Spatial Disparities News Today

This entry introduces six papers published from November 16 to November 30 on various topics, including COVID-19, the impact of nature on economic activity and tax compliance.

Ajay Agrawal, Iain Cockburn, Alberto Galasso, Alexander Oettl In light of rising regional within-country inequality around the world (Moretti 2008, Ehrlich and Overman 2020, Rosés and Wolf 2018), many policymakers have discussed efficient and effective measures to counter the increasing spatial disparities. In this regard, place-based policies, which directly subsidise regions that are economically lagging behind, are a prominent instrument in policymakers’ toolkits (Glaeser and Gottlieb 20...