Here’s a list of job-market candidates whose job-market papers fall within spatial economics, as defined by me quickly skimming webpages and two dozen candidates who responded on Twitter. 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:

Yuanhang Yu (LSE) – Pollution Without Borders: Transboundary Air Pollution and the Geography of Pollutant Control Policy
Po-Shyan Wu (Indiana) – Assault on the Low-Wage Economy: Federal Wage-Hour Law and Southern Industrial Development
Jacob Wright (Minnesota) – On the Spatial Distribution of Colleges
Martin Wiegand (UPF) – Cities with Benefits
Zhichun Wang (Yale) – The Expansion and Dynamic Equilibrium Effects of Institutional Landlords
Óscar Vilargunter (Toulouse) – Spatial Effects of the Minimum Wage
Michael Tueting (St. Gallen) – Climate Change, Income Inequality, and Migration in a Spatial Economy
Tuyetanh Tran (Yale) – The Trade-Offs of Curbside Parking: Evidence from Demand-Based Pricing
Anya Tarascina (Wisconsin) – The Value of Intermediation in Bikeshare
Idil Tanrisever (UCI) – Upzoning and Neighborhood Change: Evidence from Los Angeles
Caterina Soto Vieira (LSE) – Home Production in the City
Christopher Sims (Northwestern) – The Origins of the Nitrogen Revolution
Jacob Shepard (Arizona State) – Spatial Mobility and the Macroeconomic Effects of Housing Policy
Jin Seok Park (USC) – Priced Out of Entrepreneurship? Rising Local Home Prices Lower Economic Opportunities for Young Renters
Bas Sanders (Harvard) – A New Bayesian Bootstrap for Quantitative Trade and Spatial Models
Álvaro Sánchez-Leache (CEMFI) – The Internal Geography of America’s Housing Crisis
Matteo Saccarola (Berkeley) – Geographic Price Extrapolation, Learning, and Housing Search: Evidence from Danish Movers
Brietta Russell (Oregon) – Short-Term Rental Regulations, Enforcement, and Host Behavior: Evidence from Denver
Francesco Ruggieri (Chicago) – Overlapping Jurisdictions and the Provision of Local Public Goods in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
Vincent Rollet (MIT) – Zoning and the Dynamics of Urban Redevelopment
Christina Qiu (Yale) – Endogenous Transfer Networks Under Spatial Risk
Zeyi Qian (Clark University) – Trade Costs, Entry Costs, and Regional Economic Growth in China
Helena Pedrotti (NYU) – Local Discretion in Low-Income Housing Policy: Evidence from France
Giovanni Paolo Mariani (ULB ECARES) – The Value of Local Public Goods: Evidence from Massachusetts’ Property Tax Limits
Junni Pan (Purdue) – Migration Restrictions, College Choices, and Spatial Skill Sorting
Julian Oolman (Illinois) – Endogenous Consumption Amenities of the Country Mouse and City Mouse
Fernando Ochoa (NYU) – Targeting and Price Pass-Through in Housing Voucher Design
Matias Navarro (Cornell) – On the Right Track? Designing Optimal Public Transit Contracts
Alberto Nasi (Bocconi) – Mortgage Rates and the Price-to-Rent Ratio Across Space
Jordan Mosqueda (UCSD) – Equilibrium Commuting Costs: The Role of Private and Public Transit
Iris Margetis (Michigan State) – The Effects of a Mandatory Flood Risk Disclosure Law on Rent Prices and Residential Sorting in Texas
Anna Lukianova (Wisconsin) – Income Taxation, Entrepreneurship, and Inequality in the U.S.
