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Income Taxes, Sorting, and the Costs of Housing: Evidence from Municipal Boundaries in Switzerland

Basten, Christoph; Ehrlich, Maximilian von; Lassmann, Andrea - CESifo - 2014

This paper provides novel evidence on the role of income taxes for residential rents and spatial sorting. Drawing on comprehensive apartment-level data, we identify the effects of tax differentials across municipal boundaries in Switzerland. The boundary discontinuity design (BDD) corrects for...

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Household Expenditures, Wages, Rents

Davis, Morris A.; Ortalo-Magné, François - CESifo - 2007

We provide new evidence from the 1980, 1990, and 2000 Decennial Census of Housing that the expenditure share on housing is constant over time and across U.S. metropolitan areas (MSA). Consistent with this observation, we consider a basic model in which identical households with Cobb-Douglas...

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The Relevance of Amenities and Agglomeration for Dutch Housing Prices

Garretsen, Harry; Marlet, Gerard - CESifo - 2011

Dutch cities which combine a favourable location in terms of distance to work with a variety of urban amenities appear to be the most attractive locations for people to live. Relatively safe cities, offering a variety of history and culture events, as well as good restaurants have significantly...

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Does the Market Value Value-Added? Evidence from Housing Prices after a Public Release of School and Teacher Value-Added

Imberman, Scott Andrew; Lovenheim, Michael - CESifo - 2013

Value-added data are an increasingly common evaluation tool for schools and teachers. Many school districts have adopted these methods and released the results publicly. In this paper, we study the release of value-added data in Los Angeles by the Los Angeles Times newspaper to identify how...

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Trade in Northeast Asia: Why do Trade Costs Matter?

De, Prabir - CESifo - 2006

transaction costs along with trade infrastructure facilities have significant influence on regional trade flows in Northeast Asia …

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The Long-Run Evolution of Infrastructure Services

Goldsmith, Hugh - CESifo - 2014

This paper traces the 11,000 year evolution of infrastructure systems during major periods of innovation, expansion and … positive feedback between early capital market development and investment in infrastructure innovations that lowered system …-wide transaction costs has been a critical factor in sustaining growth since 1800. The paper sets out a model of infrastructure …

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Does the Quality of Electricity Matter? Evidence from Rural India

Chakravorty, Ujjayant; Pelli, Martino; Marchand, Beyza Ural - CESifo - 2013

This paper estimates the returns to household income due to improved access to electricity in rural India. We examine the effect of connecting a household to the grid and of the quality of electricity, defined as hours of daily supply. The analysis is based on two rounds of a representative...

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The Business Environment in the Transition

Carlin, Wendy; Schaffer, Mark - CESifo - 2012

faced and their business environment. The business environment includes physical infrastructure, the availability of an … stability of the macroeconomic environment. By comparing how different elements of the business environment affected firms in …

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Infrastructure and Growth: Empirical Evidence

Egert, Balazs; Kozluk, Tomasz; Sutherland, Douglas - CESifo - 2009

Investment in network infrastructure can boost long-term economic growth in OECD countries. Moreover, infrastructure … between infrastructure and economic growth. Time-series results reveal a positive impact of infrastructure investment on … infrastructure investment in telecommunications and the electricity sectors has a robust positive effect on long-term growth (but not …

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Fiscal Competition, Convergence and Agglomeration

Fenge, Robert; Ehrlich, Maximilian Von; Wrede, Matthias - CESifo - 2007

This paper analyzes the impact of fiscal competition through infrastructure in a New Economic Geography framework. It … efficiency arises since the efficient distribution of regional infrastructure requires full agglomeration for sufficiently low …

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