http://www.VoxEU.org Recent Jens Südekum articles on VoxEU.org en http://www.VoxEU.org/index.php?q=node/7241 Kristian Behrens, Giordano Mion, Yasusada Murata, Jens Südekum, 9 November 2011

People spend years of their lives shuffling from city to city and countless amounts of money sending goods along similar journeys – a result of so-called ‘spatial frictions’. This columns asks whether these frictions matter for the size distribution of cities, the sizes of individual cities, and the productivity of cities. The short answers are: no, yes, and it depends.

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