: The first is the widespread adoption of telephony; the second is the internet. We study the implications of these changes … in ICT for urban structure. We find robust evidence that increases in the number of telephone lines per capita lead to a … activity in space. The evidence on internet usage is more speculative, although it goes in the same direction. This empirical …

: The first is the widespread adoption of telephony; the second is the internet. We study the implications of these changes … in ICT for urban structure. We find robust evidence that increases in the number of telephone lines per capita lead to a … activity in space. The evidence on internet usage is more speculative, although it goes in the same direction. This empirical …

the framework of ‘the new quantitative trade model.’ We complement theory with a simple two-stage estimating procedure …

the trade literature and the international real business cycle literature. The same theory-motivated estimating equation …

influential in recent policy discussions. It notes potentially important features of the real- world environment that the standard …