This chapter surveys recent developments in agglomeration theory within a unifying
framework. We highlight how locational fundamentals, agglomeration economies, the spatial …

This paper reviews key papers and issues in the conceptual and empirical literature on
knowledge spillovers, with a focus on the urban context. The review examines the effect of …

内容提要: 本文分析产业结构和城市规模对我国城市经济效益的协同影响机制,
估计与产业结构相适应的最优城市规模以及在城市规模约束下产业结构转变的边际效益 …

We study optimal spatial policies in a quantitative trade and geography framework with
spillovers and spatial sorting of heterogeneous workers. We characterize the spatial …

This handbook chapter studies the theoretical micro-foundations of urban agglomeration
economies. We distinguish three types of micro-foundations, based on sharing, matching …

This paper examines how urban industrial agglomeration interacts with the intra-and inter-
regional externalities resulting from foreign direct investment (FDI) in city innovation in an …

To account for the uneven distribution of economic activity in space, I propose a theory of the
location choices of heterogeneous firms in a variety of sectors across cities. In equilibrium …

Leading empiricists and theorists of cities have recently argued that the generation and
exchange of ideas must play a more central role in the analysis of cities. This paper …

There is a substantial empirical literature quantifying the positive relationship between city
size and productivity. This paper studies the implications of that relationship for evaluations …

What determines the distributions of skills, occupations, and industries across cities? We
develop a theory to jointly address these fundamental questions about the spatial …