Empirische Untersuchungen veranschaulichen die hohe Bedeutung der Siedlungsdichte als Einflussgröße auf die Pro-Kopf-Kosten der technischen Infrastruktur. Unter Status-quo- Bedingungen wird die Siedlungsdichte in Deutschland weiter zurückgehen. Dieser sog. Entdichtungsprozess ist mit...

We establish that the debate between Eeckhout (2004; 2009) and Levy (2009) has still not resolved the key issue of whether the distribution of large US urban places in 2000 is consistent with a lognormal for the entire size range. We resolve this by introducing a new distribution function which...

This article was written for judges and court policy makers and describes research on data from over 3,000 Hawaii circuit court civil cases terminated in 1996 and information from more than 400 surveys from lawyers who represented parties in those cases to discover the pattern of non-trial...