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Geographic Concentration of Business Services Firms: A Poisson Sorting Model

Koster, Hans; Ommeren, Jos N. van; Rietveld, Piet - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

This paper examines the effects of specialisation (within-sector clustering) and diversity (between-sector clustering) on business services profitability and location choice. We apply a semiparametric Poisson sorting model allowing for firm-specific effects. We find that for most firms,...

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A Multi-Scenario Forecast of Urban Change: A Study on Urban Growth in the Algarve

Vaz, Eric de Noronha; Nijkamp, Peter; Painho, Marco; … - Tinbergen Institute - 2011

The Algarve region in Portugal is often considered as one of the most appealing regions for tourism in the country. Its attractive location and moderate climate have since the mid-1960s brought increasing economic prosperity. As a result of the development of mass tourism, available land-use...

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The Impact of Mixed Land Use on Residential Property Values

Koster, Hans R.A.; Rouwendal, Jan - Tinbergen Institute - 2010

Contemporary European urban planning policies aim to mix land uses in compact neighbourhoods. It is presumed that mixing land uses yields socio-economic benefits and therefore has a positive effect on housing values. In this paper, we investigate the impact of mixed land use on housing values...

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Farmland Preservation Programs In West Virginia: A Preliminary Inquiry into the Merits of Purchase Development Rights

Stalebrink, Odd; Wilkinson, Samuel - Regional Research Institute (RRI), West Virginia University - 2007

To prevent the loss of farmland in West Virginia, the Voluntary Farmland Protection Act (VFPA) was passed in 2000. This act gives counties and the State authority to develop and fund local farmland protection programs, which typically involve a voluntary sale by a landowner of the right to...

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Farmland Preservation Programs In West Virginia: A Preliminary Inquiry into the Merits of Purchase Development Rights

Stalebrink, Odd; Wilkinson, Samuel - Regional Research Institute (RRI), West Virginia University - 2007

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Externalities in Urban Sustainability

Verhoef, Erik T.; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Institute - 2000

This paper studies urban sustainability from the perspective of externalities. We develop a general spatial equilibrium … model of a monocentric city, in which two types of externalities occur. On the one hand, pollution in the industrial centre …

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The WTP for Facilities at the Amsterdam Zuidas

Graaff, Thomas de; Groot, Henri L.F. de; Rodenburg, … - Tinbergen Institute - 2005

This paper reports the results of a stated preference study investigating the Willingness-to-pay (WTP) of employees at the Amsterdam Zuidas for the presence of non-shopping and shopping facilities. The Amsterdam Zuidas area, surrounding the current train-metro-tram station Amsterdam Zuid...

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The Effects of Railway Investments in a Polycentric City

Debrezion, Ghebreegziabiher; Pels, Eric; Rietveld, Piet - Tinbergen Institute - 2004

This paper analyses the effect of railway investment on land prices and land use in a polycentric city under various regulatory regimes of land markets. The introduction of a faster mode of transport (train), accessible in discrete locations leads to an extended city size. The stations of the...

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Externalities in the Urban Economy

Verhoef, Erik T.; Nijkamp, Peter - Tinbergen Institute - 2003

This paper is concerned with the economics of urban externalities. We start by reviewing the literature on urban … externalities, and observe that although many interesting contributions have been made, there seems to be sufficient scope and need … pursued in future research on urban externalities. These include (1) the explicit consideration of mutual interactions between …

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Urban Expansion or Clustered Deconcentration?

Vermeulen, Wouter; Rouwendal, Jan - Tinbergen Institute - 2008

How should urban containment and the diversion of households to nearby residential areas be evaluated from a welfare economic perspective? Assuming the existence of a negative externality of city size, we develop a concise general equilibrium model for a mother city and a satellite. This...

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