State and local governments in the United States compete to attract firms by offering discretionary subsidies. I use a private value English auction to model the subsidy bidding process and quantify t...

ABSTRACT. We develop a tractable quantitative framework for modeling the rich patterns of spatial mobility observed in smartphone data. We show that travel

Abstract. This paper exploits spatial quasiexperimental variation around French departmental borders to provide novel evidence that regional borders disturb surrounding economic activity; namely, comm...

Abstract. In this paper we study the effect of violent crime on residential and firms location decisions and their implications for segregation in cities. We do so by proposing a new instrument to exo...

We study the emergence and persistence of urban slums in Brazil. Using data on labor markets, housing costs, and access to education, we construct a quantitative model to explore the impact of slums o...

(January 2025) - Coasts contain a disproportionate share of the world's population, reflecting historical advantages, but environmental change threatens a reversal of coastal fortune in the coming dec...

(June 2025) - Geographic dispersion of depositors, borrowers, and banks may prevent funding from flowing to high-loan-demand areas, limiting credit access. Using bank-county-year-level data, we provid...

Yabe and colleagues use human mobility data to identify dependencies in visitation patterns between places in cities, with unexpected prevalence at long-distance connections. Leveraging this network e...

To decide the number, size, and location of its plants, a firm balances the benefit of delivering goods from multiple plants with the cost of setting up and managing these plants and the potential for...

Abstract. We analyse 69 entries and relocations by the largest Norwegian discount variety chain Europris during the period 2016–2019, and measure how its l

Abstract. We explore the impact of rising incomes at the top of the distribution on spatial sorting patterns within large U.S. cities. We develop and quant

We perform a comprehensive neighborhood-level analysis of housing supply. Predictions of floor space and housing unit supply elasticities using our estimates average 0.5 and 0.3 across all urban neigh...

Comunidades y Gobierno se pusieron como objetivo en 2019 garantizar atención no urgente en menos de dos días. Los datos de más de 2.500 centros de 16 comunidades revelan un panorama dispar