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Transport Cost Decline and Regional Inequalities: Evidence from France
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Lafourcade, Miren - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
dispersive forces become prevalent at the country level, agglomeration incentives strenghtens specialization within a large …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791737
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The Dynamics of Local Employment in France
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Magnac, Thierry; Robin, Jean-Marc - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
This Paper studies the impact of local economic structure on local sectoral employment growth. Local employment growth is decomposed into ‘internal’ growth (the growth of the size of existing plants) and ‘external’ growth (the creation of new plants). Using panel data methods, we...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005123625
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Do large departments make academics more productive? Agglomeration and peer effects in research
Bosquet, Clément; Combes, Pierre-Philippe - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
We study the effect of a large set of department characteristics on individual publication records. We control for many individual time-varying characteristics, individual fixed-effects and reverse causality. Department characteristics have an explanatory power that can be as high as that of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084183
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The Rise and Fall of Spatial Inequalities in France: a Long-Run Perspective
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Lafourcade, Miren; Thisse, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
also confirms the presence of strong agglomeration economies during the full time-period. Market potential during the first …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791882
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083617
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Dots to Boxes: Do the Size and Shape of Spatial Units Jeopardize Economic Geography Estimations?
Briant, Anthony; Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Lafourcade, Miren - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
geography exercises (the analysis of spatial concentration, agglomeration economies, and trade determinants), using various …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005792469
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Labour Pooling, Labour Poaching and Spatial Clustering
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
When firms cluster in the same local labour market, they face a trade-off between the benefits of labour pooling (i.e., access to workers whose knowledge helps reduce costs) and the costs of labour poaching (i.e., loss of some key workers to competition and the indirect effect of a higher wage...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791641
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005791878