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Trading tasks: A simple theory of offshoring

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GM Grossman… - 2006 - nber.org
For centuries, most international trade involved an exchange of complete goods. But, with
recent improvements in transportation and communications technology, it increasingly
entails different countries adding value to global supply chains, or what might be called" ...
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On the internal structure of cities

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RE Lucas… - Econometrica, 2002 - Wiley Online Library
2. Abstract We prove the existence of a symmetric equilibrium in a circular city in which
businesses and housing can both be located anywhere in the city. In this equilibrium, firms
balance the external benefits from locating near other producers against the costs of ...
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[PDF] The rise of offshoring: it's not wine for cloth anymore

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GM Grossman… - The New Economic Geography: …, 2006 - princeton.edu
In 1817, when David Ricardo penned his celebrated treatise on The Principles of Political
Economy and Taxation, communication between England and Portugal was no faster and
only slightly less costly than shipping wine or cloth from one country to the other. Most ...
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Organization and inequality in a knowledge economy

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L Garicano, E Rossi-Hansberg - 2005 - nber.org
We present a theory of the organization of work in an economy where knowledge is an
essential input in production: a knowledge economy. In this economy a continuum of agents
with heterogeneous skills must choose how much knowledge to acquire and may produce ...
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Offshoring in a knowledge economy

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P Antràs, L Garicano… - 2005 - nber.org
How does the formation of cross-country teams affect the organization of work and the
structure of wages? To study this question we propose a theory of the assignment of
heterogeneous agents into hierarchical teams, where less skilled agents specialize in ...
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Urban structure and growth

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E ROSSI‐HANSBERG… - Review of Economic …, 2007 - Wiley Online Library
Most economic activity occurs in cities. This creates a tension between local increasing
returns, implied by the existence of cities, and aggregate constant returns, implied by
balanced growth. To address this tension, we develop a general equilibrium theory of ...
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[BOOK] Establishment size dynamics in the aggregate economy

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E Rossi-Hansberg, MLJ Wright… - 2006 - works.bepress.com
This paper presents a theory of establishment size dynamics based on the accumulation of
industry-specific human capital that simultaneously rationalizes the economy-wide facts on
establishment growth rates, exit rates, and size distributions. The theory predicts that ...
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A spatial theory of trade

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E Rossi-Hansberg - American Economic Review, 2005 - works.bepress.com
The equilibrium relationship between trade and the spatial distribution of economic activity is
fundamental to the analysis of national and regional trade patterns, as well as to the effect of
trade frictions. We study this relationship using a trade model with a continuum of regions, ...
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Organizations and trade

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P Antràs… - 2008 - nber.org
We survey an emerging literature at the intersection of organizational economics and
international trade. We argue that a proper modelling of the organizational aspects of
production provides valuable insights on the aggregate workings of the world economy. In ...
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The effect of information and communication technologies on urban structure

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YM Ioannides, HG Overman… - Economic …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
This paper examines the effects of information and communication technologies (ICT) on
urban structure. Improvements in ICT may lead to changes in urban structure, for example,
because they reduce the costs of communicating ideas from a distance. Hence, they may ...
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Optimal urban land use and zoning

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E Rossi-Hansberg - Review of Economic Dynamics, 2004 - Elsevier
The paper studies the optimal distribution of business and residential land in a circular city.
Once the optimum is characterized, we analyze the effect of changes in commuting costs
and externality parameters. We also propose policies like labor subsidies, land taxes and ...
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Inequality and the Organization of Knowledge

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L Garicano, E Rossi-Hansberg - American Economic Review, 2004 - works.bepress.com
Since the seminal work of Lawrence F. Katz and Kevin M. Murphy (1992), the study of wage
inequality has taken as its starting point a neoclassical constant-elasticity-of-substitution
production function using as inputs capital and low-and high-skill labor. This approach ...
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Spatial growth and industry age

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K Desmet… - Journal of Economic Theory, 2009 - Elsevier
Between 1970 and 2000 employment growth across US counties exhibited very different
patterns in manufacturing and services. Whereas manufacturing employment growth was
negatively related to initial manufacturing employment across the entire distribution of ...
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Specialization and concentration: a note on theory and evidence

