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Politically connected cities: Italy 1951–1991
IF 5.7 1区 经济学
Journal of Urban Economics Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2024.103733
Guglielmo Barone , Guido de Blasio , Elena Gentili
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Building tall, falling short: An empirical assessment of Chinese skyscrapers
IF 5.7 1区 经济学
Journal of Urban Economics Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2024.103731
Ziyang Chen , Ting Chen , Yatang Lin , Jin Wang
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Connective financing: Chinese infrastructure projects and the diffusion of economic activity in developing countries
IF 5.7 1区 经济学
Journal of Urban Economics Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2024.103730
Richard Bluhm , Axel Dreher , Andreas Fuchs , Bradley C. Parks , Austin M. Strange , Michael J. Tierney
{"title":"Connective financing: Chinese infrastructure projects and the diffusion of economic activity in developing countries","authors":"Richard Bluhm ,&nbsp;Axel Dreher ,&nbsp;Andreas Fuchs ,&nbsp;Bradley C. Parks ,&nbsp;Austin M. Strange ,&nbsp;Michael J. Tierney","doi":"10.1016/j.jue.2024.103730","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jue.2024.103730","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial distribution of economic activity within subnational regions across a large number of developing countries. To do so, we introduce a new global dataset of geolocated Chinese grant- and loan-financed development projects from 2000 to 2014 and combine it with measures of spatial concentration based on remotely sensed data. We find that Chinese-financed transportation projects decentralize economic activity within regions, as measured by a spatial Gini coefficient, by 2.2 percentage points. The treatment effects are particularly strong in regions that are less developed, more urbanized, and located closer to cities.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48340,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Economics","volume":"145 ","pages":"Article 103730"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143096322","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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Taxes and telework: The impacts of state income taxes in a work-from-home economy
IF 5.7 1区 经济学
Journal of Urban Economics Pub Date : 2025-01-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2024.103732
David R. Agrawal, Jan K. Brueckner
{"title":"Taxes and telework: The impacts of state income taxes in a work-from-home economy","authors":"David R. Agrawal,&nbsp;Jan K. Brueckner","doi":"10.1016/j.jue.2024.103732","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jue.2024.103732","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper studies the interstate effects of decentralized taxation and spending when work-from-home allows fully remote work from another state. In this setting, a state’s population and employment levels are decoupled, making the impact of state tax differentials radically different from when individuals must live and work in the same state. The impacts depend on whether income is taxed at the location of the employer (source) or employee (residence). Our main findings show that a shift from a non-WFH economy to a work-from-home (WFH) economy reduces employment and raises the wage in the high-tax state, with larger effects under source taxation. The logic is that wages are lower in the high-tax state in the absence of WFH, and with interstate wage equality required when residences and workplaces are decoupled, WFH causes a loss of employment and an increase in the wage in that state. Once WFH is established, a tax increase in the high-tax state either reduces employment further while raising the wage (source taxation) or leaves the labor market unaffected (residence taxation). We also show that the non-WFH equilibrium and the source-tax equilibrium under WFH are inefficient, while the residence-tax WFH equilibrium is efficient.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48340,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Economics","volume":"145 ","pages":"Article 103732"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2025-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143096324","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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The economic cost of locking down like China: Evidence from city-to-city truck flows 像中国那样封锁的经济成本：来自城市间卡车流量的证据
IF 5.7 1区 经济学
Journal of Urban Economics Pub Date : 2024-11-30 DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2024.103729
Jingjing Chen , Wei Chen , Ernest Liu , Jie Luo , Zheng Song
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Who bears the burden of real estate transfer taxes? Evidence from the German housing market 谁承担了房地产转让税的负担？来自德国住房市场的证据
IF 5.7 1区 经济学
Journal of Urban Economics Pub Date : 2024-11-22 DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2024.103717
Mathias Dolls , Clemens Fuest , Carla Krolage , Florian Neumeier
{"title":"Who bears the burden of real estate transfer taxes? Evidence from the German housing market","authors":"Mathias Dolls ,&nbsp;Clemens Fuest ,&nbsp;Carla Krolage ,&nbsp;Florian Neumeier","doi":"10.1016/j.jue.2024.103717","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jue.2024.103717","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper examines the effects of real estate transfer taxes (RETT) on property prices using a rich micro dataset of roughly 17 million German properties for the period from 2005 to 2019. Our empirical analysis exploits variation in RETT rate hikes across German states and over time. Our monthly event study estimates indicate a price response that strongly exceeds the change in the tax burden for single transactions. Twelve months after a reform, a one percentage point increase in the tax rate reduces property prices by on average 3%. Price effects are larger for apartments (−4%) than for single-family houses (−2%). Exploring potential mechanisms, we provide evidence that different holding periods are the main driver of the differential price effect between property types.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48340,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Economics","volume":"145 ","pages":"Article 103717"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142703106","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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Local favoritism in China's public procurement: Information frictions or incentive distortion? 中国政府采购中的地方偏袒：信息摩擦还是激励扭曲？
