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Articles by Fabian Eckert
Combinatorial Discrete Choice: A Quantitative Model of Multinational Location Decision
This paper combines “Combinatorial Discrete Choice” by Arkolakis and Eckert, and the technical part of the first chapter of Shi’s dissertation titled “Solving combinatorial discrete choice problems in heterogeneous agent models: theory and an application to corporate tax harmonization in the European Union.” We thank Jake DiCicco, Tra Nguyen, Andrew Salmon, Benjamin Tong, Yunus Tuncbilek, and Nardeen Abdulkareem for outstanding research assistance.
More Roads or Public Transit? Insights from Measuring City-Center Accessibility
Skip to main content We thank Nishi Felton, Matthew Murillo, and Ephraim Sutherland for outstanding research assistance. We also thank the audience at the NBER working group meeting on ”Transportation Economics in the 21st Century” for insightful comments. The authors have no relevant financial interests to disclose. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Sprouting Cities: How Rural America Industrialized
This paper was prepared for the AEA Papers and Proceedings, 2023. We thank Ken Kikkawa for a very helpful discussion at the 2023 AEA Meetings. We also thank Dávid Nagy for comments that improved the paper. An earlier version of this paper was presented as “Little Chicagos: The Industrialization of Rural America, 1880-1940.” The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Urban-Biased Growth: A Macroeconomic Analysis
Skip to main content We thank Fabian Trottner for many in-depth discussions. We also thank Pol Antras, David Autor, Costas Arkolakis, Gideon Bornstein, Laura Castillo-Martinez, Jonathan Dingel, Pierre-Olivier Gourinchas, Gordon Hanson, J. Bradford Jensen, Tom Kemeny, Chris Moser, Michael Peters, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg, and Steve Redding for insightful comments. Any views expressed are those of the authors and not those of the U.S. Census Bureau.
The Geography of Remote Work
An earlier version of this paper was circulated as “The City Paradox: Skilled Services and Remote Work.” We thank Milena Almagro, Nick Bloom, Joshua Coven, Don Davis, Jonathan Dingel, Ed Glaeser, Caitlin Gorback, Arpit Gupta, and Tommaso Porzio for early comments and help with various data sources. The views expressed herein are those of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views of the National Bureau of Economic Research.
Driving the superstar economy: Skilled tradable services
Fabian Eckert, Sharat Ganapati, Conor Walsh 26 September 2019 In recent years, wages for highly skilled workers have grown rapidly. Using US data between 1980 and 2015, this column studies a group of service industries that are skill-intensive, widely traded, and have recently seen explosive wage growth. It shows that, unlike any other sector, the wage growth in these industries was strongly biased toward the densest local labour markets and the highest-paying firms.
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