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Metropolitan Cities under Transition: The Example of Hamburg/Germany

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  • Amelie Boje

    (University of Aberdeen)

  • Ingrid Ott

    (Institute of Economics, Leuphana University of Lüneburg, Germany)

  • Silvia Stiller

    (Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWI))

Abstract

In the intermediate and long run energy prices and hence transportation costs are expected to increase significantly. According to the reasoning of the New Economic Geography this will strengthen the spreading forces and thus affect the economic landscape. Other influencing factors on the regional distribution of economic activity include the general trends of demographic and structural change. In industrialized countries, the former induces an overall reduction of population and labor force whereas the latter implies an ongoing shift to the tertiary sector and increased specialization. Basically, cities provide better conditions to cope with these challenges than rural regions. Since the general trends affect all economic spaces similarly, city-specific factors also have to be considered in order to derive the impact of rising energy costs on future urban development. With respect to Hamburg regional peculiarities include the overall importance of the harbor as well as the existing composition of the industry and the service sector. The analysis highlights that rising energy and transportation costs will open up a range of opportunities for the metropolitan region.

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  • Amelie Boje & Ingrid Ott & Silvia Stiller, 2010. "Metropolitan Cities under Transition: The Example of Hamburg/Germany," Working Paper Series in Economics 164, University of Lüneburg, Institute of Economics.
  • Handle: RePEc:lue:wpaper:164
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    1. Peter Mayerhofer & Oliver Fritz, 2013. "Wiens Stadtwirtschaft. Internationale Spezialisierungschancen, zentrale Wirtschaftsbereiche," WIFO Studies, WIFO, number 57933, February.
    2. Stiller, Silvia, 2012. "Hamburg: Wissensbasierter Strukturwandel beeinflusst die Standortpolitik," Forschungs- und Sitzungsberichte der ARL: Aufsätze, in: Kauffmann, Albrecht & Rosenfeld, Martin T. W. (ed.), Städte und Regionen im Standortwettbewerb, volume 127, pages 163-180, ARL – Akademie für Raumentwicklung in der Leibniz-Gemeinschaft.

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    Keywords

    urban development; regional specialization; structural change; demographic change; transportation costs.;
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    JEL classification:

    • R11 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
    • J11 - Labor and Demographic Economics - - Demographic Economics - - - Demographic Trends, Macroeconomic Effects, and Forecasts

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