suffer from primacy. However, FDI is attracted if surrounding countries have fewer cities, restrictions on international … substantial natural resource exports. Countries also attract more FDI if they have more medium-sized cities and primacy is not too … trade and low market potential (income per capita). We tentatively conclude that cities are important drivers of FDI and …

and natural and historical trade networks played a vital role in urban recovery. Our study highlights the role played by …The Black Death killed 40% of Europe’s population between 1347-1352, making it one of the largest shocks in the history … growth. On average, cities recovered their pre-Plague populations within two centuries. In addition, aggregate convergence …

future and which are traded and priced in a competitive market. We use a unique land lease-contract data set for Amsterdam …

Urban renewal areas are popular but empirically understudied spatial planning instruments designed to prevent urban …

vertical urban growth has gained pace over the course of the 20th century. Second, we lay out a simple theoretical model of … parameters that shape the urban height profile along with a summary of the related theoretical and empirical literature. Fourth … for future research into the vertical dimension of cities. …

We propose a theory of skill mobility across cities. It predicts the well documented city size-wage premium: the wage … distribution in large cities first-order stochastically dominates that in small cities. Yet, because this premium is reflected in … skilled disproportionately sort into the biggest cities, while those with medium skill levels sort into small cities. The …

This paper analyzes the urban impacts of hybrid WFH in the simplest possible model, relying on Leontief utility and …

that are locally strong, but globally weak, and vice versa. The results indicate that international trade policies and …The trade literature often treats countries as dimensionless points, which is a strong assumption. Agglomeration or … lumpiness of production factors within countries can affect the national pattern of trade. In this paper we analyze comparative …