Pub Date : 2025-05-01Epub Date: 2024-05-31DOI: 10.1177/14730952241258693
Federico Savini
Degrowth is gaining traction as a viable alternative to mainstream approaches to sustainability. However, translating degrowth insights into concrete strategies of collective action remains a challenge. To address this challenge, this paper develops a degrowth perspective for strategic spatial planning as well as a strategic approach for degrowth. I argue that a degrowth transition needs to address three strategic issues: depth, agency, and trajectory. Degrowth strategies aim for satiation, the satisfaction of all essential needs in a particular society. To do so, they rely on diffused societal power, raising from existing practices of reduction. Strategies also follow a nonlinear trajectory that seeks to prefigure satiation, popularize it among the masses, and then pressure existing institutions. Strategic spatial planning offers important insights for dealing with these challenges but needs to embrace satiation as a strategic goal. It can do so by creating complementarities between prefigurative practices that perform satiation. The article defines and illustrates these processes by looking at the making of Amsterdam's 'doughnut' strategy.
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Pub Date : 2025-04-03DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2025.104057
Francisco Gomes , Cameron Peng , Oksana Smirnova , Ning Zhu
The literature has documented “reaching for yield”—the phenomenon of investing more in risky assets when interest rates drop—among institutional investors. We analyze detailed transaction data from a large brokerage firm to provide direct field evidence that individual investors also exhibit this behavior. Consistent with models of portfolio choice with labor income, reaching for yield is more pronounced among younger and less-wealthy individuals. Consistent with prospect theory, reaching for yield is more pronounced when investors are trading at a loss. Finally, we observe and discuss the phenomenon of “reverse reaching for yield.”
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Pub Date : 2025-04-03DOI: 10.1016/j.jebo.2025.106989
Jiaowei Gong , Xiangyu Shi , Chang Wang , Xin Zhang
Using a novel city-level high-frequency panel dataset of social and public events in Chinese cities, we document that extreme high temperatures significantly reshape social dynamics. Extreme high temperatures increase social cooperation, and the effects are more pronounced when labor productivity is lower and environmental awareness is higher. Our estimates, combined with a quantitative model, indicate that humanity adapts to climate change in part by reshaping social dynamics. Adaptation offsets nearly 10% of the negative economic impacts of extreme high temperatures. Our quantitative analysis suggests that directly subsidizing cooperation is the most effective strategy for mitigating the adverse effects of extreme high temperatures.
{"title":"Extreme high temperatures and adaptation by social dynamics: Theory and evidence from China","authors":"Jiaowei Gong , Xiangyu Shi , Chang Wang , Xin Zhang","doi":"10.1016/j.jebo.2025.106989","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.jebo.2025.106989","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Using a novel city-level high-frequency panel dataset of social and public events in Chinese cities, we document that extreme high temperatures significantly reshape social dynamics. Extreme high temperatures increase social cooperation, and the effects are more pronounced when labor productivity is lower and environmental awareness is higher. Our estimates, combined with a quantitative model, indicate that humanity adapts to climate change in part by reshaping social dynamics. Adaptation offsets nearly 10% of the negative economic impacts of extreme high temperatures. Our quantitative analysis suggests that directly subsidizing cooperation is the most effective strategy for mitigating the adverse effects of extreme high temperatures.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48409,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization","volume":"234 ","pages":"Article 106989"},"PeriodicalIF":2.3,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143759138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-04-03DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2025.105945
G. Ulpiani , N. Vetters , D. Shtjefni , V. Kozarev , T. Dunlop , A. Guimaraes Pereira
Achieving climate neutrality demands effective urban climate governance and stakeholders' mobilisation. This study conducts a comprehensive analysis of 362 cities' Expressions of Interest (EOI) submitted for the European Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities Mission to examine the prevalence and nature of stakeholder engagement in urban climate action. The analysis involves a combination of descriptive statistics, relationship analysis via Gephi software, and a customised text mining technique (pre-processing, frequency analysis, and clustering). The cities, with populations ranging from 11,148 to 15,000,000 and predominantly located in Europe, reveal a landscape of collaboration efforts that is somewhat proportional to the city size. Citizens and national governments are the principal stakeholders (83 %) with higher governance levels primarily involved in policy and regulation formulation as well as financial support. Over 70 % of cities engage academia, research institutions, and the private sector as key stakeholders, primarily in research and innovation activities. Furthermore, 72.6 % of cities participate actively in inter-city collaborations or are members of relevant networks. Contrastingly, utilities, energy communities, financial institutions, vulnerable groups, and trade unions exhibit suboptimal integration, engaged by less than half of the cities. Optimising collaboration for urban climate neutrality necessitates an enhanced integration of diverse stakeholders, particularly those proximal to marginalised groups, mass mobilisation to leverage the synergistic potential of inter-sectoral and inter-city collaborations, and a transition from predominantly educational initiatives to more comprehensive, participatory engagement practices.
