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agglomeration by export destination. We reveal that firms selling to countries with worse business regulations, a dissimilar … exporters engage in more stable trade relationships with those countries that are the export destinations of nearby firms. On …' geographical agglomeration for firms' behavior and for the estimated welfare gains from trade. On the one hand, we find that …
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address these questions using the geo-coordinates of Chinese manufacturing firms and find that export widens inter-city and …How does export liberalization affect firm location choice and the spatial concentration of economic activity? We … by the extensive margin. Third, the above effects are not exclusive to industries directly exposed to export shocks but …
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This paper develops a quantitative model of city structure to separate agglomeration forces, dispersion forces and fundamentals as determinants of location choices. The model remains tractable and amenable to empirical analysis because of stochastic shocks to worker productivity, which yield a...
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In this paper, I examine the influence of natural geographic features on the location of production in Germany. In …
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Marshall's student Pigou noted: quot;It's all in Marshall.quot; From a static point of view, this seems rather bold in a constantly changing world. However, this statement becomes more plausible in a dynamic context, where principles are subject to change. Indeed, over time, Marshall's concept...
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This study establishes a link between medieval trade, agglomeration and contemporary regional development in ten European countries. It documents a statistically and economically significant positive relationship between prominent involvement in medieval trade and regional economic development...
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This paper examines the micro-foundations of occupational agglomeration in U.S. metropolitan areas, with an emphasis on labor market pooling. Controlling for a wide range of occupational attributes, including proxies for the use of specialized machinery and for the importance of knowledge...
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Substantial attention has been given to the stylized fact that workforce education level tends to increase with city size. This paper demonstrates that the positive relation between city size and skill intensity is a spurious result due to the omission of housing cost, which increases with city...
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This paper examines the micro-foundations of occupational agglomeration in U.S. metropolitan areas, with an emphasis on labor market pooling. Controlling for a wide range of occupational attributes, including proxies for the use of specialized machinery and for the importance of knowledge...
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Using longitudinal Swedish data, we document robust evidence of highly local spillovers between individuals in similar occupations. The results are consistent with the existence of knowledge spillovers between workers performing similar work tasks in the same city-district. We further...
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