effects on home and job location, on land use, and on agglomeration benefits are hard to pin down. We develop a spatial … general equilibrium model for the valuation of these effects. The model is estimated using data on transport infrastructure …

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

combines elements of the literatures on economic geography, multinational firms, urban economics, and trade theory. A two …

This paper analyzes the effect of transport subsidies on the spatial expansion of cities, asking whether subsidies are … a source of undesirable urban sprawl. While the cost-reducing effect of transport subsidies is offset by a higher … expansion of cities. If the transport system exhibits constant returns to scale, the subsidies are inefficient, making the urban …

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 …

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 …

This paper studies the causal effect of transport infrastructure on the spatial concentration of economic activity … with measures of spatial inequality based on remotely-sensed data, we analyse the effects of transport projects on the … theory, we document a range of results which are consistent with a relocation of activity from city centers to their …

The distribution of transport infrastructure across space is the outcome of deliberate government planning that … transport infrastructure investments across continuous space. Allowing for intra- and international trade, the resulting …

incentives for economic activity to concentrate. Our theory provides a novel scaling law; a magnification effect; and reveals a …