Dans cet article, nous nous interrogeons sur la question de la signification de l’avantage spécifique territorial et de sa place dans les théories du commerce international. Ainsi nous proposons de compléter la synthèse des modèles de l’échange proposée par Krugman et Helpman par le...

Using vacant land sales, we construct a land value index for Manhattan from 1950 to 2013. We find three major cycles (1950 to 1977, 1977 to 1993, and 1993 to 2007), with land values reaching their nadir in 1977, two years after the city’s fiscal crises. Overall, we find the average annual real...

From the perspective of an existing retailer, the optimal size of a cluster of retail activity represents a trade-off between the marginal increases in consumer attraction from another store against the depletion of the customer base caused by an additional competitor. We estimate opening and...

The article presents the institutional support for the optimization of resource potential of country, and also its regions. There is given the definition of institutes with their three characteristic elements. There are also considered the problems of the institutional support of public regional...

Economic primacy of the capital is a prominent feature of the spatial structure of the Russian economy. The main ideas on urban primacy presented in the literature are considered and applied to the case of Moscow. It can be concluded that the probable causes of primacy of the capital in Russia...

An extensive economics and regional science literature has discussed the importance of social capital for economic growth and development. Yet, what social capital is and how it is formed are elusive issues, which require further investigation. Here, we refer to social capital in terms of...

History of population and employment suburbanization, mainly in the United States, suggests three characteristics of the phenomenon. 1/ Suburbanization results in urban sprawl in such a way that population and employment increase more rapidly in the periphery than in the center. 2/...

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The aim of this paper is to test, thanks to knowledge production function, the spatial dimension of spillovers inside public networks. Spillovers from public research are seen as less submitted to spatial constraint than private spillovers. This paper studies if geographic proximity is a...