Feng Lin (Chicago) – Sorting, Displacement, and the Limited Welfare Benefits of Non-Local Firms
Furkan Kilic (Chicago) – Spatial Allocation of Inventors, Knowledge Diffusion and Growth
Aja Kennedy (Tufts) – Local Spillover Effects of Density Bonus Policy on Housing Production: Evidence in Massachusetts
Zane Kashner (Stanford GSB) – Building with Externalities: Local Governments and Wind Farms
Nathan Jones (UPF) – Pricing Out the Poor: Income Segregation and Housing Supply Regulation
Richard Jin (Berkeley) – College Alumni Networks and Mobility Across Local Labor Markets
Jiahao Jiang (Virginia) – Rise of Homeownership in China: Insights from a Life Cycle Analysis
Yuyang Jiang (Princeton) – Strategic Transportation Investment and Coordinative Policies: Evidence from the U.S. Highway Network
Yikuan Ji (UMD) – Travel Mode Choice and Distributional Impacts of Congestion Charge Policy in New York City
Razi Iqbal (Michigan) – Sectoral and spatial reallocation via multi-establishment firms
Ji Hwan Kim (UPenn) – Adapting to Storms in the U.S.: A Spatial Dynamic Analysis
Zong Huang (Stanford) – The Redistributive and Efficiency Effects of Property Taxes
Bisma Haseeb Khan (Toronto) – Public Transit, Residential Sorting and Labor Supply: Evidence and Theory from Lahore’s Bus Rapid Transit System
Raymond Han (MIT) – Equilibrium Effects of Neighborhood Schools
Lucy Hackett (Berkeley ARE) – Land subsidence: Environmental risk in housing markets in Mexico City
David H. Buller (Illinois) – Estimating Spatial Heterogeneity in the Labor Market Effects of Place-Based Business Incentive Deals
Gabrielle Grafton (Brown) – The Great Migration and Those Left Behind
Daniel Gold (Wisconsin) – Regulatory Hurdles and Costly Delay in Housing Development
Sebastian Espinoza Rojas (UCL) – Market Power and Local Labor Markets
Plinio Dias Bicalho Jr (Boston U) – Quantifying the Macroeconomic Effects of Tax Competition: the Brazilian “Fiscal War”
Agustín Deambrosi (Penn State) – When, where, and how quickly? A model of Venezuelan stepwise migration with network effects, credit constraints, and official assistance
Lindsey Currier (Harvard) – Competition in U.S. Infrastructure
Benjamin Couillard (Toronto) – Build, Baby, Build: How Housing Shapes Fertility
Beau Bressler (UC Davis) – Building Segregation: The Long-Run Neighborhood Effects of American Public Housing
Lukas Boehnert (Oxford) – The Regional Specialization Trade-off
Devin Bissky Dziadyk (Toronto) – Little School on the Prairie: A Push for Structural Transformation
Aditya Bhandari (Chicago) – Technology and the Geography of Industrial Policy
Sebastián Bauer (Stanford GSB) – Competition and Welfare in Airport Slot Allocation
Elif Basaran (Penn State) – Refugees, Amenities, and the Skill Premium
Mark Bamba (Princeton) – The Centralizing Effects of Tokyo’s Train System
Abdelrahman Amer (Toronto) – Monopsony in Space: Commuting & Labor Market Power
Elena Aguilar (Princeton) – Credit Constraints, Learning, and Spatial Misallocation

For the 16th 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:

Fanwen Zhu (UCLA) – Sanctions and Startups: Trade Shocks and Innovator Entrepreneurship in the U.S.-China Trade War
Qi Zhang (Virginia) – Pollution Haven Next Door: Evidence from China
Viktoriia Zezerova (Penn State) – Market Power, Misallocation, and Trade Policy
Chek Yin Choi (IIES) – Supplier Search and Market Concentration
Yan Yan (Yale University) – The Informational Value of Lobbying in the Tariff Exclusion Process – https://yanyan-econ.github.io –
Yuyao Wu (Michigan) – State Ownership and International Business Cycle
Cihang Wang (UIUC) – Taxing Production Networks: Trade, Misallocation, and Vertical Integration
Tao Wang (CEMFI) – Beyond Cheap Supplies: Risk and Competition in Global Sourcing
Germano Wallerstein (Michigan) – Exporter entry, expansion, and the skill premium
Barron Tsai (Duke University) – When Cutting Out the Middleman Backfires: Disintermediation, Wholesale Markups, and Misallocation
Ngan Tran (Oregon) – Unequal Gains: The Gendered Impact of Trade Liberalization in Vietnam
Lidia Smitkova (Oxford) – Export Subsidies as Industrial Policy: the Case of the 19th Century Sugar Industry
Sebastian Sardon (Northwestern) – Trade, Land Consolidation, and Agricultural Productivity
Bas Sanders (Harvard) – A New Bayesian Bootstrap for Quantitative Trade and Spatial Models
Alisha Saini (University of Illinois Chicago) – How Government Procurement affects Trade: Evidence from the U.S.
