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Urban economics in a historical perspective: recovering data with machine learning
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Gobillon, Laurent; Zylberberg, … - 2021
A recent literature has used a historical perspective to better understand fundamental questions of urban economics. However, a wide range of historical documents of exceptional quality remain underutilised: their use has been hampered by their original format or by the massive amount of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012519104
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The production function for housing : evidence from France
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - 2016
We propose a new nonparametric approach to estimate the production function for housing. Our estimation treats output as a latent variable and relies on the first-order condition for profit maximisation with respect to non-land inputs by competitive house builders. For parcels of a given size,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011581668
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The costs of agglomeration : land prices in French cities
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - 2012
; land prices ; land use ; agglomeration …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009672254
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The productivity advantages of large cities : distinguishing agglomeration from firm selection
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - 2012
cities toughen competition, allowing only the most productive to survive) and agglomeration economies (larger cities promote … a generalised version of a tractable firm 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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009536429
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Sorting and local wage and skill distributions in France
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Duranton, Gilles; Gobillon, Laurent - 2012
This paper provides descriptive evidence about the distribution of wages and skills in denser and less dense employment areas in France. We confirm that on average, workers in denser areas are more skilled. There is also strong over-representation of workers with particularly high and low skills...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009536431
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Spatial frictions
Behrens, Kristian; Mion, Giordano; Murata, Yasusada; … - 2013
The world is replete with spatial frictions. Shipping goods across cities entails trade frictions. Commuting within cities causes urban frictions. How important are these frictions in shaping the spatial economy? We develop and quantify a novel framework to address this question at three...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009697548
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The empirics of agglomeration economies
Combes, Pierre-Philippe; Gobillon, Laurent - 2014
We propose an integrated framework to discuss the empirical literature on the local determinants of agglomeration … developing economies. We finally provide a discussion of attempts to identify and quantify specific agglomeration mechanisms. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010410395