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Showing 1 to 20 of 21 for “"spatial equilibrium"”.
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CONGESTION CHARGE AND REMOTE WORKING: POLICY INSIGHTS FROM SPATIAL EQUILIBRIUM MODELS
… thesis investigates key topics related to 1) the spatial effects of congestion charge (single- vs multi-city, with or without travel time saving) and various tax revenue redistribution schemes (even vs place-based distribution); 2) the spatial effects of remote working due to the uncertainty of …
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Estimation of Sector and Spatial Equilibrium Models of the United States Feed Economy
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Comprehensive wealth measurement and spatial hedonic analysis : social capital and social amenities
… to measure comprehensive wealth at various spatial scales. It achieves this by generalizing the general spatial equilibrium model proposed by Roback (1982). The key contributions of this research are the extension and application of the comprehensive wealth concept to measure the value of …
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Export Strategies for Ivory Coast Cocoa
… thus the market equations needed to find spatial equilibrium solutions are not only the export supply and import demand equations, but also marginal export revenue and marginal import cost functions to account for non-competitive behavior. In this latter case, retaliations might lead to …
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Long-term prospects of land value uplift in planned new urban centres: Measurement, modelling and predictions
… starts to fill this gap. It develops an extended spatial equilibrium model capable of systematically measuring, modelling and predicting the financial and economic prospects of land value gains alongside changes in social costs and benefits. To see how alternative policy measures affect land …
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Trading natural gas in the Asia Pacific: Theory and evidence
… to the growth of market liberalisation. The spatial equilibrium model shows traders’ entry and exporters’ domestic gas price deregulation cause a drop in market prices and benefit the LNG importers. Next, the multi-period Asia Pacific gas model (APGM) is developed to cover various supply …
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Cities and Labor Market Dynamics
<p>People live and work in local markets spatially distinct from one another, yet space is absent from most economic models of the national labor market. Workers choose the markets in which they will participate, but there are costs to mobility. Furthermore, cities are heterogeneous in a number of …
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Essays in Environmental and Development Economics
… to study how democratization affected the spatial allocation of public investment in healthcare infrastructure. On one hand, democratization limits distortions from Suharto-era biases toward certain areas, such as those within the patronage network. On the other hand, spillover effects are …
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A new jointly estimated model of young adults’ decisions to leave their parental homes and to choose new residential locations
… leaving parental homes on the one hand, and the spatial economic studies on locational choices and movements to new residential destinations on the other. This separation has resulted in a gap in knowledge and quantification that we aim to fill. We hypothesise that these two choice decisions are …
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A MATHEMATICAL PROGRAMMING MODEL FOR AGRICULTURE SECTOR POLICY ANALYSIS
A price endogenous, spatial equilibrium mathematical programming model (USMP) is formulated and applied to address contemporary issues in U.S. agriculture sector policy. The historical and theoretical development of this type of model is reviewed with particular emphasis upon the incorporation of …
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The effects of the federal programs on the U.S. dairy industry
… an interregional dairy trade model based on a spatial equilibrium framework was developed. The model included disaggregate manufactured milk markets and utilized separable programming as the solution technique. The objective of the interregional dairy trade model was to maximize the sum of …
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Essays in development economics
… location choices of consumers and firms, in a spatial equilibrium framework. More compact cities are characterized by larger population, lower wages, and higher rents, consistent with compact shape being a consumption amenity. The welfare cost of deteriorating city shape is estimated to be …
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Essays in Spatial Economics
… of exposure to these common shocks, and on spatial interactions between locations. The first chapter, building upon administrative data covering the universe of dwellings in France, documents the presence of home bias in investment (a negative effect of distance for individual investors' …
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The roles of international trade and immigration on U.S. local labor and housing market differentiation
… and non-tradable sectors and build a two-sector spatial equilibrium model, where local housing and labor markets interact. Consistent with the model, I find that intermediate import reduces rents, housing prices, the employments and wages of both tradable and non-tradable sectors. The mechanism …
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ESSAYS ON ISSUES IN PUBLIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS
… and increases in poverty. Applied in a stylized spatial equilibrium model of location choice, my estimates imply an aggregate decline of $0.5-1 billion in the economic welfare of coal country residents resulting from a net decline of $3.7 billion in thermal coal production value from 2007- 2017. …
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Essays in health economics and public policy
… I combine the reduced-form estimates with a spatial equilibrium model of various agents in a local economy. Analysis of the model indicates that rural hospital closures significantly harm welfare, an outcome that is internalized by workers, older residents no longer in the labor force, and …
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Essays in Urban and Spatial Economics
… infrastructure and regulation shape urban and spatial outcomes. While rather different in terms of the specific topic, they share at least three common themes. First, all chapters are policy-oriented and speak to currently urgent issues. Second, they study how access—whether to goods, services, …
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Essays on Prices and Variety Across Cities
… in larger cities indicates, in the context of a spatial equilibrium model, that purchasing power must be lower in these locations, which is inconsistent with the NEG theoretical predictions that price indexes are lower in larger cities. Second, there are reasons to believe that intranational …
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Essays on the economics of local labor markets
… in full, for declining labor demand. I develop a spatial equilibrium model which, appropriately parameterized, identifies both the magnitude of unobserved mobility costs by skill and the shape of the local housing supply curve. Nonlinear reduced form estimates using U.S. Census data document that …
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