{"title":"Do ambitious cities value collaboration in climate action? Insights from the first group of cities pursuing climate neutrality","authors":"G. Ulpiani , N. Vetters , D. Shtjefni , V. Kozarev , T. Dunlop , A. Guimaraes Pereira","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.105945","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.105945","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Achieving climate neutrality demands effective urban climate governance and stakeholders' mobilisation. This study conducts a comprehensive analysis of 362 cities' Expressions of Interest (EOI) submitted for the European Climate-Neutral and Smart Cities Mission to examine the prevalence and nature of stakeholder engagement in urban climate action. The analysis involves a combination of descriptive statistics, relationship analysis via Gephi software, and a customised text mining technique (pre-processing, frequency analysis, and clustering). The cities, with populations ranging from 11,148 to 15,000,000 and predominantly located in Europe, reveal a landscape of collaboration efforts that is somewhat proportional to the city size. Citizens and national governments are the principal stakeholders (83 %) with higher governance levels primarily involved in policy and regulation formulation as well as financial support. Over 70 % of cities engage academia, research institutions, and the private sector as key stakeholders, primarily in research and innovation activities. Furthermore, 72.6 % of cities participate actively in inter-city collaborations or are members of relevant networks. Contrastingly, utilities, energy communities, financial institutions, vulnerable groups, and trade unions exhibit suboptimal integration, engaged by less than half of the cities. Optimising collaboration for urban climate neutrality necessitates an enhanced integration of diverse stakeholders, particularly those proximal to marginalised groups, mass mobilisation to leverage the synergistic potential of inter-sectoral and inter-city collaborations, and a transition from predominantly educational initiatives to more comprehensive, participatory engagement practices.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"162 ","pages":"Article 105945"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143759808","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-04-03DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2025.105928
Ruidun Chen , Silas Nogueira de Melo , Minxuan Lan , Yuchen Li , Shanhe Jiang , Yanqing Xu
The concept of overlapping surveillance areas from multiple closed-circuit television (CCTV) cameras, known as the “CCTV joint effect,” and its impact on crime reduction may provide valuable insights for crime prevention research and practice. Nonetheless, extant studies fail to provide evidence comparing crime reduction between CCTVs with and without joint effects when installed in a similar environment. This study gap has posed challenges for the assessment and installation of CCTVs. In response to these concerns, we conducted a comparative study utilizing data from 603 partnering businesses that installed CCTVs provided by the “Green Light Project” in Detroit. Employing the weighted displacement difference algorithm, we examined differences in the reduction effect on crime between CCTVs with and without joint effects. The results indicate that the joint effect does not consistently demonstrate a positive impact on the reduction effect of CCTVs. Its impact depends on the number of additional CCTVs, the effective radius, and the crime category. Meanwhile, our findings suggest that the joint effects are more likely to enhance the reduction effect on property crime. If one expects to enhance the reduction effect on violent crimes or the total volume of crime, careful planning of the number and layout of additional CCTVs is necessary. These insights are crucial for optimizing the layout of CCTVs, strengthening crime prevention, and reducing privacy concerns.
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Pub Date : 2025-04-03DOI: 10.1016/j.cities.2025.105924
Ruba Saleh, Philippe Drouillon
Since the 1950s tourism became accessible to many and over the years several trends were mapped and produced. Cultural tourism is relatively a recent phenomenon which initially started as an elitist activity. Cultural heritage is a strong medium of communication, growth and soft power. It impacts the economy, the social health and well-being, the sense of pride and belonging, the environment, and the way people behave and practice daily life, just to mention a few. The COVID-19 crisis spurred the birth of new trends linked to the lack of mobility, quarantine regulations, loneliness and desire to reconnect with nature, heritage and interact with human beings. Under the framework of H2020 project Be.CULTOUR 19 local groups embarked on an innovation route aimed at co-shaping the future of cultural tourism in Be.CULTOUR six partner European region. This paper aims to describe the process and outcomes of this cultural entrepreneurial journey.
