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Dynamic Urban Planning: an Agent-Based Model Coupling Mobility Mode and Housing Choice. Use case Kendall Square
Mireia Yurrita, Arnaud Grignard, Luis Alonso +4
As cities become increasingly populated, urban planning plays a key role in ensuring the equitable and inclusive development of metropolitan areas. MIT City Science group created a…
The role of industry, occupation, and location specific knowledge in the survival of new firms
C. Jara-Figueroa, Bogang Jun, Edward Glaeser +1
How do regions acquire the knowledge they need to diversify their economic activities? How does the migration of workers among firms and industries contribute to the diffusion of t…
Complex Economic Activities Concentrate in Large Cities
Pierre-Alexandre Balland, Cristian Jara-Figueroa, Sergio Petralia +3
Why do some economic activities agglomerate more than others? And, why does the agglomeration of some economic activities continue to increase despite recent developments in commun…
The structural constraints of income inequality in Latin America
Dominik Hartmann, Cristian Jara-Figueroa, Miguel Guevara +2
Recent work has shown that a country's productive structure constrains its level of economic growth and income inequality. Here, we compare the productive structure of countries in…
How the medium shapes the message: Printing and the rise of the arts and sciences
C. Jara-Figueroa, Amy Z. Yu, Cesar A. Hidalgo
Communication technologies, from printing to social media, affect our historical records by changing the way ideas are spread and recorded. Yet, finding statistical instruments to…
Linking Economic Complexity, Institutions and Income Inequality
D. Hartmann, M. R. Guevara, C. Jara-Figueroa +2
A country's mix of products predicts its subsequent pattern of diversification and economic growth. But does this product mix also predict income inequality? Here we combine method…
Analogue of the quantum total probability rule from Paraconsistent bayesian probability theory
R. Salazar, C. Jara-Figueroa, A. Delgado
We derive an analogue of the quantum total probability rule by constructing a probability theory based on paraconsistent logic. Bayesian probability theory is constructed upon clas…