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Determinants of success and failure in the internationalisation of the cork business : a tale of two Iberian family firms

Lopes, João Carlos; Branco, Amélia; Parejo, Francisco; … - 2014 - (Draft version)

companies acting in the cork business in Spain and Portugal: Mundet and Amorim&Irmãos. One of these companies - Mundet - has … been closed in the 1980s and the other - Amorim&Irmãos ? became, and is by now, the leading company in the cork worldwide … so both faced similar national and international constraints but in the end both became leading firms in the cork …

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Race and neighborhoods in the 21st century : what does segregation mean today?

De la Roca, Jorge; Ellen, Ingrid Gould; O'Regan, … - In: Regional science & urban economics 47 (2014), pp. 138-151

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Spatial externalities and place-based policies : evidence from the Netherlands

Koster, Hans; Ommeren, Jos van - 2012 - This version: 1 March 2012

We study neighbourhood externalities caused by large public investments in poor neighbourhoods. A stylised theory of a linear city is proposed to guide interpretation of the magnitude and attenuation of the external effects generated by these public investments. We use a large Dutch nationwide...

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A comparison of grading models for neighborhood level of family housing units

Mert, Zeynep Gamze; Yilmaz, Serhat; Mert, Ertan - 2011

More recently Turkey has witnessed fast housing development and real estate sector growth because of the mortgage preparations. With this development, property location quality has been considered important for selecting and paying them. This study uses a data set of new single family housing...

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The local determinants of crime victimization

Hémet, Camille - 2014

This paper explores the determinants of crime victimization at the neighborhood level, using data from the French victimization survey. The very local nature of the data enables me to tackle the endogenous location selection issue: once I control for the characteristics of a larger area into...

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Can urban renewal policies reverse ethnic tipping points?

González Pampillon, Nicolas; Jofre-Monseny, Jordi; … - 2015

Economist has traditionally been skeptical about the potential effects of place-based policies. Some authors (see, e.g., Overman and Nathan, 2013, and Kline and Moretti, 2014) argued that place-based policies are an imperfect solution to deal with social problems, for many reasons. First,...

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Ageing by feet? : regional migration, neighbourhood choice and local demographic change in German cities : presented at ERSA 2015 (Lisbon)

Neumann, Uwe - 2015 - Preliminary draft

In the literature on the economics of demographic change so far the regional and neighbourhood-level consequences were out of the main focus. Yet, regional migration accentuates diversity in the progress of ageing. In fact, while households are known to "vote with their feet" when they choose a...

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The productive city needs both : localization and urbanization economies across spatial scales in the city

Andersson, Martin; Larsson, Johan P.; Lundblad, Joakim - 2015 - This version 2015-01-16

This paper revisits a classical inquiry by addressing the question of localization and urbanization economies. We propose that specialization and diversity may offer externalities operating at different spatial scales. Using high-resolution geo-coded plant-level panel data for Swedish cities...

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The significance of neighborhood in Istanbul

Topçu, E. Ümran - 2011

The neighborhood is prominent in contemporary urban studies. One reason for choosing neighborhood as a unit of action is that the neighborhood provides an efficient scale within which to measure any change in target population's circumstances. Neighborhood here is defined as the bundle of...

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Legitimization of urban regeneration in squatter housing areas through elements of poverty and crime in Turkey : Altindağ Çġnçġn Area and Sġncan Saraycik neighbourhood

Güzey, Özlem; Aksoy, Erman - 2014

While urban regeneration in Turkey emerges as an effective method of intervention in the transformation of urban space into areas of attraction for the global capital, intervention areas are defined as squatter housing areas where degradation process is visible, the population of which gradually...

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