We use the expansion of the high-speed rail network in Germany as a natural experiment to examine the causal effect of reductions in commuting time between regions on the commuting decisions of workers and their choices regarding where to live and where to work. We exploit three key features in...

We analyze productivity enhancing public expenditure in a spatial economic model with labor mobility, firm-specific increasing returns to scale, and transport costs. Building on Krugman (1991), Fujita, Krugman and Venables (1999) and Redding (2016), we compare optimal investment and tax policies...

The Bandung Conference connotes a distinctly Afro-Asian moment in time and space; the advancement of a decidedly Third World movement. However, Archbishop Makarios’ participation at the conference, representing a Cyprus still under colonial rule, conjured the possibilities of a fledgling...