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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The role of industry-specific, occupation-specific, and location-specific knowledge in the growth and survival of new firms

C Jara-Figueroa, B Jun, EL Glaeser… - Proceedings of the …, 2018 - National Acad Sciences
How do regions acquire the knowledge they need to diversify their economic activities? How
does the migration of workers among firms and industries contribute to the diffusion of that …