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Racial Discrimination and Redlining in Cities.

Boccard, N.; Zenou, Y. - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 1999

This paper proposes a model where employers have two types of prejudices: racial and spatial discrimination. Because of the first one, black workers have less chance than white workers to find a job. Because of the second one, workers living closer to the city-center have less chances than...

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Firms’ location Under taste and demand heterogeneity

Okubo, Toshihiro; Picard, Pierre M. - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2008

heterogeneity smooths the agglomeration patterns but that it should be considered neither as a dispersion force nor as an … agglomeration force. Indeed, the introduction of taste heterogeneity makes an initially dispersed economy less dispersed and an …

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The dynamics of agglomeration : evidence from Ireland and Portugal

BARRIOS, Salvador; BERTINELLI, Luisito; STROBL, Eric; … - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2004

This paper analyses and compares the dynamics of agglomeration in Portuguese and Irish manufacturing industries between … agglomeration in both countries. When the aggregate concentration changes are decomposed into portions attributable to the different … into the early stages of the life cycle, whereas deaths have acted to reinforce agglomeration in both countries …

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Population growth and manufacturing real wages in 18th century England: a spatial perspective

BEHRENS, Kristian - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2004

spatial structure of the economy is fixed, they actually rise in the long-run when factors are mobile. Agglomeration may hence …

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Do we go shopping downtown or in the ‘burbs’? Why not both?

USHCHEV, Philip; SLOEV, Igor; THISSE, Jacques-François - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2013

We combine spatial and monopolistic competition to study market interactions between downtown retailers and an outlying shopping mall. Consumers shop at either marketplace or at both, and buy each variety in volume. The market solution stems from the interplay between the market expansion effect...

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Industrial location : a synthesis of Chamberlin and Ricardo

PICARD, Pierre M.; ZENG, Dao-Zhi - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2006

This paper investigates the joint impact of Chamberlinian monopolistic competition and Ricardian comparative advantages on the structure of trade and industries. We develop a trade model with several industries employing local factors. We then investigate the structure of trade and industries as...

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Dual Labor Markets, Urban Unemployment and Multicentric Cities.

Smith, T.E.; Zenou, Y. - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 1996

A two-sector model of urban unemployment is developed which focuses on the formation of a secondary sector under conditions in which a demand shock in the primary sector leads to a sharp increase in unemployment. The optimal location in the secondary sector (treated as a single firm) is shown to...

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The clean development mechanism in a global carbon market

BRECHET, Thierry; meniere, Yann; PICARD, Pierre M. - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2012

This paper discusses the role of the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) on the market for carbon quotas and countries' commitments to reduce their carbon emission levels. We show that the CDM contributes to an efficient funding of clean technology investments in least developed countries....

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Market size and urban hierarchy

BEHRENS, Kristian - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2004

We investigate the importance of market size as a determinant for industrial location patterns. In order to focus on a broad range of sectors,including the service industries, both traded and non-traded goods are taken into consideration. In our model, traded goods industries always exhibit a...

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Economic integration and regional business cycles: Evidence from the Iberian regions

BARRIOS, Salvador; LUCIO, Juan José de - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), … - 2002

This paper provides evidence of the positive impact of economic integration on EU regions' business cycles convergence by focusing on two neighbouring countries: Spain and Portugal. We show that while a rise in cross-country business cycle correlation has also been experienced by other European...

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