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Why are grocery foods taxed in the United States? Theory and spatial evidence from multilevel government interactions 为什么美国对食品杂货征税?多层次政府互动的理论与空间证据
IF 3.1 2区 经济学
Regional Science and Urban Economics Pub Date : 2023-11-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2023.103959
Lingxiao Wang , Yuqing Zheng
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Measuring the value of rent stabilization and understanding its implications for racial inequality: Evidence from New York City 衡量租金稳定的价值并理解其对种族不平等的影响:来自纽约市的证据
IF 3.1 2区 经济学
Regional Science and Urban Economics Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2023.103948
Ruoyu Chen , Hanchen Jiang , Luis E. Quintero
{"title":"Measuring the value of rent stabilization and understanding its implications for racial inequality: Evidence from New York City","authors":"Ruoyu Chen ,&nbsp;Hanchen Jiang ,&nbsp;Luis E. Quintero","doi":"10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2023.103948","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2023.103948","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>Amid a renewed interest in rent control due to the housing affordability crisis, the scope and distribution of its benefits remain underexplored. Using methodological innovations, this study quantifies rent discounts for rent-stabilized units in New York City (NYC) from 2002 to 2017. We estimate an average discount of $410 per month. Additionally, we note that these discounts are: (1) not progressively distributed towards lower-income households; (2) more pronounced in Manhattan and increasing in gentrifying areas; and (3) double for households correctly aware of the policy. The aggregate rent discounts range between $4 and $5.4 billion annually, representing 10%–14% of the federal budget for means-tested housing programs. While White tenants received larger rent discounts in the 2000s, racial disparities in these discounts have largely diminished since 2011, consistent with patterns in spatial sorting and </span>gentrification.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48196,"journal":{"name":"Regional Science and Urban Economics","volume":"103 ","pages":"Article 103948"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92123603","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Spatial price discrimination with a ‘must-have’ component 带有“必备”成分的空间价格歧视
IF 3.1 2区 经济学
Regional Science and Urban Economics Pub Date : 2023-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2023.103958
John S. Heywood , Qiming Luo , Guangliang Ye
{"title":"Spatial price discrimination with a ‘must-have’ component","authors":"John S. Heywood ,&nbsp;Qiming Luo ,&nbsp;Guangliang Ye","doi":"10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2023.103958","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2023.103958","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>An upstream firm provides a valuable component with either an exclusive or nonexclusive contract to two downstream firms on a horizontal market. The downstream firms engage in either uniform pricing or spatial price discrimination. The component provider is more likely to sign an exclusive contract under discriminatory pricing. Discriminatory pricing generates higher welfare when both pricing methods result in exclusive contracts and generates the same welfare when both methods result in nonexclusive contracts. Importantly it generates lower welfare when discriminatory pricing results in exclusive contracts and uniform pricing results in nonexclusive contracts. These results prove robust to a variety of model variations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48196,"journal":{"name":"Regional Science and Urban Economics","volume":"103 ","pages":"Article 103958"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"92026381","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Corrigendum to “Location preferences and slum formation: Evidence from a panel of residence histories” [Reg. Sci. Urban Econ., 97 (November 2022) 103816] 更正“位置偏好和贫民窟形成：居住历史小组的证据”[Reg.Sci.Urban Econ.97（2022年11月）103816]
IF 3.1 2区 经济学
Regional Science and Urban Economics Pub Date : 2023-10-14 DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2023.103949
Pablo Celhay , Raimundo Undurraga
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The economic impact of a casino monopoly: Evidence from Atlantic City 赌场垄断的经济影响：来自大西洋城的证据
IF 3.1 2区 经济学
Regional Science and Urban Economics Pub Date : 2023-10-10 DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2023.103952
Adam Scavette
{"title":"The economic impact of a casino monopoly: Evidence from Atlantic City","authors":"Adam Scavette","doi":"10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2023.103952","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2023.103952","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Place-based policies and investments are often targeted at areas in economic decline and sometimes take the form of a granted monopoly (e.g., state flagship universities, professional sports franchises, mega events). After New Jersey voters approved legalized gambling as an economic development strategy to revive the blighted seaside resort town, Atlantic City held a regional monopoly on casinos east of the Mississippi River from 1978 through 1992. Using synthetic difference-in-differences, I find that commercial casinos had an immediate impact on the Atlantic City Metropolitan Area (Atlantic County) in the first five years through an increase in employment (26 percent), wages (9 percent), personal income (5 percent), and house prices (19 percent). The casinos’ positive impact on the metropolitan labor market was persistent and increasing through the early 1990s, but I find evidence that the city’s 1992 monopoly expiration negatively impacted the growth of local wages and personal income through 2000.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48196,"journal":{"name":"Regional Science and Urban Economics","volume":"103 ","pages":"Article 103952"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-10-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50197291","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Estimating the effect of land use regulation on land price: At the kink point of building height limits in Fukuoka 土地使用管制对地价影响的评估——以福冈市建筑高度限制的拐点为例
IF 3.1 2区 经济学
Regional Science and Urban Economics Pub Date : 2023-10-06 DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2023.103955
Kentaro Nakajima , Keisuke Takano
{"title":"Estimating the effect of land use regulation on land price: At the kink point of building height limits in Fukuoka","authors":"Kentaro Nakajima ,&nbsp;Keisuke Takano","doi":"10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2023.103955","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2023.103955","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>This study estimates the effect of land use regulation on land price by exploiting the feature of building height limits of the aviation law in Fukuoka, Japan. The law limits the height of a building that is within 4000 meters of an airport to 54.1 m, but when the distance exceeds 4000 meters, the limits are relaxed. Exploiting this regulation feature, we estimate the effect of the regulation on land price using the regression kink design. We find that building height restriction has a significantly negative effect on land price and the magnitude of the effects depends on the stringency of regulation.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48196,"journal":{"name":"Regional Science and Urban Economics","volume":"103 ","pages":"Article 103955"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-10-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50197289","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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The historical impact of coal on cities 煤炭对城市的历史影响
