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Abstract: We develop an urban growth model where human capital spillovers foster entrepreneurship and learning in heterogeneous cities. Incumbent residents limit city expansion through planning regulations so that commuting and housing costs do not outweigh productivity gains from agglomeration. The model builds on strong microfoundations, matches key regularities at the city and economy-wide levels, and generates novel predictions for which we provide evidence. It can be quantified relying on few parameters, provides a basis to estimate the main ones, and remains transparent regarding its mechanisms. We examine various counterfactuals to assess the effect of cities on economic growth and aggregate output quantitatively.

Abstract: This study proposes a tying maximum likelihood estimation (TMLE) method to improve the performance of estimation of statistical and econometric models in which most time series have long sample periods, whereas the other time series are very short. The main idea of the TMLE is to tie the parameters of the long time series with those of the short time series together so that some useful information in the long time series which is related to the short time series can be transferred to the short time series. The information transferred from the long series can help improve the estimation accuracy of the parameters related to the short series. We first provide asymptotic properties of the TMLE and show its finite-sample risk bound with a fixed tuning parameter which determines the strength of tying. Further, we provide a method for selecting the tuning parameter based on a bootstrap procedure. A finite sample theory about this method is derived, which tells us how to conduct the bootstrap procedure effectively. Extensive artificial simulations and empirical applications show that the TMLE has an outstanding performance in point estimate and forecast.

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要旨：New ideas and technologies adopted by a small number of individuals occasionally spread globally through a complex web of social ties. Here, we present a simple and general approximation method, namely, a message-passing approach, that allows us to describe the diffusion processes on (sparse) random networks in an almost exact manner. We consider two classes of binary-action games where the best pure strategies for individual players are characterized as variants of the threshold rule. We verify that the dynamics of diffusion observed on synthetic networks are accurately replicated by the message-passing equation, whose fixed point corresponds to a Nash equilibrium, while the conventional mean-field method tends to overestimate the size and frequency of diffusion. Generalized cascade conditions under which a global diffusion can occur are also provided. We extend the framework to analyze diffusion of multiple goods.