Jose Rojas-Fallas (Oregon) – Global Firms, Local Students: Multinational Presence Shapes College Major Choice
Yinan Qiu (Princeton) – Venture Capital Networks and Cross-Border Startup Knowledge Spillovers
Alberto Palazzolo (ULB ECARES) – Deglobalization and the Reorganization of Supply chains: Effects on Regional Inequalities in the EU
Guilherme Paiva Pinto (Indiana) – External Negotiations and Customs Union Stability
Saera Oh (Michigan State) – Related Party Trade and Gravity: Revisiting the Distance Effects
Vishan Nigam (MIT) – Specialization by design: the unequal geographic effects of modular product design
Ashwin Nair (Virginia) – Paving the Way for Higher Costs? The Impact of Steel Tariffs on Highway Procurement
Timothy Meyer (Uni Bonn, Kiel Institute) – Hegemonic Competition with Carrots and Sticks
Hubert Massoni (Bologna) – Climate Trade Costs: Extreme Weather, Transportation, and Supply Chains
Ignacio Marra de Artiñano (ULB ECARES) – The Labor Market Effects of Multinational Entry
Max Marczinek (Oxford) – Labour Scarcity and Productivity: Insights from the Last Nordic Plague
Jacob Lefler (Berkeley ARE) – Freight in the Time of Covid: A Model of US Trucking
Taylor Lathrop (Syracuse) – Foreign Direct Investment and Local Productivity Spillovers: Evidence from Indonesia
Guido Lamarmora (Nottingham) – The Food Problem in an Open Economy
Ananya Kotia (London School of Economics) – When Competition Compels Change: Trade, Management, and Productivity
Xianglong Kong (Chicago) – Learning in Firm-to-Firm Trade
Kazuma Inagaki (Rochester) – Born Global, New Exporter Dynamics and the Aggregate Gains from Trade
Vanya Georgieva (Toronto) – Trade and Industrial Policy with Global Production Networks
Enrico Cristoforoni (Boston College) – International Prices, Domestic Wages, and Labor Market Power
Junyuan Chen (UCSD) – Sourcing Frictions Meet Inventories: A Dynamic Ricardian Framework for the Impact of Trade Shocks
Yaming Chang (Penn State) – Trade, Research Productivity and Growth: A Dynamic General Equilibrium Approach
Jonas Casper (LMU Munich) – Unproductive Exporters
Carlos Bolivar (Minnesota) – The Micro Effects of Aggregate Shocks in Endogenous Trade Networks
Shania Bhalotia (LSE) – Trade in Services under Regulatory Barriers: Evidence from UK Banking

There are plenty of trade economists on the job market this year. I’ve pulled together an incomplete list of JMPs, like last year. As usual, I focus on trade papers, thereby neglecting international finance and open-economy macro papers and trade economists working in other fields (such as urban). Please add more in the comments.