{"title":"Innovative cultural entrepreneurship. Testing and prototyping solutions in 6 European regions","authors":"Ruba Saleh, Philippe Drouillon","doi":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.105924","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.cities.2025.105924","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Since the 1950s tourism became accessible to many and over the years several trends were mapped and produced. Cultural tourism is relatively a recent phenomenon which initially started as an elitist activity. Cultural heritage is a strong medium of communication, growth and soft power. It impacts the economy, the social health and well-being, the sense of pride and belonging, the environment, and the way people behave and practice daily life, just to mention a few. The COVID-19 crisis spurred the birth of new trends linked to the lack of mobility, quarantine regulations, loneliness and desire to reconnect with nature, heritage and interact with human beings. Under the framework of H2020 project Be.CULTOUR 19 local groups embarked on an innovation route aimed at co-shaping the future of cultural tourism in Be.CULTOUR six partner European region. This paper aims to describe the process and outcomes of this cultural entrepreneurial journey.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":48405,"journal":{"name":"Cities","volume":"162 ","pages":"Article 105924"},"PeriodicalIF":6.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143759809","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-04-03DOI: 10.1007/s11187-025-01021-6
Peter Wirtz, Max Berre
National venture capitalist (VC) ecosystems are not isolated from each other, and foreign VC species may cross borders when pursuing valuable investment opportunities. The present research demonstrates that VC investments inside or outside VCs’ domestic ecosystems play a significant role in the target ventures’ valuation. VCs trade off familiarity of their domestic ecosystem for valuation. Our results indicate that familiarity with the domestic ecosystem reduces risk, and purely domestic deals consequently carry significantly positive valuation premia. Cross-border deals, on the other hand, have a significantly negative impact on valuation. However, certain comparative ecosystem characteristics, such as institutional shareholder protections and an ecosystem’s comparative competitive advantage, as well as an ecosystem’s relative saturation in terms of money on the market, partially offset the observed cross-border valuation penalty.
{"title":"Connectedness of entrepreneurial ecosystems: the impact of VC financing mobility on startup valuations","authors":"Peter Wirtz, Max Berre","doi":"10.1007/s11187-025-01021-6","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/s11187-025-01021-6","url":null,"abstract":"<p>National venture capitalist (VC) ecosystems are not isolated from each other, and foreign VC species may cross borders when pursuing valuable investment opportunities. The present research demonstrates that VC investments inside or outside VCs’ domestic ecosystems play a significant role in the target ventures’ valuation. VCs trade off familiarity of their domestic ecosystem for valuation. Our results indicate that familiarity with the domestic ecosystem reduces risk, and purely domestic deals consequently carry significantly positive valuation premia. Cross-border deals, on the other hand, have a significantly negative impact on valuation. However, certain comparative ecosystem characteristics, such as institutional shareholder protections and an ecosystem’s comparative competitive advantage, as well as an ecosystem’s relative saturation in terms of money on the market, partially offset the observed cross-border valuation penalty. </p>","PeriodicalId":21803,"journal":{"name":"Small Business Economics","volume":"58 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":6.4,"publicationDate":"2025-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143767076","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"经济学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2025-04-03DOI: 10.1016/j.jpubeco.2025.105346
Daniel Bauer , Darius Lakdawalla , Julian Reif
We extend the conventional life-cycle framework for valuing health and longevity improvements to a stochastic setting with multiple health states and apply it to data on mortality, quality of life, labor earnings, and medical spending for adults with different comorbidities. We find that sick adults are willing to pay nearly twice as much per quality-adjusted life-year (QALY) to reduce mortality risk as healthy adults, and that reducing the risk of serious illness is valued similarly to reducing the risk of mild illness. Our results provide a rational explanation for why people oppose a single threshold value for rationing care and why they invest less in prevention than in treatment.
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Pub Date : 2025-04-03DOI: 10.1016/j.jfineco.2025.104051
Anne Haubo Dyhrberg , Andriy Shkilko , Ingrid M. Werner
We demonstrate that off-exchange (wholesaler) executions provide significant cost savings to retail investors. Wholesaler concentration has raised regulatory concerns; however, we show that the largest wholesalers offer the lowest costs due to economies of scale. The entry of a new large wholesaler reduces incumbent scale economies, resulting in higher execution costs. Most retail brokers route to multiple wholesalers and actively monitor their performance, rewarding those offering lower execution costs with more volume. While retail investors benefit from the current landscape across all stocks, those trading small stocks benefit the most.
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The COVID-19 pandemic was the most complex public health emergency in over a century. During the pandemic, daily behaviors globally shifted due to the health risks and the policies enacted to mitigate its spread. The permanence of these shifts, particularly after the pandemic subsided, has yet to be determined. The experience of Hong Kong showcases patterns of change that are emblematic of a high-density metropolis. To assess how the pandemic has modified the behaviors of Hong Kong's residents and the durability of these changes, we undertook a demographically representative survey from June to September 2022, with a subsequent follow-up in August 2023. This study constructs a panel dataset encompassing pre-pandemic, pandemic, and post-pandemic periods to analyze shifts in behaviors such as telecommuting, transportation mode choices, dining habits, shopping practices, and Internet use. Our findings reveal several pandemic-induced behavioral trends that diverge from existing literature, offering new insights into behavioral change and its persistence as a result of global health and safety crises, particularly in a high-density urban context. These insights contribute to a deeper understanding of emerging norms in the post-pandemic era and enhance preparedness for future public health challenges.
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