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No. 2014/11 | 22 Dec 2014 |
Breathing the Same Air? Measuring Air Pollution in Cities and Regions
This paper presents a new set of estimates of exposure to air pollution (fine particulate matter - PM2.5) at the city, regional and national levels for the 34 OECD countries, and at the regional and national levels for Brazil, China, India, Russia... |
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No. 2014/10 | 22 Dec 2014 |
Income Inequality, Urban Size and Economic Growth in OECD Regions
The purpose of this paper is to understand how income inequality is associated with economic growth in OECD regions and whether the degree and type of urban concentration affects this relationship. Both income inequality and urban concentration can... |
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No. 2014/09 | 07 Oct 2014 |
Exploring Policy Complementarities in Transition Economies
Policy complementarities have often been overlooked in transition economies, leading to the exclusion or partial adoption of reforms. This paper examines the key determinants of successful transition strategies, and concludes that an approach... |
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No. 2014/08 | 19 Aug 2014 |
Metropolitan Governance of Transport and Land Use in Chicago
This study aims to assess the degree of institutional fragmentation of transport and land use planning in Chicago and to assess the main challenges related to this institutional fragmentation. It provides an overview of local governments in... |
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No. 2014/07 | 30 Jul 2014 |
Does Regional Economic Growth Depend on Proximity to Urban Centres?
This paper analyses the spatial patterns of regional economic growth in Europe over the 1995 to 2010 period. It finds that regions, which contain large urban agglomerations, have been growing significantly faster than those that do not. Furthermore,... |
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No. 2014/06 | 22 May 2014 |
A Sub-national Perspective on Financing Investment for Growth II - Creating Fiscal Space for Public Investment
Sub-national governments (SNGs) are key players for public investment in OECD countries, responsible for nearly two-thirds of it. At the same time, both the well-being of the population and economic performance depend on an adequate provision of... |
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No. 2014/05 | 16 May 2014 |
What Makes Cities More Productive? Evidence on the Role of Urban Governance from Five OECD Countries
This paper estimates agglomeration benefits based on city productivity differentials across five OECD countries (Germany, Mexico, Spain, United Kingdom, and United States). It highlights the relationship between cities’ governmental fragmentation and... |
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No. 2014/04 | 14 May 2014 |
The OECD Metropolitan Governance Survey
Even though metropolitan areas account for half of the population, and an even larger share of economic activity of OECD countries, almost no systematic information on governance structures in these areas exists. This study – based on a novel data... |
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No. 2014/03 | 22 Apr 2014 |
Approaches to Metropolitan Area Governance
This paper provides an overview of country specific approaches to metropolitan area governance. It provides brief descriptions of the typical structures of metropolitan governance, with a particular focus on the involved organisations. It points out... |
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No. 2014/02 | 22 May 2014 |
A Sub-national Perspective on Financing Investment for Growth I - Measuring Fiscal Space for Public Investment
Sub-national governments are key players for public investment, as they are responsible on average for 62% of total public investment in OECD countries. This article analyses the different factors affecting sub-national governments’ fiscal space for... |
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No. 2014/01 | 14 Apr 2014 |
Assessing Polycentric Urban Systems in the OECD
Contemporary urban systems in OECD countries are structured around functional regions, which often overcome established city boundaries. Reading space in terms of functional regions allows assessing changes in urban hierarchies and spatial... |
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No. 2013/28 | 24 Dec 2013 |
The Contribution of Regions to Aggregate Growth in the OECD
This paper investigates the contribution of regions to aggregate growth in the OECD. We find a great degree of heterogeneity in the performance of OECD TL3 regions and among the OECD regional typology (urban, intermediate and rural). While the... |
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No. 2013/27 | 17 Dec 2013 |
On City Size Distribution
An increasing amount of empirical evidence documents that city-size distribution within a country follows a power law, often in the form of Zipf’s law. This paper provides new comparative evidence on city size distribution across OECD countries. It... |
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No. 2013/26 | 16 Dec 2013 |
Urban Climate Adaptation and Leadership
