This paper surveys the recent body of work in economics on the importance of global value
chains (GVCs) in shaping international trade flows and production patterns. On the empirical …

This paper reviews recent research on geography and trade. One of the key empirical
findings over the last decade has been the role of geography in shaping the distributional …

This paper examines the impact of coalitions on the economic costs of the 2012 Iran and
2014 Russia sanctions. By estimating and simulating a quantitative general equilibrium …

How do international trade shocks affect spatially connected regional markets? We answer
this question by extending shift-share empirical specifications to incorporate general …

This paper studies effects of London's Congestion Charge on regional traffic, commuting,
and economic activity's spatial distribution. London began tolling drivers into its central …

International cooperation is at the core of multilateral climate policy. How is its effectiveness
harmed by individual countries not participating in the global mitigation effort? We use a …

We show how to use commuting flows to infer the spatial distribution of income within a city.
A simple workplace choice model predicts a gravity equation for commuting flows whose …

Abstract I study Los Angeles Metro Rail's effects using panel data on bilateral commuting
flows, a quantitative spatial model, and historically motivated quasi-experimental research …

What do recent advances in economic geography teach us about the spatial distribution of
economic activity? We show that the equilibrium distribution of economic activity can be …

The world is facing serious environmental problems. Some are local or confined within
countries or regions, such as poor urban air quality in rapidly growing economies, or poor …