CEP Discussion Paper No 894 October 2008 Survival of the Fittest in Cities: Agglomeration, Selection, and Polarisation Kristian Behrens and Frédéric Robert-Nicoud Abstract Empirical studies consistently report that labour productivity and TFP rise with city size. The...

The paper provides evidence of the effects of changes in transport costs on the geographic concentration of industries. The analysis uses micro-level commodity flow data and micro-geographic plant-level data to construct industry-specific ad valorem trucking rates and continuous measures of...

Small nations fear that FTAs with larger, richer nations will erode their industrial bases. These concerns are recognized in FTA and multilateral talks: small nations may explicitly or implicitly maintain higher trade barriers. Using a model where symmetric liberalization de-industrializes...