We develop a positive theory of pricing car access (by parking fees or cordon tolls) to downtown commercial districts. The model accounts for the special interests of downtown retailers and competing superstores at the edge of the city, and studies how lobbying by both groups shapes the...

In 1980, housing prices in the main US cities rose with distance to the city center. By 2010, that relationship had reversed. We propose that this development can be traced to greater labor supply of high-income households through reduced tolerance for commuting. In a tract-level data set...

In downtown areas, what proportion of curbside should be allocated to parking? In contrast to most previous work on the economics of parking, this paper focuses on optimal curbside parking capacity in both first-best (where pricing is efficient) and second-best (where pricing is inefficient)...

Trotz unterschiedlich ausgerichteter Städtebauförderprogramme nach 1989 ist in vielen ostdeutschen Mittelstädten nach wie vor ein überdurchschnittlicher struktureller Wohnungsleerstand in Wohnquartieren aus der Gründerzeit anzutreffen. Tritt die prognostizierte Bevölkerungsentwicklung ein,...

Auf der Suche nach neuen Konzepten und Instrumenten, um den anhaltenden Bedeutungsverlust der innerstädtischen Geschäftszentren aufzuhalten, werden derzeit zwei Maßnahmen intensiv diskutiert und praktiziert: Erstens die Ansiedlung von Shopping-Malls in integrierten Lagen innerhalb der...

The objective of this paper is to show how the same market failures that contribute to urban sprawl also contribute to urban blight. The paper develops a simple dynamic model in which new suburban and older central-city properties compete for mobile residents. The level of housing services...

This paper proposes a model of urban agglomeration in conjunction with imperfect competition and endogenous product R&D of firms. The quality of differentiated manufacturing goods is a result of R&D services provided by research firms. Sectoral interactions are subject to spatially dependent...

Mit dem Titel "Eine Innenstadt im Aufbruch - die Erlangen Arcaden und ihre Folgen" eröffnen Norbert Lingen und Markus Epple die Reihe "Empirische Standortforschung für die Stadtentwicklung" im Markt und Standort-Fachverlag. Shopping Center in gewachsenen Innenstädten sind ein...

This article attempts a formal analysis of the connection between the differentiated property tax rates within urban areas and urban spatial pattern in U.S. cities. We first develop a duocentric-city model where the Central Business District (CBD) is located at the origin while the Suburban...