Showing papers in "Regional Science and Urban Economics in 1997"

TL;DR: The authors developed a model of urbanization and growth based on the accumulation of human capital consistent with these observations, which predicts that larger cities will have higher levels of human-capability, higher rents and higher wages per worker, even though workers are homogeneous and free to migrate between cities.

TL;DR: In this paper, an evolutionary approach to urban system theory is proposed, which aims to explain the specific spatial configuration of an economy observed today as an outcome of the historical evolutionary process, and demonstrate that as the population of the economy increases gradually, new cities are created periodically as the result of the catastrophic bifurcation of the existing system.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of medium size cities in economies is investigated, drawing on the experiences of Brazil, Japan, Korea, USA and other countries, arguing that city size distributions are stable over time and that medium-size cities are highly specialized in manufacturing activities, compared to metro areas.

TL;DR: In this paper, Cramer and Ridder's likelihood ratio test for pooled alternatives in multinomial logit models is sequentially applied in order to determine the adequate aggregation level of the mutually exclusive alternatives in the choice set.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that a shift from light to heavy industries brought about the fast regional transformation from the Tokyo-Osaka bipolar system to the Pacific industrial belt system, and that shift from heavy to high-tech and service industries induced the second transformation to the Tokyo monopolar system, which partly explains the recent renewed tendency of the increasing income differential between the core and peripheral regions.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors study whether more regulated counties enjoy less pollution per unit of economic activity and whether particulate regulation displaces economic growth to less regulated areas, and they study how particulates co-move with manufacturing activity.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined decisions among location options with a discrete choice model, yielding more straightforward and easily interpreted estimates of their determinants, finding that women's earnings opportunities and commuting burdens influence not only the wife's choice of workplace but the husband's job site and the household residence.

TL;DR: In this paper, a spatial duopoly is described, where firms are free to locate along the real axis, while consumers are distributed along a linear city of finite length, and the distribution of roles is discussed both at the location stage and at the price stage.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyze an urban equilibrium with spatial mismatch and contrast it with an unrestricted equilibrium, where blacks are free to locate wherever they choose, despite the existence of a suburban employment center, black workers are forced to live in the central zone they occupied in the original monocentric city, commuting across the white residential area to access suburban jobs.

TL;DR: In this article, the robustness of the agglomeration equilibrium to a broad class of density functions was established for a two-stage non-cooperative Cournot game with location choice involving n ⩾ 2 competing firms.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that national infrastructure policy is inconsistent with the principles of fiscal federalism in a number of important respects, including the tax exempt municipal bond market and inter-jurisdictional competition.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors formalize the second argument by showing that in a partial equilibrium model of urban zoning, replacing a uniform height zoning rule with a transferable development rights (TDR) system can lead to greater overall development.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine some current issues surrounding the provision of infrastructure in central cities and present evidence that infrastructure investments in central city provide benefits that extend beyond their borders, to the balance of their metropolitan areas.

TL;DR: Results indicate that, when estimating earnings, the use of a simple migration dummy variable will mask the indirect effects of migration on earnings.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examined how bad housing conditions are in Japan based on international comparisons and whether the extremely high land prices in Japan can be explained by economic logic, and they then turned to more specific housing policy questions that are peculiar to or important in Japan, such as the tax advantages of owning land that have caused underutilization of land and the reasons why the average size of Japanese rental housing is so small.

TL;DR: This article examined the link between infrastructure investment and US economic development and found that infrastructure investment produces both direct and indirect effects, including industrialization, urbanization, and regulation, which are generally neglected in the contemporary literature.

TL;DR: In this paper, an alternative methodology is proposed to try to uncover the nature of the interregional economic structure that has tended to reinforce the hegemonic role that Java and Sumatera play in the Indonesian economy.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the relationship between changes in regional income and secessionist pressures in the periphery and constructed a model of center-periphery relations in a fiscal federation, where the center controls federal tax policy and supplies federal public goods and the periphery can secede.

TL;DR: In this paper, the intent, content, and unresolved design issues of manufacturing modernization centers are described, and these centers are then viewed through theories of regional technology infrastructure in order to identify relationships that can be expected to affect the effectiveness and efficiency of these new programs; and use their workings as a means of operationalizing and testing the at times global, amorphous content of these theories.

TL;DR: In this article, an analytical generalization of Braid's (Braid, 1984) continuum reformulation of a Sweeney-type model by incorporating a maintenance technology that permits upgrading as well as downgrading is presented.

TL;DR: The case for government support and direction of telecommunications infrastructure investment remains very weak and the evidence on the effect of new telecommunications infrastructure on economic growth is too weak to justify a conclusion that this infrastructure has already created large externalities as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the effects of an income tax, a property tax, and a housing allowance in the Chicago Prototype Housing Market Model (CPHMM), a dynamic, perfect foresight simulation model of the housing market with a size-quality hierarchy and with multiple household groups.

TL;DR: In this article, a closed city model with a subcenter was proposed, and the equilibrium urban shape and comparative static analysis of the subcenter's effect on the utility level of residents was conducted.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine a model of strategic infrastructure investment, where two oligopolistic firms compete on home and foreign product markets for market shares, and the national governments support the firms in the market rivalry by providing cost reducing public infrastructure services that are financed out of taxing an input used in the production process.

TL;DR: This paper examined the role that economics can play in analysing problems with urban transportation in the United States, including failing infrastructure, financially weak public transit, environmental impacts of motor vehicles, motor vehicle accidents, and traffic congestion.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider a federation of two regions populated by identical individuals, in which interregional migration is costly and show that first-best efficiency requires maximising total product net of migration cost, while federal efficiency does not.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of information provision to travelers in a stochastic network equilibrium model with multiple origin-destination (OD) pairs is analyzed, and it is concluded that in networks with multiple OD paris information provision will lead to a potential Pareto improvement, but not necessarily to a strict PAREto improvement.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors developed a model of a closed economy with many types of traded (between cities) products of which the production functions are subject to scale economies internal to the industry as a whole.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the effect of housing capital losses on the economy's response to an unanticipated negative shock, based on an overlapping-generations model where income is exogenous and mortgage funds come from outside the economy.