IF 3.1 2区 经济学
Regional Science and Urban Economics Pub Date : 2023-10-05 DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2023.103951
Karen Clay , Joshua Lewis , Edson Severnini
{"title":"The historical impact of coal on cities","authors":"Karen Clay ,&nbsp;Joshua Lewis ,&nbsp;Edson Severnini","doi":"10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2023.103951","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2023.103951","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Historically coal has offered both benefits and costs to urban areas. Benefits include coal’s role in fueling industry and thus employment. The primary costs are air pollution and its impact on human health. This paper starts by using a Rosen–Roback style model to examine how differences in local coal availability affect equilibrium city employment. Drawing on the model, the paper surveys papers that examine the net effects of coal on the growth in city population and air pollution on health. The paper then turns to papers that explicitly consider the trade-offs between production benefits and pollution disamenities across space and over time. The paper ends with a discussion of opportunities for future work on coal and cities in historical settings.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48196,"journal":{"name":"Regional Science and Urban Economics","volume":"107 ","pages":"Article 103951"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-10-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0166046223000868/pdfft?md5=18d7f40dac3d0d8e7248193aaf9015fb&pid=1-s2.0-S0166046223000868-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134979655","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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EU cohesion policy on the ground: Analyzing small-scale effects using satellite data 欧盟在当地的凝聚力政策：利用卫星数据分析小规模影响
IF 3.1 2区 经济学
Regional Science and Urban Economics Pub Date : 2023-10-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2023.103954
Julia Bachtrögler-Unger , Mathias Dolls , Carla Krolage , Paul Schüle , Hannes Taubenböck , Matthias Weigand
{"title":"EU cohesion policy on the ground: Analyzing small-scale effects using satellite data","authors":"Julia Bachtrögler-Unger ,&nbsp;Mathias Dolls ,&nbsp;Carla Krolage ,&nbsp;Paul Schüle ,&nbsp;Hannes Taubenböck ,&nbsp;Matthias Weigand","doi":"10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2023.103954","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2023.103954","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>We present a novel approach to analyze the effects of EU cohesion policy on local economic activity. For all municipalities in the border area of the Czech Republic, Germany, and Poland, we collect project-level data on EU funding in the period between 2007 and 2013. Using night light emission data as a proxy for economic development, we show that receiving a higher amount of EU funding is associated with increased economic activity at the municipal level. Our paper demonstrates that remote sensing data can provide an effective way to model local economic development also in Europe, where comprehensive cross-border data are not available at such a spatially granular level.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48196,"journal":{"name":"Regional Science and Urban Economics","volume":"103 ","pages":"Article 103954"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50197290","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Steering in the housing market: Incentive induced by the tax scheme 房地产市场的指导：税收计划引发的激励
IF 3.1 2区 经济学
Regional Science and Urban Economics Pub Date : 2023-10-04 DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2023.103953
Keyang Li , Jing Wu , Jianwei Xing , Jubo Yan
{"title":"Steering in the housing market: Incentive induced by the tax scheme","authors":"Keyang Li ,&nbsp;Jing Wu ,&nbsp;Jianwei Xing ,&nbsp;Jubo Yan","doi":"10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2023.103953","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2023.103953","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Intermediaries play an important role in markets with asymmetric information by reducing search friction and uncertainty for buyers and sellers. However, when a conflict of interest arises, agents may not fully act on behalf of their clients. Using a unique dataset of both housing resale transactions and agent showing records from a major brokerage<span> firm, we document the brokerage agents' steering behaviors induced by the differential treatment of certain housing units under the taxation scheme in China. Our results show that brokerage agents strategically promote the units that receive more favorable tax treatment because these units offer higher expected commissions. The steering efforts lead to better sales performances of the promoted houses and are highly correlated with the agents' ability and steering incentives. Buyers' viewing and purchasing decisions are significantly affected by agents’ steering.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":48196,"journal":{"name":"Regional Science and Urban Economics","volume":"103 ","pages":"Article 103953"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-10-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50197288","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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Financing local public projects 为地方公共项目融资
IF 3.1 2区 经济学
Regional Science and Urban Economics Pub Date : 2023-10-03 DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2023.103950
Levon Barseghyan, Stephen Coate
{"title":"Financing local public projects","authors":"Levon Barseghyan,&nbsp;Stephen Coate","doi":"10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2023.103950","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2023.103950","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p><span>This paper studies the financing of local public projects. The setting is a community with durable housing, undeveloped land available for new homes, and population turnover. The community invests in a public project that may be financed with a mix of a tax on current residents and a debt issue. The paper shows that financing with a debt–tax mix is equivalent to pure tax </span>finance<span> coupled with a tax on future development whose proceeds are shared by future residents. This result has three implications. First, Ricardian Equivalence holds if and only if there would be no future development were the project purely tax financed. Second, when Ricardian Equivalence does not hold, the optimal debt level is such that the associated tax on development appropriately internalizes the negative externalities from this development. Third, when Ricardian Equivalence does not hold, the debt level preferred by current residents will be higher than optimal.</span></p></div>","PeriodicalId":48196,"journal":{"name":"Regional Science and Urban Economics","volume":"103 ","pages":"Article 103950"},"PeriodicalIF":3.1,"publicationDate":"2023-10-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"50197394","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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