Research Papers

Title  Author 
Urbanization, population transition and growth   Zhang, 2002 
Trade and the structure of cities  Cavailhès, 2007 
Monopolistic Competition and Optimum Product Diversity  Dixit and Stiglitz, 1977 
Is urban gaming simulation useful?  Cecchini, 2001 
Where Do Firms Locate?  O’Sullivan, 2005 (chapter 4
Market Areas and Central Place Theory  O’Sullivan, 2005 (chapter 5
Introduction to Land Rent  O’Sullivan, 2005 (chapter 7
The Urban Education Problem  O’Sullivan, 2005 (chapter 15
The Core-Periphery Model of Regional Agglomeration  O’Sullivan, 2007 
New Economic Geography in Germany: Testing the Helpman-Hanson model   Brakman, 2001 
Human capital formation in the new growth theory: the role of ‘social factors’  Carillo, 2002 
The Evolution of Human Life Expectancy and Intelligence in Hunter-Gatherer Economies  Robson, 2003 
Population aging and economic growth: political economy and open economy effects  Tosun, 2003 
Cities, Regions and the Decline of Transport Costs  Glaeser, 2003 
The Economic Value of Cultural Diversity: Evidence from US Cities  Ottaviano, 2004 
Privatisation and nationalisation in the 21st century  Quiggin, 2002 
“Social Assets”  Mailath and Postlewaite, 2004 
The Roots of Low European Employment: Family Culture?  Algan, 2005 
Culture and Institutions: Economic Development in the Regions of Europe  Tabellini, 2005 
The Role of Community in Migration Dynamics  Vergalli, 2006 
Modeling Spatial Sustainability: Spatial Welfare Economics versus Ecological Footprint  Grazi, 2006 
The economic impact of ageing populations in the EU25 Member States  Carone, 2005 
Population Aging  Weil, 2006 
The Dynamics of the Age Structure, Dependency, and Consumption  Hock and Weil, 2006 
The backbone of a city  Scellato, 2006 
International Migration: A Panel Data Analysis of the Determinants of Bilateral Flows  Mayda, 2007 
Measuring Trends in Leisure: The Allocation of Time over Five Decades  Aguiar and Hurst, 2007 
The Demand for Variety: A Household Production Perspective  Hamermesh, 2007 
Sustaining Employment of Older Workers in an Ageing Society  Biffl, 2005 
Age Management – a Coping Strategy for Employers. The Case of the Automotive Industry  Biffl, 2006 
Forschungsstandort Wien: Zur Rolle der Humanressourcen  Biffl, 2007 
Entwicklung des Arbeitskräfteangebotes in Österreich bis 2025  Biffl, 2006 
Development of the Distribution of Household Income in Austria  Biffl, 2007 
Changes in the Distribution of Family Hours Worked Since 1950  McGrattan and Rogerson, 2007 
Inequality of Life Chances and the Measurement of Social Immobility  Silber, 2007 
Too old to work, too young to retire?  Ichino, 2007 
Education, Unemployment and Migration  Eggert, 2007 
The Political Economy of Intergenerational Cooperation  Cigno, 2003 
Pensions and Fertility Incentives  Fenge, 2003 
Pension, Fertility, and Education  Meier, 2005 
Intra-generational Externalities and Inter-generational Transfers  Kolmar and Meier, 2005 
Survivor Benefits and the Gender Tax Gap in Public Pension Schemes: Observations from Germany  Werding, 2005 
Agglomeration and endogenous capital  Baldwin, 1999 
Agglomeration and Welfare: The core-periphery model in the light of Bentham, Kaldor, and Rawls  Thisse, 2003 
The Role of Social Capital in Economic Development. Investigating the Causal Nexus through Structural Equations Models  Sabatini, 2006 
The double dividend of postponing retirement  Cremer, 2003 
Collective Memory, Social Capital and Integration  Dessi, 2003 
Social Capital and Collusion: The Case of Merchant Guilds  Ogilvie, 2003 
Endogenous Political Institutions  Aghion, Alesina and Trebbi, 2004 
Age and Great Invention  Jones, 2005 
Demographics and the Political Sustainability of Pay-as-you-go Social Security  Bergstrom, 2005 
The American Time Use Survey  Hamermesh, 2005 
The Impact of Social Structure on Economic Outcomes  Granovetter, 2005 
The Interactions-Based Approach to Socioeconomic Behaviour  Blume and Durlauf, 2000 
Social Capital and economic opportunities  Crudeli, 2006 
Three simple models of social capital and economic growth  Chow, 2006 
The Puzzle of Social Capital. A Critical Review  Quibria, 2003 
