103 citations · 126 across the 9 of their papers we have counts for
10 papers
Industrial complexity and the evolution of formal employment in developing cities
Neave O'Clery, Juan Chaparro, Andres Gomez-Lievano +1
What drives formal employment creation in developing cities? We find that larger cities, home to an abundant set of complex industries, employ a larger share of their working age p…
The benefits and costs of agglomeration: insights from economics and complexity
Andres Gomez-Lievano, Michail Fragkias
There are many benefits and costs that come from people and firms clustering together in space. Agglomeration economies, in particular, are the manifestation of centripetal forces…
Bridging the short-term and long-term dynamics of economic structural change
James McNerney, Yang Li, Andres Gomez-Lievano +1
Economic transformation -- change in what an economy produces -- is foundational to development and rising standards of living. Our understanding of this process has been propelled…
An information-theoretic approach to the analysis of location and co-location patterns
Alje van Dam, Andres Gomez-Lievano, Frank Neffke +1
We propose a statistical framework to quantify location and co-location associations of economic activities using information-theoretic measures. We relate the resulting measures t…
Machine-learned patterns suggest that diversification drives economic development
Charles D. Brummitt, Andres Gomez-Lievano, Ricardo Hausmann +1
We develop a machine-learning-based method, Principal Smooth-Dynamics Analysis (PriSDA), to identify patterns in economic development and to automate the development of new theory…
Estimating the drivers of urban economic complexity and their connection to economic performance
Andres Gomez-Lievano, Oscar Patterson-Lomba
Estimating the capabilities, or inputs of production, that drive and constrain the economic development of urban areas has remained a challenging goal. We posit that capabilities a…
Methods and Concepts in Economic Complexity
Andres Gomez-Lievano
Knowhow in societies accumulates as it gets transmitted from group to group, and from generation to generation. However, we lack of a unified quantitative formalism that takes into…
On the scaling patterns of infectious disease incidence in cities
Oscar Patterson-Lomba, Andres Gomez-Lievano
Urban areas with larger and more connected populations offer an auspicious environment for contagion processes such as the spread of pathogens. Empirical evidence reveals a systema…
Artificial Increasing Returns to Scale and the Problem of Sampling from Lognormals
Andres Gomez-Lievano, Vladislav Vysotsky, Jose Lobo
We show how increasing returns to scale in urban scaling can artificially emerge, systematically and predictably, without any sorting or positive externalities. We employ a model w…
Explaining the Prevalence, Scaling and Variance of Urban Phenomena
Andres Gomez-Lievano, Oscar Patterson-Lomba, Ricardo Hausmann
The prevalence of many urban phenomena changes systematically with population size. We propose a theory that unifies models of economic complexity and cultural evolution to derive…