Using Canadian administrative data, this paper presents evidence of revenue and
productivity spillovers across firms at fine spatial scales. Accounting for the endogenous …

We test the effect of going public on economic growth in the areas surrounding initial public
offering (IPO) firms. We compare the effects of IPO filers that complete their IPOs with those …

Cultural economics has largely looked toward environmental economics and used non-
market valuation techniques such as contingent valuation to estimate the total economic …

The literature has shown that related diversification in more complex industries enhances
economic growth in regions but also inter-regional inequality. However, it has drawn little …

Using the introduction of high-speed rail (HSR) in Chinese cities as an exogenous shock,
we find that improved transportation infrastructure connectivity increases the labor costs of …

Despite the importance of interregional skilled migration to regional development, few
studies have explored its spatial spillover effects and their changes over time. Thus …

This paper examines the effects of failing high school exit exams on adult criminal behavior,
economic self-sufficiency and several other medium-and long-run outcomes. We employ a …

Human capital plays a crucial role in regional innovation and economic progress, which has
increasingly been highlighted in research. However, rising housing costs in cities can push …

This study investigates the impact of taxes and subsidies for higher education on equity–
efficiency trade-offs under various phases of higher education development. A scholarship …

New models of agglomeration cast the urban productivity premium as the outcome of
agglomeration economies, a spatial sorting of skilled entrepreneurs and greater selection …