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Urban Growth Drivers in a Europe of Sticky People and Implicit Boundaries
Cheshire, Paul; Magrini, Stefano - Spatial Economics Research Centre, LSE - 2008
We investigate urban GDP pc growth across the EU12 using data for functionally definedcities - rather than administrative regions. We test hypotheses on the role of human capital,EU integration and fragmentation of urban government and explore spatial dependence andmechanisms of spatial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005037485
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Agglomeration, Population Size, and the Cost of Providing Public Services: An Empirical Analysis for German States
Stegarescu, Dan; Schwager, Robert; Büttner, Thiess - Zentrum für Europäische Wirtschaftsforschung (ZEW) - 2004
This paper is concerned with the question as to what extent population size and density affect the cost of providing public services at the subnational level. Empirical estimates of cost functions are obtained from an analysis of the expenditures of German states disaggregated into about 40...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005098220
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Suburbanization and homeownership rates
Köhler, Wolfgang R. - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, … - 2008
Homeownership rates in suburbs are much higher than in central cities. This paper shows that the systematic difference between homeownership rates causes suburbanization. We consider an economy with several regions: the central city, where most households rent, and the suburbs, where most own....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005184882
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Local public goods and the demand for high-income municipalities
Boustan, Leah Platt - In: Journal of Urban Economics 76 (2013) C, pp. 71-82
Affluent towns often deliver high-quality public services to their residents. I estimate the willingness to pay to live in a high-income suburb, above and beyond the demand of wealthy neighbors, by measuring changes in housing prices across city–suburban borders as the income disparity between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010666197
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European Urban Growth: now for some problems of spaceless and weightless econometrics
Magrini, Stefano; Cheshire, Paul - Dipartimento di Economia, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - 2006
This paper investigates growth differences in the urban system of the EU12 for a data set relating to Functional Urban Regions comparing the results of ‘artisanal’ methods of model selection with those obtained using general to specific model selection with PcGets. The artisanal approach...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005113389
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Raising Urban Productivity or Attracting People? Different Causes, Different Consequences
Magrini, Stefano; Cheshire, Paul - Dipartimento di Economia, Università Ca' Foscari Venezia - 2006
evidence is found that there are substantial national border effects impeding the emergence of a full spatial equilibrium …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005113397
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Suburbanization and Homeownership Rates
Koehler, Wolfgang R. - 2008
Homeownership rates in suburbs are much higher than in central cities. This paper shows that the systematic difference between homeownership rates causes suburbanization. We consider an economy with several regions: the central city, where most households rent, and the suburbs, where most own....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014214648
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Demand Side Factors of Local Public Services in Estonia
Reiljan, Janno - 2012
The goal of this paper is to quantitatively assess the relationships between the service structure and size and age structure of the population, as well as the income levels and employment structure of Estonian municipalities. The article consists of three parts. The first part deals with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096044
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Tiebout Equilibria in Local Public Good Economies with Spillovers
Bloch, Francis; Zenginobuz, Ünal - 2008
,1]. When spillovers are symmetric and close to 0 or 1 (pure local public goods and pure public goods), all equilibrium … jurisdiction structures are symmetric. However, any population distribution can be sustained in equilibrium for some value of the … show that an increase in α results in a more fragmented equilibrium population distribution, and that when spillovers are …
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"Reverse" intergovernmental transfers between regions with local public goods
Hartwick, John M. - 2009
equilibrium outcomes for two regions, under optimal transfers. The scale effect (lower tax charge per person for the same public …
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