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Polyinclusive strategies for the development of cities
Varma, Sumati; Gill, H.S - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
The defining characteristic of the modern global city today is its excluding character. The city today consists to a large extent of poor people who have been excluded in the process of urban planning and whose right to be a part of the urban process has been largely ignored. Urban development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835775
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A Modern Postmodern Urbanism The Systemic Retroactive game (SyR) between Bottom-up and Top-down
D'Acci, Luca - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
These couple of pages discuss upon the retroactive influence (Systemic Retroactive game, or SyR) between people’s behaviour and environment. The latter is intended as physical environment (type of cities, climate, geography…), normative environment (laws), moral environment (religions,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260143
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Improper Household Waste Disposal in Rural Territory. Case Study: Neamţ County, Romania
Mihai, Florin-Constantin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Open dumping of waste generated and uncollected is the most common option in waste management schemes from rural areas. Lack of sanitation services or rudimentary waste management systems favored this practice. This paper proposes a method to estimate the amounts of household waste uncontrolled...
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Real estate development enterprises in the Polish market and issues related to its analysis
Augustyniak, Hanna; Gajewski, Krzysztof; Łaszek, Jacek; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
We analyse the real estate developer sector in Poland and explain how the housing construction process is financed. The main economic indicators that are used in the profitability analysis are explained in detail. Moreover, we analyse the real estate developer business plan and propose a model...
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Druga młodość czy upadek? Warszawskie osiedle Służew nad Dolinką w okresie transformacji
Celińska-Janowicz, Dorota - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The paper presents the spatial and socio-economic transformation of one of Warsaw’s large-scale housing estates – Sluzew nad Dolinka, especially after 1989. In spite of potential threat of physical and social degradation, the area has not converted into a city slum and still offers...
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Nonlinear Dependence between Stock and Real Estate Markets in China
Chong, Terence Tai Leung; Ding, Haoyuan; Park, Sung Y - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The causality between the real estate and stock markets of China remains a mystery in the literature. This paper investigates the non-linear causal relationship between real estate property and stock returns in China from the perspective of conditional quantiles. The results of the quantile...
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The behaviour of housing developers and aggregate housing supply
Łaszek, Jacek; Olszewski, Krzysztof - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
The article presents an analysis of the developer sector, which takes into account the ob-served functioning of the market. The analysis is based on the assumption that the housing developer, due to the asymmetry of information, is able to take advantage of a local monopoly and differentiate...
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Predicting the Geography of House Prices
Fingleton, Bernard - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
Prediction is difficult. In this paper we use panel data methods to make reasonably accurate short term ex-post predictions of house prices across 353 local authority areas in England. The issue of prediction over the longer term is also addressed, and a simple method that makes use of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008592983
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New financial intermediary development indicators for developing countries
Simplice A., Asongu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
Financial development indicators are often applied to countries/regions without taking into account specific financial development realities. Financial depth in the perspective of monetary base is not equal to liquid liabilities in every development context. This paper introduces complementary...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009021966
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Regulation, governance and informality: an empirical analysis of selected countries
Roychowdhury, Punarjit; Dutta, Mousumi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
primary cause that impedes the process of formalization. However whether flexible regulations can encourage formalization by … making gains of formalization more accessible and certain remains a question. In this paper we argue that flexible … regulations does not necessarily manifest into the incentives that are essential for formalization. Reducing rigidities in …
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