CEO incentive contracts are commonplace in China but their incidence varies significantly across Chinese cities. We …

Why are some cities specialised and others diversified? What are the advantages and disadvantages of urban … specialisation and diversity? To what extent does the structure of cities, and the activities of the firms and people in them, change … over time? How does the sectoral composition of cities and influence their evolution? To answer these and related questions …

structure, from a configuration where cities specialise by sector and host integrated headquarters and production plants, to a … configuration where cities specialise by function, with headquarters from different sectors and business services clustered in a few … large cities and production plants from each sector clustered in smaller separate cities. …

To identify communication externalities in French cities, we exploit a unique survey recording workplace communication … of individual workers. Our hypothesis is that in larger and/or more educated cities, workers should communicate more. In …

specialised cities coexist. New products are developed in diversified cities, trying processes borrowed from different activities …. On finding their ideal process, firms switch to mass-production and relocate to specialised cities with lower costs. When … in equilibrium, this configuration welfare-dominates those with only diversified or only specialised cities. We find …

London is one of the world’s major cities, and one of its most diverse. London’s cultural diversity is widely seen as a …

models that capture these first and second nature economic geographies. The presence of increasing returns to scale in cities …

diversity and co-ethnic networks play? And do cities amplify or dampen these channels? I explore using a rich dataset of over 6 … (particularly big cities) may amplify any demographics-performance effects. I create a repeat cross-section of firms from the RDA … diverse' probably result from external constraints. Further tests for intervening effects of capital cities, metropolitan …