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Climate change and migration : a CGE analysis for two large urban regions of Latin America
Chisari, Omar O.; Miller, Sebastián - 2016
Migration is one of the strategies used by populations to adapt to natural shocks and also to respond to economic policies. Climate change will probably have an impact on the productivity of factors and on the health of the population of the Latin America and Caribbean region, triggering...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011457917
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Climate Change and Migration : A CGE Analysis for Two Large Urban Regions of Latin America
Chisari, Omar - 2017
Migration is one of the strategies used by populations to adapt to natural shocks and also to respond to economic policies. Climate change will probably have an impact on the productivity of factors and on the health of the population of the Latin America and Caribbean region, triggering...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012958097
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Economic reform, informal-formal sector linkages and intervention in the informal sector in developing countries : a paradox
Arvin-Rad, Hassan; Basu, Arnab K.; Willumsen, Maria … - 2010
Within a general equilibrium framework of a developing economy with a foreign owned factor of production, this paper questions whether the informal-formal sector relationship is procyclical/ complementary - expansion or contraction in one necessarily implies an expansion or contraction in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009013021
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Income tax deduction of commuting expenses and tax funding in an urban CGE study: the case of German cities
Hirte, Georg; Tscharaktschiew, Stefan - 2011
Germany like many other European countries subsidize commuting by granting the right to deduct commuting expenses from … urban sprawl characterized by suburbanization of residences and jobs, increasing commuting distances and spatial city growth …. -- Urban general equilibrium model ; commuting subsidies ; income tax deduction …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009228938
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Should subsidies to urban passenger transport be increased? : A spatial CGE analysis for a German metropolitan area
Tscharaktschiew, Stefan; Hirte, Georg - 2011
predominantly automobile. In contrast, pure commuting subsidies hardly affect aggregate urban welfare, but distributional effects … ; commuting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009228941
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Okun's law : the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the temporary layoffs procedures (ERTE) on Spanish regions
Porras-Arena, M. Sylvina; Martín-Román, Ángel L.; … - 2022
Official statistics indicated a break in Okun's law in all the Spanish regions due to the COVID-19 pandemic; however, herein, evidence of the validity of the law is shown. The temporary layoff procedures (ERTE) allowed many workers to maintain their jobs. From the productive point of view, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013461322
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580527
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Expecting Floods : Firm Entry, Employment, and Aggregate Implications
Jia, Ruixue; Ma, Xiao; Xie, Victoria Wenxin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
Flood events and flood risk have been increasing in the past few decades and have important consequences for the economy. Using county-level and ZIP-code-level data from the United States during 1998-2018, we document that (1) increased flood risk has a large negative impact on firm entry,...
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Clean Growth
Arkolakis, Costas; Walsh, Conor - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
We provide a spatial theory of clean growth to assess the global impact of the rise of renewable energy. We model the details of the combined production and transmission network of electricity ("the grid") that determine the supply and losses of energy in space. The local rate of clean energy...
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Worker mobility and urban policy in Latin America : policy interactions and urban outcomes in Mexico City
López-García, David - 2023
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014022650