[PDF] Top 20 Essays on urban and spatial economics

... different spatial and temporal scale of the two empirical exercises, given that Saiz (2007) uses decennial data and different spatial units (metropolitan areas) while I use annual data and bigger ... See full document

... to explain why there are wide size dierences, with explanations based on varying agglomeration economies and specialization, producer and consumer amenities, spa- tial frictions and the like (e.g., Henderson, 1974; ... See full document

... valuing urban heritage across one country, and touches on the complexities of values that will arise in analysing examples from wide-ranging contexts in this paper (Pendlebury, ... See full document

... economic impacts of popular restaurants are not negligible. Increasing consumer flows to top restaurants benefit nearby retailers such as cafés, pubs, bars, or alternative restaurants. Thus if a restaurant is successful, ... See full document

... There are, however, potentially many confounding factors that vary with distance to a canal and affect the price directly. These include the physical characteristics of the housing, amenities like distance to employment ... See full document

... One of the key motivations for a variety of spatial planning policies is how to solve coordination problems inherent to free markets. Among such policies historic preservation occupies a leading position in terms ... See full document

... from January 7, 2000 to November 3, 2011 for the two corn markets and the two soybean markets, and the sample period for the two wheat markets is from October 7, 2005 to May 27, 2010. These prices series include 2008, ... See full document

... of urban sprawl in US cities, eventually finding that ground water availability, temperate climate, rugged terrain, decen­ tralized employment, early public transport infrastructure, uncertainty about metropolitan ... See full document

... fine spatial resolution, which allows me to track pollution from the 1970s to the present and to examine its impacts on a whole range of outcomes related to productivity and amenity, including house prices, em- ... See full document

... Identification of neighbourhood effects in this paper relies on the compliance of ethnic groups to reside within their designated areas. Compliance needs to be virtually perfect and residential choices must be severely ... See full document

... in urban and peri-urban areas, the average household size is larger in ...both urban and peri-urban areas, the median household is represented by a family of three members who share a room, ... See full document

...  Spatial externalities. The spatial growth model specifications discussed in the next section seek to capture the effects of spatial ...the spatial units. For instance, spatial ... See full document

... Chapter 1 develops and estimates a spatial general equilibrium job search model to study the effects of local and universal (federal) minimum wage policies. In the model, firms post vacancies in multiple ... See full document

... elites. He used a Bayesian method and a two-stage estimation strategy that exploits the bipartite structure. In the first stage, he used a sub-network induced by a random subsample of the mass accounts and all the elite ... See full document

... Agency provides tables where workers and firms can look up unemployment insurance benefits and short-time compensation based on a worker’s regular earnings, family status, and tax class.[r] ... See full document

... The spatial weight matrices are defined using a binary neighbourhood criterion and then ...first spatial lag of y n , corresponding to those DBFs situated less than 10 miles from ... See full document

... This dissertation is composed of three essays considering the role of private information in economic environments. The first essay considers efficient investments into technologies such as auditing and ... See full document

... CHAPTER 1 : The Effects of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs on the Opioid Abuse Epidemic.. 42.[r] ... See full document

... Regression (5) shows, conditional on selling price, a perceived 10% change in mark-up when earnings are displayed increases the purchasing rate by 4.6 percentage points but this is more [r] ... See full document

... We employ a regression discontinuity design to study this phenomenon with a dataset of 328,425 professional men’s tennis matches and show that all other things being equal, assigning c[r] ... See full document