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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"urban economics"”.
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Essays on Urban Economics
… three essays exploring topics related to Urban Economics. Using advanced empirical methodologies, I examine the effects of traffic pricing policies and rider-hailing services on traffic and air quality. Chapter 1 investigates the traffic and environmental impact of traffic pricing policy. …
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Essays on Urban Economics
… the connection between the property tax and urban sprawl. While the tax's depressing effect on improvements reduces population density, spurring the spatial expansion of cities, a countervailing effect from lower dwelling sizes may dominate, raising densities and making cities smaller. The …
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Three essays in urban economics
This dissertation consists of three chapters. The first chapter, titled “Response to Earthquake Fault Zoning in California” exploits changes in earthquake fault zones in California to provide evidence of capitalization of seismic risk into property values. The fault zone maps provide information …
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Three essays on urban economics
… use patterns championed by Smart Growth and New Urbanism advocates produce lower levels of municipal expenditures per capita as compared to more sprawling development patterns. The final chapter focuses on the issue of property tax incidence. With increasing reliance upon commercial property tax …
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Essays in development and urban economics
The first chapter is a co-authored paper that analyzes the causal impact of air pollution on the housing market as the result of a dramatic exogenous increase in air pollution levels in Tehran in 2010 in the aftermath of sanctions imposed on Iran. The sanctions, intended to pressure Iran to end …
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Essays in public and urban economics
The first chapter provides evidence on the incidence and distortionary effects of taxes on rental properties, using a unique administrative dataset on housing transactions in Tehran. I exploit a special feature of the tax code in the Tehran rental market where the tax-exemption threshold is based …
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A computational approach to urban economics
… more than half of the world population today and urbanization is one of this century's biggest drivers of global economic growth. The dynamics of the urban environment is thus an important question to investigate. In this thesis, techniques from statistical modeling, machine learning, data mining …
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Essays on urban economics and public finance
… economic activity across space. Moreover, urban economics examines cities and other geographic units to understand the spatial distribution of the economy. In this dissertation, I use applied econometrics to understand variations in the spatial distribution of economic activity that are …
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Three essays on labor and urban economics
… unrelated essays in the fields of labor and urban economics. The first essay exploits the creation of a formal college system in Quebec in the late 1960's as a quasi-experiment to estimate the value of community college. Focusing on the effect of the policy on English-speaking Quebecois, the …
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Essays in industrial organization and urban economics
First two chapters of this thesis study the wholesale and retail tier of the beer supermarket sales. In the first chapter, I am interested in consolidation of distributors in the beer industry and its interaction with the uniform pricing by retailers. I build a theoretical model which illustrates …
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ESSAYS ON URBAN ECONOMICS, SOCIAL NETWORKS AND INNOVATION
<p>My dissertation comprises two papers on urban economics, social networks, and innovation. The main question that connects these two papers is what the trade-off between inventor teams and social networks in patent development is. Two papers provide empirical evidence and answer the question from …
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Three Essays in Real Estate and Urban Economics
… and empirical, in the field of real estate and urban economics. The first chapter provides the motivation for the essays contained in this thesis, and suggests opportunities for further research. The majority of studies examining the impact of group homes on neighborhood property values have …
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Essays on urban economics and the shape of cities
Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'U of I Access', the embargo will last until 2024-05-01
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Panel data analyses of urban economics and housing markets
… three pertinent issues in Housing Market and Urban Economics literature with panel data- home sales and house price relationship, efficiency of housing market and commercial property taxation. For the first part, I examine the strong positive correlation that exists between the volume of …
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Essays on urban economics special focus on New Zealand housing markets
"This dissertation consists of three chapters on the New Zealand housing market. The first chapter, titled ""Salience of Hazard Disclosure and House Prices: Evidence from Christchurch, New Zealand,"" addresses the impacts of providing precise salient earthquake hazard information on property …
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Location Choice, Linkages and the Spatial Economy: Essays on Theory, Evidence and Heterodox Assessment
… 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". Nonmarket interactions, such as …
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