Here’s a list of job-market candidates whose job-market papers fall within spatial economics, as defined by me quickly skimming webpages. I’m sure I missed folks, so please add them in the comments.

Here’s a cloud of the words that appear in these papers’ titles:

Brian Cevallos Fujiy (Michigan) – Spatial Knowledge Spillovers in R&D and Aggregate Productivity: Evidence from the Reunification of Germany
Juan Manuel Castro-Vincenzi (Princeton) – Climate Hazards and Resilience in the Global Car Industry
Diana Sverdlin Lisker (MIT) – Fragmented Markets and the Proliferation of Small Firms: Evidence from Mom-and-Pop Shops in Mexico
Howard Zhang (Columbia) – Consumer Cities: The Role of Housing Variety
Kwok-Hao Lee (Princeton) – The dynamic allocation of public housing: Policy and spillovers
Lucas Conwell (Yale) – Are There Too Many Minibuses in Cape Town? Privatized Provision of Public Transit
Michelle Lam (Michigan) – Implications of Zoning on Urban Gentrification in New York City
Mike Mei (Michigan) – House Size and Household Size: The Distributional Effects of the Minimum Lot Size Regulation
Motoaki Takahashi (Penn State) – The Aggregate Effects of the Great Black Migration
Pierre Bodéré (NYU) – Dynamic Spatial Competition in Early Education: an Equilibrium Analysis of the Preschool Market in Pennsylvania
Rajat Kochhar (USC) – Does Market Power in Local Agricultural Markets Hinder Farmer Climate Change Adaptation?
Daniel Ramos-Menchelli (Harvard) – The Spatial Consequences of Financial Frictions: Evidence from Brazil
Shogo Sakabe (Columbia) – Mobile Human Capital and Diffusion of Ideas Across Cities
Shunsuke Tsuda (Brown) – Human and Nature: Economies of Density and Conservation in the Amazon Rainforest
Nishaad Rao (Michigan) – The Intergenerational Wealth Effects of Local Labor Markets
Edward Olivares (Maryland) – Labor Mobility, Nonlocal Outside Options, and Wages
Catherine van der List (UBC) – How do Establishments Choose their Location? Taxes, Monopsony, and Productivity
Elsie Peng (Penn) – The Dynamics of Urban Development: Evidence from New York
Harrison Wheeler (Berkeley) – Locally Optimal Place-Based Policies: Evidence from Opportunity Zones
Lea Bou Sleiman (Ecole Polytechnique) – Displacing Congestion: Evidence from Paris
Lukas Makovsky (London School of Economics) – The Impact of Construction Constraints on Spatial Allocation during Economic Transition
Minseon Park (University of Wisconsin-Madison) – Location Choice, Commuting, and School Choice
Nicole Gorton (UCLA) – Trade Costs, Supply Chains, and the Decline of the Heartland
Pin Sun (Penn State) – Asymmetric Migration Response: An Application to Welfare Analysis in Climate Change
Samuel K Hughes (Wharton) – How Mortgage Financing Costs Affect Rental Housing: Pass-Through & Pricing
Tillmann von Carnap (IIES Stockholm) – Rural marketplaces and local development
Wei Guo (Berkeley ARE) – The Sharing Economy as Disaster Remedy: The Case of Airbnb
Xinle Pang (Penn State) – Moving Into Risky Floodplains: The Spatial Implication of Flood Relief Policies
Yooseon Hwang (Virginia) – The Welfare Effects of Congestion Pricing: Evidence from High-Occupancy Toll Lanes
Tereza Ranošová (Michigan) – Commuting and the value of marriage
Trevor Bakker (Stanford) – The Effects of Foreclosure on Households
Trevor Williams (Yale) – Right Idea, Wrong Place? Knowledge Spillovers and Spatial Misallocation in R&D
Tuuli Vanhapelto (Toulouse) – House Prices and Rents in a Dynamic Spatial Equilibrium
Brian Higgins (Stanford) – Racial Segmentation in the US Housing Market
Anna Vitali (UCL) – Consumer Search and Firm Location: Theory and Evidence from the Garment Sector in Uganda
Augusto Ospital (UCLA) – Urban Policy and Spatial Exposure to Environmental Risk
Benny Kleinman (Princeton) – Wage Inequality and the Spatial Expansion of Firms
Ellen Liaw (UCSD) – The Impact of Place-Based Housing Subsidy on Academic Performance
Erica Moszkowski (Harvard) – Option Value and Storefront Vacancy in New York City
Raoul van Maarseveen (Uppsala University) – The effect of urban migration on educational attainment: evidence from Africa
Garrett Anstreicher (Wisconsin) – Spatial Influences in Upward Mobility
Jiwon Choi (Princeton) – The Effect of Deindustrialization on Local Economies: Evidence from New England Textile Mill Towns
Jungsoo Yoo (University of Pennsylvania) – Local Attachment and Residential Mobility: Evidence from White Flight in Boston
Levi Crews (Chicago) – A Dynamic Spatial Knowledge Economy
Lukas Althoff (Princeton) – The Geography of Black Economic Progress After Slavery
Luke Heath Milsom (Oxford) – Moving Opportunity. Local Connectivity and Spatial Inequality
Martin B. Schmitz (Vanderbilt) – A Penny for your Thoughts
Elio Nimier-David (CREST) – Local Human Capital and Firm Creation: Evidence from the Massification of Higher Education in France
Ninghui Li (UC Davis) – Innovation Clusters and Spatial Inequality with a Local Brain Drain
Rui Yu (Wharton) – Returns to Political Contributions in Local Housing Markets
Samsun Knight (Brown) – Retail Demand Interdependence and Chain Store Closures
Tianfang (Tom) Cui (UPenn Wharton) – The Emergence of Exclusionary Zoning Across American Cities
Vincent Thorne (Trinity College Dublin) – Cycling Toward Cleaner Cities? Evidence from New York City’s Bike Share Program
Zijian He (Yale) – Measuring Welfare Gains from Online Stores: Theory and Evidence from the Supreme Court’s Wayfair Decision

