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Fiscal Transfers in the Spatial Economy
American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, 2021 Many countries shift substantial public resources across jurisdictions to mitigate spatial economic disparities. We use a general equilibrium model with multiple asymmetric regions, labor mobility, and costly trade to carve out the aggregate implications
Marcel Henkel, T. Seidel, Jens Südekum
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Uneven domestic tourism demand in times of pandemic
Tourism Economics, 2022 This study investigates the short-run impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the number of domestic overnight stays at the regional level in the summer season 2020.
M. Falk, Eva Hagsten, Xiang Lin
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Micro- and Macroeconomic Impacts of a Place-Based Industrial Policy
Social Science Research Network, 2023 We investigate the impact of a set of place-based subsidies introduced in Turkey in 2012. Using firm-level balance-sheet data along with data on the domestic production network, we first assess the policy’s direct and indirect impacts.
Enghin Atalay +4 more
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Trade, Migration, and Productivity: A Quantitative Analysis of China
The American Economic Review, 2019 We study how goods- and labor-market frictions affect aggregate labor productivity in China. Combining unique data with a general equilibrium model of internal and international trade, and migration across regions and sectors, we quantify the magnitude ...
Trevor Tombe, Xiaodong Zhu
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Trade and Urbanization: Evidence from Hungary
American Economic Journal: Microeconomics, 2022 I study how trade affects urbanization and real income. To this end, I exploit large-scale exogenous changes in trade stemming from the redrawing of Hungary’s borders after the First World War.
D. Nagy
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Are Credit Markets Still Local? Evidence from Bank Branch Closings
American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 2019 This paper studies whether distance shapes credit allocation by estimating the impact of bank branch closings during the 2000s on local access to credit. To generate plausibly exogenous variation in the incidence of closings, I use an instrument based on
Hoai-Luu Q. Nguyen
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Social Science Research Network, 2022 We examine firm responses to location-based hiring subsidies. We leverage institutional features of the California Competes Tax Credit (CCTC), a large-scale business incentive program that incorporates best practices from prior job creation policies. The
Benjamin G. Hyman +3 more
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Trade Liberalization and Mortality: Evidence from US Counties
American Economic Review: Insights, 2016 We investigate the impact of a large and persistent economic shock on “deaths of despair.” We find that areas more exposed to a plausibly exogenous change in international trade policy exhibit relative increases in fatal drug overdoses, specifically ...
Justin R. Pierce, Peter K. Schott
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The American Economic Review, 2019 Leading empiricists and theorists of cities have recently argued that the generation and exchange of ideas must play a more central role in the analysis of cities.
D. Davis, Jonathan I. Dingel
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The Deposits Channel of Aggregate Fluctuations
Social Science Research Network, 2021 This paper presents a new mechanism through which the geography of bank deposits increases financial fragility. We document the within-bank geographic concentration of deposits – 30% of bank deposits are concentrated in a single county.
Shohini Kundu +2 more
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