Key Features:The author is a famous Chinese economist. He is one of the earliest scholars in China, to study global citiesThe Chinese version of the book was awarded the first prize in the academic writings in ShanghaiDifferent from previous studies on global cities by renowned western scholars,...

I investigate the effect of improvements to the transportation infrastructure on changes in location patterns of population in Barcelona, Spain between 1991 and 2006. At a census tract level, I verify and extend the finding of Baum-Snow (2007a) that transportation improvements cause...

Ökonomische Prozesse sind zunehmend global organisiert und die Koordinierung und Steuerung dieser Prozesse wird durch wissensintensive Dienstleister erleichtert. Die Tätigkeiten dieser Akteure basieren in besonderem Maß auf der Nutzung von Wissen in Wirtschaftsprozessen sowie auf der...

Many sources of urban agglomeration involve departures from the first-best world. By modeling the microstructure of agglomeration economies, we derive second-best benefit evaluation formulae for urban transportation improvements. Previous work has investigated the same problem, but without...