Despite the recent trend of offshoring branches of UK services industry to remote locations urban theory has yet to enlist a theory of industrial rents that formally takes the properties of substitution between locations into account. This study elaborates on the Fujita, Krugman and Venables...

Over the last twenty years the private sector has assumed the role of the predominant supplier of buildings in Britain. In 1977 roughly half (49%) of construction new orders were made by the private sector; by 1998 the private sector accounted for more than three-quarters (79%) of all new...

This paper departs from the outcome of three different pieces of recent research by the authors. One used a conceptualisation of a local property market to develop a structural theory for the impact of planning on local business rents and on the behaviour of the wider local economy. Another...

Business services decentralization within metropolitan areas is often linked in the literature to the decline of CBDs. In this paper, we study the reality of such dynamics as well as the impact on intra-metropolitan economic centrality in a Parisian region known for its long-time inherited...

Economic geography increasingly conceptualises "innovation as a collective action" (Storper, 1996). However, cluster literature often reduces the collective dimension to the circulation of knowledge between local-regional organisations based on various forms of (market, organisational, social,...

Despite the recent trend of relocating branches of UK services industry to remote locations urban theory has yet to enlist a theory of industrial rents that formally takes the properties of substitution between locations into account. This study elaborates on the Fujita, Krugman and Venables...

Nominal property returns can be broken down into two components: real property returns and inflation. A structural VAR model is proposed to estimate the relationships between nominal property return, real property returns and inflation. Bayesian Methods (Markov Chain Monte Carlo) are used to...

The housing market in the UK has seen a sustained increase in prices in recent years, in common with many international markets. The UK market has however witnessed distinct regional trends in price dynamics. This has been a common factor in the UK market as noted in the many papers that have...

Although partial equilibrium neo-classical models have been established as a theoretical foundation for applied studies in a wide range of markets, but there is a continuing dispute about their effectiveness in the case of commercial real estate. The blame for this indecisiveness is commonly put...

Several empirical studies have examined the volatility of either the components or the whole of real estate returns of different sectors, using data sets from a variety of sources. A number of studies looked in detail into the unconditional distributions of returns, such as Young et al (2006),...