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K Aiginger… - Empirica, 2006 - Springer
Abstract We study the prediction of the theory in Rossi-Hansberg [Rossi-Hansberg E (2005)
Am Econ Rev 95 (5): 1464–1491] that, under quite general circumstances, lower transport
costs increase specialization of regions or countries and decrease (regional) ...
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Spin-offs and the Market for Ideas

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S Chatterjee… - 2007 - nber.org
We propose a theory of firm dynamics in which workers have ideas for new projects that can
be sold in a market to existing firms or implemented in new firms: spin-offs. Workers have
private information about the quality of their ideas. Because of an adverse selection ...
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Organizing offshoring: middle managers and communication costs

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P Antras, L Garicano… - 2006 - nber.org
Why do firms decide to offshore certain parts of their production process? What qualifies
certain countries as particularly attractive locations to offshore? In this paper we address
these questions with a theory of international production hierarchies in which ...
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FIRM FRAGMENTATION AND URBAN PATTERNS*

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E Rossi‐Hansberg, PD Sarte - International Economic …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
We document several empirical regularities regarding the evolution of urban structure in the
largest US metropolitan areas over the period 1980–90. These regularities relate to changes
in resident population, employment, occupations, as well as the number and size of ...
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Housing externalities

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E Rossi-Hansberg, PD Sarte… - 2008 - nber.org
Using data compiled from concentrated residential urban revitalization programs
implemented in Richmond, VA, between 1999 and 2004, we study residential externalities.
Specifically, we provide evidence that in neighborhoods targeted by the programs, sites ...
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External economies and international trade redux

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GM Grossman… - The Quarterly Journal of …, 2010 - qje.oxfordjournals.org
Abstract We study a world with national external economies of scale at the industry level. In
contrast to the standard treatment with perfect competition and two industries, we assume
Bertrand competition in a continuum of industries. With Bertrand competition, each firm ...
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Organizing growth

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L Garicano, E Rossi-Hansberg - Journal of economic theory, 2010 - Elsevier
We propose a framework to study the impact of information and communication technology
on growth through its impact on organization and innovation. Agents accumulate knowledge
to use available technologies and invent new ones. The use of a technology requires the ...
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Spatial development

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K Desmet… - 2009 - nber.org
We present a theory of spatial development. Manufacturing and services firms located in a
continuous geographic area choose each period how much to innovate. Firms trade subject
to transport costs and technology diffuses spatially across locations. The result is a spatial ...
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Cities under stress

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E Rossi-Hansberg - Journal of Monetary Economics, 2004 - Elsevier
This paper studies the effect of terrorist attacks on the internal structure of cities. We develop
an urban framework with capital structures suitable for the study of this question and analyze
the long and short term implications of this type of events. In the long run, the analysis ...
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ON SPATIAL DYNAMICS*

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K Desmet… - Journal of Regional Science, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
ABSTRACT It has long been recognized that the forces that lead to the agglomeration of
economic activity and to aggregate growth are similar. Unfortunately, few formal frameworks
have been advanced to explore this link. We critically discuss the literature and present a ...
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Firm size dynamics in the aggregate economy

E Rossi-Hansberg… - 2005 - nber.org
Why do firm growth and exit rates decline with size? What determines the size distribution of
firms? This paper presents a theory of firm dynamics that simultaneously rationalizes the
basic facts on firm growth, exit, and size distributions. The theory emphasizes the ...
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[PDF] Establishment Size Dynamics in the Aggregate Economy

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E Rossi-Hansberg… - Princeton University, mimeograph, 2005 - econ.duke.edu
Abstract Why do growth and net exit rates of establishments decline with size? What
determines the size distribution of establishments? This paper presents a theory of
establishment dynamics that simultaneously rationalizes the basic facts on economy-wide ...
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The Knowledge Economy at the turn of the Twentieth Century: the Emergence of Hierarchies

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L Garicano… - Journal of the European …, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract We use a simplified version of Garicano and Rossi-Hansberg (2005) to understand
the impact of improvements in communications technology at the turn of the twentieth
century on wages and organization. Improvements in communication technology allow ...
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[PDF] A Spatial Theory of Trade

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E Rossi-Hansberg - Stanford University, SIEPR Discussion …, 2003 - www-siepr.stanford.edu
Abstract The equilibrium relationship between trade and the spatial distribution of economic
activity is fundamental to an analysis of the effect of trade policy and other trade frictions. We
study this link using a trade model with a continuum of regions, transport costs, and ...
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[PDF] Urban growth

