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Multi-Regional Agent-Based Modeling of Household and Firm Location Choices with Endogenous Transport Costs
Tsekeris, Theodore; Vogiatzoglou, Klimis; Bekiros, Stelios - 2010
realistic representation of decisions related to commuting, migration and household and employment location. The model allows …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011332387
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The impact of pecuniary costs on commuting flows
McArthur, David; Kleppe, Gisle; Thorsen, Inge; Uboe, Jan - 2010
commuting flows from a Norwegian region with a high number of ferry connections and/or tunnels and bridges. Based on a doubly …-constrained gravity-based model specification we focus on how commuting flows respond to varying toll charges and ferry prices. Estimation … results are used to predict how the generation and distribution of commuting flows is affected when ferry connections are …
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Locational choices and the costs of distance: empirical evidence for Dutch graduates
Carree, Martin; Kronenberg, Kristin - 2012
commuting distances. The results illustrate that graduates are drawn to prospering regions with ample job opportunities …, supposedly in order to advance their careers. They choose their places of residence so as to balance their commuting distances …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011340711
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Air Pollution and Infant Mortality: A Natural Experiment from Power Plant Desulfurization
Lüchinger, Simon - 2010
The paper estimates the effect of SO2 pollution on infant mortality in Germany, 1985-2003. To avoid simultaneity problems, I exploit the natural experiment created by the mandated desulfurization at power plants, with wind directions dividing counties into treatment and control groups....
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Growth-Trade-Environment Nexus in India
Jena, Pradyot Ranjan; Grote, Ulrike - 2008
This paper evaluates the environmental impacts of economic growth and trade liberalization in India. The empirical … pollution. We collect data across major industrial states of India over the time period 1991-2003 and use panel regression …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010301436
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Democratic Institutions and Environmental Quality: Effects and Transmission Channels
Kinda, Somlanare Romuald - 2011
This paper aims at analysing the effect of democratic institutions on environmental quality (carbon dioxide per capita, sulfure dioxide per capita) and at identifying potential channel transmissions. We use panel data from 1960 to 2008 in 122 developing and developed countries and modern...
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Low Emission Zones for Better Health: Evidence from German Hospitals
Wozny, Florian - 2019
This paper studies health effects from restricting the access of high-emission vehicles to innercities by implementing low emission zones. For identification, we exploit variation in the timing and the spatial distribution of the introduction of new low emission zones across cities in Germany....
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Successful Universities Towards the Improvement of Regional Competitiveness: "Fourth Generation" Universities
Lukovics, Miklós; Zuti, Bence - 2013
Nowadays several successful examples prove that universities have a quite intense role in the improvement of competitiveness of certain territories and in many cases they have an active role in endeavors regarding economic development. Modern economic development demands that due to the...
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Public Debt, Bailouts and Common Bonds
Kalamov, Zarko; Staal, Klaas - 2015
We look at a model where countries of di fferent size provide local public goods with positive spillovers. Matching grants can induce socially-e fficient expenditure levels, but countries can induce bailouts. We consider the characteristics of these bailouts in a subgame-perfect Nash equilibrium...
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The Economic Effect of the EU Eastern Enlargement for Border Regions in the Old Member States
Wassmann, Pia - 2015
The paper evaluates the impact the EU Eastern enlargement in 2004 had for the economic performance of NUTS2 region located at the border to the new member states. Effects are identified by applying a synthetic control method. It compares the economic performance of these regions with synthetic...
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