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Showing 1 to 20 of 36 for “"Location choice"”.
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Location, location, location choice models
… agents competing in the race for urban space. Location choice models can help to shine a light on these motivations by providing insights on agents' location preferences. They are also the building blocks of more comprehensive urban models and simulations that can help navigate urban …
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Developing a theory of nightclub location choice
… study on the factors that determine nightclub location choice. New York City and primarily Manhattan were chosen as sites for investigation because of the City's high number of nightclubs, and because of the regulatory as well as real estate pressures that are currently affecting the industry. …
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Impact of modern logistics on industrial location choice and property markets
… on the impact of modern logistics on industrial location choice and property markets focuses on (1) whether modern inventory control and supply- chain configuration consolidate manufacturing and distribution locations and (2) whether modern logistics have reduced the demand for industrial real …
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Location choice and environmental performance of toxic-releasing facilities in the United States
… socio-economic characteristics on the relocation decisions of facilities. The main results of this study show that facilities located in communities with high population density, high income, and high educational attainment have a higher likelihood of relocating; they are also observed to …
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The Effects of Regional and Neighborhood Conditions on Location Choice of New Business Establishments
… key regional and neighborhood factors driving location decisions of new establishments. In addition, interviews with selected founders help this research explore the meaning of the outcomes of the quantitative model, understand the individual stories behind start-up businesses, and discover any …
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Location Choice, Linkages and the Spatial Economy: Essays on Theory, Evidence and Heterodox Assessment
The essays in this dissertation represent theoretical and empirical contributions to urban economics and regional science, focusing on the growing importance of nonmarket interactions. There is increasing evidence that the process of globalization is rendering the world "spiky" rather than "flat". …
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Understanding the Co-emergence of Urban Location Choice and Mobility Patterns: Empirical Studies and an Integrated Geospatial and Agent-based Model
… Conceptually, it is recognized that the location decisions of several urban actors including individuals, households, firms and public sector institutions, collectively determine the spatial distribution of land-use activities; the emergent land-use patterns, in turn, provide the …
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Capturing Residential Preference Changes through Perception Detections of Rationally Inattentive Decision Makers
… and disaggregate perturbations in residential location choice behaviour. The empirical investigation uses the contexts of the COVID-19 pandemic in the Greater Toronto Area (GTA). Two conceptual models are presented in the study, each providing a unique perspective on analyzing residential …
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Addressing endogeneity in residential location models
Some empirical residential location choice models have reported dwelling-unit price estimated parameters that are small, not statistically significant, or even positive. This would imply that households are non-sensitive to changes in dwelling unit prices or location taxes, which is not only …
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Determinants of international migration
… of bilateral international migration and the location choice of immigrants with particular attention to a number of methodological challenges and for various geographical regions, i.e. migration to the OECD, migration between SSA countries and immigrants’ location choice in Belgium. …
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Residency and Practice Choice Patterns of Black and White Medical Graduates: A Comparative Study
… compared and analyzed the specialty preference (choice) patterns and the residency and practice locations of black and white physicians who graduated from a large urban medical school during the years 1973-1984. The intent of the study was to determine if differences occurred between black and …
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The Determinants of Student Cross-Border Migration: An Applied Microeconomic Analysis
… of a shared bilateral education system on the location choice of international students. To analyze this, a two-way fixed effect model is derived from a conventional random utility maximization framework for optimal location choice. The model suggests that the harmonization of the education …
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Three papers on the behavior modeling of the shrimp fishermen in the Gulf of Mexico
… from National Marine Fisheries Service. In the location choice analyses, the U.S. Gulf of Mexico is divided into three areas: FL, LAM, and TX. For each area a conditional logit and mixed logit based on Random Utility Model are run to analyze the influence of fishermen’s past choice decision on …
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Responding to Natural Hazards: The Effects of Disaster on Residential Location Decisions and Health Outcomes
… the effects of natural hazards on residential location choice, county migration rates, mental health status, and displacement. The results have practical implications for disaster risk management. Chapter 2 estimates household willingness-to-pay to live in lower hazard-risk areas. A model of …
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Historic maritime cities as new places for entrepreneurs and innovators : lessons from Venice, Amsterdam and Boston
… to explain why some cities are becoming new locations for entrepreneurship and innovation, but one generally has been overlooked: quality of place and its relationship to new forms of production. In the context of a knowledge-based economy, it appears that the value of urban environments is …
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Migration, Polarization, and Sorting in the American Electorate
… test whether political pref- erences aligns with location choice, this paper proposes a sorting model based on the composition of migrants' political preferences. </p><p>Sorting is defined as the increase in the variation of a parameter of preference distributions of different location, in the …
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Endogeneity and Sampling of Alternatives in Spatial Choice Models
… are two key requirements of practical spatial choice models. The omission of attributes causes endogeneity when the unobserved variables are correlated with the measured variables, precluding the consistent estimation of the model parameters. The consistent estimation while sampling …
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Planning for land-use and transportation alternatives : towards household activity-based urban modeling for sustainable futures
… consider important in the household long-term choices. One key objective of the research is to improve the ability of the models to simulate the impacts of transportation innovations on household-level activity patterns and residential location choice in metro Lisbon. Since transportation …
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Three essays about housing issues in new contexts: demand for housing attributes, housing price indices, and location choices under displacement
… revealed preferences on residential mobility and location choice. In these three essays I provide new evidence by applying well-established methods to a different spatio-cultural context, more spatial-disaggregated units, and specific constrained situations respectively. All together, the evidence …
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