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Y Ioannides, E Rossi-Hansberg - The new Palgrave dictionary of …, 2005 - ase.tufts.edu
Abstract Urban growth refers to the process of growth and decline of economic
agglomerations. The pattern of concentration of economic activity, and its evolution, has
been found to be an important determinant, and in some cases the result, of urbanization, ...
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[CITATION] Trading Tasks: A Simple Model of Outsourcing

G Grossman… - NBER Working Paper, 2006
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Housing externalities: evidence from spatially concentrated urban revitalization programs

E Rossi-Hansberg, PDG Sarte… - Working Paper, 2008 - ideas.repec.org
Using data compiled from concentrated residential urban revitalization programs
implemented in Richmond, VA, between 1999 and 2004, we study residential externalities.
Specifically, we provide evidence that in neighborhoods targeted by the programs, sites ...
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Urban accounting and welfare

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K Desmet… - 2010 - nber.org
This paper proposes a simple theory of a system of cities that decomposes the determinants
of the city size distribution into three main components: efficiency, amenities, and frictions.
Higher efficiency and better amenities lead to larger cities, but also to greater frictions ...
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The Impact of Trade on Organization and Productivity

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L Caliendo, E Rossi-Hansberg - 2011 - nber.org
A firm's productivity depends on how production is organized given the level of demand for
its product. To capture this mechanism, we develop a theory of an economy where firms with
heterogeneous demands use labor and knowledge to produce. Entrepreneurs decide the ...
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[CITATION] 'Offshoring in a Knowledge Economy'Quarterly Journal of Economics

P Antras, L Garicano… - 2006 - February
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[CITATION] The Rising of Offshoring: It's Not Wine for Cloth Anymore

GM Grossman… - Unpublished Paper,(August), Princeton …, 2006
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[PDF] Outsourcing in a Knowledge Economy

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P Antràs, L Garicano… - 2004 - chicagobooth.edu
Abstract How does the formation of cross-country teams affect the organization of work and
the structure of wages? We answer this question through a model of the assignment of
heterogeneous agents into hierarchical teams, where less skilled agents specialize in ...
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Spinoffs and the Market for Ideas*

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S Chatterjee… - International Economic …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
We present a theory of entry through spinoffs where workers generate ideas and possess
private information concerning their quality. Because quality is privately observed, adverse
selection implies that the market can only offer a price that reflects the average quality of ...
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[CITATION] VThe Rise of Offshoring: Itos Not Wine for Cloth Anymore

GM Grossman… - V paper presented at the Economic Symposium …, 2006
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[CITATION] pThe Rise of Offshoring: itśs not Wine for Cloth Anymoreq

M Grossman Gene… - The New eco'nomic Geography: Effects and …, 2006
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On the Internal Structure of Cities

RE Lucas, E Rossi-Hansberg - INTERNATIONAL …, 2005 - en.scientificcommons.org
Abstract We prove the existence of a symmetric equilibrium in a circular city in which
businesses and housing can both be located anywhere in the city. In this equilibrium, firms
balance the external benefits from locating near other producers against the costs of ...
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[CITATION] Spatial Specialization in Urban Economics and Trade Theory

EA Rossi-Hansberg - 2002 - University of Chicago, Department of …
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[CITATION] Spatial Growth of Employment in 'Young'Services Sector Mirroring That of Early 20th Century Manufacturing

K Desmet… - VoxEU. org, Centre for Economic Policy Research, …, 2007
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Urban Structure and Growth

M Wright… - 2004 Meeting Papers, 2004 - ideas.repec.org
Most economic activity occurs in cities. This creates a tension between local increasing
returns, implied by the existence of cities, and aggregate constant returns, implied by
balanced growth. To address this tension, we develop a theory of economic growth in an ...
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[CITATION] Trade and Organizations

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P Antràs… - Annual Review of Economics, 2009 - works.bepress.com
Join My Mailing List. Esteban Rossi-Hansberg. Princeton University. Professor of Economics;
Contact Information; Curriculum Vitae [PDF]. Expertise. ... Trade and Organizations. Pol Antràs,
Harvard University Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, PRINCETON UNIVERSITY. Suggested Citation ...
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[CITATION] Wage Inequality and Organizational Change in a Knowledge Hierarchy

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Task Trade Between Similar Countries

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GM Grossman… - Econometrica, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
We propose a theory of task trade between countries that have similar relative factor
endowments and technological capabilities, but may differ in size. Firms produce
differentiated goods by performing a continuum of tasks, each of which generates local ...

