Street vendors are those millions of people who come to cities as economic refugees hoping to provide basic necessities …

basic idea is to encapsulate the economic representative power of a nation’s government in the international arena in as … sources is used. The index is composed of four variables: government revenues, foreign currency reserves, export of goods and …:[http://finmin.nic.in/WorkingPaper/Index%20of%20Government%20Economic%20Power.pdf]. …

This paper explores the link between trust in government, policy-making, and compliance. It focuses on a specific … reduces the government's cost of implementing a policy and may also increase the set of feasible policies. Thus, state … capacity is greater when citizens trust their government. The paper discusses alternative approaches to modelling the origins …

This paper builds a dynamic general equilibrium model of cities and uses it to analyze the role of local housing … compile using more than 350 U.S. cities for the years 1984 to 2008. Based on this measurement, we find that our model is …

data for 112 major cities between 2001 and 2004. Using disaggregated data we separate FDI inflows from Hong Kong, Macao and …