Books reviewed in this article: Masahisa Fujita and Jacques-Francois Thisse - Economics of Agglomeration: Cities, Industrial Location, and Regional Growth Timothy J. Bartik - Jobs for the Poor: Can Labor Policies Help? Miriam Solomon - Social Empiricism Nicole Pohl - Mobility in Space and Time:...

This paper investigates the extent to which the gap in total factor productivity between small and large firms is due to differences in the endowment of factors determining productivity and to the returns associated with these factors. We place particular emphasis on the contribution of...

This paper explores the effect of the High Speed Rail (HSR) network expansion on local innovation in China during the period 2008-2016. Using exogenous variation arising from a novel instrument - courier’s stations during the Ming dynasty, we find solid evidence that the opening of a HSR...

This study analyses certain information presented by the Member States in the National Reform Programmes and Stability and Convergence Programmes submitted to the EU in the framework of the 2013 European Semester. Based on a methodological framework developed to summarise specific aspects of...

In the Europe 2020 Strategy, the Member States and the European Commission recognised that increasing innovation is a key to respond to the challenge offered by globalisation and more specifically by the crisis. According to the Strategy, "The crisis has wiped out years of economic and social...