firms from establishing in large cities where they can benefit from agglomeration forces and access to higher productivity …

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 … sectoral productivity changes. We find that such elasticities can vary significantly depending on the sectors and regions …

contribution from coastal proximity to productivity and quality of life. Extensively controlling for correlated natural attributes … productivity or quality of life, but not to both, suggests that the coastal concentration derives primarily from a productivity …