For the 13th year running, I’ve gathered a list of trade-related job-market papers. If I’ve missed someone, please contribute to the list in the comments.

Here’s a cloud of the words that appear in these papers’ titles:

Jay Sayre (Berkeley) – Farm to Firm: Clustering and Returns to Scale in Agricultural Supply Chains
Marina M. Ngoma (Tufts) – Chinese Imports and Industrialization in Africa: Evidence from Ethiopia
Alejandra López Espino (Penn State) – Production Networks and Rules of Origin: moving from NAFTA to USMCA
Antoine L. Noel (Queen’s University) – Production Structures and Preferential Trade Agreements
Eleanor Wiseman (Berkeley ARE) – Border Trade and Information Frictions: Evidence from Informal Traders in Kenya
Benny Kleinman (Princeton) – Wage Inequality and the Spatial Expansion of Firms
Juan Manuel Castro-Vincenzi (Princeton) – Climate Hazards and Resilience in the Global Car Industry
Gizem Kutlu (Virginia) – Gains from Trade with Heterogenous Households
Ji Hye Heo (Vanderbilt) – Product Bundling, Joint Markups and Trade liberalization
Manho Kang (UC Davis) – Export Competition and Innovation
Maria Ptashkina (Universitat Pompeu Fabra) – Revisiting the Effects of Preferential Trade Agreements
Sheng “Charles” Cai (Yale) – Multinational Production, Technology Diffusion, and Economic Growth
Kensuke Suzuki (Penn State) – Gains of Foreign Employment: Regional and Sectoral Implications
Mina Taniguchi (LMU Munich) – What is the impact of EU enlargement? Estimating the wage effect of labor supply shocks with a discrete choice model
Linnea Lorentzen (Norwegian Business School) – Domino Effects: Understanding Sectoral Reallocation and its Wage Implications
Mateo Hoyos (UMass Amherst) – Tariffs and Growth: Heterogeneous Effects by Economic Structure
Nicole Gorton (UCLA) – Trade Costs, Supply Chains, and the Decline of the Heartland
Promise Kamanga (Oregon) – Diplomatic Relations and Trade: The Effect of Switching Ties from Taiwan to China
Takafumi Kawakubo (LSE) – Do Supply Chain Disruptions Harm Firm Performance? Evidence from Japan
Yipei Zhang (Berkeley) – The Anti-Competitive Effect of Input Tariff Liberalization
Joao Monteiro (Kellogg) – The Impact of a Higher Cost of Credit on Exporters: Evidence from a Change in Banking Regulation
Agustin Gutierrez (Chicago) – Labor Market Power and the Pro-competitive Gains from Trade
Jianlin Wang (Berkeley) – Multinationals and Uncertainty: The Role of Internal Capital Markets
Leticia Juarez (Michigan) – Buyer Market Power and Exchange Rate Pass-through
Marco Errico (Boston College) – Decomposing the (In)Sensitivity of CPI to Exchange Rate
Mauricio Stern (Texas) – Windfalls for all? International elasticities and Dutch disease in a commodity exporting economy
Nan Liu (Virginia) – Trade War, Processing Trade, and Global Value Chains
Paul Phillips (Minnesota) – A Tale of Two Recessions: Decomposing Import Patterns After 2020 and 2008
Ruichi Xiong (Toronto) – Interregional Accessibility and Firm Creation in the Fragmented Economy
Sang Min Lee (Minnesota) – Trade Liberalization and Structural Transformation: The Role of Tradable Services
Soo Kyung Woo (Rochester) – Real Exchange Rate and Net Trade Dynamics: Financial and Trade Shocks
Xiaomei Sui (Rochester) – Uneven Firm Growth in a Globalized World
Yukun Ding (USC) – How Does Trade Policy Uncertainty Affect Export: Expectation or Volatility?
Younghun Shim (Chicago) – From Adoption to Innovation: State-Dependent Technology Policy in Developing Countries

Here’s a list of job-market candidates whose job-market papers fall within spatial economics, as defined by me quickly skimming webpages. I’m sure I missed folks, so please add them in the comments.

