This paper empirically assesses the incidence and efficiency of Round I of the federal urban Empowerment Zone (EZ) program using confidential microdata from the Decennial Census and the Longitudinal Business Database. To ground our welfare analysis, we develop a heterogeneous agent general...

We present a theory of spatial development. Manufacturing and services firms located in a continuous geographic area choose each period how much to innovate. Firms trade subject to transport costs and technology diffuses spatially across locations. The result is a spatial endogenous growth...

Considerable prior analysis has gone into the study of zoning restrictions on locational choice and on fiscal burdens. The prior work on zoning - particularly fiscal or exclusionary zoning - has provided both inconclusive theoretical results and quite inconsistent empirical support of the...

Die vorliegende Arbeit hat zum Ziel, Gründe für die Höhe der Heimentgelte in den stationären Pflegeeinrichtungen in Nordrhein-Westfalen zu ermitteln. Hierbei soll NRW mit den westdeutschen Flächenländern Baden-Württemberg, Bayern, Hessen, Niedersachsen und Rheinland-Pfalz verglichen...