Showing papers in "Regional Science and Urban Economics in 1980"

TL;DR: In this article, a simple urban growth model with durable housing, in which all builders have perfect foresight, is presented, and qualitative differences between the economics of this model, the static class of models, and a class of dynamic models in which myopic expectations are assumed.

TL;DR: A general evaluative approach based upon the discrepancy between the original resemblance and the derived cophenetic matrix is outlined for the hierarchic regional taxonomic case and two iterative non-hierarchic methods are compared.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that the locational equilibrium may be optimal as long as localities tax the locationally-fixed commodity, land, and there are only two reasons why non-optimality may result: local taxes may be distortionary (by taxing the mobile rather than immobile factor), or there may be non-internalized externalities.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors adapted the vintage model of urban housing developed in Brueckner (1978) to a two-class city and simulated the differences between static and dynamic urban areas.

TL;DR: In this paper, the general conditions under which the firm's f.o.b. mill price may rise or fall due to spatial separation of buyers and/or spatial entry of rival firms are given.

TL;DR: In this paper, it is argued that the RAS procedure applied to regions and industries performs a function similar to that of the shift-share technique, and that RAS has the advantage of a justification based on concepts from information theory.

TL;DR: In this paper, a static equilibrium and a dynamic partial adjustment model of residential demand for electricity and natural gas are presented and estimated for the United States over a recent period characterized by sharply increasing energy prices.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of rising energy prices on the locational pattern of industries is analyzed by a simple two-firm straight line location model, and the concavity of average cost function of final consumer's good with respect to locational variables is proved for the case of linear homogeneous Cobb-Douglas production functions.

TL;DR: In this article, the issue of constant regional input-output coefficients is studied in the context of regional forecasting, and it is shown that the problem of predicting regional final demands is a relatively serious one.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Koopmans-Beckmann linear program is decomposable and the primal subprogram constitutes a simple linear assignment problem whose optimal solution set always contains at least one assignment of plants to locations.

TL;DR: In this article, a policy analysis aiming at finding compromise solutions for conflict between energy, pollution and economic issues in an inter-regional framework is carried out on the basis of an interregional input output model extended with pollution and energy sectors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors developed a housing supply model that treats explicitly the effects of location-specific amenities, such as access to and view of Lake Michigan, on the height of buildings.

TL;DR: In this paper, a search theory of labour markets is developed, which includes as an exogenous variable the cost of travelling between home and work, and implies an inverse relationship between the accessibility to jobs and the duration of unemployment.

TL;DR: This study offers an interpretation of the literature on voting with one's feet, that is, moving to that area which best satisfies one's preferences for public goods.

TL;DR: In this article, an inter-industry connectivity matrix is set up using interindustry transactions data from the United Kingdom national input-output matrix, and the best-connected industries are found to lie largely within the metal manufacture and engineering sectors.

TL;DR: In this paper, a unifying theory is proposed in which predictive and prescriptive models of urban development are shown to be special cases of a more general model, in which community and individual welfare objectives may be combined in a weighted fashion.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review and analyze several well-known urban models that are presently being used to evaluate the impact of a decreasing energy supply on the spatial structure of our metropolitan areas.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors extend the standard model of urban land rent to include locational interdependencies and show that there exists a unique rent function that clears the urban land market in the presence of direct physical interaction among different sites, i.e., environmental spillovers.

TL;DR: In this paper, a simple optimal control model of the firm's investment decisions in the presence of environmental restrictions is developed, where the firm is assumed to jointly decide the optimal levels of gross investment, scrappage of capital, and maintenance expenditures.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors suggest a new approach to regional modelling and show the way by which regional expansion paths of output and employment can be developed, based on a synthesis of the production function for the industry (or region), the shift-share model, and a set of hypotheses and identifying the growth components of employment.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors address long-term conflicting issues in environmental policy analysis and present a simple model for integrating natural resources and production so as to illustrate the usefulness of catastrophe theory in economic-energy-environmental systems.

TL;DR: In this article, it is shown that the way in which spatial data is aggregated, or gerrymandered, will alter the estimation results of a model and that by alternative areal aggregation, or Gerrymandering of the data it is possible to reach diametrically opposed conclusions (i.e., blacks either gain or lose jobs as a result of residential segregation using the same model).

TL;DR: In this paper, an analysis of hierarchies and priorities in energy-environmental policy making is presented, focusing on the selection of activities according to a set of derived priorities subject to constraints reflecting interdependence of these activities.

TL;DR: It is shown how a broad array of spatial urban models, including ones involving endogenously generated externalities, can be studied within the context of a single unifying computational framework.

TL;DR: In this paper, a decision model for a regional economy to determine the priority in industrial recruitment is proposed, which is formulated in terms of a mathematical programming model in which the objectives and constraints are explicitly stated.

TL;DR: The framework of a multi-component regional- energy econometric model is presented, which focuses the attention on energy models in relation to spatial systems.

TL;DR: In this paper, a family of energy/environment models was developed and applied to the assessment of alternative policies, which provided long-term planning information to a spectrum of public and private institutions in the regions studied.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a method to be used in analyzing tax diversification for local governments, which can be used to diversify away some of the instability in revenue.