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How did Location Affect Adoption of the Commercial Internet? Global Village, Urban Density, and Industry Composition

Forman, Chris - 2003

The authors test opposing theories on how urban locations influenced the diffusion of Internet technology. They find … evidence that, controlling for industry, participation in the Internet is more likely in rural areas than in urban areas …. Nevertheless, talk of the dissolution of cities is premature. Frontier Internet technologies appear more often at establishments in …

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Flattening the Curve : Pandemic-Induced Revaluation of Urban Real Estate

Gupta, Arpit; Mittal, Vrinda; Peeters, Jonas; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We show that the COVID-19 pandemic brought house price and rent declines in city centers, and price and rent increases away from the center, thereby flattening the bid-rent curve in most U.S. metropolitan areas. Across MSAs, the flattening of the bid-rent curve is larger when working from home...

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Housing Demand and Remote Work

Mondragon, John; Wieland, Johannes - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

What explains record U.S. house price growth since late 2019? We show that the shift to remote work explains over one half of the 23.8 percent national house price increase over this period. Using variation in remote work exposure across U.S. metropolitan areas we estimate that an additional...

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The Agglomeration of Urban Amenities : Evidence from Milan Restaurants

Leonardi, Marco; Moretti, Enrico - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

In many cities, restaurants and retail establishments are spatially concentrated. Economists have long recognized the presence of demand externalities that arise from spatial agglomeration as a possible explanation, but empirically identifying this type of spillovers has proven difficult. We...

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Delineating Urban Areas Using Building Density

de Bellefon, Marie-Pierre - 2019

We develop a new dartboard methodology to delineate urban areas using detailed information about building location, which we implement using a map of all buildings in France. For each pixel, our approach compares actual building density after smoothing to counterfactual smoothed building density...

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The Making of the Modern Metropolis : Evidence from London

Heblich, Stephan - 2018

Modern metropolitan areas involve large concentrations of economic activity and the transport of millions of people each day between their residence and workplace. We use the revolution in transport technology from the invention of steam railways, newly-constructed spatially-disaggregated data...

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Cities, Productivity, and Trade

Marin, Alvaro Garcia - 2020

We document a novel stylized fact: Using data for several countries, we show that export activity is disproportionately concentrated in larger cities - even more so than overall economic activity. We account for this fact by marrying elements of international trade and economic geography. We...

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Urban Growth Shadows

Cuberes, David; Desmet, Klaus; Rappaport, Jordan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Does a location's growth benefit or suffer from being geographically close to large economic centers? Spatial proximity may lead to competition and hurt growth, but it may also improve market access and enhance growth. Using data on U.S. counties and metro areas for the period 1840-2017, we...

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Consumption Access and Agglomeration : Evidence from Smartphone Data

Miyauchi, Yuhei; Nakajima, Kentaro; Redding, Stephen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

We provide new theory and evidence on the role of consumption access in understanding the agglomeration of economic activity. We combine smartphone data that records user location every 5 minutes of the day with economic census data on the location of service-sector establishments to measure...

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Urban Accounting and Welfare

Desmet, Klaus - 2010

This paper proposes a simple theory of a system of cities that decomposes the determinants of the city size distribution into three main components: efficiency, amenities, and frictions. Higher efficiency and better amenities lead to larger cities, but also to greater frictions through...

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