Here’s a cloud of the words that appear in these papers’ titles:

Zahin Haque (NYU) – The Production Engel
Yuta Suzuki (Penn State) – Local Shocks and Regional Dynamics in an Aging Economy
Yao Wang (Syracuse University) – Linguistic Distance, Internal Migration and Welfare: Evidence from Indonesia
Xian Jiang (Duke) – Information and Communication Technology and Firm Geographic Expansion
Vladimir Avetian (Sciences Po) – Consider the Slavs: Overt Discrimination and Racial Disparities in the Rental Housing
Vinicios Sant’Anna (UIUC) – Send Them Back? The Real Estate Consequences of Repatriations
Vinayak Iyer (Columbia) – What Drives the Efficiency in Ridesharing Markets? Evidence from Austin, Texas
Victor Yifan Ye (BU) – Simulating Endogenous Global Automation
Vasily Rusanov (NYU) – Internal Migration and the Diffusion of Schooling in the US
Valentin Lindlacher (Munich) – Digital Infrastructure and Local Economic Growth: Early Internet in Sub-Saharan Africa
Taylor Mackay (UC Irvine) – Source of Income Discrimination and the Housing Choice Voucher Program
Tanner Regan (LSE) – Ask a local: Improving public pricing in urban Tanzania
Tal Roitberg (USC) – Can’t Wait? Urgency with Strategic Commuters and Tolled Express Lanes
Sung-Yup Jung (BU) – Industrial Parks and Regional Development: Evidence from South Korean Industrial Park Policy
Sarah Schneider-Strawczynski (PSE) – When is Contact Effective? Evidence on Refugee-Hosting and Far-Right Support in France
Rui Yu (Wharton) – Returns to Political Contributions in Local Housing Markets
Rolando Campusano (Toronto Rotman) – Startup Location, Local Spillovers, and Neighborhood Sorting
Philip Mulder (Wharton) – Mismeasuring Risk: The Welfare Effects of Flood Risk Information
Petr Martynov (Berkeley Haas) – Welfare Effects of Zoning: Density Constraints and Heterogeneous Agglomeration
Pawel Janas (Kellogg) – Public goods under financial distress: evidence from cities in the great depression
Paul J. Fisher (Arizona) – The Role of Property Tax in California’s Housing Crisis
Palak Suri (Maryland) – Public Transit Infrastructure and Employment Accessibility: The Benefits of the Mumbai Metro
Nikhil Datta (UCL) – Local Monopsony Power
Motaz Al-Chanati (Columbia) – Residential Segregation and the Demand for Schooling
Mingxi Li (UC Davis) – Firm Foundations: Legal Systems and Economic Performance in Colonial Shanghai, 1903-1934
Michael Pollmann (Stanford) – Causal Inference for Spatial Treatments
Matthew Lilley (HBS) – The Long Run Effects of Right to Work Laws
Mason Reasner (Purdue) – Agglomeration and Congestion Spillovers: Evidence from Base Realignment and Closure
Martin Jégard (PSE) – An Optimal Distribution of Polluting Activities Across Space
Manuela Puente Beccar (Bocconi) – Sorting and health: understanding health inequalities
Luca Perdoni (Yale) – The Effects of Federal “Redlining” Maps: A Novel Estimation Strategy
Kristina Komissarova (NYU) – Location Choices over the Life Cycle: The Role of Relocation for Retirement
Kohei Takeda (LSE) – On the Geography of Structural Transformation: Impact on Inequality and Upward Mobility
Juan Pablo Uribe (Brown) – Subsidies and Market Equilibrium: Evidence from a Notch in the Colombian Housing Market
Josh Morris-Levenson (Chicago) – The Origins of Regional Specialization
Jose Morales-Arilla (HKS) – Autocrats in crisis mode: Strategic favoritism during economic shocks
John Morehouse (Oregon) – Carbon Taxes in Spatial Equilibrium
Jaehee Song (Yale) – The Effects of Residential Zoning in U.S. Housing Markets
Iain Bamford (Columbia) – Monopsony Power, Spatial Equilibrium, and Minimum Wages
Hyun Yeol Kim (Rochester) – Internal U.S. Migration and Consumption Dynamics: A Panel Data Analysis
Georgios Tsiachtsiras (Barcelona) – Transportation Networks and the Rise of the Knowledge Economy in 19th Century France
Filippo Tassinari (Barcelona) – Low emission zones and traffic congestion: evidence from Madrid Central
Fernando Stipanicic (TSE) – The Creation and Diffusion of Knowledge: Evidence from the Jet Age
Fernanda Rojas-Ampuero (UCLA) – Sent Away: The Long-Term Effects of Slum Clearance on Children and Families
Elisa Facchetti (Queen Mary University of London) – Police Infrastructure, Police Performance and Crime: Evidence from Austerity Cuts
Dzhamilya Nigmatulina (LSE) – Misallocation and State Ownership: Evidence from the Russian Sanctions
Dheeraj Chaudhary (Maryland) – Trade, Financial Development, and Inequality: Evidence from US Railroads in the 19th Century
Derek Christopher (UC Irvine) – Homeownership in the Undocumented Population and the Consequences of Credit Constraints
Cory Briar (Oregon) – Rent Control and Gentrification in San Francisco: A Simulation Approach
Cora Wigger (Northwestern) – Decoupling Homes and Schools
Christopher M. Hair (Kellogg) – The Local Effects of Spatially Targeted Public Policies: Evidence from California School Finance Reform
Bunyada (Mos) Laoprapassorn (Michigan) – Entry and Spatial Competition of Intermediaries: Evidence from Thailand’s Rice Market
Benjamin Freyd (UCLA) – Labor Market Polarization and the Growth of Service Employment: Routinization or Consumption Spillovers?
Barthélémy Bonadio (Michigan) – Ports vs. Roads: Infrastructure, Market Access and Regional Outcomes
Arman Khachiyan (UCSD) – The Impacts of Fracking on Microspatial Residential Investment
Antoine Levy (MIT) – Tax Policy and Spatial Investment Behavior
Anomita Ghosh (UIUC) – Developing incentives to move new physicians: Longitudinal evidence from a local supply-side reform
András Jagadits (UPF) – Emigration and Local Structural Change: Evidence from (Austria)-Hungary in the Age of Mass Migration
Abhishek Rai (Penn State) – Temporary Migration in Spatial Economy

