geographical agglomeration on the overall production of patents in the US. I find macroeconomic benefits of clustering for the US …

of the empirical findings on the economic impacts of diversity on innovation, productivity, and the labour market. It …

key insight that emerges is that the interaction between agglomeration economies and comparative advantage involves a … comparative advantage in sectors governed by this force whilst the impact of agglomeration economies is enhanced by trade cost … small economies is not only shaped by the primitives that determine agglomeration economies and comparative advantage but …

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

This paper explores the relationship between routine-biased technological change and agglomeration economies. Using …

present evidence of a trade-off between distance to the headquarters and the knowledge intensity of the foreign subsidiary … headquarters is, on average, about one percent higher in the knowledge intensity scale. I find no evidence of the knowledge …

The advancement of the knowledge frontier is crucial for technological innovation and human progress. Using novel data … talent is a central ingredient for the production of knowledge. Second, such talented individuals born in low- or middle …-income countries are systematically less likely to become knowledge producers. Our findings suggest that policies to encourage …