It is well known that both "Silicon Valley" and "Route 128 Boston" owe much of their success ot the proximity of Stanford University and MIT. Knowledge spillovers from large research universities contribute to increasing returns, resulting in divergent development between clusters. This...

The paper examines differences in housing externalities across regions with different political affiliations. Using a merged dataset containing data on public housing upgrading, resale public housing transactions, electoral boundaries and election results from 2010 to 2016 and a...

This report summarises the scientific content and results of the European Science Foundation Exploratory Workshop on 'Economic Geography and European Finance' held at Jesus College, Oxford University, 16-19 September 2004. The objective of the workshop was to further our understanding of the...

We examine the impact of bilingual school designation on the house price by analyzing a natural experiment of school conversion from a monolingual school to bilingual school in Melbourne. We find that the house price within the pertinent school catchment area responds positively by 8.4%-9.1% and...

The aim of this report is to ascertain priority concerns for further climate proofing action through opposing current EU efforts to different threats, and suggest complementary options (cf. chapter 3) for the following four sectors: (1) Energy, (2) Transport infrastructure, (3) Urban areas, and...

This working paper is one in a series of OECD Working Papers on Regional Development of the OECD Public Governance and Territorial Development Directorate, conducted under the responsibility of Joaquim Oliveira Martins, Head of the OECD Regional Competitiveness and Governance Division...

Current sources of data on rental housing – such as the census or commercial databases that focus on large apartment complexes – do not reflect recent market activity or the full scope of the U.S. rental market. To address this gap, we collected, cleaned, analyzed, mapped, and visualized 11...

A lack of affordable housing is a growing crisis for many communities in the US, particularly in urban neighborhoods with constrained housing markets. We discuss the housing imbalance and affordability crisis in the San Francisco Bay Area. Land use regulations are the biggest impediment in...

With shrinking cities becoming a global issue, declining housing demands due to declining population leads to a reduction in land prices. Housing asset value decline occurs mainly in suburbs, which has an economic effect on elderly households. Although some issues have already been indicated, it...

Premium public educational resources are scarce, and their accessibility is usually associated with the ownership and location of residential property in many countries such as China. With the aims of improving equality in allocating educational resources and suppressing the rapid growth of...