Networks of Relations and Social Capital  Lippert, 2005 
Social Interaction Models  Durlauf, 2004 
Age, Socioeconomic Status and Obesity Growth  Baum, 2007 
Are the Elderly a Thteat to Educational Expenditures?  Cattaneo, 2007 
Retirement and Consumption in a Life Cycle Model  Blau, 2007 
The Biological Basis of Economic Behavior  Robson, 2001 
Biological Basics and the Economics of the Family  Cox, 2007 
Marriage and Divorce: Changes and their Driving Forces  Stevenson, 2007 
Heuristics and Biases in Retirement Savings Behavior  Benartzi, 2007 
Ethnic Diversity and Economic Performance  Alesina and La Ferrara, 2007 
Urban Sprawl  Nechyba, 2004 
The role of ageing in the growth of government and social welfare spending in the OECD  Sanz, 2007 
Death and taxes: their implications for endogenous growth  Reinhart, 1999 
Cultural Diversity and Economic Solidarity  Pagano, 2007 
Public–private partnerships and government spending limits  Maskin, 2007 
Religious participation and income  Lipford, 2003 
Finite lifetimes and government spending in an endogenous growth model  Kosempel, 2004 
To sum up: avoiding unsustainable futures  Hence et al, 2003 
Measuring Trust  Glaeser et al, 2000 
How does ageing affect the welfare state?  Galasso, 2007 
Population ageing and economic growth in seven OECD countries  Fougere, 2007 
Prevalence of overweight and obesity in rural and urban settings of 10 European countries  Faeh et al, 2007 
‘‘Beyond the Melting Pot’’: Cultural Transmission, Marriage, and the Evolution of Ethnic and Religious Traits  Bisin, 2000 
Network Effects and Welfare Cultures  Bertrand, 2000 
Participation in Heterogeneous Communities  Alesina, 2000 
Economics and Identity  Akerlof, 2000 
Women, Work and Culture  Fernandez,2007 
Public Action for Public Goods  Banerjee, 2007 
The Political Origin of Pension Funding  Perotti, 2007 
Identity, Dignity and Taboos: Beliefs as Assets  Benabou and Tirole, 2007 
The Welfare Effects of Pay-as-you-Go Retirement Programs: The Role of Tax and Benefit Timing  Viard et al, 2007 
Debt, Deficits, and Finite Horizons  Blanchard, 1985 
Direct multi-step Estimation and Forecasting  Chevillon, 2007 
Invention in the city: Increasing returns to patenting as a scaling function of metropolitan size  Bettencourt, 2007 
The Effect of Information and Communication Technologies on Urban Structure  Ioannides, 2007 
Social Dynamics of Obesity  Burke, 2007 
An Experimental Test on Retirement Decisions  Fatas, 2007 
A Global Pension Plan  Blackburn, 2007 
Diversity and power in the world city network  Hoyler et al, 2002 
Transnationale Organisationsstrukturen, vernetzte Städte  Hoyler, 2005 
Does Social Capital have an Economic Payoff? A cross-country Investigation  Knack, 1997 
The Economic Approach to Cities  Glaeser, 2007a 
Eentrepreneurship and the City  Glaeser, 2007b 
What Causes Industry Agglomeration? Evidence from Coagglomeration Patterns  Glaeser, 2007d 
Do Regional Economies need Regional Coordination?  Glaeser, 2007e 
The Divergence of Human Capital Levels across Cities  Glaeser, 2005a 
Education and Consumption: The Effects of Education in the Household Compared to the Marketplace  Becker, 2007 
The changing role of Family Income and Ability in determining Educational Achievement  Belley, 2007 
The Evolution of Income and Fertility Inequalities over the Course of Economic Development: A Human Capital Perspective  Ehrlich, 2007 
Beschäftigungsprognose bis 2008  Fritz et al., 2002 
Constructing Regional Input-Output Tables for Austria  Fritz et al., 2003 
Zur Fortschreibung des Wohnungsbestandes in Österreich  Streicher, 2003 
High tech or Not Tech  Streicher et al., 2007 
PROMETEUS: Ein multisektorales makroökonomisches Modell der österreichischen Wirtschaft  Kratena und Wüger, 2006 
Vienna and the CENTROPE Region: An International Business Perspective  Meth-Cohn, 2006 
Globalization:A Historical Perspective  Taylor, 2006 
Ein halbes Jahrhundert des Erfolges: Der ökonomische Austieg Österreichs seit 1950   Kausel, 2002 
Impact of first Occupation on Health at Older Ages  Sindelar et al, 2007 
Social Capital as Good Culture  Guiso, 2007 
