The re-emergence of Hiroshima’s city centre was driven by residents’ expectations find @koheitakeda.bsky.social and Atsushi Yamagishi In CentrePiece magazine

Great piece on the resilience of cities from CEP associate @KoheiTakeda.bsky.social and Atsushi Yamagishi. voxdev.org/topic/mig...

Agglomeration economies and the coordination of people’s expectations were pivotal to the recovery of central Hiroshima following the atomic bombing. Read today's article w/ @koheitakeda.bsky.social & Atsushi Yamagishi to learn more:

🆕 City structures are remarkably resilient: Lessons from Hiroshima after the bomb Today on VoxDev, @koheitakeda.bsky.social (NUS) & Atsushi Yamagishi (Hitotsubashi) discuss the resilience of Hiroshima's city structure following the atomic bomb: voxdev.org/topic/migrat...

I am happy to share a new blog post in @voxeu.org on a work with Atsushi Yamagishi about how economies of agglomeration and coordination of people’s expectations are the keys to the resilience of a city. The evidence is from my hometown, Hiroshima.

New sources of big data generate valuable new insights in urban economics, past and present, from Ran Abramitzky, Leah Platt Boustan, and Adam Storeygard https://www.nber.org/papers/w33561

Trade and intergenerational income mobility: Theory and evidence from the US By Italo Colantone, Gianmarco I. P. Ottaviano and Kohei Takeda Read more at: ow.ly/5jsh50Uo5hZ