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We investigate the impact of trade integration between Canada and the United States on the degree of industrial specialization of the Canadian regions. Trade integration is captured through the decrease of trade-weighted tariffs that was boosted by the implementation of the Canadian-U.S. Free...
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-border inventor movements. A common theme throughout this research is the importance of agglomeration economies for explaining high …
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We analyze the role of optimal income taxation across different local labor markets. Should labor in large cities be taxed differently than in small cities? We find that a planner who needs to raise revenue and is constrained by free mobility of labor across cities does not choose equal taxes...
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We study the impact of regional and sectoral productivity changes on the U.S. economy. To that end, we consider an environment that captures the effects of interregional and intersectoral trade in propagating disaggregated productivity changes at the level of a sector in a given U.S. state to...
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This paper explores the effects of trade liberalization envisioned in a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) between the United States and the European Union. We use a new quantitative spatial trade model with consumptive and productive uses of land and inputoutput linkages. Our...
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This paper investigates the connection between economic agglomeration and trade patterns within the U.S. at the … are shown to be systematically connected to consumption agglomeration effects, while on the production side, industry- and … agglomeration and specialization effects. Industry structures play an important role in the determination and magnitude of these …
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larger cities, but also to greater frictions through congestion and other negative effects of agglomeration. Using data on …
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Many workers with low levels of educational attainment immigrated to the United States in recent decades. Large inflows of less educated immigrants would reduce wages paid to comparably-educated native-born workers if the two groups are perfectly substitutable in production. In a simple model...
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