Trade and geography

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 …

Lessons from US–China trade relations

L Caliendo, F Parro - Annual Review of Economics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
We review theoretical and empirical work on the economic effects of the United States and
China trade relations during the past 20 years. We first discuss the origins of the China …

Commuting, migration, and local employment elasticities

F Monte, SJ Redding, E Rossi-Hansberg - American Economic Review, 2018 - aeaweb.org
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 …

Dynamic spatial general equilibrium

B Kleinman, E Liu, SJ Redding - Econometrica, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
We incorporate forward‐looking capital accumulation into a dynamic discrete choice model
of migration. We characterize the steady‐state equilibrium; generalize existing dynamic …

The welfare effects of transportation infrastructure improvements

T Allen, C Arkolakis - The Review of Economic Studies, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Each year in the US, hundreds of billions of dollars are spent on transportation infrastructure
and billions of hours are lost in traffic. We develop a quantitative general equilibrium spatial …

Tourism and economic development: Evidence from Mexico's coastline

B Faber, C Gaubert - American Economic Review, 2019 - aeaweb.org
Tourism is a fast-growing services sector in developing countries. This paper combines a
rich collection of Mexican microdata with a quantitative spatial equilibrium model and a new …

The origins of firm heterogeneity: A production network approach

AB Bernard, E Dhyne, G Magerman… - Journal of Political …, 2022 - journals.uchicago.edu
We explore firm size heterogeneity in production networks. In comprehensive data for
Belgium, firms with more customers have higher total sales but lower sales and lower market …

Persistence and path dependence in the spatial economy

T Allen, D Donaldson - 2020 - nber.org
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 …

Universal gravity

T Allen, C Arkolakis… - Journal of Political …, 2020 - journals.uchicago.edu
We study the theoretical properties and counterfactual predictions of a large class of general
equilibrium trade and economic geography models. By combining aggregate factor supply …

Local sectoral specialization in a warming world

B Conte, K Desmet, DK Nagy… - Journal of Economic …, 2021 - academic.oup.com
This paper quantitatively assesses the world's changing economic geography and sectoral
specialization due to global warming. It proposes a two-sector dynamic spatial growth model …