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The Costs of Agglomeration: Land Prices in French Cities
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
We develop a new methodology to estimate the elasticity of urban costs with respect to city population using French land price data. Our preferred estimate, which handles a number of estimation concerns, stands at 0.041. Our approach also yields a number of intermediate outputs of independent...
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Competition in the traditional sector does not matter for the ‘Core–Periphery’ model
Behrens, Kristian; Kichko, Sergey; Zhelobodko, Evgeny - In: Economics Letters 122 (2014) 1, pp. 94-99
We modify Paul Krugman’s (1991) ‘Core–Periphery’ model by replacing the traditional competitive sector with a monopolistically competitive one. We show that the structure of spatial equilibria remains the same as in the original model. This result continues to hold true under Cournot or...
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The Henry George Theorem in a second-best world
Behrens, Kristian; Kanemoto, Yoshitsugu; Murata, Yasusada - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2010
The Henry George Theorem (HGT), or the golden rule of local public finance, states that, in first-best economies, the fiscal surplus, defined as aggregate land rents minus aggregate losses from increasing returns to scale activities, is zero at optimal city sizes. We derive a general second-best...
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The Henry George Theorem in a second-best world
Behrens, Kristian; Kanemoto, Yoshitsugu; Murata, Yasusada - In: Journal of Urban Economics 85 (2015) C, pp. 34-51
finances the Pigouvian subsidies for agglomeration externalities and the costs of local public goods by a 100% tax on land is … are the sources of agglomeration economies and city governments levy property taxes. Without relying on specific …
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Chapter 5. The Empirics of Agglomeration Economies
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Gobillon, Laurent - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 5, (pp. 247-348). 2015
We propose an integrated framework to discuss the empirical literature on the local determinants of agglomeration … agglomeration mechanisms. …
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Chapter 4. Agglomeration Theory with Heterogeneous Agents
Behrens, Kristian; Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric - In: Handbook of regional and urban economics : volume 5, (pp. 171-245). 2015
This chapter surveys recent developments in agglomeration theory within a unifying framework. We highlight how … locational fundamentals, agglomeration economies, the spatial sorting of heterogeneous agents, and selection effects affect the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014025315
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Inter-regional and International Trade: Seventy Years After Ohlin
Behrens, Kristian; Gaigné, Carl; Ottaviano, Gianmarco; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
We study the impact of falling trade costs and falling national transport costs on the economic geography of countries involved in an integration process. Two regions between which labour is mobile form each country, but there is no international factor mobility. Commodities can be traded both...
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The productivity advantages of large cities: Distinguishing agglomeration from firm selection
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
Firms are more productive on average in larger cities. Two explanations have been offered: agglomeration economies … selection model and a standard model of agglomeration. Stronger selection in larger cities left-truncates the productivity … distribution whereas stronger agglomeration right-shifts and dilates the distribution. We assess the relative importance of …
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Survival of the Fittest in Cities: Agglomeration, Selection, and Polarisation
Behrens, Kristian; Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
agglomeration economies. This paper provides a microeconomically founded model of vertical city differentiation in which the latter … two mechanisms (`agglomeration' and `selection') operate simultaneously. Our model is both rich and tractable enough to …
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Agglomeration theory with heterogeneous agents
Behrens, Kristian; Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
This chapter surveys recent developments in agglomeration theory within a unifying framework. We highlight how … locational fundamentals, agglomeration economies, the spatial sorting of heterogeneous agents, and selection effects affect the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084057