1 Introduction and Outline -- Part I: Internal Migration and the Labor Market -- 2 Panel VAR for Internal Migration Modelling -- 3 Testing the Neoclassical Migration Model -- 4 Space-Time Dependence in Migration Flows -- Part II: Trade and FDI Activity -- 5 Trade-FDI Linkages -- 6 Estimating...

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...

Any form of Brexit will impact heterogeneously in terms of sectors and regions on the competitiveness of firms in both the UK and Europe. The ongoing uncertainty about the conditions under which the UK will be leaving the EU, creates difficulties in structurally estimating these impacts. Using...