Daniel Felsenstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 1473935 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Daniel Felsenstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Daniel |
| FAMILY NAME | Felsenstein |
| SIGNATURE | FELSENSTEIN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-0682-672X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 34 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Incorporating Inverse Reinforcement Learning in Urban Agent-Based Modeling: (Re-)Introducing Agent Heterogeneity
Increasing the realism of agent-based models requires the definition of behavioral mechanisms and rules. Knowledge regarding parameter values and even functional forms for defining this behavior is not always available, leading to arbitrariness in models. Machine learning approaches expose the dynamics underlying empirical data and can assist in overcoming this obstacle. Extending previous work, this article contributes by developing an approach …
Short and long-run effects of inter-governmental redistribution of property tax on housing supply
This paper investigates the short and long-run effects of the inter-governmental redistribution of property tax on housing supply. For the short-run analysis, we leverage a property tax policy reform as an exogenous shock and use propensity score matching DID to establish the causal linkage between property tax redistribution and housing supply. We find that policy reform changes the behavior of local governments, internalizing fiscal competition…
Viewshed effects and house prices: Identifying the visibility value of the natural landscape
Long-term housing affordability in spatial general equilibrium
We argue that housing affordability is as much about incomes as it is about house prices. Consequently, a comprehensive analysis of housing affordability should be conducted in which incomes and house prices are determined through the specification of labor, capital and product markets in addition to housing markets. A spatial econometric model for Israel is used to study the effects on the regional distribution of housing affordability of income…
Cascades - Mapping the multi-disciplinary landscape in a post-pandemic world
Cascading effects of a disaster on the labor market over the medium to long term
Is planning delay really a constraint in the provision of housing? Some evidence from Israel
A Spatially Accurate Method for Evaluating Distributional Effects of Ecosystem Services
Supply side constraints in the Israeli housing market—The impact of state owned land
Assessing land use plan implementation: Bridging the performance-conformance divide
Factors Affecting Regional Productivity and Innovation in Israel: Some Empirical Evidence
Felsenstein D. Factors affecting regional productivity and innovation in Israel: some empirical evidence, Regional Studies. The role of human capital and physical capital in determining regional productivity and innovation is examined. Two specific mechanisms through which knowledge becomes an inherently regional asset are investigated: the generation of local externalities (a stock mechanism) and human capital accumulation and mobility (a flow m…
Is property assessment really essential for taxation? Evaluating the performance of an ‘Alternative Assessment’ method
Marshallian theory of regional agglomeration
Regional Heterogeneity, Conditional Convergence and Regional Inequality
Beenstock M. and Felsenstein D. Regional heterogeneity, conditional convergence and regional inequality, Regional Studies. The paper stresses the importance of accounting for regional heterogeneity in the dynamic analysis of regional economic disparities. Studies of regional growth mainly presume that regions are homogeneous in their socio-demographic composition. It is argued that the analysis of regional convergence needs to be tested condition…
Multipliers, Markups, and Mobility Rents: In Defense of 'Chain Models' in Urban and Regional Analysis
Social scientists have long used 'chain' metaphors, yet their methodological justification remains somewhat hazy. This paper offers a rationale for using chains to measure changes in economic welfare in urban and regional contexts. In contrast to the Marshallian surplus, which well describes situations in which price changes generate rents in a single market, chains are especially useful in markets where changes lead to the transmission of demand…
Terror, Fear and Behaviour in the Jerusalem Housing Market
This paper tests the hypothesis that fear is a central factor in understanding human behaviour in the face of terror. This claim is addressed in the context of behaviour in the Jerusalem housing market over the terror-stricken years in the city, 1999—2004. Using a unique data source and the tools of spatial data analysis, the paper provides support for this hypothesis in three respects. First, patterns of terror in the city are shown to be increa…
Regional Disparities in Small Countries
Emerging Nodes in the Global Economy: Frankfurt and Tel Aviv Compared
Estimating the impacts of crossborder competition: The case of gambling in Israel and Egypt
Support for rural tourism
Casino Gambling as Local Growth Generation: Playing the Economic Development Game in Reverse
