's human capital accumulation function in the periphery are incorporated. I show how migration affects the inter … help increase the per-capita human capital levels, if free uncontrolled migration leads to a reduction in human capital …

The commonly-used satellite images of nighttime lights fail to capture the true brightness of most cities. We show that …. Applying this approach to cities in Sub-Saharan Africa, we find that primate cities are outgrowing secondary cities but are …

theory characterizes how innovation and learning determine technology gaps, trade and global income inequality. Countries … innovation-dependence by industry from R&D and bilateral trade data. Calibrating the model implies technology gaps, due to cross …

as the Mexican Drug War. The empirical strategy uses spatiotemporal variation in violence across Mexican cities and an … controls for observable and unobservable differences across cities and firms as well as for product-specific business cycles …-intensity within firms. It also deters domestic, but not international, trade. The effect of the violence shock on firms is very …

This paper explores official trade data to identify patterns of smuggling in international trade. Our main measure of … interest is the difference in matched partner trade statistics, i.e., the extent to which the recorded export value in the … with the level of corruption in both partner countries. This finding supports the hypothesis that trade gaps partly …

exchange. This paper re-examines the causes of the outstanding success of the Champagne fairs in mediating international trade …

This paper analyses the effect of international borders and of trade agreements at international borders on subnational … 1950 and 2017. Our results show that international borders decrease regional income per capita, while trade agreements at … international borders increase regional income per capita by about the same magnitude. The positive marginal effect of trade …

production. Pollution, as a force that discourages agglomeration, is caused by domestic production. We show that cities are too …