Economic complexity theory and applications

CA Hidalgo - Nature Reviews Physics, 2021 - nature.com
Economic complexity methods have become popular tools in economic geography,
international development and innovation studies. Here, I review economic complexity …

[HTML][HTML] The new paradigm of economic complexity

PA Balland, T Broekel, D Diodato, E Giuliani… - Research Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
Economic complexity offers a potentially powerful paradigm to understand key societal
issues and challenges of our time. The underlying idea is that growth, development …

Understanding Spatial Agglomeration: Increasing Returns, Land, and Transportation Costs

HRA Koster, JF Thisse - Annual Review of Economics, 2024 - annualreviews.org
Economic activities are concentrated on a small share of inhabitable land. In our view, this
agglomeration is the outcome of a trade-off between increasing returns and transportation …

How does financial and manufacturing co-agglomeration affect environmental pollution? Evidence from China

W Fan, F Wang, S Liu, T Chen, X Bai… - Journal of Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
To investigate the direct influence and mechanism of China's financial and manufacturing co-
agglomeration on environmental pollution, we constructed a panel data regression model …

The time and frequency of unrelated diversification

FL Pinheiro, D Hartmann, R Boschma, CA Hidalgo - Research Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
Economic diversification—the process by which locations enter new economic activities—is
known to be a combination of related and unrelated diversification. Related diversification is …

The policy implications of economic complexity

CA Hidalgo - Research Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent years economic complexity has grown into an active field of fundamental and
applied research. Yet, despite important advances, the policy implications of economic …

The global polarisation of remote work

F Braesemann, F Stephany, O Teutloff, O Kässi… - PloS one, 2022 - journals.plos.org
The Covid-19 pandemic has led to the rise of digitally enabled remote work with
consequences for the global division of labour. Remote work could connect labour markets …

Industrial agglomeration and energy efficiency: A new perspective from market integration

Q Qin, Y Yu, Y Liu, J Zhou, X Chen - Energy Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
Improving energy efficiency is critical for realizing energy conservation and emissions
reductions. This study adopts a market integration perspective to undertake both theoretical …

The impact of producer services agglomeration on green economic development: Evidence from 278 Chinese cities

M Du, YJ Zhang - Energy Economics, 2023 - Elsevier
Driven by market and government forces, China's producer services industries have shown
a trend of agglomeration. However, whether this trend can further promote the development …

High-speed rail and industrial developments: Evidence from house prices and city-level GDP in China

Z Zhou, A Zhang - Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice, 2021 - Elsevier
With unique datasets, this paper studies the distributional impact of high-speed rail (HSR) on
industrial developments by examining the house price premium of industrial parks in two …