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Cavailhès, Jean; Gaigné, Carl; Thisse, Jacques-François - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

agglomeration, favouring the formation of SECs. In an integrating world, however, the centre of a small monocentric city could be …

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Agglomeration and Welfare: The Core-Periphery Model in the Light of Bentham, Kaldor and Rawls

Charlot, Sylvie; Gaigné, Carl; Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

the aim of comparing the only two possible market outcomes, i.e. agglomeration and dispersion. More precisely, we use the … plausible values of the main parameters suggest that there might be excessive agglomeration. …

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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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Agglomération et politiques régionales de soutien de l'offre

Charlot, Sylvie; Gaigné, Carl - In: Revue d'économie politique 112 (2002) 1, pp. 47-63

This paper aims to determine if central authorities can favour the location of some economic activities in periphery areas. In order to do it, we build a theoretical framework close to the Krugman and Venables? one [1995], explicitly introducing regional policy of a central authority. We show...

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Évolution récente de l'emploi industriel dans les territoires ruraux et urbains : une analyse structurelle-géographique sur données françaises

Gaigné, Carl; Piguet, Virginie; Schmitt, Bertrand - In: Revue d'économie régionale et urbaine février (2005) 1, pp. 3-30

From a shift and share analysis on French data, we examine whether the differential of changes in manufacturing employment between urban and rural areas can be due to differences in their sectoral composition rather than to space-specific factors affecting all sectors indifferently. The increase...

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Localisation rurale des activités industrielles. Que nous enseigne l'économie géographique ? Rural location of industrial activities. What lessons from economic geography ?

Gaigné, Carl; Goffette-Nagot, Florence - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2003

The aim of this paper is to show how new location theories can explain the location of industrial activities in rural areas. A survey of recent economic geography models is presented. We aim at highlighting the trade-off firms do when choosing to locate in an urban area or in a low-densely...

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Does the regulation of manure land application work against agglomeration economies? Theory and evidence from the French hog sector

Gaigné, Carl; Gallo, Julie Le; Larue, Solène; … - Laboratoire Études et Recherches Économiques … - 2011

The well-known increase in the geographical concentration of hog production suggests the presence of agglomeration … restrictions on land application of manure may weaken productivity gains arising from the agglomeration process. We develop a model … nutrient, it also prompts farmer to adopt manure treatment that favors agglomeration of hog production. Estimations of a …

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Feeding the cities and greenhouse gas emissions: a new economic geography approach

De Cara, Stéphane; Fournier, Anne; Gaigné, Carl - Chaire d'Économie du Climat, Université … - 2011

In this paper, we argue ’buying local’ does not necessarily reduces transport-related greenhouse gas emissions even if transport and production technologies, as well as natural endowment are homogeneous in space. We develop a model of rural-urban systems where the spatial distribution of...

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Are compact cities environmentally friendly?

Gaigné, Carl; Riou, Stéphane; Thisse, Jacques-François - In: Journal of Urban Economics 72 (2012) 2, pp. 123-136

There is a wide consensus among international institutions and national governments in favor of compact (i.e. densely populated) cities as a way to improve the ecological performance of the transport system. Indeed, when both the intercity and intra-urban distributions of activities are given, a...

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How to make the metropolitan area work ? Neither big government, nor laissez-faire

Gaigné, Carl; Riou, Stéphane; Thisse, Jacques-François - Groupe d'Analyse et de Théorie Économique Lyon … - 2013

We study how political boundaries and fiscal competition interact with the labor and land markets to determine the economic structure and performance of metropolitan areas. Contrary to general belief, institutional fragmentation need not be welfare-decreasing, and commuting from the suburbs to...

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