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. …

-OECD countries. We show that most cities are highly fragmented: urban areas with more than 500,000 inhabitants are divided into 74 …Most cities enjoy some autonomy over how they tax their residents, and that autonomy is typically exercised by multiple … review the literature on a number of salient features affecting local tax setting in an urban context. Urban local …

model of city formation with heterogeneous firms and international trade. We find that agglomeration economies have … aggregate structural change. Rising manufacturing productivity and falling international trade costs further contribute to the … the last few decades has been urban-biased: structural change has been more pronounced in areas with higher population …

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 …