Garcia, Alvaro; Potlogea, Andrei; Voigtländer, Nico; … - 2022
international trade and economic geography. We build a model with agglomeration economies where firms with heterogeneous … productivity sort across city sizes and select into exporting. The model allows us to study the geographic implications of trade … raises not only the aggregate productivity of the economy but also its aggregate export intensity, by allowing more firms to …