Rational and Behavioral PEerspectives on the Role of Annuities in Retirement Planning  Brown, 2007 
Labor Market Status and Transitions during the Pre-Retirement Years  Kapteyn et al, 2007 
Ageing in Austria: An overview of “Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement in Europe (SHARE) with special focus on aspects of health  Buber, 2007 
Public pension expenditure in the EPC and the European Commission projections: an analysis of the projection results  Salomäki, 2006 
Pension Systems, Ageing and the Stability and Growth Pact  Beetsma et al, 2007 
National Differences in Subjective Well-Being: The Interactive Effects of Extraversion and Neuroticism  Lynn and Steel, 2006 
Hope I Die Before I Get Old: Mispredicting Happiness across the Adult Lifespan  Lacey et al, 2006 
The Economics of Networks  Economides, 1995 
A Framework for Assessing the Global Diffusion of the Internet  Wolcott, 2001 
Ökonomisches, kulturelles und soziales Kapital  Bourdieu, 1992 
Federalism, Fertility and Growth  Borck, 2007 
The Economics of Networks  Economides, 1995 
Understanding the formation of social networks  Santos and Barrett, 2007 
Educating Urban Children  Murnane, 2008 
The Retirement of a Consumption Puzzle  Hurst, 2008 
The Dynamics of City Formation  Henderson and Venables, 2008 
Planning and Financial Literacy: How Do Women Fare?  Lusardi and Mitchell, 2008 
The Effect of Hours of Work on Social Interaction  Saffer and Lamiraud, 2008 
A Theory of Retirement  Bloom et al, 2007 
The Political-Economy Positive Role of the Social Security System in Sustaining Immigration (But Not Vice Versa)  Sand and Razin, 2007 
Measuring the Values for Time  Palmquist,, 2007 
Environmental Economics  Stavins, 2007 
How to Measure Labour Market Effects of Immigration: A Review  Okkerse, 2008 
Predicting the macroeconomic effects of abstract and concrete events  Roos, 2008 
Separation of powers and the budget process  Grossman and Helpman, 2008 
Segregation, Social Polarization and Immigration in Athens during the 1990s: Theoretical Expectations and Contextual Difference  Maloutas, 2007 
The Role of Dynamic Capabilities and Social Capital in Breaking Socio-Institutional Inertia in RegionalDevelopment  Pihkala et al, 2007 
Contextualizing Research on Social Capital in Regional Clusters  Staber, 2007 
There’s More Than One Way to be ‘Serious’ about City-Regions  Jonas and Ward, 2007 a 
Taking City Regions Seriously? Response to Debate on ‘City-Regions: New Geographies of Governance, Democracy and Social Reproduction’  Harding, 2007 
Introduction to a Debate on City-Regions: New Geographies of Governance, Democracy and Social Reproduction  Jonas and Ward, 2007 b 
Inequality and Politics in the Creative City-Region: Questions of Livability and State Strategy  McCann, 2007 
City-Regions and Social Reproduction: A ‘Place’ for Sustainable Development?  Krueger and Savage, 2007 
Networks, Regional Development and Democratic Control  Hadjimichalis and Hudson, 2006 
Variations in Immigrant Incorporation in the Neighborhoods of Amsterdam  Logan, 2006 
Cross-border Small-scale Trading in South-Eastern Europe: Do Embeddedness and Social Capital Explain Enough?  Egbert, 2006 
Employment, Social Mobility and Neighbourhood Effects: The Case of Sweden  Musterd and Andersson, 2006 
Connecting Time and Space: The Significance of Transformations in Women’s Work in the City  McDowell et al, 2006 
Changer la Ville: A Rejoinder  Castells, 2006 
Global Visions and Grassroots Movements: An Anthropological Perspective  Susser, 2006 
The Political Economy of International Financial Governance  Redak et al, 2004 
Austria between West and East  Becker et al, 1999 
Recentering the City  Lake, 2006 
The Empirics of Social Capital and Economic Development: A Critical Perspective  Sabatini, 2006 
Labour Market Institutions and the Employment Intensity of Output Growth  Flaig, 2008 
Are any Growth Theories Robust?  Durlauf et al, 2008 
E-Cognocracy and the Participation of Immigrants in E-Governance  Moreno-Jiménez and Polasek, 2005 
E-Democracy and Knowledge  Moreno-Jiménez and Polasek, 2003 
A Wage Based Measure of Regional Aggregate Human Capital  De Silva, 2004 
Reevaluating the Modernization Hypothesis  Acemoglu et al, 2008 
