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Favoritism in the Public Provision of Goods in Developing Countries

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Nijkamp, Peter - 2004

queuing theory to firstdemonstrate that when allocating goods publically, a case can be made for favoring a particular groupof …

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The Adoption of Energy Efficiency Enhancing Technologies

Verhoef, Erik; Nijkamp, Peter - 1997

This paper analyses the adoption of energy-efficiency enhancing technologies by heterogeneous firms. The fact that energy use does not only cause external environmental costs through pollution, but also directly affects the profitability of the firm and hence its behaviour on input and output...

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Firm Formation and Agglomeration under Monopolistic Competition

Brunow, Stephan; Nijkamp, Peter - 2013

Economic Geography and human capital externalities literature. The novelty of this paper is that it derives a measure of …

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Crowding Externalities from Tourist Use of Urban Space

Neuts, Bart; Nijkamp, Peter; van Leeuwen, Eveline - 2013

Popular urban tourist destinations are attracting large numbers of both overnight visitors and excursionists. Since urban cities perform a multitude of functions, the space requirements of tourists can, at times, interfere with those of local users. This paper addresses the issue of disutilities...

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Externalities in Urban Sustainability

Verhoef, Erik T.; Nijkamp, Peter - 2000

This paper studies urban sustainability from the perspective ofexternalities. We develop a general spatialequilibrium model of a monocentric city, in which two types ofexternalities occur. On the one hand, pollution inthe industrial centre leads to a spatially differentiateddeterioration of the...

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Externalities in the Urban Economy

Verhoef, Erik T.; Nijkamp, Peter - 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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Labor Market Dynamics and Technology Adoption : Theory and Empirical Evidence

Stilianos, Alexiadis; Eleftheriou, Konstantinos; … - 2011

Using 'search' theory, technology adoption is conceived of as a critical factor in the aftermath of a technological …

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Migration and Foreign Direct Investment : Education Matters

Gheasi, Masood - 2011

The rapid growth in the foreign-born population in many high and middle-income countries in recent decades has prompted much research on the socio-economic determinants and impacts of immigration. This paper investigates the relationship between the stock of foreign population by nationality...

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Advances in Environmental Economics: Analysis and Modelling

van den Bergh, Jeroen C.J.M.; Nijkamp, Peter - 1998

This paper gives a concise overview of environmental-economicanalysis. Important issues and modern developments in the field aresurveyed in a systematic way. Next, the concept of sustainabledevelopment is discussed, as it has dominated environmental economicsfor almost a decade now. In addition,...

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Diagnostic Tools for Nonlinearity in Spatial Models

de Graaff, Thomas; Florax, Raymond J.G.M.; Nijkamp, Peter; … - 1998

availability and accessibility of sophisticated computational techniques. Among the class of nonlinear models chaos theory stands …

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