Over the past decade, casino gambling has become increasingly popular as a local economic development strategy. This article makes the case that using gambling as an economic development tool presupposes a rather different economicdevelopment “game” from that traditionally played. While the introduction of gambling into a community might induce the same short-run effects (local jobs and incomes) as the introduction of any other economic developme…
Books Reviews
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The Making of a High Technology Node: Foreign-owned Companies in Israeli High Technology
FELSENSTEIN D. (1997) The making of a high technology node: foreign-owned companies in Israeli high technology, Reg. Studies 31, 367‐380. This paper conceptualizes the role of Israel's high technology sector as that of a node in a global production network. A node can be characterized by the intensity of the incoming and outgoing flow of information, investments and so on, that pass through it. Foreign investment is one indicator of the centralit…
High Technology Firms and Metropolitan Locational Choice in Israel; A Look at the Determinants
This paper investigates the tendency of high technology firms in Israel to choose metropolitan locations. A series of hypotheses are presented that link this spatial behavior with the firms' life cycle characteristics, its' network context and technological characteristics. These hypotheses are then structured in a causal framework and the choice of metropolitan location is modeled as a discrete choice problem. Firm behavior is taken as utility-m…
The University in the Metropolitan Arena: Impacts and Public Policy Implications
This paper estimates some of the impacts associated with a metropolitan university. The impact of the university in the metropolitan arena is conceptualised as a series of backward (expenditure) and forward (knowledge-related) linkages. These relationships can be both positive and negative and can operate in both the short and long terms. Their correct identification requires that the counter-factual situation of the area without the university b…
Support for rural tourism
Assessing land use plan implementation: Bridging the performance-conformance divide
The University in the Metropolitan Arena: Impacts and Public Policy Implications
This paper estimates some of the impacts associated with a metropolitan university. The impact of the university in the metropolitan arena is conceptualised as a series of backward (expenditure) and forward (knowledge-related) linkages. These relationships can be both positive and negative and can operate in both the short and long terms. Their correct identification requires that the counter-factual situation of the area without the university b…
Technological Profile and Industrial Structure: Implications for the Development of Sophisticated Industry in Peripheral Areas
BAR-EL R. and FELSENSTEIN D. (1989) Technological profile and industrial structure: implications for the development of sophisticated industry in peripheral areas, Reg. Studies 23, 253–266. This paper outlines the prospects for the development of sophisticated industry in peripheral and semi-peripheral areas. The debate on this issue usually presents a rigid and bifurcated image of large capital-intensive plants in the periphery and the seemingly…
Terror, Fear and Behaviour in the Jerusalem Housing Market
This paper tests the hypothesis that fear is a central factor in understanding human behaviour in the face of terror. This claim is addressed in the context of behaviour in the Jerusalem housing market over the terror-stricken years in the city, 1999—2004. Using a unique data source and the tools of spatial data analysis, the paper provides support for this hypothesis in three respects. First, patterns of terror in the city are shown to be increa…
Supply side constraints in the Israeli housing market—The impact of state owned land
Casino Gambling as Local Growth Generation: Playing the Economic Development Game in Reverse
Over the past decade, casino gambling has become increasingly popular as a local economic development strategy. This article makes the case that using gambling as an economic development tool presupposes a rather different economicdevelopment “game” from that traditionally played. While the introduction of gambling into a community might induce the same short-run effects (local jobs and incomes) as the introduction of any other economic developme…
Locational and Organizational Determinants of R&D Employment in High Technology Firms
FELSENSTEIN D. and SHACHAR A. (1988) Locational and organizational determinants of R&D employment in high technology firms, Reg. Studies 22, 477–486. A causal model is presented that predicts the relationship between the organizational structure and location of the high technology firm on the one hand and its R&D employment intensity on the other. The organizational structure of the firm is treated in two ways. The intra-organizational (internal)…
Regional Heterogeneity, Conditional Convergence and Regional Inequality
