Von Thünen’s monocentric model is considered as one of the foundations of spatial economics. Most of its assumptions have been transfered from agricultural to urban space by New Urban Economics. This transposition gave new impetus both to the monocentric model and urban economics. Yet the...

This paper highlights, from both a theoretical and an empirical point of view, how the choice of neighborhood and spatial weight affects the direct and indirect effects of environmental housing attributes on house price in environmental hedonic models.An original empirical investigation is...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the consequences of spatial dependence on regional growth and the convergence process. Based on a sample of 92 European regions over the 1980-1995 period, we show that the unconditional ?-convergence model is misspecified due to the presence of spatial...

The aim of this paper is to analyze the spatial changes in the Dijon urban area (COMADI) by studying in particular the new tendencies of localization of the high order producer services. Our results display a multicentric structure of the COMADI which exhibits several employment poles. Not only...

Nous étudions si les spillovers entre les économies urbaines associés aux externalités de connaissance existent et quels sont leurs impacts sur la croissance économique de 82 villes européennes sur la période 1990-2005. Nous modélisons les spillovers entre les villes en distinguant cinq...

In hedonic housing models, the spatial dimension of housing values are traditionally processed by the impact of neighborhood variables and accessibility variables. In this paper we show that spatial effects might remain once neighborhood effects and accessibility have been controlled for. We...

La globalisation et la métropolisation des économies modernes induisent des stratégies de localisation des activités intensives en connaissance en faveur des métropoles et démultiplient les échanges commerciaux et d'information entre les métropoles. Nous étudions, dans ce contexte, le...