This paper studies regional economic development on the municipality-level in Poland and Germany along the Oder–Neisse border. We use high-quality satellite night-time light intensity data as an innovative and comparable measure to proxy for overall economic activity on both sides of the border consistently over a long period of time (1992–2012). We use descriptive heat maps as well as regression analysis ...
The morphology of today’s cities is the result of historic urban developments and ongoing urban transformation resulting in complex urban spatial structures. While functionally as well as spatially, cities are structured into sub-units such as the city center, business districts, residential areas or industrial and commercial zones, their precise localization in the geographic space is sometimes difficult. ...
A relative uniformity of population distribution on the territory of the country is of importance from socio-economic and strategic perspectives. It is especially important in the case of Russia with its densely populated West and underpopulated East. This paper considers changes in population density in Russian regions, which occurred between 1897 and 2017. It explores whether there was convergence ...
Die Industrie ist für die Leistungsfähigkeit der deutschen Wirtschaft ein zentraler Bereich. Hier konnte Ostdeutschland die Lücke im Produktivitätsniveau zu Westdeutschland zwischen 2004 und 2014 um ein Drittel verringern. Ostdeutsche Unternehmen liegen im Effizienzniveau (Totale Faktorproduktivität) aber noch immer gut 20 Prozent zurück. Die strukturellen Unterschiede in der Unternehmenslandschaft ...
Private rental markets have become increasingly important since the Global Financial Crisis 2008–2009 and rent controls are back on the political agenda. Yet, they have received less attention from housing scholars than homeownership and public housing. This paper presents new data on the development of private tenancy legislation based on a content-coding of rent control, protection of tenants from ...
Climate change and biodiversity loss trigger policies worldwide, many of which target or impact local communities. Although research, international development, and policy implementation (and, thus, success in fighting both threats) require thoughtful consideration and communication of the underlying concepts, field work encounters a cascade of tangible barriers. Technoscientific representations of ...
The relationship between urbanization, the brain, and human mental health is subject to intensive debate in the current scientific literature. Particularly, since mood and anxiety disorders as well as schizophrenia are known to be more frequent in urban compared to rural regions.Here, we investigated the association between cerebral signatures, mental health and land use indicators (Urban Fabric and ...
US-Handelsrestriktionen belasten Finanzmärkte – Aktienkurse und Anleiherenditen geben nach Zollerhöhungen und ähnlichen Maßnahmen nach – Wirkung hält bis zu fünf Monate an – Fast alle Branchen und Handelspartner sind negativ betroffen – Rückkehr zur multilateralen Handelsordnung wäre wünschenswert Erst Ende Juli hat US-Präsident ...
Alexander S. Kritikos, Forschungsdirektor am DIW Berlin, äußert sich zu den Folgen der Krise in Thüringen: