The future demand for industrial sites in the Netherlands: is employment a good predictor, Regional Studies. Popular forecasting models for long-term planning of industrial sites assume a strong linear relationship between employment and land use. New Dutch panel data on the...
Limited attention has been paid to how neighbourhood conditions affect firm relocation choices. Using a panel dataset (1999-2006) of actual firm relocations in the Netherlands, the effect of different neighbourhood conditions on the firm’s propensity to relocate has been...
Place-based smart specialisation strategies are one of the prerequisites to access Structural Funds as of 2014. However, policy research analysing regional smart specialisation strategies has been hampered by data deficiencies. This is particularly the case for empirical...
Currently, place-based development policies are proposed for future cohesion policy and have taken the shape of smart specialisation strategies. These strategies are one of the prerequisites to access Structural Funds as of 2014. Smart specialisation strategies are based on a...
Rocketing rents in urban areas are likely explained by agglomeration economies. This paper investigates the impact of these external economies on commercial property values, using unique micro data on commercial rents and employment.
Using detailed Dutch grid-cell data, PBL Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency and VU University Amsterdam investigated the elasticity between population and different kinds of amenities in the Netherlands, for both employment and the number of the establishments. This...
This paper looks at the integration of a population–employment interaction model in the TIGRIS XL model framework. TIGRIS XL is an integrated land-use and transport model which is actually a system of modules (sub-models) that allows dynamic interaction between these modules....
Dutch top sector policy is aimed at the economic sectors that are the most important to the international competitive position of the Netherlands, such as the knowledge-intensive and export-oriented sectors. To date, the spatial aspects of this policy are not very elaborate....
Many European countries use mixed housing policies to decrease the spatial concentration of low-income households. Also in the Netherlands, social housing in deprived neighbourhoods is being demolished and replaced by more expensive dwellings. The idea is that these new...
Hedonic price modelling is a widely used technique to explain the value of different types of properties. Following the notion that city areas may suffer from devaluation, poses the question of what would be the factors that influence the value of urban areas. For this paper,...
