9 Article history: 10 Received 18 January 2011 11 Received in revised form 5 July 2011 12 Accepted 1 November 2011 13 Available online xxxx 1456 17 JEL classification: 18 D72 19 D91 20 H31 21 R12 22

9 Article history: 10 Received 18 January 2011 11 Received in revised form 5 July 2011 12 Accepted 1 November 2011 13 Available online xxxx 1456 17 JEL classification: 18 D72 19 D91 20 H31 21 R12 22

I study how trade affects urbanization and real income. To this end, exploit large-scale exogenous changes in stemming from the redrawing of Hungary’s borders after First World War. show that counties near new border decreased significantly relative to farther away. rationalize reduced-form finding a spatial model which benefits trading drive agglomeration around locations where activity takes ...

This paper analyzes the impact of fiscal equalization on asymmetric tax competition when positive agglomeration externalities are present. It shows that equalization of standardized tax revenue improves the spatial allocation of capital provided that agglomeration externalities are sufficiently strong. JEL Classification: R12, H71, H73.

In this paper we endogenously group 311 U.S. cities by using dynamic clustering techniques. Then, we try to determine what the economic determinants of clustering are. In so doing, we use a spatial econometric model that disentangles the effect of intercity interactions operating through the input-output matrix from the effect of all others interactions. Preliminary incomplete version Do not ci...

This article presents a summary of our conversation on the past, present and future of the new economic geography, which took place with the help of an interlocutor in San Juan, Puerto Rico in November 2002. Following the introduction, we explain what the new economic geography is, and we describe some basic models. The discussion of its various critical aspects is presented subsequently, and t...

Methods for determining inter-spin distances between nitroxide spin labels from dipolar couplings in the intermediate range (r12≈1.1-2 nm) by CW-EPR are addressed. For nitroxide powder patterns, the assumption of unlike spins is a better approximation than assuming strong coupling between like spins. Methods that determine the average splitting in dipolar deconvolutions yield the mean value 〈1/...

US federal transfers to individuals are large, countercyclical, vary geographically, and often credited with helping stabilize regional economies. This paper estimates the short-run effects of these using plausibly exogenous variation in temporary stimulus payments permanent Social Security benefit increases. States that received larger tended grow faster contemporaneously, a multiplier around ...