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How deep is your love? : a quantitative spatial analysis of the transatlantic trade partnership
Krebs, Oliver; Pflüger, Michael - 2016
This paper explores the effects of trade liberalization envisioned in a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the United States and the European Union. We use a new quantitative spatial trade model with consumptive and productive uses of land and inputoutput linkages. Our...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011580527
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A spatial perspective on European integration : heterogeneous welfare and migration effects from the single market and the Brexit
Henkel, Marcel; Seidel, Tobias - 2016
We use a quantitative model to study the implications of European integration for welfare and migration flows across 1,318 regions. The model suggests that an increase of trade barriers to the level of 1957 reduces welfare by about 1-2 percent on average, depending on the presumed trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011587896
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State trading deregulation and prairie durum wheat production
Carter, Colin Andre; Ferguson, Shon - 2019
We estimate the impact of the 2012 removal of the Canadian Wheat Board's (CWB) single-desk on the spatial pattern of durum wheat acres in Western Canada. We analyze changes in durum seeded acres with a panel regression and Census Agricultural Region data from 2004-2016. Our results indicate that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012061287
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The skyscraper revolution : global economic development and land savings
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel M.; Baum-Snow, Nathaniel; Jedwab, Remi - 2023
Tall buildings are central to facilitating sustainable urbanization and growth in cities worldwide. We estimate average elasticities of city population and built area to aggregate city building heights of 0.12 and -0.17, respectively, indicating that the largest global cities in developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014433980
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An evaluation of protected area policies in the European Union
Grupp, Tristan Earle; Mishra, Prakash; Reynaert, Mathias; … - 2023
The European Union designates 26% of its landmass as a protected area, limiting economic development to favor biodiversity. This paper uses the staggered introduction of protected-area policies between 1985 and 2020 to study the selection of land for protection and the causal effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014444040
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An Evaluation of Protected Area Policies in the European Union
Grupp, Tristan Earle; Mishra, Prakash; Reynaert, Mathias; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The European Union designates 26% of its landmass as a protected area, limiting economic development to favor biodiversity. This paper uses the staggered introduction of protected-area policies between 1985 and 2020 to study the selection of land for protection and the causal effect of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014447255
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Industrial clusters and economic integration : theoretic concepts and an application to the European Metropolitan Region Nuremberg
Litzel, Nicole; Möller, Joachim - 2009
Economic integration typically goes along with disintegration of production through outsourcing and offshoring (Feenstra 1998). As horizontal and vertical links between firms become more and more pronounced, value chains within regions are increasingly organized by production and innovation...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003889393
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Agglomeration in Europe in the context of socio-ecological transition
Styczynska, Izabela; Zaman, Constantin - 2012
-2010 period. The aim of the study is twofold: (i) to provide descriptive evidence of the agglomeration distribution in Europe and … its evolution over time across countries; (ii) to identify the nature of agglomeration and the factors that determine its …: a) the changes in agglomeration are sensitive to demographic transformations taking place; b) the ecological …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009771969
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A framework for ex-ante economic impact assessment of tourism investments : an application to Haiti
Banerjee, Onil; Cicowiez, Martin; Gachot, Sebastien - 2015
This study develops a linked regional computable general equilibrium and micro-simulation (RCGE-MS) model to assess the regional economy-wide and poverty impacts of a US$36 million investment in tourism in the south of Haiti. The first social accounting matrix for Haiti with a base year of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011431387
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Compensation of regional unemployment in housing markets
Vermeulen, Wouter; Ommeren, Jos van - 2005
Why are regional unemployment differentials in Europe so persistent if, as the wage curve literature demonstrates, there is no compensation in labour markets? We hypothesize that workers in high-unemployment regions are compensated in housing markets. Modelling regional unemployment...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011346469