effects on home and job location, on land use, and on agglomeration benefits are hard to pin down. We develop a spatial …

cities toughen competition, allowing only the most productive to survive) and agglomeration economies (larger cities promote … a generalised version of a tractable firm selection model and a standard model of agglomeration. Stronger selection in … larger cities left-truncates the productivity distribution whereas stronger agglomeration right-shifts and dilates the …

that industrial agglomeration improves the quality of the firm-worker matching process. Our method makes use of recent …

This paper provides a simple theory of geographical mobility which simultaneously explains people’s choice of … of production which seeks to obtain the highest possible economic return. Our theory comprehends applications to …

historically emerged as the core. The agglomeration rent which accrues to the mobile factor gives unions and governments in the …

and city population. This paper embeds a “black box” agglomeration economy within a more neoclassical general equilibrium … and wages move in the same direction under neo-classical assumptions, agglomeration economies in production, congestion in … variables, although some of these effects are ambiguous in the production agglomeration model. If natural advantage and housing …

We use disaggregated data on Chilean plants, and the Chilean input-output table to examine the impact of agglomeration … downstream customers also has no effect. Agglomeration effects are stronger for small than for large plants. …