This paper examines heterogeneous capitalization effects of school renovations on residential property prices in Berlin. House prices in cities reflect object and local amenity qualities, however, information asymmetries about both qualities persist. Given that school is a decisive amenity for...

Agglomeration Bonus (AB) schemes reward private landowners to spatially coordinate land use decisions to enhance the supply of ecosystem services. The AB mechanism creates a coordination game with multiple Pareto ranked Nash equilibria, which correspond to different spatially-coordinated land...

The so called “socio-technical transitions” is driven by actors such as firms and industries, policy makers and politicians, consumers, civil society, engineers and researchers. This paper addresses the role of consumers in the transition process and their interaction with the established...