Economic growth has varied tremendously across regions of the United States over the past several decades. In this paper, I develop a dynamic quantitative spatial model to study the distributional implications of this uneven growth. The model incorporates two key mechanisms that link welfare to...

With the rapid development of urbanization, arable land abandonment is accelerating in China's mountainous areas. Alleviating the problem of land abandonment has emerged as an important issue of arable land use in China. To alleviate the abandonment of arable land, one of the key counter...

In April 2022, the French presidential elections were held, where in the second round, two candidates who embodied the Europeanist and pro-establishment option (Macron) and the populist and anti-system option (Le Pen) faced each other. This situation, combined with the high level of spatial...

This paper studies the spatial distribution of household income inequality across 722 U.S. local labor markets—or Commuting Zones—from 2005–2019. The Theil index, its within and between components, and the decomposition of the within component into a shared and differentiated structure are...

We develop a unified stochastic frontier model which controls for the local spatial correlation and the global factor dependence as well as parameter heterogeneity, simultaneously. We then propose the regional productivity network analysis to examine the diffusion impacts of the capital...

Regional disparities in socio-economic development have long been a source of concern for policymakers, economists, geographers, and others. It is a global phenomenon observed in both developing and developed nations. Regional disparity occurs due to uneven regional development, which fluctuates...

This paper examines how bilateral economic linkages shape consumption synchronization across economies. Using state-level data from the US, we find that the degree of bilateral consumption risk sharing decreases with geographic distance. To explain this novel fact, we develop an open economy...

Vaccination willingness against COVID-19 is generally perceived as too low. Moreover, there is large heterogeneity across and within countries. As a whole, Germany has average vaccination rates compared to other industrialized countries. However, vaccination rates in the 16 different German...

The institutionalists acknowledge the role of formal institutions such as the market economy and democracy while explaining cross-country differences in prosperity. While the formal institutions are same for all regions within a country, development outcome varies substantially across regions....

We measure the importance of increasing returns to scale and trade in medical services. Using Medicare claims data, we document that “imported” medical care—services produced by a medical provider in a different region—constitute about one-fifth of US healthcare consumption. Larger...