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Home Market Effect Versus Multinationals

Toulemonde, Eric - 2007

We develop a model with two asymmetric countries. Firms choose the number and the location of plants that they operate. The production of each firm increases when trade costs fall. The fall also induces multinationals to repatriate their production into a single country, which is likely to be...

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Subnational Investment Abroad : California and the United States

Shatz, Howard J. - 2006

This paper studies the geography of outward foreign direct investment (FDI) from subnational regions, specifically California and the rest of the United States. The use of multiple source regions, as opposed to one source, provides more variation in the analysis. At the same time, subnational...

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Voice and Exit as Accountability Mechanisms : Can Foot-Voting Be Made Safe for the Chinese Communist Party?

Hills, Jr., Roderick M. - 2019

According to Albert O. Hirschman's famous dichotomy, citizens can express their preferences with their “voice” (by voting with ballots to elect better representatives) and “exit” (by voting with their feet to choose better places to live). Suppose, however, that ballot-voting is...

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Analysing and Predicting Micro-Location Patterns of Software Firms

Kinne, Jan - 2017

While the effects of non-geographic aggregation on inference are well studied in economics, research on geographic aggregation is rather scarce. This knowledge gap together with the use of aggregated spatial units in previous firm location studies result in a lack of understanding of firm...

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Distance Decreases with Differentiation : Strategic Agglomeration by Retailers

Picone, Gabriel - 2009

overstate the extent of strategic agglomeration. As evidence, we find that public elementary schools cluster more than random …, not because of agglomeration economies, but due to demand density and limited location options. We argue that a better … measurement of strategic agglomeration is to compare across product markets with similar zoning and other location restrictions …

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Neighborhood Segregation and Black Entrepreneurship

Fesselmeyer, Eric - 2017

We examine the causal effect of neighborhood segregation on black entrepreneurship. We address neighborhood sorting by analyzing city averages and omitted variable bias by instrumenting for segregation using historical railroad configurations. We find that segregation has a significant positive...

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The Rising Value of Time and the Origin of Urban Gentrification

Su, Yichen - 2020

In the past decades, gentrification has transformed American central city neighborhoods. In this paper, I estimate a spatial equilibrium model to show that the rising value of high-skilled workers' time contributes to the gentrification of American central cities. I show that the increasing...

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Cities as Solitons : Analytic Solutions to Models of Agglomeration and Related Numerical Approaches

Fabinger, Michal - 2015

Economic geography equilibria that represent spontaneous agglomeration in a featureless underlying geographic space …

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Agglomeration and Informality : Evidence from Peruvian Firms

Bernedo, Maria - 2018

This paper contributes to the emerging literature investigating agglomeration externalities in developing countries. It … is the first paper to estimate how agglomeration externality generation and reception varies for formal and informal … firms by source. Using establishment level data, we find evidence of both significant agglomeration economies and …

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Urban Pull : The Roles of Amenities and Employment

Hausman, Naomi; Samuels, Peleg; Cohen, Maxime C.; … - 2021

This paper leverages new measurement of neighborhood amenities to demonstrate that housing prices and rents in U.S. cities are determined nearly as much by proximity to amenities as they are by proximity to employment. We develop a revealed preference measure of amenities using navigations data...

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