This paper develops a quantitative model of city structure to separate agglomeration forces, dispersion forces and fundamentals as determinants of location choices. The model remains tractable and amenable to empirical analysis because of stochastic shocks to worker productivity, which yield a...

Der vorliegende Beitrag zielt darauf, eine fundierte Vorgehensweise für die Untersuchung der Frage zu entwickeln, welche Auswirkungen die mentale Verfaßtheit ökonomischen Akteure auf ihr mikroökonomisches Entscheidungs- und Wahlhandlungsverhalten hat und welche Konsequenzen sich daraus auf...

We examine the long-term effects of resettling 11% of the Finnish population during World War II. Entire rural communities were moved to locations that resembled the origin areas and displaced farmers were given farms similar to those they had lost. Despite this policy of reconstructing the...

This research explores the long-run effect of industrialization on the process of development. In contrast to conventional wisdom that views industrial development as a catalyst for economic growth, the study establishes that while the adoption of industrial technology was conducive to economic...

This research explores the long-run effect of industrialization on the process of development. In contrast to conventional wisdom that views industrial development as a catalyst for economic growth, highlighting its persistent effect on economic prosperity, the study establishes that while the...

We exploit the nonhierarchical nature of the European Union legal system to investigatethe effect of negative feedback on inter-court cooperation. We argue that, in thecontext of a nonhierarchical referral system, formal dismissals expose shirking whichthe principal, the referral court, has no...

Distributional accounts for households enable measurement, study developments and identify drivers of inequality. Distributional information on households' wealth is available from the Household Finance and Consumption Survey only for three points in time (2009 - 2018), while aggregates are...

This paper is concerned with the question of whether top income earners are permanently there or only temporarily receive the highest incomes. How much mobility is there at the top of the income distribution, and how has mobility changed over time? The paper makes both a methodological and an...

Not sufficiently harmonised national pension systems within the European Union distort the allocation of labour and endanger redistributive activities. This paper identifies the most decentralised level of harmonisation which guarantees efficient allocation and enables redistribution. For this,...