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Firm Sorting and Agglomeration
The American Economic Review, 2018 To account for the uneven distribution of economic activity in space, I propose a theory of the location choices of heterogeneous firms in a variety of sectors across cities.
C. Gaubert
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The Transformation of Self Employment
Social Science Research Network, 2022 Over the past half-century, while self-employment has consistently accounted for around one in ten of the United States workforce, its composition has changed.
Innessa Colaiacovo +3 more
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Tourism and Economic Development: Evidence from Mexico's Coastline
The American Economic Review, 2018 Tourism is a fast-growing services sector in developing countries. This paper combines a rich collection of Mexican microdata with a quantitative spatial equilibrium model and a new empirical strategy to study the long-term economic consequences of ...
Benjamin Faber, C. Gaubert
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Expecting the Unexpected: Emissions Uncertainty and Environmental Market Design
The American Economic Review, 2015 We study potential equilibria in California’s cap-and-trade market for greenhouse gases (GHGs) based on information available before the market started.
S. Borenstein +3 more
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The Persistent Effects of Place-Based Policy: Evidence from the West-German Zonenrandgebiet
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2015 Using a natural experiment, we show that temporary place-based subsidies generate persistent effects on economic density. The spatial regression discontinuity design controls for continuous local agglomeration externalities, so we attribute an important ...
Maximilian von Ehrlich, Tobias Seidel
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The Representative Kanpur Tannery’s Ganges Water Pollution Problem
The Indian Economic JournalIn this research note, we focus on a representative leather-producing tannery in Kanpur, India and shed light on two specific questions that, to the best of our knowledge, have not been studied previously in the literature.
A. Batabyal
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Price Elasticity of Electricity Consumption in Japan, 1990 to 2015
SAGE OpenThis study examines regional price elasticities in electricity consumption to offer valuable insights for policymaking in electricity demand-side management in Japan.
Akihiro Otsuka
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In Harm's Way? Infrastructure Investments and the Persistence of Coastal Cities
The American Economic Review, 2019 Coasts contain a disproportionate share of the world's population, reflecting historical advantages, but environmental change threatens a reversal of coastal fortune in the coming decades as natural disasters intensify and sea levels rise.
Clare Balboni
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Dynamism Diminished: The Role of Housing Markets and Credit Conditions
Social Science Research Network, 2019 We estimate the effects of house price changes on young-firm employment shares and industry-level employment growth in local economies. A novel test shows that house price effects on local economies work through wealth, liquidity, and collateral effects ...
Steven J Davis, J. Haltiwanger
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Natural Resources and Local Communities: Evidence from a Peruvian Gold Mine
, 2013 F. Aragón, J. P. Rud
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