workers are not able to take full advantage of the benefits from agglomeration economies. China is changing rapidly, however … institutional limitations in China against further agglomeration weaken, and that the consensus in the literature that "Chinese …

In contrast to what several papers have argued recently, we show that firm heterogeneity fosters agglomeration of … propensity to export. This renders the home market more important speaking against agglomeration. We also relate changes in firm … economic activity. -- firm heterogeneity ; agglomeration ; technological change ; trade ; labor mobility …

We examine “agglomeration shadows” that emerge around large cities, which discourage some economic activities in nearby … areas. Identifying agglomeration shadows is complicated, however, by endogenous city formation and \wave interference" that … estimate agglomeration shadows cast on nearby areas. We find that empirically, as in the simulations, detectable agglomeration …

effects on home and job location, on land use, and on agglomeration benefits are hard to pin down. We develop a spatial …

model of city formation with heterogeneous firms and international trade. We find that agglomeration economies have …

extending models of commodity tax competition to include urban spatial structure (agglomeration) and online commerce, one can …