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Urban economic growth in Europe between 2001 and 2008 : gravitation or dispersion?
Neumann, Uwe; Budde, Rüdiger; Ehlert, Christoph - 2012
This paper examines what regional characteristics drove urban economic growth in Europe during the past decade …. Possible impacts on the new member states in Central Europe due to expansion of the European Union are accounted for by … comparison between two periods, before and after 2004. With a focus on cities, a more precise view of Europe-wide regional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009670957
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Urban Growth Drivers and Spatial Inequalities : Europe - A Case with Geographically Sticky People
Cheshire, Paul C.; Magrini, Stefano - 2014
Europe - and more generally where populations are relatively immobile - are likely to persist and indicate real differences …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014213692
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Determinants of urbanization
Hofman, Anett; Wan, Guangha - 2013
In light of the United Nations' (UN) latest urbanization projections, par- ticularly with respect to India and the People's Republic of China, a good understanding is needed of what drives aggregate urbanization trends. Yet, previous literature has largely neglected the issue in favor of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781149
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Crescimento Econômico Urbano Nos Municípios Brasileiros Médios e Grandes (Urban Economic Growth of the Medium and Large Brazilian Cities)
Souza, Fábia Oliveira - 2012
O Brasil tem experimentado um intenso crescimento urbano. No período compreendido entre 1970 e 2000, o incremento populacional das cidades do País foi de cerca de 164,8%4. Esse crescimento, no entanto, não tem sido homogêneo, como se pode observar a partir da tabela 1. A população urbana...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013105865
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Sector, globalization and urban economic growth : evidence from Bangalore (India)
Narayana, M. R. - 2010
This paper aims at economic analysis of economic globalization and urban growth of Bangalore, the Silicon Valley of India, as they are related to ICT sector. Overall analyses offer new insights and evidences for ICT sector as a major contributor for degree of economic globalization and urban...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008662249
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Urban Economic Growth in Europe Between 2001 and 2008 – Gravitation or Dispersion?
Neumann, Uwe; Budde, Rüdiger; Ehlert, Christoph - 2012
This paper examines what regional characteristics drove urban economic growth in Europe during the past decade …. Possible impacts on the new member states in Central Europe due to expansion of the European Union are accounted for by … comparison between two periods, before and after 2004. With a focus on cities, a more precise view of Europe-wide regional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010289819
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Urban Economic Growth in Europe Between 2001 and 2008 – Gravitation or Dispersion?
Neumann, Uwe; Budde, Rüdiger; Ehlert, Christoph - Rheinisch-Westfälisches Institut für … - 2012
This paper examines what regional characteristics drove urban economic growth in Europe during the past decade …. Possible impacts on the new member states in Central Europe due to expansion of the European Union are accounted for by … comparison between two periods, before and after 2004. With a focus on cities, a more precise view of Europe-wide regional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010598399
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Urban spatial structure and economic growth in Spanish metropolitan areas : 1992-2008
Alamá, Luisa; Roig-Casanova, Marta; Forte, Anabel; … - 2011
There is a large literature on the existence of agglomeration economies, as shown in the surveys by Moomaw (1983) or Gerking (1993). The benefits of these economies arise from multiple sources, but some negative externalities might also emerge. Within the hierarchical urban system, cities at...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011527324
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The political geography of cities
Bluhm, Richard; Lessmann, Christian; Schaudt, Paul - 2021
We study the link between subnational capital cities and urban development using a global data set of hundreds of first-order administrative and capital city reforms from 1987 until 2018. We show that gaining subnational capital status has a sizable effect on city growth in the medium run. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012652841
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Urban Growth Drivers in a Europe of Sticky People and Implicit Boundaries
Cheshire, Paul C.; Magrini, Stefano - 2014
barriers to economic adjustment. People in Europe are sticky so it is unreasonable to assume spatial disparities will disappear …. Our findings also imply that cities in Europe form national rather than a single continental system …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014212044