cities toughen competition, allowing only the most productive to survive) and agglomeration economies (larger cities promote … a generalised version of a tractable firm selection model and a standard model of agglomeration. Stronger selection in … larger cities left-truncates the productivity distribution whereas stronger agglomeration right-shifts and dilates the …

This paper exploits time and geographic variation in the adoption of Special Economic Zones in India to assess the …

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 …

We propose an integrated framework to discuss the empirical literature on the local determinants of agglomeration … density on productivity but we also consider many other local determinants supported by theory. Empirical issues are then … developing economies. We finally provide a discussion of attempts to identify and quantify specific agglomeration mechanisms …

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 …