How is long run economic growth related to the endogenous diversity of knowledge? We formulate and study a microeconomic model of knowledge creation, through the interactions among a group of heterogeneous research and development (R&D) workers, embedded in a growth model to address this...

Applications of the framework of behavioral economics to questions arising from urban economics are discussed. Directions for future research are outlined. Copyright (c) 2009, Wiley Periodicals, Inc.

type="main" <title type="main">ABSTRACT</title> <p>We consider information aggregation in national and local elections when voters are mobile and might sort themselves into local districts. Using a standard model of private information for voters in elections in combination with a new economic geography model, agglomeration...</p>

We offer a guide to the recent literature on the problem of fair allocation, and we present various concepts that have been developed in this literature and the various economic environments in the context of which they have been analyzed.