For the 12th year running, I’ve gathered a list of trade-related job-market papers. It’s in reverse-alphabetical order by first name. If I’ve missed someone, please contribute to the list in the comments.

Here’s a cloud of the words that appear in these papers’ titles:

Zachary Kiefer (Oregon) – Extracting the Costs of International Internet Communcation
Yuting Gao (Indiana) – Lobbying for Trade Liberalization and its Policy Influence
Yuta Suzuki (Penn State) – Local Shocks and Regional Dynamics in an Aging Economy
Yu-Siang Wu (Michigan State) – Import Exposure and STEM Major Choice: Evidence from the U.S.
Youssef A. Benasser (Oregon) – Measuring Trade Policy Uncertainty and Its Impact on Financial Market Volatility
YongKi Hong (UCLA) – Related-Party Trades in Vertical Integration
Yoko Shibuya (Stanford) – Firm Size and Complementarity between Geography and Products
Yogeshwar Bharat (Michigan State) – Credit Constraints, Bank Incentives, and Firm Export: Evidence from India
Yao Wang (Syracuse University) – Linguistic Distance, Internal Migration and Welfare: Evidence from Indonesia
Xiaohan Zhang (Minnesota) – Increased degree of openness, technology capital and structural change in the U.S.
Torsten Jaccard (Toronto) – Who Pays for Protectionism? The Welfare and Substitution Effects of Tariff Changes
Tianchen Song (Rochester) – Multinationals Expansion, Shareholding Choice, and Local Know-How
Thu Tran (Vanderbilt) – Financial constraints and trade intermediation
Shihangyin (Frank) Zhang (Maryland) – Quantitative Effects of Trade Shocks Under Global Supply Chains
Ron Yang (HBS) – (Don’t) Take Me Home: Home Bias and the Effect of Self-Driving Trucks on Interstate Trade
Roman Merga (Rochester) – International Trade, Volatility, and Income Differences
Prakrati Thakur (UIUC) – Welfare Effects of International Trade in Waste
Nicholas Rowe (Michigan State) – When Does Finance Help Trade? Banking Structures and Export in the Macroeconomy
Mélina London (Aix-Marseille) – Trade Networks and Natural Disasters: Diversion, not Destruction
Md. Deen Islam (BU) – The Geography of Automation
Mayara Felix (MIT) – Trade, Labor Market Concentration, and Wages
Mathilde Munoz (PSE) – Trading Non-Tradables: The Implications of Europe’s Job Posting Policy
Maria-Jose Carreras-Valle (Minnesota) – Increasing Inventories: The Role of Delivery Times
Lydia Cox (Harvard) – The Long-Term Impact of Steel Tariffs on U.S. Manufacturing
Lidia Smitkova (Cambridge) — Competitiveness, ‘Superstar’ Firms and Capital Flows: The North-South Divide in Pre-Crisis Europe
Kairong Chen (Indiana) – Trade Policy Uncertainty: Measurement and Impacts on US firms in Global Value Chains
Jun-Tae Park (Michigan State) – The Welfare Effects of Labor Switching Costs in a Trade Economy
José-Luis Cruz (Princeton) – Global Warming and Labor Market Reallocation
John Finlay (Yale) – Exporters, Credit Constraints, and Misallocation
Jiacheng Feng (Harvard) – Signaling Export Quality under Firm Heterogeneity
Jeffrey Wang (Harvard) – Robots, Trade, and Offshoring: Perspective from US Firms
Jaedo Choi (Michigan) – Technology Adoption and Late Industrialization
Heehyun Rosa Lim (Maryland) – Trade in Intermediates and US Manufacturing Emissions
Hamza Zahid (Houston) – Global Footprints of US Energy Innovations: Energy Efficiency and Shale Revolution
Giulia Sabbadini (Graduate Institute) – Firm-Level Prices, Quality, and Markups: The Role of Immigrant Workers
Fernando Stipanicic (TSE) – The Creation and Diffusion of Knowledge: Evidence from the Jet Age
Evgenii Fadeev (Harvard) – Creative Construction: Knowledge Sharing in Production Networks
Elijah Coleman/ (Vanderbilt) – Patent Placement: Evaluating the Impact of the WTO/TRIPS on International Patenting Behavior
Conor Foley (UCLA) – Flexible Entry/Exit Adjustment for Price Indices
Chujian Shao (Washington) – International Trade, Immigration and Macroeconomic Dynamics
Brian Pustilnik (UCLA) – Trade Policy on a Buyer-Seller Network
Bin Zhao (Cornell) – Input Specificity, Firm-to-Firm Trade, and Firm Growth
Barthélémy Bonadio (Michigan) – Ports vs. Roads: Infrastructure, Market Access and Regional Outcomes
Aycan Katitas (Princeton) – Politicizing Trade: How Economic Discontent and Identity Politics Shape Anti-Trade Campaign Appeals

