Journal of Urban Economics 

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors re-examine the empirical evidence on the degree of spatial spillover between university research and high technology innovations and find evidence of local spatial externalities between research and development activities and university research in the MSA and in the surrounding counties.

TL;DR: In this article, a simple model with a national system of competing local governments is utilized to demonstrate that the use of a distorting property tax on mobile capital decreases the level of residential public services.

TL;DR: In this paper, a general equilibrium model is constructed to study tax competition, where local governments compete for capital by holding down property tax rates and public expenditure levels, and both the existence and nonexistence of tax competition are shown to be theoretically possible.

TL;DR: This paper examined the microfoundations of agglomeration economies for U.S. manufacturing industries using industries as observations, and regress the Ellison-Glaeser measure of spatial concentration on industry characteristics that proxy for the presence of knowledge spillovers, labor market pooling, input sharing, product shipping costs, and natural advantage.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors made the argument that the average level of human capital is a local public good and that cities with higher average levels of capital should have higher wages and higher land rents.