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Communities and local governments across the country face a period of extreme uncertainty. Whether or not COVID-19 is quickly contained, changes in consumer demand, supply chain struc¬ture, business practices, and regulation will reshape some of the economic life that makes cities what they...
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Housing scholars stress the importance of the information environment in shaping housing search behavior and outcomes. Rental listings have increasingly moved online over the past two decades and, in turn, online platforms like Craigslist are now central to the search process. Do these...
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investment in communications and transport infrastructure affect the shape of the urban system. A final set of questions has to …
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Internet has generated varied forms of social interconnection. Today Blogs are, but not the only one, playing a very significant role in this new virtual space. This phenomenon of the global communication is increasing and a way that contributes to the development of this stream is Digital...
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Tourism has long been viewed as a sector capable of improving people's economic welfare. Many experts however, argue that tourism do not always guarantee a higher income for the communities; as on several occasions, while designing tourism development blueprint, “community participation” has...
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This paper investigates the spatial clustering of the book publishing industry. By means of a hazard model, we examine the effect of agglomeration economies and pre-entry entrepreneurial experience on the survival chances of publishing firms. Whereas such survival analyses have been conducted...
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We investigate the relationship between mortality decline and urbanization, which has hitherto been proposed by demographers but has yet to be tested. Using pooled-OLS, fixed effects first differences and long differences we find evidence for a robust negative correlation between crude death...
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In economic geography, geographical proximity has been identified as a key driver of M&A activity. In this context, little attention has yet been drawn to the effect of industrial relatedness, which refers to the similarity and complementarity of business activities. We examine 1,855 domestic...
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This paper investigates the extent to which merger and acquisition activity contributed to the spatial clustering of the Dutch banking industry in Amsterdam. This analysis is based on a unique database of all banks in the Netherlands that existed in the period 1850-1993. We found that spatial...
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The defining characteristic of the modern global city today is its excluding character. The city today consists to a large extent of poor people who have been excluded in the process of urban planning and whose right to be a part of the urban process has been largely ignored. Urban development...
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