Zipf's law is one of the best known empirical regularities in urban economics. There is extensive research on the subject, where each city is treated symmetrically in terms of the cost of transactions with other cities. Recent developments in network theory facilitate the examination of an...

Following reunification, productivity in eastern Germany grew rapidly. A strong industrial sector is key to a thriving German economy. However, the narrowing of the industrial productivity gap between eastern and western Germany has come to a standstill since the financial and economic crisis...

In Ostdeutschland ist die Produktivität nach der Vereinigung rasant gestiegen. In dem für die Leistungsfähigkeit der Wirtschaft zentralen Bereich der Industrie jedoch ist der Annäherungsprozess zu Westdeutschland seit der Finanz- und Wirtschaftskrise zum Erliegen gekommen. Die Lücke im...

The Covid-19 crisis has forced great societal changes, including forcing many to work from home (WFH) in an effort to limit the spread of the disease. The ability to work from home has long been considered a perk, but we have few estimates of how many jobs are actually possible to be performed...

The paper is devoted to analytical investigation of the division of geographical space into urban and rural areas with application to Russia. Yegorov (2005, 2006, 2009) has suggested the role of population density on economics. A city has an attractive potential based on scale economies. The...

Understanding and responding to customer needs is the essence of the marketing concept and as such it has been discussed in various fields of business and economic literature. Port economics and management literature has thoroughly investigated areas such as port efficiency and effectiveness,...

Im Verkehrssektor manifestiert sich die Digitalisierung zunehmend durch plattformbasierte Geschäftsmodelle, die Mobilitätsdienstleistungen vermitteln. Auf diese Weise entsteht die Möglichkeit, Fahrten und Fahrzeuge mit anderen, meist fremden Mitreisenden zu teilen. Durch Suchfunktionen und...

Auf den ersten Blick ist die Lage für die Eisenbahn in Deutschland recht günstig. Die Bahn konnte in den letzten Jahren, trotz eher ungünstiger intermodaler Rahmenbedingungen, ihren Marktanteil leicht ausbauen. Angesichts der aktuell intensiven Debatte darüber, wie sich die Klimaziele...

The paper studies the potential impact on business travel of the new high-speed railway line project, called AlpTransit, which will link Lugano, the small economic hub of the southern part of Switzerland, with Zurich, one of the major Swiss economic centres, situated north of the Alps. Thanks to...