This paper outlines a fantasy research pitch exercise conducted in a PhD course at the University of Queensland. Using Faff's (2015, 2017) pitching research template, students attending the course were asked to engage in a group exercise to pitch a "fantasy" research topic. While the final...

The global language of scholarly research is English and so the obstacle of getting noticed is montainous when the article is not written in the English language. Indeed, despite rapid advances in technology, the "tyranny of language" creates a segmentation inhibiting scholarly research and...

We study whether and how EU banks comply with tighter macroprudential policy (MPP). Observing contractual details for more than one million securitized loans, we document an elusive risk-shifting response by EU banks in reaction to tighter loan-to-value (LTV) restrictions between 2009 and 2022....

This study presents the results of an ex-ante assessment of the accessibility and equity impacts of a subway expansion in Fortaleza (Brazil). We analyze how the number of jobs, health facilities, and schools accessible by public transportation is expected to change with the implementation of a...

The development of several policies and research projects rely on data on the population socioeconomic characteristics and on the spatial distribution of economic activities and public services. Nonetheless, these data in Brazil are often difficult to access, require large computational power to...

In recent years the land-rent gradient for the city of London has flattened by 17 percentage points. Further, teleworking has increased 24 percentage point for skilled workers, but much less for unskilled workers. To rationalize these stylized facts, we propose a model of the monocentric city...

The financialization of infrastructure has emerged as a resolution for alleviating government budget pressures derived from chronic underinvestment in infrastructure and post-global financial crisis recession. Two interrelated phenomena are considered central features of the financialization of...

We use newly linked UK administrative to estimate absolute income mobility for children born in England in the 1980s. We find huge differences across the country, with a strong North-South gradient. Children from low-income families who grew up in the lowest mobility areas - overwhelmingly in...

Das Raumstipendium ist ein Instrument der Zwischennutzung des Haus mit Zukunft in Angermünde (Uckermark). Es wurde 2022 das erste Mal eingesetzt und hat 16 Raumstipendiat:innen Raum und Ort für das Entwickeln und Umsetzen von Angeboten und Leistungen gegeben. Dabei waren mit dem Raumstipendium...

Das sozioökonomische Wachstum und die raumstrukturellen Veränderungen der letzten ca. 50 Jahre haben Spuren hinterlassen. Dabei zeigt sich ein Spannungsfeld, denn die Bereitstellung von Flächen für urbane Nutzungen geht mit Nutzungskonflikten hinsichtlich der Ressource Boden einher. Im...