For the 11th year running, I’ve gathered a list of trade-related job-market papers. It’s in reverse-alphabetical order by first name. If I’ve missed someone, please contribute to the list in the comments.

Of the 38 candidates I’ve initially listed, 15 registered a custom domain, 13 used Google Sites, 4 used GitHub, 3 used Weebly and only 3 use school-provided webspace.

Here’s a cloud of the words that appear in these papers’ titles:

Ziho Park (Chicago) – Trade Adjustment: Establishment-Level Evidence
Zachary Kiefer (Oregon) – Extracting the Costs of International Internet Communication
Yuta Watabe (Penn State) – Triangulating Multinationals and Trade
Yusuke Kuroishi (LSE) – Value of Trademarks: Micro Evidence from Chinese Exports to Africa
Yoonseon Han (Kentucky) – Determinants of Export Earnings Volatility
Yang Zhou (Minnesota) – The US-China Trade War and Global Value Chains
Xiaochen Xie (Penn State) – Export Dynamics: Evidence from the Global Mobile Phone Industry
Xiao Ma (UC San Diego) – College Expansion, Trade, and Innovation: Evidence from China
Vu Thanh Chau (Harvard) – International Portfolio Investments with Trade Networks
Trang Hoang (Vanderbilt) – The Dynamics of Global Sourcing
Tomas Dominguez-Iino (NYU) – Efficiency and Redistribution in Environmental Policy: An Equilibrium Analysis of Agricultural Supply Chains
Todd Messer (Berkeley) – Foreign Currency as a Barrier to International Trade: Evidence from Brazil
Tanmay Belavadi (Penn State) – Informality, Inequality and Trade
Swapnika Rachapalli (Toronto) – Learning Between Buyers and Sellers Along the Global Value Chain
Sen Ma (Illinois) – Can Foreign Direct Investment Increase the Productivity of Domestic Firms? Identifying FDI Spillovers from Borders of Chinese Dialect Zones
Sebastian Ellingsen (Pompeu Fabra) – Free and Protected: Trade and Breaks in Long-Term Persistence
Samuel Bailey (Minnesota) – Competition and Coordination in Infrastructure: Port Authorities’ Response to the Panama Canal Expansion
Roza Khoban (Stockholm University) – The Impact of Trade Liberalization in the Presence of Political Distortions
Ross Jestrab (Syracuse) – Do Multilateral and Bilateral Trade Agreements Share the Same Motive? An Empirical Investigation
Rizki Nauli Siregar (UC Davis) – Global Prices, Trade Protection, and Internal Migration: Evidence from Indonesia
Priyam Verma (Houston) – Optimal Infrastructure after Trade Reform in India
Piyush Panigrahi (Berkeley) – Endogenous Spatial Production Networks: Quantitative Implications for Trade and Productivity
Paul Ko (Penn State) – Dissecting Trade and Business Cycle Co-movement
Monika Khan (Kentucky) – Finance and Trade: The Role of Stock Markets and Importers
Marius Faber (Basel) – Robots and Reshoring: Evidence from Mexican Labor Markets
Marijn Bolhuis (Toronto) – Financial Linkages and the Global Business Cycle
Lucas Zavala (Yale) – Unfair Trade: Market Power in Agricultural Value Chains
Kendrick Morales (UC Irvine) – Religious hostilities: A consequence of international trade?
Jan David Bakker (UCL) – Trade and Agglomeration: Theory and Evidence from France
Haruka Takayama (Virginia) – Greenfield or Brownfield? FDI Entry Mode and Intangible Capital
Haishi Harry Li (Chicago) – Multinational Production and Global Shock Propagation in the Great Recession
Gustavo Gonzalez (Chicago) – Commodity Price Shocks, Factor Utilization, and Productivity Dynamics
Ezequiel Garcia-Lembergman (Berkeley) – Multi-establishment Firms, Pricing and the Propagation of Local Shocks: Evidence from US Retail
Eduardo Fraga (Yale) – Drivers of Concentration: The Roles of Trade Access, Structural Transformation, and Local Fundamentals
Ebehi Iyoha (Vanderbilt) – Estimating Productivity in the Presence of Spillovers: Firm-level Evidence from the US Production Network
Daniel Bonin (Purdue) – To Greener Pastures: the Domestic Migration Response to Social Policies and Its Impact on Political Polarization
Daisuke Adachi (Yale) – Robots and Wage Polarization: The Effects of Robot Capital across Occupations
Christoph Albert (CEMFI) – Immigration and Spatial Equilibrium: the Role of Expenditures in the Country of Origin
Chenying Yang (UBC) – Location Choices of Multi-plant Oligopolists: Theory and Evidence from the Cement Industry
Bérengère Patault (CREST-Ecole Polytechnique) – How valuable are business networks? Evidence from sales managers in international markets
Bruno Conte (UAB) – Climate change and migration: the case of Africa
Brett McCully (UCLA) – Immigrants, Legal Status, and Illegal Trade
Arnold Njike (Université Paris Dauphine) – Trade in value-added and the welfare gains of international fragmentation
Armen Khederlarian (Rochester) – Inventories, Input Costs and Productivity Gains from Trade Liberalizations
Alexander Wise (Princeton) – Global Dynamics of Structural Change