Beenstock M. and Felsenstein D. Regional heterogeneity, conditional convergence and regional inequality, Regional Studies. The paper stresses the importance of accounting for regional heterogeneity in the dynamic analysis of regional economic disparities. Studies of regional growth mainly presume that regions are homogeneous in their socio-demographic composition. It is argued that the analysis of regional convergence needs to be tested condition…
Is property assessment really essential for taxation? Evaluating the performance of an ‘Alternative Assessment’ method
Spawning the Growth Process in a Non‐central Location; The Case of High Technology Industry in Jerusalem
Estimating the impacts of crossborder competition: The case of gambling in Israel and Egypt
The Making of a High Technology Node: Foreign-owned Companies in Israeli High Technology
FELSENSTEIN D. (1997) The making of a high technology node: foreign-owned companies in Israeli high technology, Reg. Studies 31, 367‐380. This paper conceptualizes the role of Israel's high technology sector as that of a node in a global production network. A node can be characterized by the intensity of the incoming and outgoing flow of information, investments and so on, that pass through it. Foreign investment is one indicator of the centralit…
High Technology Firms and Metropolitan Locational Choice in Israel; A Look at the Determinants
This paper investigates the tendency of high technology firms in Israel to choose metropolitan locations. A series of hypotheses are presented that link this spatial behavior with the firms' life cycle characteristics, its' network context and technological characteristics. These hypotheses are then structured in a causal framework and the choice of metropolitan location is modeled as a discrete choice problem. Firm behavior is taken as utility-m…
Entrepreneurship and rural industrialization: Comparing urban and rural patterns of locational choice in Israel
Is planning delay really a constraint in the provision of housing? Some evidence from Israel
Factors Affecting Regional Productivity and Innovation in Israel: Some Empirical Evidence
Felsenstein D. Factors affecting regional productivity and innovation in Israel: some empirical evidence, Regional Studies. The role of human capital and physical capital in determining regional productivity and innovation is examined. Two specific mechanisms through which knowledge becomes an inherently regional asset are investigated: the generation of local externalities (a stock mechanism) and human capital accumulation and mobility (a flow m…
Marshallian theory of regional agglomeration
Multipliers, Markups, and Mobility Rents: In Defense of 'Chain Models' in Urban and Regional Analysis
Social scientists have long used 'chain' metaphors, yet their methodological justification remains somewhat hazy. This paper offers a rationale for using chains to measure changes in economic welfare in urban and regional contexts. In contrast to the Marshallian surplus, which well describes situations in which price changes generate rents in a single market, chains are especially useful in markets where changes lead to the transmission of demand…
The Spatial Linkage Patterns of Israeli Firms: Implications for Regional Industrial Development
New Technology and Regional Development
Spawning the Growth Process in a Non‐central Location; The Case of High Technology Industry in Jerusalem
Locational and Organizational Determinants of R&D Employment in High Technology Firms
FELSENSTEIN D. and SHACHAR A. (1988) Locational and organizational determinants of R&D employment in high technology firms, Reg. Studies 22, 477–486. A causal model is presented that predicts the relationship between the organizational structure and location of the high technology firm on the one hand and its R&D employment intensity on the other. The organizational structure of the firm is treated in two ways. The intra-organizational (internal)…
Technological Profile and Industrial Structure: Implications for the Development of Sophisticated Industry in Peripheral Areas
BAR-EL R. and FELSENSTEIN D. (1989) Technological profile and industrial structure: implications for the development of sophisticated industry in peripheral areas, Reg. Studies 23, 253–266. This paper outlines the prospects for the development of sophisticated industry in peripheral and semi-peripheral areas. The debate on this issue usually presents a rigid and bifurcated image of large capital-intensive plants in the periphery and the seemingly…
Entrepreneurship and rural industrialization: Comparing urban and rural patterns of locational choice in Israel
Assessing the employment effectiveness of small business financing schemes: Some evidence from Israel
Urban Economic Development and High Technology Industry
This paper examines the economic development prospects for urban areas arising from localised clusters of high technology activity. Economic development opportunities are expected to be expressed in the development of local linkage patterns: employment linkages, production and service linkages and linkages to local universities. On the basis of survey evidence of high technology firms from two urban areas in Israel, linkage patterns are found to …
The Spatial Linkage Patterns of Israeli Firms: Implications for Regional Industrial Development
University-related science parks — ‘seedbeds’ or ‘enclaves’ of innovation?
