The overall scientific objective of this project was to identify and explain in a crosscountry analysis the impact of deepening and...

We qualitatively match new economic geography (NEG) to stylized facts on German economic integration after 1989. We find that NEG may...

This paper investigates the effects of inward FDI on per-capita income and growth of the US states since the mid-1970s. Using a Markov...

This study investigates how the digital revolution, which is characterized by artificial intelligence, big data, cloud computing and...

This paper argues for an ambitious but realistic approach to defining the future role of the International Monetary Fund (IMF). The...

Numerous empirical studies of national and regional economic growth and convergence undertaken in the past one and a half decades have...

Markov chain theory, which has frequently been applied to analyze income convergence, imposes restrictive assumptions on the...

This paper proposes an approach to delineating metropolitan areas that is more general than the standard approaches in three respects:...

This paper presents descriptive evidence suggesting that there may be something to be learned about the future patterns of...

Based on evidence from national data, Henderson, Storeygard and Weil (AER 2012) suggest that growth of night lights can proxy reliably...

This paper substantiates the debate following Richard Florida’s suggestion to measure regional human capital by creative occupations...

Empirical studies on the evolution of concentration, specialization or localization of economic activity have provided ambiguous...

This paper solves one of the puzzles in the analysis of regional and industrial distributions of economic activity, the discrepancy...

We present empirical evidence suggesting that technological progress in the digital age will be biased not only with respect to skills...

We present empirical evidence suggesting that technological progress in the digital age will be biased not only with respect to skills...

We test a New Economic Geography (NEG) model for U.S. counties, employing a new strategy that allows us to bring the full NEG model to...

This paper establishes eight stylized facts on the evolution of the localization of economic activity across industries and regions in...

This paper estimates the aggregate productivity effects of Marshallian externalities generated by foreign direct investments (FDI) in...

We explore to what extent key functions in manufacturing are spatially clustered with, or dispersed from, each other within...

Kiel Policy Brief No. 12