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of the transportation system, which all decrease urban concentration. It is also found that countries with a long …
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Tall buildings are central to facilitating sustainable urbanization and growth in cities worldwide. We estimate average …-quarter has been realized. Estimated welfare gains from relaxing existing height constraints are 5.9% in the developed world and 3 …
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Trade costs are crucial in new economic geography (NEG) models. The unavailability of actual trade costs data requires the approximation of trade costs. Most NEG studies do not deal with the ramifications of the particular trade costs specification used. This paper shows that the specification...
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arise. We also introduce two types of transportation costs (for goods and services) to allow for a more intricate analysis … level and type of the transportation costs that is being reduced, the distribution of low and high skilled labour and …
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freight are at the low end of the observed range. This suggests import choices are made so as to minimize transportation costs …
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