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Modernising state-level regulation and policies to boost mobility in the United States
Sutherland, Douglas - 2020
The U.S. population is becoming increasingly urban and has gradually shifted to the south and west. Policy restrictions have played a role in preventing dynamic areas expanding, and when they do expand it can be through low-density housing sprawl. Land use restrictions and a sluggish housing...
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Coming undone : a spatial hazard analysis of urban form in American metropolitan areas
Carruthers, John I.; Lewis, Selma; Knaap, Gerrit; … - In: Papers in regional science : the journal of the … 89 (2010) 1, pp. 65-88
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Retail city : the relationship between place attractiveness and accessibility to shops
Öner, Özge - 2015
This paper explores the role of retailers as an urban amenity. Using data for Swedish rural and city municipalities for 2002-2008, "accessibility to shops" measures are constructed for the shops in the municipalities and in the hosting regions separately to examine the relationship between...
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The Size of U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Rappaport, Jordan; Humann, McKenzie - 2021
scope of agglomeration. But as with existing delineations, population becomes more bunched across the largest KBMAs. Settled …
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Optimal spatial taxation : are big cities too small?
Eeckhout, Jan; Guner, Nezih - 2015
We analyze the role of optimal income taxation across different local labor markets. Should labor in large cities be taxed differently than in small cities? We find that a planner who needs to raise revenue and is constrained by free mobility of labor across cities does not choose equal taxes...
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The Impact of Regional and Sectoral Productivity Changes on the U.S. Economy
Caliendo, Lorenzo - 2014
We study the impact of regional and sectoral productivity changes on the U.S. economy. To that end, we consider an environment that captures the effects of interregional and intersectoral trade in propagating disaggregated productivity changes at the level of a sector in a given U.S. state to...
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How deep is your love? : a quantitative spatial analysis of the transatlantic trade partnership
Krebs, Oliver; Pflüger, Michael - 2016
This paper explores the effects of trade liberalization envisioned in a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the United States and the European Union. We use a new quantitative spatial trade model with consumptive and productive uses of land and inputoutput linkages. Our...
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Agglomeration and Trade : State-Level Evidence from U.S. Industries
YILMAZKUDAY, HAKAN - 2010
This paper investigates the connection between economic agglomeration and trade patterns within the U.S. at the … are shown to be systematically connected to consumption agglomeration effects, while on the production side, industry- and … agglomeration and specialization effects. Industry structures play an important role in the determination and magnitude of these …
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An Examination of Trends in Geographic Concentration in U.S. Hog Production : 1974 to 1976
Hubbell, Bryan J. - 1999
Geographic concentration in U.S. hog production from 1974 to 1996 is investigated using a measure based on Theil's entropy index. For the U.S. as a whole, geographic concentration is occurring at a slow rate, both for hog farms and hog numbers. However, for particular states,primarily in the new...
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Green Building Geography Across the United States : Does Governmental Incentives or Economic Growth Stimulate Construction?
Prum, Darren A.; Kobayashi, Tetsuo - 2014
As green building activity continues to rise across the country, some state governments decided to create incentives that would motivate developers to voluntarily pursue third party certification for their real estate projects in order to assist in meeting sustainability and environmental goals....
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