Ricketts Hein J., Ilbery B. and Kneafsey M. (2006) Distribution of local food activity in England and Wales: an Index of Food Relocalization, Regional Studies 40, 289-301. Despite much interest in the relocalization of the food supply chain in England and Wales, it is unclear whether local food...

Cointegration analysis has been used widely to quantify market integration through price arbitrage. We show that total price variability can be decomposed into: (i) magnitude of price shocks; (ii) correlation of price shocks; (iii) between-period arbitrage. All three measures depend upon data...

New evidence is presented about the campaign to secure the admission of women to the accountancy profession in England and Wales during the late nineteenth and early twentieth century. This evidence, which permits a more gender-encompassing approach, is analysed by reference to Witz's (1992)...

Limited financial justification and viability of sustainable investment - through valuation and identification of the relationship between sustainability and market value - has hindered the commercial property market’s adoption of sustainability (RICS 2008). Valuers have a pivotal role in the...

This paper utilizes timely proprietary data to examine the contemporary impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on commercial property rent dynamics in the Asia-Pacific region. Given that the Asia-Pacific region was the first to be impacted by the public health crisis, it is important to examine how the...

We study the impact of commercial property taxation on vacancy rates and rents in the UK, using a new data-set, and exploiting exogenous variations in property tax rates from reliefs in the UK system: small business rate relief (SBRR), retail relief and empty property relief. We estimate that...

Informationally efficient prices are a necessary requirement for optimal resource allocation in the real estate market. Prices are informationally efficient if they reflect buildings' benefit to marginal buyers, thereby taking account of all available information on future market development....

Vor dem Hintergrund eines immer weiter sinkenden Anteils der Beschäftigten im verarbeitenden Gewerbe hat die Stadt Potsdam das Deutsche Institut für Urbanistik beauftragt, die Zukunftsperspektive des Produktionsstandortes Potsdam zu untersuchen. Ziele des Gutachtens sind es, einen Beitrag für...