We discuss theoretical approaches to study the relationship between the size distribution of a nation's cities and macroeconomic growth. The discussion is based on the hypothesis of the New Growth Theory that inter-personal spillovers of education and skills determine the long-run growth of the...

The paper investigates the productivity effects of national road infrastructure investment in Western Europe.The study makes use of newly available OECD/ECMT data showing a secular decline of productivity growth and of transport infrastructure investment. Infrastructure availability is modelled...

We study a model in which heterogeneous consumers or potential migrants face uncertainty with respect to the equilibrium fiscal policies of individual communities. Following standard criteria of empirical relevance of local public finance analysis, our model has the following characteristics:<p>...</p>

In the working paper we address the question whether the upsurge in geographical economics is related to the early works of the founders of the German school of regional economics. More specifically we examine why the German geographical economists were an exception of being a successful school...

In this research, an integrated gravity-based model was built, and a scenario analysis was conducted to project the demand levels for routes related to the highway projects suggested in TINA-Turkey. The gravity-based model was used to perform a disaggregated analysis to estimate the demand...