Using data on name distributions in 95 French departments observed from 1946 to 2002, we investigate spatial and social mechanisms behind the transmission of parental preferences. Drawing inspiration from recent work on social interactions, we develop a simple discrete choice model that predicts...

Space - and in particular land use - forms the geographical projection of the dispersion of human activities. In the light of the environmental externalities of these activities, space demonstrates also the spatial dispersion of environmental decay. It is clear that space is thus also the...

The paper analyzes a spatial pattern of goods market integration in Russia, and characterizes the movement of the national market as a whole to integration. By the spatial pattern is meant a state of each individual region of the country: whether it is integrated, and if not, whether it moves...

This paper attempts to provide one interpretation of the board regional economic history of Canada since the searly 1970's. As the title of the paper suggests, we believe that , to a significant degree, regional diversity in economic performance reflects movements in Canada's terms of trade,...

We derive declining exponential rent and density functions for a monocentric city form a new set of assumptions, which place restrictions on commuting costs rather than on the demand for land.

Ireland's unique population history has attracted a great deal of attention. The post-Famine decline in the population -especially in the twenty six counties that now form the Republic- has been studied intensively. The historical process of change in regional and urban-rural distribution of the...

In this paper we are concerned with studying the consequences of geographic concentration of population and economic activities on the increase of inequality observed in the Uruguayan labour market. The external effects of geographic concentration, which caracterizes most developing countries,...

This paper follows Hochman, Pines and Thisse (1995) in portraying metropolitan areas as a complex of spatial clubs. Adopting this perspective, the paper characterizes the role of urbanization economies in the agglomeration of non-residential activities inside metropolitan areas.

Kent ekonomileri için nüfusun ve ekonomik etkinliklerin belirli mekanlarda yığılmaları ve böylece oluşan iktisadi coğrafya örüntüsünün niteliği büyük önem taşımaktadır. Bu nedenle, kentlerin mekansal özelliklerini belirleyen yığılma ekonomisi türlerinden hangisinin...

This paper analyzes empirically the effect of spatial agglomeration of activities on the productivity of firms using French individual firm data from 1996 to 2004. This allows us to control for endogeneity biases that the estimation of agglomeration economies typically encounters. French firms...