Two years ago, my list of trade candidates also included a dozen candidates in spatial economics. Last year I listed 20 candidates. There are 45 spatial-economics JMCs in this year’s list. That looks like a rapid rise.

Of course, measurement problems abound. My view of “spatial economics” may have broadened during the last two years, in which case the listings would tell you more about me than about the candidates. That would be hard to quantify. But, to focus on one label within the broader spatial economics nexus, I’m pretty sure that I’m seeing more candidates explicitly list “urban economics” as one of their fields than in years prior.

If I’m right that the supply of spatial economists is rising, then one immediately wonders if the demand side will keep pace. I haven’t looked at JOE postings, but I doubt that ads mentioning “urban economics” are growing at the same rate as candidates listing it as a field.

Last month, in response to a Beatrice Cherrier query about why urban economics’ “boundaries & identity are so difficult to pin down,” Jed Kolko noted that “urban economists typically align strongly to another field — trade, labor, PF, finance (esp the real estate types), macro.” That fluidity has advantages and disadvantages. It certainly makes it challenging to compile a list of relevant job-market candidates. But my very short time series of arbitrarily collated candidates suggests growth in the supply of young spatial economists.

Here’s a list of job-market candidates whose job-market papers fall within spatial economics, as defined by me when glancing at a webpage for a few seconds. Illinois has six candidates! I’m sure I missed folks, so please add them in the comments.

The annual list of trade candidates is a distinct post.

Of the 45 candidates I’ve initially listed, 18 used Google Sites, 12 registered a custom domain, 3 used GitHub, and 12 used school-provided webspace.

Here’s a cloud of the words that appear in these papers’ titles:

