Scattered thoughts Views expressed here are my own and not my employer's. Jan 24, 2025 Some notes on nonhomothetic CES demand Aug 16, 2024 Allen and Arkolaks (2014) via Allen et al. (2024) Feb 20, 2024 Mills' mistake: the negative exponential rent gradient May 3, 2023 Growth in Cities, revisited Mar 22, 2023 Market size and chips (potato) Oct 28, 2022 When is the spatial distribution of labor efficient? Sep 23, 2022 Creeping horror: The weird and the eerie in The Black Tower and It Follows Sep 20, 2022 A baseline toy AMM model Jul 11, 2022 Messing around with Brancaccio et al. (2019) Feb 17, 2022 Towards a spatio-temporal theory of vibe shifts Dec 1, 2021 On the commuting elasticity Dec 14, 2020 Quantitative spatial models are just Rosen-Roback with market access Nov 10, 2020 U.S. Urban History vs. Urban Economic Theory Oct 12, 2020 Some thoughts on Diffusion-State-Distance Sep 10, 2020 New American Realism Aug 30, 2020 Is School Reopening Overrated? Aug 28, 2020 Power Laws and Benford's Law