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Is India's Manufacturing Sector Moving Away From Cities?
Ghani, Ejaz; Goswami, Arti Grover; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2012
This paper investigates the urbanization of the Indian manufacturing sector by combining enterprise data from formal and informal sectors. We find that plants in the formal sector are moving away from urban and into rural locations, while the informal sector is moving from rural to urban...
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Urban Accounting and Welfare
Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban; Desmet, Klaus - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
This paper proposes a simple theory of a system of cities that decomposes the determinants of the city size …
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The Comparative Advantage of Cities
Davis, Donald R.; Dingel, Jonathan I. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
What determines the distributions of skills, occupations, and industries across cities? We develop a theory to jointly …, their internal urban structures, and a high-dimensional theory of factor-driven comparative advantage. It predicts that … manufacturing industries. The results provide support for our theory's predictions. …
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Micro-Foundations of Urban Agglomeration Economies
Puga, Diego; Duranton, Giles - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003
This handbook chapter studies the theoretical micro-foundations of urban agglomeration economies. We distinguish three types of micro-foundations, based on sharing, matching, and learning mechanisms. For each of these three categories, we develop one or more core models in detail and discuss the...
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Why Has House Price Dispersion Gone Up?
Van Nieuwerburgh, Stijn; Weill, Pierre-Olivier - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2006
We investigate the 30 year increase in the level and dispersion of house prices across U.S. metropolitan areas in a calibrated dynamic general equilibrium island model. The model is based on two main assumptions: households flow in and out metropolitan areas in response to local wage shocks, and...
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Trade and the Topography of the Spatial Economy
Allen, Treb; Arkolakis, Costas - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
We develop a versatile general equilibrium framework to determine the spatial distribution of economic activity on any surface with (nearly) any geography. Combining the gravity structure of trade with labor mobility, we provide conditions for the existence, uniqueness, and stability of a...
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Goods Prices and Availability in Cities
Weinstein, David; Handbury, Jessie - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
This paper uses detailed barcode data on purchase transactions by households in 49 U.S. cities to overcome a large number of problems that have plagued spatial price index measurement. We identify two important sources of bias. Heterogeneity bias arises from comparing different goods in...
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The Impact of Regional and Sectoral Productivity Changes on the U.S. Economy
Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban; Sarte, Pierre Daniel; … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
We study the impact of intersectoral and interregional trade linkages in propagating disaggregated productivity changes to the rest of the economy. Using regional and industry data we obtain the aggregate, regional and sectoral elasticities of measured TFP, GDP, and employment to regional and...
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Firm Fragmentation and Urban Patterns
Rossi-Hansberg, Esteban; Sarte, Pierre Daniel; III, … - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2005
well as the number and size of establishments in different sections of the metropolitan area. We then propose a theory of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005084663
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Cities, Regions and the Decline of Transport Costs
Glaeser, Edward Ludwig; Kohlhase, Janet E. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2003
The theoretical framework of urban and regional economics is built on transportation costs for manufactured goods. But over the twentieth century, the costs of moving these goods have declined by over 90% in real terms, and there is little reason to doubt that this decline will continue....
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