• Alex Sollaci (Chicago) – Agglomeration, Innovation and Spatial Reallocation: the Aggregate Effects of R&D Tax Credits
• Keyoung Lee (UCLA) – Benefits of Working Near College Workers: Human Capital Spillovers Across Neighborhood
• Ignacio Sarmiento Barbieri (Illinois) – Can’t Stop the One-Armed Bandits: The Effects of Access to Gambling on Crime
• Giuseppe Rossitti (LSE) – Centres of power: US capitals’ location and ability sorting of legislators
• Hongyu Xiao (Wharton) – Commuting and Innovation: Are Closer Inventors more Productive?
• Asan R. Khan (Illinois) – Decentralized Zoning with Agglomeration Spillovers: Evidence from Aldermanic Privilege in Chicago
• Xiaodi Li (NYU) – Do New Housing Units in Your Backyard Raise Your Rents?
• Divya Singh (Columbia) – Do Property Tax Incentives for New Construction Spur Gentrification? Evidence from New York City
• Heepyung Cho (Illinois) – Driver’s License Reforms and Job Accessibility among Undocumented Immigrants
• Wen Wang (Duke) – Environmental Gentrification
• Román David Zárate (Berkeley) – Factor Allocation, Informality and Transit Improvements: Evidence from Mexico City
• Conor Walsh (Yale) – Firm Creation and Local Growth
• Chelsea Carter (Boston University) – Forts and the Frontier: The US Army and the Spatial Distribution of Population
• Jiajun Lu (UCSD) – General Equilibrium Effects of an Urban Housing Supply Expansion: The Role of Residential Sorting
• Ludovica Gazze (MIT) – Hassles and Environmental Health Screenings: Evidence from Lead Tests in Illinois
• Nazanin Khazra (Illinois) – Heterogeneities in the House Price Elasticity of Consumption
• Luis Baldomero-Quintana (Michigan) – How Infrastructure Shapes Comparative Advantage
• Javier Quintana (Bocconi) – Import Competition, Regional Divergence, and the Rise of the Skilled City
• Lorenzo R. Aldeco Leo (Brown) – Internal Migration and Drug Violence in Mexico
• Peter Nencka (OSU) – Knowledge access: The effects of Carnegie libraries on innovation
• Cory Smith (MIT) – Land Concentration and Long-Run Development: Evidence from the Frontier United States
• Aradhya Sood (Minnesota) – Land Market Frictions and Manufacturing in Developing Countries: The Small Bite Strategy
• Yue Yu (Columbia) – Land-Use Regulation and Economic Development: Evidence from the Farmland Red Line Policy in China
• Don Jayamaha (NYU) – Land-Use Restrictions: Implications for House Prices, Inequality, and Mobility
• Milena Almagro (NYU) – Location Sorting and Endogenous Amenities: Evidence From Amsterdam
• Chuhang Yin (Duke) – Long Term Neighborhood Effects of Religious Diversity: Evidence from Scotland
• Charly Porcher (Princeton) – Migration with Costly Information
• Peter Zhixian Lin (UC Davis) – Persistent Human Capital Spillovers: Evidence from China’s Send-down Migration
• Florin Cucu (Sciences Po) – Roads, Internal Migration and the Spatial Sorting of US High-Skilled Workers
• Yi Huang (Illinois) – Salience of Hazard Disclosure and House Prices: Evidence from Christchurch, New Zealand
• Yang Wang (UCSD) – Skill Complementarity in Teams: Matching, Sorting and Agglomeration in China
• Amrita Kulka (Wisconsin) – Sorting into Neighborhoods: The Role of Minimum Lot Sizes
• Camilo Acosta-Mejia (Toronto Rotman) – Spatial Wage Differentials, Geographic Frictions and the Organization of Labor within Firms
• Jay Hyun (Columbia) – Spillovers and Redistribution through Intra-Firm Networks: The Product Replacement Channel
• Michael DeDad (Indiana) – Tastes in the United States: Convergence or Divergence?
• Paolo Martellini (Penn) – The City-Size Wage Premium: Origins and Aggregate Implications
• Ting Lan (Michigan) – The Coagglomeration of Innovation and Production
• Brian Greaney (Yale) – The Distributional Effects of Uneven Regional Growth
• Stephanie Schauder (Cornell) – The Effect of Sprawl Development on Grocery Store Location and Food Access
• Hundanol Kebede (Virginia) – The Gains from Market Integration: The Welfare Effects of Rural Roads in Ethiopia
• Hannah Rubinton (Princeton) – The Geography of Business Dynamism and Skill-Biased Technical Change
• Adrien Bilal (Princeton) – The Geography of Unemployment
• Wookun Kim (UCLA) – The Valuation of Local Government Goods: Gravity Approach and Aggregate Implications
• Wei You (UCSD) – The Welfare Implications of Internal Migration Restrictions: Evidence from China
• Devaki Ghose (Virginia) – Trade, Internal Migration, and Human Capital: Who Gains from India’s IT Boom?
• Yuan Tian (UCLA) – Trade-Induced Urbanization and the Making of Modern Agriculture
• Matthias Hoelzlein (Berkeley) – Two-Sided Sorting and Spatial Inequality in Cities
• John D. Pedersen (Binghamton) – Voting for Transit: The Labor Impact of Public Transportation Improvements
• Abdollah Farhoodi (Illinois) – Welfare Estimation in Peer-to-Peer Markets with Heterogeneous Agents: The Case of Airbnb
• Caitlin Gorback (Wharton) – Your Uber has Arrived: Ridesharing and the Redistribution of Economic Activity

It’s November again. Time flies, and there’s a new cohort of job-market candidates. Time really flies: I started this series a decade ago! Many members of that November 2010 cohort now have tenure or will soon.

As usual, I’ve gathered a list of trade-related job-market papers. There is no clear market leader: the most candidates from one school by my count is three (Berkeley, Maryland, UCLA). If I’ve missed someone, please contribute to the list in the comments.

A separate post lists candidates in spatial economics, broadly defined.

