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Your room is ready: Tourism and urban revival 您的房间已准备就绪旅游业与城市复兴

IF 3.5 2区经济学

Regional Science and Urban Economics Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2024.104059

Alberto Hidalgo

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Immigrants' clusters and unequal access to healthcare treatments 移民聚居区和获得医疗保健治疗的机会不平等

IF 3.5 2区经济学

Regional Science and Urban Economics Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2024.104063

Marina Di Giacomo , Giovanni Perucca , Massimiliano Piacenza , Gilberto Turati

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Employer-provided parking: Departure time choice, investment decision, and welfare effects 雇主提供的停车位：出发时间选择、投资决策和福利效应

IF 3.5 2区经济学

Regional Science and Urban Economics Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2024.104056

Zhi-Chun Li , Yao Deng , André de Palma

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Hospital closure in urban and rural areas and patients’ welfare 城市和农村地区医院关闭与患者福利

IF 3.5 2区经济学

Regional Science and Urban Economics Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2024.104064

Hugh Gravelle , Giuseppe Moscelli , Rita Santos , Luigi Siciliani

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Rational cuts? The local impact of closing undersized schools 合理削减？关闭规模不足的学校对当地的影响

IF 3.5 2区经济学

Regional Science and Urban Economics Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2024.104057

Marco Di Cataldo , Giulia Romani

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Centrality bias in inter-city trade 城市间贸易的中心性偏差

IF 3.5 2区经济学

Regional Science and Urban Economics Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2024.104060

Tomoya Mori , Jens Wrona

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The fiscal effects of immigration on local governments: Revisiting the Mariel Boatlift 移民对地方政府的财政影响：重新审视马里埃尔漂流事件

IF 3.5 2区经济学

Regional Science and Urban Economics Pub Date : 2024-10-17 DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2024.104053

Travis St. Clair

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Public firms on an international border: A model of spatial price discrimination 国际边界上的上市公司：空间价格歧视模型

IF 3.5 2区经济学

Regional Science and Urban Economics Pub Date : 2024-10-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2024.104054

John S. Heywood , Zheng Wang

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Spatial externalities, R&D spillovers, and endogenous technological change 空间外部性、研发溢出效应和内生技术变革

IF 3.5 2区经济学

Regional Science and Urban Economics Pub Date : 2024-10-09 DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2024.104055

Spyridon Tsangaris , Anastasios Xepapadeas , Athanasios N. Yannacopoulos , Luca Salvati

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Brand loyalty, managerial delegation and position choices: Bertrand versus Cournot competition 品牌忠诚度、管理授权和职位选择：伯特兰竞争与库诺竞争

IF 3.5 2区经济学

Regional Science and Urban Economics Pub Date : 2024-09-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2024.104052

Tai-Liang Chen , Mingjie Yang

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