The Impact of Administrative Power on Political and Economic Development: Toward Political Economy of Implementation  Greif, 2007 
The Retirement of a Consumption Puzzle  Hurst, 2008 
Ageing and Productivity Growth: Are there macro-level Cohort Effects of Human Capital?  Werding, 2008 
Policy Challenges of Population Aging in Ireland  Botman, 2008 
Does Social Capital Mitigate Precariousness?  Sabatini, 2008 
A Theoretical Framework and Methodology for Characterising National Urban Systems  Limtanakool, 2007 
Consumption and Social Life in Cities: Evidence from Germany  Borck, 2007 
Population Dynamics in Ethnically Diverse Towns: The Long-term Implications of Immigration  Simpson, 2008 
The Mills-Muth Model of Urban Spatial Structure  Spivey, 2008 
Wealth, Human Capital and Family across Racial/Ethnic Groups  Woldoff, 2008 
Inside the City: On Urbanisation, Public Policy and Planning  Scott, 2008 
Participatory Budgeting in Europe: Potentials and Challenges  Sintomer et al., 2008 
Collective culture and urban public space  Amin, 2008 
Urban Density, Creativity, and Innovation  Knudsen et al, 2007 
Sweden in the Creative Age  Florida et al, 2007 
Emergent Cities: Micro-foundations of Zipf’s Law  Axtell, 2006 
Zipf’s Law for cities: a cross-country investigation  Soo, 2005 
The formation and growth of specialized cities: efficiency without developers or Malthusian traps  Anas, 2005 
Review of Richard Florida’s The Rise of the Creative Class  Glaeser, 2005 
Review of Masahisa Fujita, Jacques-Franc¸ois Thisse, Economics of Agglomeration: Cities, Industrial Location and Regional Growth  Pines, 2005 
Transport subsidies, system choice, and urban sprawl  Brueckner, 2005 
Some foundations for Zipf 's law: Product proliferation and local spillovers  Duranton, 2006 
Urbanization and city growth: The role of institutions  Henderson, 2007 
Future research on urban transportation network modeling  Boyce, 2007 
Towards the new economic geography in the brain power society  Fujita, 2007 
Ceteris paribus, spatial complexity and spatial equilibrium. An interpretative perspective  Nijkamp, 2007 
Spatial configurations in a periurban city. A cellular automata-based microeconomic model  Caruso, 2007 
Transport costs, capital mobility and the provision of local public goods  Ihara, 2008 
An analytical model for the formation of economic clusters  Chincarini, 2008 
The Panexponential Monocentric Model  Anas et al, 2000 
How does fiscal decentralization affect aggregate, national, and subnational government size?  Jin and Zou, 2002 
The mix of public inputs under tax competition  Matsumoto, 2004 
Property taxation and local public spending: the renter effect  Oates, 2005 
Revisiting the “Decentralization Theorem”—On the role of externalities  Koethenbuerger, 2007 
The interaction between public and private governments: An empirical analysis  Cheung, 2008 
Expenditure spillovers and fiscal interactions: Empirical evidence from local governments in Spain  Solé-Ollé, 2006 
A discrete-space urban model with environmental amenities  Tajibaeva et al, 2008 
Economic Linkages Across Space  Overman et al, 2008 
How do Immigrants Fare in Retirement?  Sevak et al, 2007 
Trends in the Labor Force Participation of Married Women  House et al, 2007 
Housing Wealth and Retirement Timing  Farnham et al, 2008 
Social Capital  Durlauf and Fafchamps, 2008 
Monocentric versus Polycentric Models in Urban Economics  Mori, 2006 
When and Where is a City Fractal?  Benguigui et al, 2006 
A dynamic model for city size distribution beyond Zipf ’s law  Benguigui and Blumenfeld-Lieberthal, 2007a 
Role of Intermittency in Urban Development: A Model of Large-Scale City Formation  Zanette, 1997 
Ageing in Inner Cities. The Residential Dilemmas of the Baby Boomer Generation  Bonvalet and Ogg, 2007 
Do planners cause sprawl? The impact of characteristic time on developers’ behavior  Czamanski and Roth, 2007 
Beyond the power law – a new approach to analyze city size distributions  Benguigui and Blumenfeld-Lieberthal, 2007b 
Modeling urban growth in Atlanta using logistic regression  Hu and Lo, 2007 
Modeling gentrification dynamics: A hybrid approach  Torrens and Nara, 2007 
