Much of the economic analysis of local governments assumes that local policymakers operate in a competitive environment where cities produce a level of local public sector output that can be considered "efficient". Efficiency can be quantifies as the highest value of local property tax base...

This paper estimates the total factor productivity (TFP) change of the private and public sectors in the Turkish manufacturing industry in the selected provinces for 1990-98. It uses data envelopment analysis to compute Malmquist productivity indices decomposed into two components, namely...

The analysis of common goods needs to look very carefully at the characteristics of the goods and of the social situations of their provision. Different characteristics lead to different strategic constellations and therefore to different opportunities for institutional solutions to the problems...

While state-level environmental policies are relatively well known and researched as complements to and gap-fillers for federal environmental policy in the U.S., a level of government below that — cities — remains less well-charted territory. Considering the prominence of urbanization in...

Logit response games with spatial structures are exactly solved. We exactly derive the probability that a player choose a strategy, the correlation function of strategies of distant players, and the expected utility

Modern underground space planning knowledge sharing no longer depends on face-to-face meetings, lectures or phone calls only. The conventional read-only Web 1.0 designed by HTML helps us know about the World wide underground space planning. Nevertheless, during the era of Web 1.0, online users...

In the past few years sustainability and sustainable development have become important concepts widespread over the world. There is no agreement on a common definition of sustainability, but there is a general need to measure and assess sustainability in different geographical and spatial...

This paper offers a new theoretical approach to urban squatting, reflecting the view that squatters and formal residents compete for land within a city. The key implication of this view is that squatters squeeze" the formal market, raising the price paid by formal residents. The squatter...

The objective of this paper is to show how the same market failures that contribute to urban sprawl also contribute to urban blight. The paper develops a simple dynamic model in which new suburban and older central-city properties compete for mobile residents. The level of housing services...

The objective of this paper is to show how the same market failures that contribute to urban sprawl also contribute to urban blight. The paper develops a simple dynamic model in which new suburban and older central-city properties compete for mobile residents. The level of housing services...