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rising. Whereas in developed countries urbanisation has been a long and slow process, in developing countries this process is … concentrate in one or few large metropolitan areas of disproportionate size. While urbanisation has been long recognised as a … fundamental element of the process of economic development, sustainable urbanisation has become one of the main and more pressing …
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This paper reconsiders the evolution of the growth of American cities since 1790 in light of new theories of urban growth. Our null hypothesis for long-term growth is random growth. We obtain evidence supporting random growth against the alternative of mean reversion (convergence) in city sizes...
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The paper uses the consolidation of municipalities brought about by the Fascist dictatorship in Italy during the 1920s to gauge the role of the size of local jurisdictions for economic development. It finds that the consolidation was associated with relevant net welfare gains for the communities...
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A large literature underlines the fact that city sizes are heterogeneous and urban sprawl is not optimal (i.e. cities are too large). Surprisingly, we do not have a clear understanding of these two facts in urban search economics (see Zenou (2009)). Indeed, this literature systematically...
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The paper is devoted to problems of ensuring balanced and sustainable development of a very specific and important metropolitan region of the Russian Federation ? the region of St Petersburg and surrounding it Leningrad Oblast. St.Petersburg (City) and Leningrad Oblast (Region) are both...
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For long time, the applicability of economic theories of cities, urbanisation and urban development as well to Russian … the city in urban system hierarchy (1.1) and by the poverty trap situation (0.9). Agglomeration economy has only a weak …
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In this study we investigate how both local environment and individual characteristics explain incidence of corruption. More specifically, we explore how city size, and residing in a capital city influence the two aspects of corruption, notably in individuals? contact with officials, and in the...
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Agglomeration economies have a relevant impact on local labour markets. The interaction of workers and firms in dense …
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geographical space. Many of the cluster’s advantages are dynamic in that they become stronger as agglomeration increases. The study …: Industrial clustering, agglomeration, financial services. …
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persistent or even increasing spatial concentration (agglomeration) on the other. Both of our approaches, Marcov chain analysis … the same time there appears to exist a tendency towards further agglomeration of high income economic activities. Keywords …: Regional growth, agglomeration, dynamic panel estimation …
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