Large High-technology Firms and the Spatial Extension of Metropolitan Labour Markets: Some Evidence from Israel
The role of large high-technology firms in fashioning the spatial extent of the labour markets that serve them, is examined in this paper. It is argued that the demand for highly skilled labour in these firms results in their active role in labour market extension through a strategy of employee transport. This makes for employment mobility without a commensurate impact on residential mobility. It can also result in the 'inclusion' or 'exclusion' …
Science Parks
High Technology Firms and Metropolitan Locational Choice in Israel; A Look at the Determinants
This paper investigates the tendency of high technology firms in Israel to choose metropolitan locations. A series of hypotheses are presented that link this spatial behavior with the firms' life cycle characteristics, its' network context and technological characteristics. These hypotheses are then structured in a causal framework and the choice of metropolitan location is modeled as a discrete choice problem. Firm behavior is taken as utility-m…
The University in the Metropolitan Arena: Impacts and Public Policy Implications
This paper estimates some of the impacts associated with a metropolitan university. The impact of the university in the metropolitan arena is conceptualised as a series of backward (expenditure) and forward (knowledge-related) linkages. These relationships can be both positive and negative and can operate in both the short and long terms. Their correct identification requires that the counter-factual situation of the area without the university b…
The Making of a High Technology Node: Foreign-owned Companies in Israeli High Technology
FELSENSTEIN D. (1997) The making of a high technology node: foreign-owned companies in Israeli high technology, Reg. Studies 31, 367‐380. This paper conceptualizes the role of Israel's high technology sector as that of a node in a global production network. A node can be characterized by the intensity of the incoming and outgoing flow of information, investments and so on, that pass through it. Foreign investment is one indicator of the centralit…
Casino Gambling as Local Growth Generation: Playing the Economic Development Game in Reverse
Over the past decade, casino gambling has become increasingly popular as a local economic development strategy. This article makes the case that using gambling as an economic development tool presupposes a rather different economicdevelopment “game” from that traditionally played. While the introduction of gambling into a community might induce the same short-run effects (local jobs and incomes) as the introduction of any other economic developme…
Books Reviews
n Contains fulltext :\n 132342.pdf (Publisher’s version ) (Closed access)\n
Support for rural tourism
Estimating the impacts of crossborder competition: The case of gambling in Israel and Egypt
Emerging Nodes in the Global Economy: Frankfurt and Tel Aviv Compared
Regional Disparities in Small Countries
Terror, Fear and Behaviour in the Jerusalem Housing Market
This paper tests the hypothesis that fear is a central factor in understanding human behaviour in the face of terror. This claim is addressed in the context of behaviour in the Jerusalem housing market over the terror-stricken years in the city, 1999—2004. Using a unique data source and the tools of spatial data analysis, the paper provides support for this hypothesis in three respects. First, patterns of terror in the city are shown to be increa…
Regional Heterogeneity, Conditional Convergence and Regional Inequality
Beenstock M. and Felsenstein D. Regional heterogeneity, conditional convergence and regional inequality, Regional Studies. The paper stresses the importance of accounting for regional heterogeneity in the dynamic analysis of regional economic disparities. Studies of regional growth mainly presume that regions are homogeneous in their socio-demographic composition. It is argued that the analysis of regional convergence needs to be tested condition…
Multipliers, Markups, and Mobility Rents: In Defense of 'Chain Models' in Urban and Regional Analysis
Social scientists have long used 'chain' metaphors, yet their methodological justification remains somewhat hazy. This paper offers a rationale for using chains to measure changes in economic welfare in urban and regional contexts. In contrast to the Marshallian surplus, which well describes situations in which price changes generate rents in a single market, chains are especially useful in markets where changes lead to the transmission of demand…
Marshallian theory of regional agglomeration
Is property assessment really essential for taxation? Evaluating the performance of an ‘Alternative Assessment’ method
Economics (25 works) · Geography (23 works) · Business (16 works) · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis (13 works) · Economic geography (12 works) · Political science (12 works) · Regional science (12 works) · Computer Science (9 works) · Housing Market and Economics (9 works) · Microeconomics (8 works)