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A risk map of international tourist regions in Spain
Bartolomé, Ana; McAleer, Michael; Ramos, Vicente; … - In: Mathematics and Computers in Simulation (MATCOM) 79 (2009) 9, pp. 2741-2758
This paper presents a different approach to tourism research at the regional level. Financial econometric techniques are applied to international tourist arrivals, as well as their volatilities, in the five main tourist regions in Spain, using monthly international tourist arrivals during...
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Revisiting Wal-Mart’s Impact on Iowa Small Town Retail: Twenty-Five Years Later
Stone, Kenneth E.; Artz, Georgeanne M. - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2012
Stone conducted the first study of Wal-Mart stores economic impact in Iowa in 1988.  Since then, research on Wal-Mart’s impacts has exploded. Recent studies employ sophisticated statistical techniques to more accurately measure the size and direction of effects. Many reach conclusions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011143797
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Revisiting Wal-Mart’s Impact on Iowa Small Town Retail: Twenty-Five Years Later
Stone, Kenneth E.; Artz, Georgeanne M. - Department of Economics, Iowa State University - 2012
Stone conducted the first study of Wal-Mart stores economic impact in Iowa in 1988.  Since then, research on Wal-Mart’s impacts has exploded. Recent studies employ sophisticated statistical techniques to more accurately measure the size and direction of effects. Many reach conclusions...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011143814
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Housing submarkets and the impacts of foreclosures on property prices
Biswas, Arnab - In: Journal of Housing Economics 21 (2012) 3, pp. 235-245
values. Housing stock heterogeneity in the central city old neighborhood allows for the possibility that the impacts of … nearby foreclosures may differ across types of housing. This study uses a dataset that covers twenty years of housing values … time. In addition, a new approach advocating for an alternative definition of housing submarket suggests that a distant …
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Understanding Business Improvement District formation: An analysis of neighborhoods and boundaries
Meltzer, Rachel - In: Journal of Urban Economics 71 (2012) 1, pp. 66-78
Business Improvement Districts (BIDs) provide supplemental services to urban commercial corridors using funds from member assessments. They have become a very popular urban revitalization tool, but their formation is still largely unexplained. Theory implies that BIDs will form if they add to...
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Primary prevention and health outcomes: Treatment of residential lead-based paint hazards and the prevalence of childhood lead poisoning
Jones, David J. - In: Journal of Urban Economics 71 (2012) 1, pp. 151-164
the impact of treatment of lead-based paint hazards in housing units (the preventive action) on childhood lead poisoning … proportion of older housing units that have been remediated is associated with a four-tenths percentage point reduction in the … averted for every housing unit remediated. Furthermore, I find evidence that the effect of remediations in preventing the …
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La politica di coesione dell’U.E. per il nuovo periodo di programmazione: un inquadramento generale
Bruzzo, Aurelio - In: ARGOMENTI 2014/41 (2014) 41, pp. 67-90
L’obiettivo di questo articolo consiste nell’illustrare le principali caratteristiche della politica di coesione economica, sociale e territoriale dell’U.E. per il periodo 2014-2020. In particolare, si evidenziano le più rilevanti differenze rispetto all’analoga politica per il...
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And the House Goes to - Ethnic Discrimination in the Greek Rental Market
Drydakis, Nick - Department of Economics, University of Crete - 2007
A field experiment was contacted in order to unbiased test whether female ethnic minorities; Albanians, face housing … to two areas that have attracted scarce research attention in Greece: the experimental investigation of housing … patterns of ethnic discrimination in the housing market. …
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Competitiveness of regions and possibilities of its evaluation
Viturka, Milan - In: Politická ekonomie 2007 (2007) 5, pp. 637-658
Contribution presents results which were acquired by means of application of original method of regional competitiveness evaluation. This method was verified on the example of 14 Czech regions (kraje) and one consists of three steps: evaluation of business environment quality (16 factors...
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Hitting Bottom? An Updated Analysis of Rents and the Price of Housing in 100 Metropolitan Areas
Baker, Dean; Pelletiere, Danilo; Rho, Hye Jin - Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR) - 2009
It has been two years since the housing bubble began to deflate. In this time, home prices in major metropolitan areas … have fallen more than 32.3 percent and the woes in the housing sector have spread to the broader economy. Where is the … housing market today? Have we hit bottom? This paper, written by researchers from the Center for Economic and Policy Research …
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