• Nikolas J Zolas (UC Davis): “Firm Locational Patenting Decisions“
• Nan Zhang (Virginia): “Productivity and Labor Market Effects of Offshoring to Low-Wage Countries“
• Yiqing Xie (Boulder): “Exporting, Licensing, FDI and Productivity Choice: Theory and Evidence from Chilean Data“
• Anna Wong (Chicago): “Measuring Trade Barriers: An Application to China’s Domestic Trade“
• Tao Wang (Princeton): “Kyoto Protocol and the Patterns of International Trade“
• Mehmet Fatih Ulu (Chicago): “Heterogeneity and Uncertainty in Firm Selection into Foreign Markets“
• Martin Tobal (UCSD): “A Model Of Employment And Wage Impacts Of Service Offshoring“
• Olga Timoshenko (Yale): “Product Switching in a Model of Learning“
• Lucas Threinen (Chicago): “The Dynamic Response to Trade Policy“
• Michael J. Sposi (Iowa): “Evolving Comparative Advantage, Structural Change, and the Composition of Trade“
• Adam Storeygard (Brown): “Farther on down the road: Transport costs, trade and urban growth in sub-Saharan Africa“
• Wei Shi (UCLA): “A model of the technology adoption decision for heterogeneous firms“
• Huimin Shi (Ohio State): “Gravity or Distorted Gravity: Evidence from Chinese Data“
• Liugang Sheng (UC Davis): “ The Ownership Structure of Offshoring and Wage Inequality: Theory and Evidence from China“
• Gisela Rua (Berkeley): “Fixed Costs, Network Effects, and the International Diffusion of Containerization
• Dorothée Rouzet (Harvard): “ Improving “National Brands”: Reputation for Quality and Export Promotion Policies“
• Gina Pieters (Minnesota): “Trade and Within-Country Consumption Inequality“
• Megha Mukim (LSE): “Does exporting increase productivity? Evidence from India“
• Madhura Maitra (Columbia): “Unexceptional Exporter Performance in China? Role of Processing Trade“
• April Xiangjun Ma (Virginia): “Do Taxes Influence the Organizational Boundaries of International Firms? An Income-Shifting Channel through Transfer Pricing“
• Gary Lyn (PSU): “Marshallian Externalities, Comparative Advantage and International Trade“
• William Lincoln (Michigan): “Entry Costs and Increasing Trade“
• Donghyun (Don) Lee (Oregon): “Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions with Heterogeneous Firms: Technology vs. Market Motives“
• Paul Landefeld (Virginia): “Task Trade, Wages, and Transportation Costs“
• Illenin O. Kondo (Minnesota): “Trade Reforms, Foreign Competition, and Labor Market Adjustments in the U.S.“
• Nune Hovhannisyan (Boulder): “Technology Gap and International Knowledge Transfer: New Evidence from the Operations of Multinational Corporations“
• David Hémous (Harvard):”Environmental Policy and Directed Technical Change in a Global Economy: Is There a Case for Carbon Tariffs?“
• Rachita Gullapalli (Berkeley): “Does Foreign Portfolio Investment Help In Bad Times? Firm-Level Evidence from the Asian Financial Crisis“
• Daniel Gomez Gaviria (Chicago Booth): “Mergers and Heterogeneous Firms: Trade, asset reallocation and productivity “
• Teresa Fort (Maryland): “Breaking up is hard to do: Why firms fragment production across locations“
• Michael Fabinger (Harvard): “Trade and Interdependence in a Spatially Complex World“
• David DeRemer (Columbia): “The Evolution of International Subsidy Rules“
• F. Banu Demir (Oxford): “Trading Tasks and Quality“
• Hyo-Youn Chu (Boston U): “ Investments in Response to Trade Policy: The Case of Japanese Firms during Voluntary Export Restraints“
• Moonjung Choi (Virginia): “ Export Prices and Relative Location of Exporting Countries“
• Kristy Buzard (UCSD): “Trade Agreements, Lobbying and Separation of Powers“
• Wyatt Brooks (Minnesota): “Credit Market Frictions and Trade Liberalization“
• Cagatay Bircan (Michigan): “Optimal Degree of Foreign Ownership Under Uncertainty“
• Treb Allen (Yale): “Information Frictions and Trade“