DP8535 The Impact of Trade on Organization and Productivity

L Caliendo, E Rossi-Hansberg - 2011 - cepr.org
A firm's productivity depends on how production is organized given the level of demand for
its product. To capture this mechanism, we develop a theory of an economy where firms with
heterogeneous demands use labor and knowledge to produce. Entrepreneurs decide the ...
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[PDF] OFFSHORING IN A KNOWLEDGE ECONOMY* POL ANTRAS LUIS GARICANO

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E ROSSI-HANSBERG - Technology, 2006 - edegan.com
How does the formation of cross-country teams affect the organization of work and the
structure of wages? To study this question, we propose a theory of the assignment of
heterogeneous agents into hierarchical teams, where less skilled agents specialize in ...
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[PDF] Economics of Housing Externalities

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E Rossi-Hansberg… - richmondfed.org
Abstract: Housing externalities refer to the effect the characteristics of a house have on other
residents and, potentially, businesses. These effects have been found to be large and to
decay with distance relatively fast. As a result, the value of land in residential ...
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[PDF] Analyzing Urban Systems: Have Mega-Cities Become Too Large?

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K Desmet… - 2012 - princeton.edu
Abstract With the trend toward greater urbanization and the rapid emergence of mega-cities
continuing unabated, many policy makers ask themselves whether some cities are
becoming too large, and whether policies should be aimed at stimulating the growth of ...
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[CITATION] Urban Growth and the Location of Economic Activity in Cities

E Rossi-Hansberg, PD Sarte… - 2005
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[PDF] Specialization versus concentration: A note on theory and evidence

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E Rossi-Hansberg - karl.aiginger.wifo.ac.at
Abstract: We use the spatial trade model in Rossi-Hansberg (2003) to predict that under
quite general circumstances, lower transport costs increase the specialization of regions and
decrease (regional) concentration of industries. We show that this finding is consistent ...
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[PDF] A spatial model of trade

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E Rossi-Hansberg - 2002 - webmeets.com
Abstract We present a trade model with a continuum of regions, transportation costs and
agglomeration effects via production externalities. The model is consistent with evidence
from estimations of the Gravity Equation. We analyze the effects of trade barriers and ...
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The effect of information and communication technologies on urban structure PDF Logo

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YM Ioannides, HG Overman, E Rossi-Hansberg… - 2007 - econstor.eu
Zusammenfassung: Two innovations in the last century have changed dramatically the cost
of communicating and transmitting information: The first is the widespread adoption of
telephony; the second is the internet. We study the implications of these changes in ICT for ...
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DP6421 Spatial Growth and Industry Age

K Desmet… - 2007 - cepr.org
US county data for the last 20 or 30 years show that manufacturing employment has been
deconcentrating. In contrast, the service sector exhibits concentration in counties with
intermediate levels of employment. This paper presents a theory where local sectoral ...
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[CITATION] Date posted: March 01, 2005; Last revised: March 01, 2005 Suggested Citation

P Antras, L Garicano… - papers.ssrn.com
... Antras Harvard University - Department of Economics; National Bureau of Economic Research
(NBER) Luis Garicano University of Chicago - Booth School of Business - Economics; Centre
for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) Esteban Rossi-Hansberg Princeton University ...

[CITATION] Harvard Institute of Economic Research

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[HTML] Organizations in the Aggregate Economy

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E Rossi-Hansberg - nber.org
Economists generally agree that an important feature of any modern macroeconomic theory
is an explicit aggregation of the microeconomic behavior of all agents in the economy. In the
last century, the profession has gone from the formulation of some general aggregate ...
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DP6965 Organizations and Trade

P Antràs… - 2008 - cepr.org
We survey an emerging literature at the intersection of organizational economics and
international trade. We argue that a proper modelling of the organizational aspects of
production provides valuable insights on the aggregate workings of the world economy. In ...
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DP8168 Urban Accounting and Welfare

K Desmet… - 2010 - cepr.org
This paper proposes a simple theory of a system of cities that decomposes the determinants
of the city size distribution into three main components: efficiency, amenities, and frictions.
Higher efficiency and better amenities lead to larger cities, but also to greater frictions ...
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