markets. This approach explains a variety of features exhibited in disaggregated trade data, including the higher productivity … industry and firm productivity. …

There is a substantial empirical literature quantifying the positive relationship between city size and productivity …. The paper draws out the implications of this productivity relationship for evaluations of urban transport improvements. A … theoretical model is developed and used to derive a wider cost-benefit measure that includes productivity effects. The order of …

. Consequently, trade does not always increase firm-level aggregate productivity as negative shocks on the home market can be …

neoclassical theories, the results show that even a small difference in the ex-ante productivity distribution between North and …

How well does the theory of the firm explain the choice between intrafirm and arms' length trade? This paper uses firm …

firms, and the fact that larger firms supply more products than smaller firms, implies that standard productivity measures … are not independent of demand system assumptions and probably dramatically understate the relative productivity of the …

This paper develops an idea flows theory of trade and growth with heterogeneous firms. New firms learn from incumbent … technology distribution. By shifting the productivity distribution upwards, selection on productivity causes technology diffusion … and this complementarity generates endogenous growth without scale effects. On the balanced growth path, the productivity …

elasticity and multiple asymmetric regions, in which trade integration induces wage and productivity changes. Using Canada …-US interregional trade data, we structurally estimate a theory-based gravity equation system featuring endogenous wages and … productivity. Given the estimated parameter values, we first decompose border effects into a pure border effect, relative and …

that skyscrapers are caused by agglomeration economies and a prize for being the tallest, so a reputation effect. We aim to … sum of a within-building agglomeration effect and a reputation effect. Using semiparametric techniques, we disentangle … reputation effects from agglomeration effects and demonstrate that the reputation effect is substantial for tall buildings. For …