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This paper aims to investigate the impacts of Civic Media, such as access to the Internet, mobile phones and use of social media, on the progress of democratization in Hong Kong. It focuses on one dimension: effects on social movements. Hong Kong is selected as a target of study because the...
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government bond spreads necessitated the implementation of austerity policies. Austerity however, may increase unemployment. If … costs of austerity. I develop a dynamic stochastic model of sovereign debt with long-term debt, endogenous haircuts and …
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during busts. The standard model of housing demand treats housing as a quantity of "housing services", an imaginary … housing services as fixed is able to do this. This is shown by means of a formal analysis of a model in which households that … differ in income are allocated over a given housing stock. In particular, the model predicts that the price of housing as a …
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The long-term price elasticity of supply of housing is a key factor determining the growth rates of housing prices and … housing supply as the city grows. Therefore, the housing supply elasticity has considerable influence on the competitiveness … regional variation in the supply elasticity of housing within the U.S. The literature further shows that the supply elasticity …
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asylum in European cities. It focuses on the housing of asylum seekers, its policies, effects, causes, conflicts and … resistance, with the assumption that housing asylum seekers is relevant for the integration process of this group. The … the housing of asylum seekers affect the inclusion process into the urban society, and 2) how do asylum seekers act …
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from those of the native population. Likewise, the characteristics of their housing and the use that they make of the … of all, a quantitative approach on the housing and the public space of the zone of studied has been made. Afterwards …
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The city of Brussels has a unique position in Europe. It is not only the capital city of the European Union, it also the capital of federal state of Belgium, of its two different language communities and of the government of the Brussels region. Independent of this, the city itself is composed...
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