making agglomeration more important. We argue that the Internet will produce more of the same forces for deagglomeration, but … offsetting and possibly stronger tendencies toward agglomeration. Increasingly the economy is dependent on the transmission of …

We show that agglomeration forces can reverse standard international-tax-competition results. Closer integration may … agglomeration forces create quasi-rents that can be taxed without inducing delocation. This suggests that the tax game is something … 'periphery' countries. Since agglomeration rents are a bell-shaped function of the level of integration, the equilibrium tax gap …

productivity and the other decreasing transportation costs, and in which agglomeration economies lead to persistence in urban …

international trade and economic geography. We build a model with agglomeration economies where firms with heterogeneous … locate in larger cities and profit from agglomeration effects; (ii) conversely, while opening up to trade has complex overall …

We provide new theory and evidence on the role of consumption access in understanding the agglomeration of economic …

presence of demand externalities that arise from spatial agglomeration as a possible explanation, but empirically identifying … this type of spillovers has proven difficult. We test for the presence of agglomeration spillovers in Milan's restaurant … after the reform. Consistent with the existence of significant agglomeration externalities, we find that after 2005, the …

interpreted as evidence for the existence of agglomeration economies. This correlation is particularly strong in cities with …

existence of agglomeration economies, which exist when productivity rises with density, but estimating the magnitude of those …