A Spatial Knowledge Economy

Davis, Donald R.; Dingel, Jonathan I.

doi:10.3386/w18188

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“…Davis and Dingel (2013) provide evidence that cities' skill distributions are consistent with the log-supermodularity assumption. 21 Varieties are thus both vertically and horizontally differentiated (Beath and Katsoulacos, 1991, p.4-6).…”

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“…It is plausible that plants with observationally equivalent workforces in terms of non-production-to-production-worker ratios may differ in worker quality. In particular, prior research has documented weak but systematic sorting of workers across cities on unobservable characteristics correlated with higher wages (Davis and Dingel, 2012;De la Roca and Puga, 2012). However, these differences between workers should appear in the plant-level wage data, and the third and sixth columns of Table 3 includes plant-level wage measures.…”

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“…I provide the first characterization of production specialization within product categories across cities. Previous empirical work describing variation in manufacturing across US cities has focused on interindustry specialization (Henderson, 1991;Holmes and Stevens, 2004;Davis and Dingel, 2013) or described the products available to retail consumers without tracking production locations (Handbury and Weinstein, 2011). The finding that the geography of demand plays a major role in specialization complements a nascent literature describing the consumption benefits of living in cities with high-income populations (Glaeser, Kolko, and Saiz, 2001;Diamond, 2012;Handbury, 2012).…”

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The Determinants of Quality Specialization

Dingel

2014

WTO Working Papers

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A growing literature suggests that high-income countries export high-quality goods.Two hypotheses may explain such specialization, with different implications for welfare, inequality, and trade policy. Fajgelbaum, Grossman, and Helpman (JPE 2011) formalize the Linder (1961) conjecture that home demand determines the pattern of specialization and therefore predict that high-income locations export high-quality products.The factor-proportions model also predicts that skill-abundant, high-income locations export skill-intensive, high-quality products (Schott, QJE 2004). Prior empirical evidence does not separate these explanations. I develop a model that nests both hypotheses and employ microdata on US manufacturing plants' shipments and factor inputs to quantify the two mechanisms' roles in quality specialization across US cities.Home-market demand explains at least as much of the relationship between income and quality as differences in factor usage. * I am grateful to

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Dingel

2014

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“…In later research, Tabuchi, Thisse, & Zhu (2016) analyzed influence of technological progress in manufacturing and transportation together with migration costs for formation of space. The explanation why skill premia is higher in larger cities, how variation in these premia emerges from symmetric fundamentals, and why skilled workers have higher migration rates than unskilled workers when both are fully mobile is presented in research (Davis & Dingel, 2012).…”

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Disparities in rural development of the Russian arctic zone regions

Efremova¹,

Didenko²,

Rudenko³

et al. 2017

Research for Rural Development

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The paper provides the study of specific spatial conditions of rural development of Arctic zone regions in Russia during 2000 -2015. The aim of the paper is to propose the methodology for rural development disparities study in the Russian Arctic. Spatial development of the Arctic is described by a system of indicators, reflecting the system of the resettlement, the level and quality of life: total population size, life expectancy at birth, housing stock etc. The extent and nature of disparities, particularly, social and economic disparities within the rural territories of the Arсtic are explained. The assessment has been based on min-max ratio, coefficient of variation as well as Gini index. Eliminating excessive spatial differences in the social development of urban and rural territories of Arctic regions, improving the demographic situation, raising the level and quality of life of the population should be seen as a priority of the state policy in the Arctic in order to make it attractive for living.

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“…In their model, agents living in a city barter knowledge and develop a reputation for cooperation, in line with von Hippel's evidence on 'know-how' sharing. Finally, Davis and Dingel (2012) consider idea exchange as an agglomeration force in a system of cities model.…”

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Knowledge spillovers in cities: An auction approach

Couture

2015

Journal of Economic Theory

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This paper proposes a micro-foundation for knowledge spillovers. I model a city in which free knowledge transfers are bids by experts to entrepreneurs who auction jobs. These knowledge bids resemble a consultant's pitch to a potential client. Two fundamental properties of knowledge underlie the model: First, it is often necessary to reveal some knowledge to demonstrate its value. Second, knowledge is freely reproducible. Larger cities generate more meetings between experts and entrepreneurs, resulting in more learning and better matches. Larger cities also foster competition for jobs, which motivates experts to raise their knowledge bids. These results demonstrate how competitive behavior can be a source of agglomeration economies, and contribute to explain the higher productivity of urban workers.

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A Spatial Knowledge Economy

Cited by 75 publications

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The Determinants of Quality Specialization

The Determinants of Quality Specialization

Disparities in rural development of the Russian arctic zone regions

Knowledge spillovers in cities: An auction approach

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