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Planning for the future : a land-use and transport interaction model for Switzerland : conference paper at 54th ERSA Congress, 26-29 August 2014

Bodenmann, Balz R.; Sanchez, Breogan; Bode, J.; Zeiler, … - 2014

answer these questions, different scenarios have been simulated including all 3000 municipalities in Switzerland using the … for Transport Planning and Systems (IVT) at ETH Zurich, regioConcept (Switzerland) and ESMO (Slovakia). The models in FaLC … for Switzerland focusses basically on three scenarios: - Effects of road network modification - Effects of company taxes …

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The Price of Decentralisation

Norman, Eva Benedicte - 2010

This paper develops a model for analysing problems related to centralisation and decentralisation. The model is of the new economic geography type, in which there are agglomeration gains in cities but not in rural areas. These gains are counteracted by residential preferences. We show that, even...

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Decentralization and Spatial Distribution of Regional Economic Activity : Does Equalization Matter?

Lago-Pentilde;as, Santiago - 2009

This paper investigates the effect of fiscal equalization on the spatial distribution of public activities and, therefore, on regional disparities in per capita GVA. With this aim, we use a simple theoretical model which is tested using data for the Spanish regions over the period 1986-2006. Our...

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Decentralized Emission Standards with Tax Competition

Petchey, Jeffrey D. - 2010

We consider a game between jurisdictions within a national economy. Capital migrates between jurisdictions to satisfy an equal return condition. The total supply of capital to the economy is a non-decreasing function of the national return. This allows us to cater for the case where capital has...

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Centralized versus Decentralized Cleanup of River Water Pollution : An Application to the Ganges

Batabyal, Amitrajeet A.; Beladi, Hamid - 2023

We exploit the public good attributes of Ganges water pollution cleanup and theoretically analyze an aggregate economy of two cities---Kanpur and Varanasi---through which the Ganges flows. Our specific objective is to study whether water pollution cleanup in these two cities ought to be provided...

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Decentralization and Spatial (Mis-)Allocation of Irrigation Water

Das, Sabyasachi; Dutta, Souvik - 2023

This paper examines the consequence of decentralization in the management of canal irrigation for spatial allocation of water and agricultural performance. Under centralized management, farmers closer to the canal tend to over-extract water, resulting in spatial mis-allocation. We test whether...

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Pollution and the Efficiency of Urban Growth

Quaas, Martin F.; Smulders, Sjak - 2014

We analyze the efficiency of urbanization patterns in a dynamic model of endogenous urban growth with two sectors of production. Production exhibits increasing returns to scale on aggregate. Urban environmental pollution, as a force that discourages agglomeration, is caused by domestic...

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Pollution and the Efficiency of Urban Growth

Quaas, Martin F.; Smulders, Sjak - 2014

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Quality-adjusted Population Density

Henderson, J. Vernon; Storeygard, Adam; Weil, David N. - 2021

Quality-adjusted population density (QAPD) is population divided by l and area that has been adjusted for geographic characteristics. We derive weights on these geographic characteristics from a global regression of population density at the quarter-degree level with country fixed effects. We...

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Brown growth, green growth, and the efficiency of urbanization

Quaas, Martin F.; Smulders, Sjak - 2012

We analyze the efficiency of urbanization patterns in a stylized dynamic model of urban growth with three sectors of production. Pollution, as a force that discourages agglomeration, is caused by domestic production. We show that cities are too large and too few in number in uncoordinated...

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