SJ Redding - Handbook of International Economics, 2022 - Elsevier
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 …
We provide theory and evidence that the elasticity of local employment to a labor demand shock is heterogeneous depending on the commuting openness of the local labor market …
We explore the impact of rising incomes at the top of the distribution on spatial sorting patterns within large US cities. We develop and quantify a spatial model of a city with …
How much of the spatial distribution of economic activity today is determined by history rather than by geographic fundamentals? And if history matters for spatial allocations, does it …
We examine the application of quantitative spatial models to the growing body of fine spatial data used to study economic outcomes for regions, cities, and neighborhoods. In “granular” …
K Matsuyama - Econometrica, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Endogenous demand composition across sectors due to income elasticity differences, or Engel's Law for brevity, affects (i) sectoral compositions in employment and in value …
This paper shows that the products and prices offered in markets are correlated with local income‐specific tastes. To quantify the welfare impact of this variation, I calculate local price …
B Faber, T Fally - The Review of Economic Studies, 2022 - academic.oup.com
A growing literature has documented the role of firm heterogeneity within sectors for nominal income inequality. This article explores the implications for household price indices across …
We document strong skill matching in Turkish firms' production networks. Additionally, in the data, export demand shocks from rich countries increase firms' skill intensity and their trade …