Showing papers in "Regional Science and Urban Economics in 1999"

TL;DR: This paper studied Japanese investments between 1980 and 1992 to assess the effectiveness of US state promotion efforts in light of strong agglomeration effects in Japanese investment and found that the provision of foreign trade zones, lower taxes, and job-creation subsidies have statistically significant effects on the location of investment.

TL;DR: In this paper, an empirical investigation of the geographic concentration of French industries is presented, based on a location model in the line of Ellison and Glaeser (1994, 1997) and can be interpreted as the correlation between the location decisions of two business units in the same industry.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors focus on the cross-sectional distribution of per capita income, modelling the growth process as a time homogeneous Markov chain, and then apply the methodology to per-cap income data for 122 EU functional regions over the period 1979-1990.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors estimate the Rybczynski equation matrix for the twenty two-digit U.S. manufacturing industries for various years between 1880 and 1987, and show that a consistent set of factor endowments explains a significant amount of the geographic distribution of manufacturing activities over time.

TL;DR: In this paper, an empirical model for spatial job search is developed and estimated on a sample of married or cohabiting female workers in the Netherlands and takes into account wage rates, commuting distances and working hours as relevant job characteristics.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors employ several measures of uncertainty to reexamine the empirical relationship between uncertainty and housing tenure and find that income uncertainty reduces the likelihood of individuals owning homes at a point in time.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors add a land market to the standard Harris-Todaro framework and show that urban land-rent escalation provides an additional force that limits the extent of migration.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors analyze tax competition among countries that differ in geographical aspects such as their sizes and positions, and show that a small country chooses a lower tax rate than a big country, and obtains more than its size-proportional share of total revenue at the Nash equilibrium.

TL;DR: In this article, a user-cost framework incorporated into a tenure choice equation and both macro-and micro-level analyses was used to demonstrate that the revenue-neutral replacement of the current deductibility of home mortgage interest and property taxes with a tax credit of the appropriate level alone can increase aggregate homeownership rates in the range of 3 to 5%.

TL;DR: In this article, the highway safety effect of highway speed limits, seat belt use laws, availability of alcohol, restrictions on the common site sale of gasoline and alcohol, and traffic enforcement was analyzed.

TL;DR: In this paper, an internal border that separates a region known as the Red Belt from the rest of Russia is discussed, and the impact of the border on price dispersion is shown to be comparable to the US-Canadian border.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors discuss the element of cooperation between firms in the form of information exchange through communication into the Hotelling spatial competition model and show that subgame perfect equilibrium in a two-stage game can be achieved in a wide range from minimum differentiation to maximum differentiation, depending upon the relative strength of the cooperation effect over the competition effect.

TL;DR: This paper studied trends in US climate consumption and climate compensating differentials and found that the population has shifted so that the consumption of warmer winter climate has risen for both working families and more dramatically for senior citizens.

TL;DR: In this article, the backward-bending cost curve defined over traffic flows in the context of continuous congestion is questioned by demonstrating that the ''equilibria'' on this segment of the cost curve are dynamically infeasible.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors consider a three-location duopoly model where firms choose production and innovation locations before (Bertrand) competition takes place and there are internal and external knowledge spillovers.

TL;DR: In this paper, nonparametric linear programming methods are used to measure total factor productivity growth in state manufacturing from 1977-1989, where the authors decomposed the productivity growth into efficiency change and technological change.

TL;DR: The authors developed a simple two-region two-sector general equilibrium model of trade and migration where one monopolistically competitive sector generates local pecuniary externalities, and showed that a reduction in trade and/or migration costs weakens the lock-in effect of historical events while strengthening the role of expectations.

TL;DR: A number of recent studies have found a positive relationship between local government expenditures and the concentration of local governments, offering support for the contention of Brennan and Buchanan as discussed by the authors that Leviathan governments are limited by competition among localities.

TL;DR: A jurisdiction can export pollution by imposing regulations that induce firms causing the pollution to move elsewhere as discussed by the authors, and may therefore not "race to the bottom", but instead impose excessively stringent regulations.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a monopolistic competition model by which they explain the sizes and locations of cities in a context of urban societies, i.e., their relative positions within the country.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examine the Paris housing price bubble burst in 1990-1991 and characterize each district in terms of the relative strength of speculative trading versus price-supply inelasticity.

TL;DR: This article used geographic fixed effects to control unobserved locational attributes provided that their scope is at least as narrow as the underlying labor markets, but not so narrow as to introduce simultaneity problems arising from the endogenous choice of location on the basis of income.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provide a statistical test for the presence of a random walk component in house prices, which is based on repeat sales data in which each house is observed to sell only twice.

TL;DR: In this article, the properties of stationary-state general equilibrium in a monocentric city with durable housing were examined, where identical households choose location, housing quality and quantity (floor area), and other goods.

TL;DR: The extent to which land use was mixed before Chicago adopted its first zoning ordinance was investigated in this article, where the authors found that manufacturing and commercial lots were present on residential blocks.

TL;DR: In this article, a method for identifying sectoral sources of metropolitan employment growth is proposed, which does not require a causal ordering to be developed among industries to create orthogonal sectoral shocks.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used an equilibrium simulation model of peak-period commuting along an urban highway to compare quantitatively both positive and normative effects of six congestion pricing schedules and found that flat tolls are favored over smoothly varying tolls for revenue generation or increase in vehicle occupancy, but are disfavored for efficiency maximization, increase in consumer surplus, or reduction in congestion delays.

TL;DR: In this paper, the existence of a location-then-price equilibrium in the circle model with a linear quadratic type of transportation cost function which can be either convex or concave was studied.

TL;DR: The authors provided the entire distribution of default's severity, not just a summary total, and showed that distributions of severity are both disperse and skewed and so inadequately described by their conditional means that the likelihood of default and the likely magnitude of that default must be treated as separate phenomena.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors apply incentives theory to analyze the property owner's choice of management scheme, which reveals that management structure affects performance and that the OM-TPM choice is driven by the trade-off between TPM incentives inefficiencies and gains from superior management skills.