Over the last decade, many researchers have focused on the study of different urban hierarchies and their evolution over time. These studies may or may not confirm Zipf’s law and emphasize the characteristics of urban growth. The question is then whether urban growth depends upon city-size or...

Nous étudions si les spillovers entre les économies urbaines associés aux externalités de connaissance existent et quels sont leurs impacts sur la croissance économique de 82 villes européennes sur la période 1990-2005. Nous modélisons les spillovers entre les villes en distinguant cinq...

This paper aims to determine if central authorities can favour the location of some economic activities in periphery areas. In order to do it, we build a theoretical framework close to the Krugman and Venables? one [1995], explicitly introducing regional policy of a central authority. We show...

Notre travail passe en revue les plus importantes modifications et les nouveautés législatives se rapportant à l’aménagement du territoire et à l’urbanisme, depuis 2001 et jusqu’à présent. Ces deux domaines d’activité, étroitement liés et interconditionnés sont...

Die gebaute Umwelt repräsentiert immense kulturelle und wirtschaftlicheWerte. Der Marktwert der Schweizer Immobilien ohne Infrastrukturbautenübersteigt die Kapitalisierung der an der Schweizer Börse gehandelten Aktien und Obligationen bei weitem. Eine Analyse der Schweizer...

The present study analyses a current and important problem because we are currently experiencing an unseen growth of the volume of production in parallel with its diversification. The introduction in production of the new products is preceded by the preliminary execution of some manually...

A nonparametric Shewhart-type control chart is proposed for monitoring the location of a continuous variable in a Phase I process control setting. The chart is based on the pooled median of the available Phase I samples and the charting statistics are the counts (number of observations) in each...