Interactive evolutionary approaches to multiobjective spatial decision making:A synthetic review  Xiao et al, 2006 
Topology matters: Network topology affects outcomes from community ecology neutral models  White and Kiester, 2008 
The geography of mortality in the Atlanta metropolitan area  Holt and Lo, 2008 
Social area analysis, data mining, and GIS  Spielman and Thill, 2008 
Microsimulating urban systems  Miller et al, 2003 
CityDev, an interactive multi-agents urban model on the web  Semboloni et al, 2004 
Peripheral Diversity and Redistribution  Desmet et al, 2005 
An Aggregative Model of Resource Allocation in a Metropolitan Area  Mills, 1967 
Entry, Exit and Investment-Specific Technical Change  Samaniego, 2008 
Tales from the Real Side: The Implications of Urban Research for Real Estate Finance in Developing and Transition Economies  Malpezzi, 2000 
Computer Simulation of the Alonso Household Location Model  Bolton,1996 
Labor Quality, the Demand for Skills,and Market Selection  Rosen, 1977 
Fertility in Austria: An Overview  Sobotka, 2005 
“Vienna: a city beyond aging”–revisited and revised  Lutz et al., 2003 
Austrian health expenditures exhibit an age profile  Riedel, 2003 
Die Dynamik ethnischer Wohnviertel in Wien  Kohlbacher, 2007 
The Equilibrium Approach to Labor Markets  Rosen, 1983 
European Welfare State Regimes and Their Generosity Toward the Elderly  Börsch-Supan, 2006 
Economic Perspectives on Aging  Papadimitriou, 2007 
Why So Much Centralization? A Model of Primitive Centripetal Accumulation  Figuet, 2004 
People I Know: Job Search and Social Networks  Cingano, 2008 
Investing for the Old Age: Pensions, Children and Savings  Galasso, 2008 
International Migration, Ethnicity and Economic Inequality  Zimmermann, 2008 
The costs and benefits of providing open space in cities  Rouwendal, 2008 
Cultural Authenticity and Regional Development  Kutty, 2008 
Making Autocracy Work  Besley, 2007 
Migration dynamics  Moretto, 2008 
Public Social Spending in Korea in the Context of Rapid Population Ageing  Jones, 2008 
Die Neue Ökonomische Geographie: Ein Überblick  Pflüger, 2008 
The Private Internal Rates of Return to Tertiary Education  Boarini, 2007 
From individual attitudes towards migrants to migration policy outcomes: Theory and evidence  Facchini, 2008 
Is migration a good substitute for education subsidies?  Docquier, 2008 
The Intergenerational Transmission of Risk and Trust Attitudes  Dohmen, 2008 
Return Migration as a Channel of Brain Gain  Mayr, 2008 
Is the Obesity Epidemic a Public Health Problem? A Decade of Research on the Economics of Obesity  Philipson, 2008 
Healthy, Wealthy, and Wise: Socioeconomic Status, Poor Health in Childhood, and Human Capital Development  Currie, 2008 
Productivity Growth, Knowledge Flows, and Spillovers  Crespi et al, 2008 
The Economic Causes of Obesity: A Survey  Odelia Rosin, 2008 
Social Security and Retirement Decision: A Positive and Normative Approach  Cremer, 2007 
Productivity and Structural Change: A Review of the Literature  Krüger, 2008 
MOEL: Wachstumsvorsprung gegenüber Westeuropa bleibt erhalten  Astrov, 2008 
Migration, the Quality of the Labour Force and Economic Inequality  Kahanec and Zimmermann, 2008 
Local Social Capital and Geographical Mobility: Some Empirics and a Conjecture on the Nature of European Unemployment  Quentin et al, 2008 
Local Social Capital and Geographical Mobility: A Theory  Quentin et al, 2008 
Do the elderly reduce housing equity? An international comparison  Chiuri and Jappelli, 2008 
The Greenness of Cities: Carbon Dioxide Emissions and Urban Development  Glaeser and Kahn, 2008 
Human Capital and Economic Activity in Urban America  Abel and Gabe, 2008 
Richard Florida’s Creative Capital in a Trading Regional Economy: A Theoretical Investigation  Batabyal and Nijkamp, 2008 
Can Policy Interact with Culture? Minimum Wage and the Quality of Labor Relations  Aghion et al., 2008 
Socioeconomic Status and Health: Dimensions and Mechanisms  Cutler and al., 2008 
Marriage and Divorce: Changes and their Driving Forces  Stevenson and Wolfers, 2007 
Social Capital and Urban Growth  Glaeser and Redlick, 2008