the … an agglomeration effect. Third, some non-lobbying neighborhoods may be better off than in the case where all …

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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...

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Sprawl and blight

Brueckner, Jan Keith; Helsley, Robert W. - 2009

The objective of this paper is to show how the same market failures that contribute to urban sprawl also contribute to urban blight. The paper develops a simple dynamic model in which new suburban and older central-city properties compete for mobile residents. The level of housing services...

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Sprawl and blight

Brueckner, Jan K.; Helsley, Robert W. - 2009

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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...

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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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Night Time Economy

Avetisyan, Sergey - 2020

Nightlife is a collective term for entertainment that is available and generally more popular from the late evening into the early hours of the morning. It includes pubs, bars, nightclubs, parties, live music, concerts, cabarets, theaters, cinemas, and shows. These venues often require a cover...

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