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 …

We ask whether local agglomeration affects how recessions impact on entrepreneurship by comparing the probability of …

The theory of fiscal and regulatory competition between jurisdictions is more advanced than its empirical testing. This …

and city population. This paper embeds a "black box" agglomeration economy within a more neoclassical general equilibrium … and wages move in the same direction under neo-classical assumptions, agglomeration economies in production, congestion in … variables, although some of these effects are ambiguous in the production agglomeration model. If natural advantage and housing …

This paper examines the role of regional aggregation in measuring agglomeration externalities. Using Dutch … agglomeration externalities at a higher spatial scale. We quantify subgroup differentials and find that high-educated workers have … agglomeration externalities twice as high as low-educated workers. We show that workers who lose their job in denser LLMs experience …

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