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Policy: Economic geography
Public sector relocation: lessons from the BBC?s move to Salford
Moving public agencies out of London was a major plank of the levelling-up agenda. Max Nathan, Henry Overman, Capucine Riom and Maria Sanchez-Vidal show how the BBC?s move to Salford had a positive effect on the local ec... Read more...
Policy: Economic geography
Why people like living in cities: a new measure of the quality of life
People like to live in certain places, even when higher wages are on offer elsewhere. Gabriel Ahlfeldt, Fabian Bald, Duncan Roth and Tobias Seidel show that once people?s preferences are considered, big cities offer a hi... Read more...