While urban renewal programs have become widely used policy measures to target urban development less is known about the reasons why certain areas are more responsive to policy inter-ventions than others. With this study we address some of these issues by analyzing an urban re-newal program in...

This paper considers an optimal income tax cum higher education policy. It shows that in the presence of an optimal income tax system higher education should be taxed rather than subsidized. Furthermore, income taxes should become less progressive when an optimal higher education policy is...

This paper investigates the long-term evolution of the tax system in Germany to explain why the political left has increasingly expanded taxation to its own clientele. The paper contrasts the second half of the 19th with the second half of the 20th century to show that some of the underlying...

This study analyses the sports infrastructure of Hamburg, Germany, from the residents’ perspective. Empirical evidence is provided for the Sports Place Theory developed by BALE (2003) using a micro-level dataset of 1,319 sports facilities, which is merged with highly disaggregated data on...

Um sich ein klares Bild von den Auswirkungen steigender Transportkosten auf die künftige Stadtentwicklung der Stadt Hamburg machen zu können, hat das Hamburgische WeltWirtschaftsInstitut (HWWI) mit alstria ein gemeinsames Forschungsprojekt initiiert. In diesem Rahmen sollen Politikempfehlungen...

In order to get a clear cut picture of the impact of rising transport costs on the future urban development of the city of Hamburg, the Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI) together with alstria have set up a joint research project. In this context, the goal is to derive policy...

In order to derive a broadbrush picture of the effects of rising transport costs on the prospective urban development of the city of Hamburg, the Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI) has set up a joint research project together with alstria First German REIT. The present HWWI...

Das HWWI hat gemeinsam mit alstria ein Forschungsprojekt initiiert, um potentielle Effekte steigender Transportkosten auf die zukünftige Entwicklung der Stadt Hamburg zu analysieren. In diesem Rahmen sind Politikempfehlungen für eine nachhaltige Entwicklung einer wachsenden Stadt Hamburg...