The impacts of climate change are expected to create numerous challenges for cities. This report synthesizes key points raised in a series of discussions among “adaptation leaders” from fourteen cities around the world. Critical issues for urban... |
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No. 2013/25 | 16 Dec 2013 |
The Effectiveness of Port-City Policies
The relation between ports and their cities have evolved: it is no longer evident that well-functioning ports have automatically a net positive impact on the port-city. There are various trajectories and many ports and port-cities attempt to... |
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No. 2013/24 | 03 Dec 2013 |
The Port and its Environment
In times of increasing environmental awareness, the port-city relationship has gained a new meaning since ports have been seen as the origin of both negative and positive externalities affecting the public wellbeing. While the former are the result... |
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No. 2013/23 | 28 Nov 2013 |
The Competitiveness of Global Port-Cities: The Case of Shanghai, China
This working paper offers an evaluation of the performance of the port of Shanghai, an analysis of the impact of the port on its territory and an assessment of policies in this field. It examines port performance over the last decades and identifies... |
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No. 2013/22 | 11 Dec 2013 |
The Case of the Top Technology Region/Eindhoven-Leuven-Aachen Triangle (TTR-ELAt) – Regions and Innovation: Collaborating Across Borders
The Top Technology Region/Eindhoven-Leuven-Aachen triangle (TTR-ELAt) is an initiative to support cross-border collaboration in a densely populated network of small and medium-sized cities located at the heart of western Europe with an annual... |
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No. 2013/21 | 11 Dec 2013 |
The case of Oresund (Denmark-Sweden) – Regions and Innovation: Collaborating Across Borders
The Oresund is the most well-known example of European cross-border collaboration, building on the metropolitan area around Copenhagen and, across the sound, southern Sweden with the cities of Malmö, Lund and Helsingborg. Cross-border integration... |
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No. 2013/20 | 12 Dec 2013 |
The Case of Ireland-Northern Ireland (United Kingdom) – Regions and Innovation: Collaborating Across Borders
The island of Ireland, which includes both Ireland and Northern Ireland (United Kingdom), is home to 6.4 million people and has a combined economic output of USD 205 billion. Several cross-border institutions were created in response to the 1998... |
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Breathing the Same Air? Measuring Air Pollution in Cities and Regions
Monica Brezzi et Daniel Sanchez-Serra
22 Dec 2014
This paper presents a new set of estimates of exposure to air pollution (fine particulate matter - PM2.5) at the city, regional and national levels for the 34 OECD countries, and at the regional and national levels for Brazil, China, India, Russia...
Income Inequality, Urban Size and Economic Growth in OECD Regions
Vicente Royuela, Paolo Veneri et Raul Ramos
22 Dec 2014
The purpose of this paper is to understand how income inequality is associated with economic growth in OECD regions and whether the degree and type of urban concentration affects this relationship. Both income inequality and urban concentration can...
Exploring Policy Complementarities in Transition Economies
Jibran J. Punthakey
07 Oct 2014
Policy complementarities have often been overlooked in transition economies, leading to the exclusion or partial adoption of reforms. This paper examines the key determinants of successful transition strategies, and concludes that an approach...
Metropolitan Governance of Transport and Land Use in Chicago
Olaf Merk
19 Aug 2014
This study aims to assess the degree of institutional fragmentation of transport and land use planning in Chicago and to assess the main challenges related to this institutional fragmentation. It provides an overview of local governments in...
Does Regional Economic Growth Depend on Proximity to Urban Centres?
Rudiger Ahrend et Abel Schumann
30 Jul 2014
This paper analyses the spatial patterns of regional economic growth in Europe over the 1995 to 2010 period. It finds that regions, which contain large urban agglomerations, have been growing significantly faster than those that do not. Furthermore,...
A Sub-national Perspective on Financing Investment for Growth II - Creating Fiscal Space for Public Investment
Camila Vammalle, Rudiger Ahrend et Claudia Hulbert
22 May 2014
Sub-national governments (SNGs) are key players for public investment in OECD countries, responsible for nearly two-thirds of it. At the same time, both the well-being of the population and economic performance depend on an adequate provision of...
What Makes Cities More Productive? Evidence on the Role of Urban Governance from Five OECD Countries
Rudiger Ahrend, Emily Farchy, Ioannis Kaplanis et Alexander C. Lembcke
16 May 2014
This paper estimates agglomeration benefits based on city productivity differentials across five OECD countries (Germany, Mexico, Spain, United Kingdom, and United States). It highlights the relationship between cities’ governmental fragmentation and...
