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Yan, Ji; Tian, Kun; Dixon, Huw D.; Heravi, Saeed; … - CESifo - 2014

We examine the relationship between the prices paid by households and their shopping patterns measured in terms of shopping frequency and the range of stores visited. We use the TNS data which allows us to control for household heterogeneity. The main contribution of the paper is that we find...

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Cities in Fiscal Equalization

Buettner, Thiess; Holm-Hadulla, Fédéric - CESifo - 2008

Redistributive grants schemes, such as fiscal equalization, are a common characteristic of local public finance in several countries. However, large and small jurisdictions are treated differently by the respective fiscal equalization schemes that often tend to favour larger jurisdictions. This...

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Biodiversity and Geography

Barbier, Edward B.; Rauscher, Michael - CESifo - 2007

The paper combines an economic-geography model of agglomeration and periphery with a model of species diversity and …

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Welfare Benefits of Agglomeration and Worker Heterogeneity

Teulings, Coenraad N.; Ossokina, Ioulia V.; Groot, … - CESifo - 2014

effects on home and job location, on land use, and on agglomeration benefits are hard to pin down. We develop a spatial …

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Taxes in Cities

Brülhart, Marius; Bucovetsky, Sam; Schmidheiny, Kurt - CESifo - 2014

vertically), jurisdictional size asymmetries, and the potential for agglomeration economies. We survey the relevant theoretical … and of taxation in the presence of agglomeration rents. …

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A Spatial Approach to Energy Economics: Theory, Measurement and Empirics

Moreno-Cruz, Juan; Taylor, M. Scott - CESifo - 2014

This paper sets out a simple spatial model of energy exploitation to ask how the location and productivity of energy resources may affect the distribution of economic activity around the globe. We combine elements from resource and energy economics into one framework linking the spatial...

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The Penn Effect within a Country - Evidence from Japan

Cheung, Yin-Wong; Fujii, Eiji - CESifo - 2012

To control for product quality and exchange rate effects, we use the Japanese regional data to study the Penn effect – the positive relationship between price and income levels. Comparable with the evidence from international data, the Penn effect is significant in the Japanese prefectural...

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Reflections on Cluster Policies

Brakman, Steven; Marrewijk, Charles van - CESifo - 2012

formulate and promote policies that foster clustering of economic activity. Paradoxically, although agglomeration rents are …

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Capital Tax Competition with Heterogeneous Firms and Agglomeration Effects (new title: Tax competition with heterogeneous firms)

Burbidge, John; Cuff, Katherine; Leach, John - CESifo - 2004

Our paper extends the capital tax competition literature by incorporating heterogeneous capital and agglomeration. Our … model nests the standard tax competition model as well as the special case in which there is agglomeration but no firm …/capital heterogeneity and the opposite case, firm heterogeneity with no agglomeration. We build on the existing tax competition literature …

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Fiscal Competition, Convergence and Agglomeration

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

efficiency arises since the efficient distribution of regional infrastructure requires full agglomeration for sufficiently low …

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