IF 5.7 1区 经济学
Journal of Urban Economics Pub Date : 2024-11-16 DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2024.103716
Wei TANG , Yuan WANG , Jiameng WU
{"title":"Local favoritism in China's public procurement: Information frictions or incentive distortion?","authors":"Wei TANG ,&nbsp;Yuan WANG ,&nbsp;Jiameng WU","doi":"10.1016/j.jue.2024.103716","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jue.2024.103716","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>This paper aims to disentangle the roles of information frictions and career incentives of local officials in the allocation of government contracts. Drawing on a unique dataset including both winning and losing bidders of public procurement auctions in China, we document a strong local bias in the contract allocation. These patterns are hardly reconciled with explanations rooted in information frictions or corruption. Instead, we highlight the role of local leaders’ career incentives, presenting evidence that local favoritism is more pronounced in localities with more incentivized mayors. Our findings prompt a reconsideration of the effectiveness of bureaucratic discretion in allocating public resources. (JEL H57, H77, H72, D73, R51)</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48340,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Economics","volume":"145 ","pages":"Article 103716"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142656367","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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Commuting, gender and children 通勤、性别和儿童
IF 5.7 1区 经济学
Journal of Urban Economics Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2024.103709
Malte Borghorst , Ismir Mulalic , Jos van Ommeren
{"title":"Commuting, gender and children","authors":"Malte Borghorst ,&nbsp;Ismir Mulalic ,&nbsp;Jos van Ommeren","doi":"10.1016/j.jue.2024.103709","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jue.2024.103709","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>We demonstrate that women with children are much more likely to leave their job when they have a long commute, which is not true for men. Interpreting these results through the lens of a dynamic search model, we demonstrate that commuting costs increase substantially for women after they have children. For women with children, a 12 kilometer increase in commuting distance induces costs equivalent to about 20% of their wage.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48340,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Economics","volume":"144 ","pages":"Article 103709"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142578667","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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China’s commuting-based metropolitan areas 中国以通勤为基础的大都市区
IF 5.7 1区 经济学
Journal of Urban Economics Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2024.103715
Ting Chen , Yizhen Gu , Ben Zou
{"title":"China’s commuting-based metropolitan areas","authors":"Ting Chen ,&nbsp;Yizhen Gu ,&nbsp;Ben Zou","doi":"10.1016/j.jue.2024.103715","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jue.2024.103715","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Using commuting flows derived from cellphone location data at fine geographical levels, this paper presents the first delineation of China’s commuting-based metropolitan areas (MAs). The size distribution of those MAs follows a power law, with larger MAs hosting more skilled workers, more productive firms, and offering higher wage premiums. China’s commuting-based MAs exhibit a few notable features compared to several other large countries. First, commutes are short in both time and distance and rarely cross administrative boundaries. Second, China’s MAs are small relative to the size of the country, with MA sizes highly correlated with the administrative hierarchy. We discuss existing policies that may have contributed to these characteristics. We demonstrate that commuting-based MAs differ substantively from other definitions of Chinese cities. The commuting-based MAs provide a valuable tool for researchers who need to define Chinese cities as local labor markets but are limited by the availability of official delineations.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48340,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Economics","volume":"144 ","pages":"Article 103715"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142662721","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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JUE 2007–2023: Rising impact 觉》2007-2023：不断上升的影响
IF 5.7 1区 经济学
Journal of Urban Economics Pub Date : 2024-11-01 DOI: 10.1016/j.jue.2024.103713
Stuart S. Rosenthal , William C. Strange
{"title":"JUE 2007–2023: Rising impact","authors":"Stuart S. Rosenthal ,&nbsp;William C. Strange","doi":"10.1016/j.jue.2024.103713","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jue.2024.103713","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48340,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Urban Economics","volume":"144 ","pages":"Article 103713"},"PeriodicalIF":5.7,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142662722","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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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