Of the 31 candidates I’ve initially listed, 14 registered a custom domain, 9 used Google Sites, 2 used GitHub, and only 6 use school-provided webspace.

Here’s a cloud of the words that appear in these papers’ titles:

• Nicholas Sander (Berkeley) – Causal Effects of Capital Inflows
• Adrien Bussy (LSE) – Corporate Tax Evasion: Evidence from International Trade
• Karam Jo (Maryland) – Defensive Innovation and Firm Growth in the U.S.: Impact of International Trade
• Sanjana Goswami (UC Irvine) – Employment Consequences of U.S. Trade Wars
• Juan Sebastián Muñoz (Illinois) – Entering the Major Leagues: The Effect of Import Competition from the United States on Workers and Firms in an Emerging Economy
• Román David Zárate (Berkeley) – Factor Allocation, Informality and Transit Improvements: Evidence from Mexico City
• Luis Baldomero-Quintana (Michigan) – How Infrastructure Shapes Comparative Advantage
• Shafaat Khan (Rochester) – How Trade Responds to Anticipated Tariff Changes: Evidence from NAFTA
• Javier Quintana (Bocconi) – Import Competition, Regional Divergence, and the Rise of the Skilled City
• Xiang Ding (Harvard) – Intangible Economies of Scope: Micro Evidence and Macro Implications
• Hoang Pham (Syracuse) – International Trade and the Labor Market Power of Firms: Theory and Evidence
• Jacob Howard (Colorado) – Labor-Market Frictions and Endogenous Production-Network Formation
• Charly Porcher (Princeton) – Migration with Costly Information
• Anthony Priolo (Minnesota) – Multinational Production, Competition, and Growth
• Diana Van Patten (UCLA) – Multinationals, Monopsony and Local Development: Evidence from the United Fruit Company
• Zhe (Jasmine) Jiang (UW) – Offshoring, Firm-Level Adjustment and Labor Market Outcomes
• Anna Ignatenko (UC Davis) – Price Discrimination in International Transportation: Evidence and Implications
• Santiago Justel (UCLA) – Quality Guarantee and Trade Credit. Evidence from Chilean Exporters
• Kodzovi Abalo (Penn State) – Quantifying the incidence of terms-of-trade shocks in Nigeria: a Roy model with non-homothetic preferences and endogenous transfers
• Anna Miromanova (Oregon) – Quantifying the Trade Reducing Effect of Embargoes: Firm-Level Evidence from Russia
• Dorothee Hillrichs (Tilburg University) – Recovering Within-Country Inequality From Trade Data
• Tobias Sytsma (Oregon) – Rules of Origin Liberalization with Multi-Product Firms: Theory and Evidence from Bangladeshi Apparel Exporters
• Eugene Kanasheuski (Penn State) – Skill Premium: Accounting for Trade and Structural Change
• Mary Kate Batistich (Purdue) – Skill-Biased Technical Change and Employment in U.S. Manufacturing
• Rowan Shi (Princeton) – Solving combinatorial discrete choice problems in heterogeneous agent models: theory and an application to corporate tax harmonization in the European Union
• Isabela Manelici (Berkeley) – The Effects of Joining Multinational Supply Chains: New Evidence from Firm-to-Firm Linkages
• Jose P Vasquez (Berkeley) – The Effects of Multinationals on Workers: Evidence from Costa Rica
• Heesuk Gloria Jung (Houston) – The Effects of Trade Costs and Capital Controls on Trade Imbalances
• Sofia Fernandez Guerrico (Illinois) – The Effects of Trade-Induced Worker Displacement on Health and Mortality in Mexico
• Hundanol Kebede (Virginia) – The Gains from Market Integration: The Welfare Effects of Rural Roads in Ethiopia
• Adrien Bilal (Princeton) – The Geography of Unemployment
• Bengt Söderlund (Stockholm) – The Importance of Business Travel for Trade: Evidence from the Liberalization of the Soviet Airspace
• Agustin Velasquez (Graduate Institute, Geneva) – The Leisure Gains from International Trade
• Omar Barbiero (Harvard) – The Valuation Effects of Trade
• Alejandro Graziano (Maryland) – Trade Liberalization and Industrial Concentration
• Paweł Langer (NYU) – Trade Liberalization: Winners and Losers in a Search Framework
• Lerong Li (Maryland) – Trade Policy Shocks and Consumer Prices
• Devaki Ghose (Virginia) – Trade, Internal Migration, and Human Capital: Who Gains from India’s IT Boom?
• Laszlo Tetenyi (NYU) – Trade, Misallocation, and Capital Market Integration
• Yuan Tian (UCLA) – Trade-Induced Urbanization and the Making of Modern Agriculture
• Chen Daisy Sun (Yale) – Trading up: On the Growth of Chinese Textile and Apparel Exporters
• Fabian Trottner (Princeton) – Who Gains From Scale? Trade and Wage Inequality Within and Between Firms