The OECD Metropolitan Governance Survey
Rudiger Ahrend, Catherine Gamper et Abel Schumann
14 May 2014
Even though metropolitan areas account for half of the population, and an even larger share of economic activity of OECD countries, almost no systematic information on governance structures in these areas exists. This study – based on a novel data...
Approaches to Metropolitan Area Governance
Rudiger Ahrend et Abel Schumann
22 Apr 2014
This paper provides an overview of country specific approaches to metropolitan area governance. It provides brief descriptions of the typical structures of metropolitan governance, with a particular focus on the involved organisations. It points out...
A Sub-national Perspective on Financing Investment for Growth I - Measuring Fiscal Space for Public Investment
Claudia Hulbert et Camila Vammalle
22 May 2014
Sub-national governments are key players for public investment, as they are responsible on average for 62% of total public investment in OECD countries. This article analyses the different factors affecting sub-national governments’ fiscal space for...
Assessing Polycentric Urban Systems in the OECD
Monica Brezzi et Paolo Veneri
14 Apr 2014
Contemporary urban systems in OECD countries are structured around functional regions, which often overcome established city boundaries. Reading space in terms of functional regions allows assessing changes in urban hierarchies and spatial...
The Contribution of Regions to Aggregate Growth in the OECD
Enrique Garcilazo et Joaquim Oliveira Martins
24 Dec 2013
This paper investigates the contribution of regions to aggregate growth in the OECD. We find a great degree of heterogeneity in the performance of OECD TL3 regions and among the OECD regional typology (urban, intermediate and rural). While the...
On City Size Distribution
Paolo Veneri
17 Dec 2013
An increasing amount of empirical evidence documents that city-size distribution within a country follows a power law, often in the form of Zipf’s law. This paper provides new comparative evidence on city size distribution across OECD countries. It...
Urban Climate Adaptation and Leadership
JoAnn Carmin, David Dodman et Eric Chu
16 Dec 2013
The impacts of climate change are expected to create numerous challenges for cities. This report synthesizes key points raised in a series of discussions among “adaptation leaders” from fourteen cities around the world. Critical issues for urban...
The Effectiveness of Port-City Policies
Olaf Merk et Thai-Thanh Dang
16 Dec 2013
The relation between ports and their cities have evolved: it is no longer evident that well-functioning ports have automatically a net positive impact on the port-city. There are various trajectories and many ports and port-cities attempt to...
The Port and its Environment
Salvador del Saz-Salazar, Leandro García-Menéndez et Olaf Merk
03 Dec 2013
In times of increasing environmental awareness, the port-city relationship has gained a new meaning since ports have been seen as the origin of both negative and positive externalities affecting the public wellbeing. While the former are the result...
The Competitiveness of Global Port-Cities: The Case of Shanghai, China
Zhen Hong, Olaf Merk, Zhao Nan, Jing Li, Xu Mingying, Xie Wenqing, Du Xufeng et Wang Jinggai
28 Nov 2013
This working paper offers an evaluation of the performance of the port of Shanghai, an analysis of the impact of the port on its territory and an assessment of policies in this field. It examines port performance over the last decades and identifies...
The Case of the Top Technology Region/Eindhoven-Leuven-Aachen Triangle (TTR-ELAt) – Regions and Innovation: Collaborating Across Borders
Claire Nauwelaers, Karen Maguire et Giulia Ajmone Marsan
11 Dec 2013
The Top Technology Region/Eindhoven-Leuven-Aachen triangle (TTR-ELAt) is an initiative to support cross-border collaboration in a densely populated network of small and medium-sized cities located at the heart of western Europe with an annual...
The case of Oresund (Denmark-Sweden) – Regions and Innovation: Collaborating Across Borders
Claire Nauwelaers, Karen Maguire et Giulia Ajmone Marsan
11 Dec 2013
The Oresund is the most well-known example of European cross-border collaboration, building on the metropolitan area around Copenhagen and, across the sound, southern Sweden with the cities of Malmö, Lund and Helsingborg. Cross-border integration...
The Case of Ireland-Northern Ireland (United Kingdom) – Regions and Innovation: Collaborating Across Borders
Claire Nauwelaers, Karen Maguire et Giulia Ajmone Marsan
12 Dec 2013
The island of Ireland, which includes both Ireland and Northern Ireland (United Kingdom), is home to 6.4 million people and has a combined economic output of USD 205 billion. Several cross-border institutions were created in response to the 1998...