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Winner Takes All? Tech Clusters, Population Centers, and the Spatial Transformation of U.S. Invention
Chattergoon, Brad; Kerr, William R. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
U.S. invention has become increasingly concentrated around major tech centers since the 1970s, with implications for how much cities across the country share in concomitant local benefits. Is invention becoming a winner-takes-all race? We explore the rising spatial concentration of patents and...
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The Birth of Edge Cities in China : Measuring the Spillover Effects of Industrial Parks
Zheng, Siqi - 2015
Several Chinese cities have invested billions of dollars to construct new industrial parks. These place based investments solve the land assembly problem which allows many productive firms to co-locate close to each other. The resulting local economic growth creates new opportunities for real...
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Health, Human Capital Formation and Knowledge Production : Two Centuries of International Evidence
Madsen, Jakob - 2012
Recent medical research shows that health is highly influential for learning and the ability to think laterally; however, past economic studies have failed to empirically examine the influence of health on learning, schooling, and ideas production; the main drivers of growth in endogenous growth...
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Innovation Spillovers across U.S. Tech Clusters
Giroud, Xavier; Liu, Ernest; Müller, Holger M. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
through their parent firms' networks of innovating plants. Cross-cluster innovation spillovers do not depend on the physical … physical distances. To rationalize these findings, and to inform policy, we develop a tractable model of spatial innovation … that features both within- and cross-cluster innovation spillovers. Based on our model, we derive a sufficient statistic …
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Place-Based Policies for Development
Duranton, Gilles - 2018
Many development policies, such as placement of infrastructure or local economic development schemes, are "place-based." Such policies are generally intended to stimulate private sector investment and economic growth in the treated place, and as such they are difficult to appraise and evaluate....
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Mechanics of Spatial Growth
Cai, Sheng; Caliendo, Lorenzo; Parro, Fernando; Xiang, Wei - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We develop a dynamic spatial growth model to explore the role of trade and internal migration in the process of spatial development and aggregate growth. Growth is shaped by the best global and local ideas that contribute to the local stock of knowledge. Global ideas diffuse more to locations...
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Cities, Heterogeneous Firms, and Trade
Bakker, Jan David; García Marín, Alvaro; Potlogea, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024
Does international trade affect the growth of cities, and vice versa? Assembling disaggregate data for four countries, we document a novel stylized fact: Export activity is disproportionately concentrated in larger cities - even more so than overall economic activity. We rationalize this fact by...
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Urban Growth Shadows
Cuberes, David; Desmet, Klaus; Rappaport, Jordan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
Does a location's growth benefit or suffer from being geographically close to large economic centers? Spatial proximity may lead to competition and hurt growth, but it may also improve market access and enhance growth. Using data on U.S. counties and metro areas for the period 1840-2017, we...
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Spatial Development
Desmet, Klaus - 2009
We present a theory of spatial development. Manufacturing and services firms located in a continuous geographic area choose each period how much to innovate. Firms trade subject to transport costs and technology diffuses spatially across locations. The result is a spatial endogenous growth...
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Going the Extra Mile : Farm Subsidies and Spatial Convergence in Agricultural Input Adoption
Kumar, Naresh; Kapoor, Rolly; Aggarwal, Shilpa; Jeong, … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Many countries subsidize agricultural inputs but require farmers to travel to retailers to access inputs, just as for normal purchases. What effect do travel costs have on subsidy take-up and input usage, particularly for remote farmers? We analyze Malawi's Farm Input Subsidy Program (FISP), and...
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