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Urban Spatial Structure, Employment and Social Ties : European Versus American Cities

Picard, Pierre M. - 2015

We develop a model where workers both choose their residential location (geographical space) and their social interactions (social space). In equilibrium, we show under which condition some individuals reside close to the job center while others live far away from it. Even though the two...

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Industry Churning and the Evolution of Cities : Evidence for Germany

Findeisen, Sebastian; Südekum, Jens - 2021

In this paper we show that the recent model by Duranton (AER, 2007) performs remarkably well in replicating the city size distribution of West Germany, much better than the simple rank-size rule known as Zipf's law. The main mechanism of this theoretical framework is the "churning" of industries...

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Social Networks and Interactions in Cities

Helsley, Robert W. - 2011

We examine how interaction choices depend on the interplay of social and physical distance, and show that agents who are more central in the social network, or are located closer to the geographic center of interaction, choose higher levels of interactions in equilibrium. As a result, the level...

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Migration, Capital Formation, and House Prices

Grossmann, Volker - 2013

We investigate the effects of interregional labor market integration in a two-sector, overlapping-generations model with land-intensive production in the non-tradable goods sector (housing). To capture the response to migration on housing supply, capital formation is endogenous, assuming that...

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City Beautiful

Carlino, Gerald A.; Saiz, Albert - 2021

theory and policymakers are coming to see the provision of consumer leisure amenities as a way to attract population … of leisure amenities for urban development. In this paper we propose and validate the number of leisure trips to MSAs as … a measure of consumer revealed preferences for local leisure-oriented amenities. Population and employment growth in the …

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Search, Migration, and Urban Land Use : The Case of Transportation Policies

Zenou, Yves - 2014

We develop a search-matching model with rural-urban migration and an explicit land market. Wages, job creation, urban housing prices are endogenous and we characterize the steady-state equilibrium. We then consider three different policies: a transportation policy that improves the public...

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Green Cities? Urbanization, Trade and the Environment

Borck, Rainald - 2015

This paper establishes a simple theoretical framework which comprises key forces that shape the structure and interrelation of cities to study the interdependencies between urban evolution and the environment. We focus on the potential of the unfettered market forces to economize on emissions. A...

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Some Evidence on the Nature of Urbanization Economies

Krupka, Douglas J. - 2015

Urbanization economies - the effects on productivity and utility created endogenously by larger cities - are a fundamental component of both the economic geography of modern societies and the perpetuation of innovation and economic growth at a national level. Cities account for vast majorities...

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Walled Cities and Urban Density in China

Du, Rui - 2018

Throughout the imperial era, defensive walls surrounded Chinese cities. Although most city walls have vanished, the cities have survived. We analyze a sample of nearly 300 prefectural-level cities in China, among which about half historically had city walls. We document that cities that had...

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Bobos in Paradise : Urban Politics and the New Economy

Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2015

investment in urban amenities and "clean" means of transport, with adverse effects on commuting time. The model allows us to … and have been replaced by service workers is studied. In such an equilibrium urban amenities are at their maximum and …

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