Human capital development, attractions of sustainable living standards and renewed
concerns for the planet have redirected city planners to a new frontier: the creation of …

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 …

Using balanced panel data of 285 prefecture-level cities in China from 2003 to 2013, this
paper studies the impact of High-speed rail (HSR) on environmental pollution. The results by …

The present study analyzes the nexus among business growth, ownership structure, and
local embeddedness—that is, the involvement of economic actors in a geographically bound …

Spatial economics aims to explain why there are peaks and troughs in the spatial
distribution of wealth and people, from the international and regional to the urban and local …

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. This paper …

Since the'80s the US has experienced not only a steady increase in income inequality, but
also a contemporaneous increase in residential segregation by income. Using US Census …

We develop a new methodology for quantifying the tasks undertaken within occupations
using over 3,000 verbs from more than 12,000 occupational descriptions in the Dictionary of …

Abstract The Black Death killed 40% of Europe's population between 1347-1352, making it
one of the largest shocks in the history of mankind. Despite its historical importance, little is …

Technological imitation may play a crucial role in motivating firms to innovate. However,
theoretical predictions and empirical findings on the role of imitation have not yet reached a …