relationship to both (i) institutional constraints, and (ii) productivity …

employment and capital growth of local firms with higher productivity and that this effect is concentrated among young firms … important gains in aggregate industry productivity and that changes in the allocation of labor play a central role in driving …

existence of agglomeration economies, which exist when productivity rises with density, but estimating the magnitude of those …

larger cities, but also to greater frictions through congestion and other negative effects of agglomeration. Using data on …

We present hedonic general-equilibrium estimates of quality-of-life and productivity differences across Canada …

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 …