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Spatial dynamics and convergence: the spatial AK model

BOUCEKKINE, Raouf; CAMACHO, Carmen; FABBRI, Giorgio - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2010

same (detrended) consumption over space and time, lead to convergence in the level of capital across locations in the long-run. …

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La spécialisation des activités technologiques des régions européennes : une approche empirique de la convergence

Ouardighi, Jalal El - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2005

convergence technologique et étudie comment la croissance économique affecte la spécialisation des régions. Les résultats d …'estimation montrent (i) une convergence (dé-spécialisation) des activités technologiques régionales. Les vitesses de dé … comme des facteurs de décélération de la vitesse de convergence technologique, (iii) l'effet de la croissance économique sur …

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Are clusters more resilient in crises? Evidence from French exporters in 2008-2009

MARTIN, Philippe; MAYER, Thierry; MAYNERIS, Florian - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2013

Clusters have already been extensively shown to favor firm-level economic performance (productivity, exports, innovation etc.). However, little is known about the capacity of firms in clusters to resist economic shocks. In this paper, we analyze whether firms that agglomerate in clusters and...

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The efficiency of enterprise zone programs Some conflicting results?

MAYNERIS, Florian; PY, Loriane - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2013

We propose in this paper a critical review of the literature on urban enterprise zones. The results that emerge from the papers published over the last twenty years vary a lot across studies. Several explanations can account for these apparently conflicting results. Technical tools and empirical...

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The influence of urban form on spatial costs

SMITH, Hugh B. WENBAN - - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2011

There is a general presumption in urban economics that average commuting costs are increasing in city size. By analogy, it might be supposed that other spatial costs, such as distribution costs for utility services or access costs to schools and hospitals, will have the same characteristic....

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The shop around the corner in the Internet age

FONCEL, Jérôme; GUYOT, Marianne; SION, Frédéric … - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2011

We study a spatial competition model which is a variant of the celebrated Hotelling (1929) framework. One of the firm is a brick-and-mortar one while the other is on-line. Both firms sell the same product except that (constant) marginal costs may differ. Consumers going to the shop around the...

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Geographical Economics : A Historical Perspective

THISSE, Jacques-François - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2011

This paper provides a bird-eye overview of the history of spatial economic theory. It is organized around three main ideas (and authors): (i) land use and urban economics (Thünen), (ii) the nature of competition across space (Hotelling), and (iii) new economic geography and the emergence of...

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The Impact of Urban Enterprise Zones on Establishments' Location Decisions: Evidence from French ZFUs

MAYER, Thierry; MAYNERIS, Florian; PY, Loriane - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2012

In this paper, we study the impact of a French enterprise zones program the "Zones Franches Urbaines" (ZFUs) policy on establishments' location decisions. Our empirical analysis is based on a micro-geographic dataset which provides exhaustive information on the location of establishments in...

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Export performance of Chinese domestic firms: the role of foreign export spillovers

MAYNERIS, Florian; PONCET, Sandra - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2011

We investigate how the proximity to multinational exporters influences the creation of new export linkages (extensive margin of trade) by domestic firms in China. Using panel data from Chinese customs for 1997-2007, we show that domestic firms’ capacity to start exporting new varieties to new...

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From the industrial district to the innovative milieu : Contribution to an analysis of territorialised productive organisations

MAILLAT, Denis - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 1998

The interest shown in territorialized productive organizations does not simply account for a geographical phenomenon but above all highlights the territorial dimension of development and innovation processes. In the wake of the work done on italian industrial districts, numerous studies have...

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