Communities urbanize when the net benefits to urbanization exceed rural areas. Body mass, height, and weight are …

Cross-country regressions suggest that urbanization and FDI are important drivers of growth. However, it is not clear … for the sample of OECD countries. -- Growth ; foreign investment ; cities ; urbanization ; primacy ; spatial lags …

This paper provides evidence for the causal effect of the highway and railway infrastructure on the suburbanization of … suburbanization using a two-step panel approach. Our main results suggest that an additional highway ray displaced approximately 4% of … railways on average. However, railways did cause suburbanization those located in Central-North Europe. When employing the full …

n this paper we determine the main driving forces underlying the structural transformation and urbanization process in … barriers played in China's growth and urbanization. We find that the primary drivers for real per capita GDP growth are … migration cost reduction and skill accumulation. While trade liberalization is important for urbanization during the transition …

to shocks, the degree of urbanization and specialization. We take the Great Recession, the economic and financial crisis … period, we find that the degree and nature of regional urbanization and specialization are important drivers of the …

explain why urbanization did not drive the economy to sustained growth. Our main contribution, validated by an estimated VAR … productivity. The analysis provides a picture of a trapped economy where urbanization was unable to trigger a persistent process of …