US federal transfers to individuals are large, countercyclical, vary geographically, and are often credited for helping stabilize regional economies. This paper estimates the short-run effects of these transfers using plausibly exogenous regional variation in temporary stimulus packages and...

The focuses of the article are the geo-economic problems regarding to theenforcement the tools of new economic geography. Series of problems are related to thedynamics of geo-economic and urban development in terms of the global spatial variationsand the imposition of new methodological approach...