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Spatial Concentration of Manufacturing Firms in China

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Zhao, Zhao - 2014

Applying the methodology developed by Duranton and Overman (2005, 2008), we analyze localization and dispersion of … Japan. Localization is comparable to that in the US, and takes place at relative small scales that are consistent with the … size of Chinese cities. Localization increases rapidly, even in the relative short period between 2002 and 2008, especially …

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On the Productivity Advantage of Cities

Jacob, Nick; Mion, Giordano - 2020

Ever since Marshall (1890) agglomeration externalities have been viewed as the key factor explaining the existence of cities and their size. However, while the various micro foundations of agglomeration externalities stress the importance of Total Factor Productivity (TFP), the empirical...

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International Trade with Heterogeneous Firms: Theory and Evidence

Bonfiglioli, Alessandra; Crinò, Rosario; Gancia, Gino - 2021

International trade is dominated by a small number of very large firms. Models of trade with heterogeneous firms have been developed to study the causes and consequences of this observation. The canonical model of trade with heterogeneous firms shows that trade leads to between-firm...

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Endogenous Spatial Production Networks: Quantitative Implications for Trade and Productivity

Panigrahi, Piyush - 2021

Larger Indian firms selling inputs to other firms tend to have more customers, tend to be used more intensively by their customers, and tend to have larger customers. Motivated by these regularities, I propose a novel empirical model of trade featuring endogenous formation of input-output...

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Productivity, Place, and Plants: Revisiting the Measurement

Schoefer, Benjamin; Ziv, Oren - 2021

Why do cities differ so much in productivity? We document that most of the measured dispersion in productivity across US cities is spurious and reflects granularity bias: idiosyncratic heterogeneity in plant-level productivity and size, combined with finite plant counts. As a result, economies...

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Concentration in International Markets: Evidence from US Imports

Bonfiglioli, Alessandra; Crinò, Rosario; Gancia, Gino - 2021

We use transaction-level data to study changes in the concentration of US imports. Concentration has fallen in the typical industry, while it is stable by industry and origin country. The fall in concentration is driven by the extensive margin: the number of exporting firms has grown, and the...

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