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Who lives where in the city? : amenities, commuting and income sorting

Gaigné, Carl; Koster, Hans; Moizeau, Fabien; Thisse, … - In: Journal of urban economics 128 (2022), pp. 1-27

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Are Compact Cities Environmentally Friendly?

Gaigné, Carl; Riou, Stephane; Thisse, Jacques-François - 2013

There is a large consensus among international institutions and national governments to favor urban-containment policies - the compact city - as a way to reduce the ecological footprint of cities. This approach overlooks the following basic trade-off: the concentration of activities decreases...

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What Can Be Learned from Spatial Economics?

Proost, Stef - 2017

Spatial economics aims to explain the location of economic activity. While the importance of the proximity to natural resources has declined considerably, distance and location have not disappeared from economic life. Recent work in spatial economics indicates that new forces, hitherto...

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Are Compact Cities Environmentally (and Socially) Desirable?

Gaigne, Carl - 2018

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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Technological progress and economic geography

Tabuchi, Takatoshi; Thisse, Jacques-François; Zhu, Xiwei - 2014

New economic geography focuses on the impact of falling transport costs on the spatial distribution of activities. However, it disregards the role of technological innovations, which are central to modern economic growth, as well as the role of migration costs, which are a strong impediment to...

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Do we go shopping downtown or in the `burbs? Why not both?

Sloev, Igor; Thisse, Jacques-François; Ushchev, Philip - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

We combine spatial and monopolistic competition to study market interactions between downtown retailers and an outlying … shopping mall. Consumers shop at either marketplace or at both, and buy each variety in volume. The market solution stems from … the interplay between the market expansion effect generated by consumers seeking more opportunities, and the ccompetition …

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Do we go shopping downtown or in the ‘burbs?

Ushchev, Philip; Sloev, Igor; Thisse, Jacques-François - In: Journal of Urban Economics 85 (2015) C, pp. 1-15

We combine spatial and monopolistic competition to study market interactions between downtown retailers and an outlying … shopping mall. Consumers shop at either one marketplace or at both, and buy each variety in volume. The market solution stems … from the interplay between the market expansion effect generated by consumers seeking more opportunities, and the …

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Do we go shopping downtown or in the 'burbs? : why not both?

Ushchev, Philip; Sloev, Igor; Thisse, Jacques-François - 2014

We combine spatial and monopolistic competition to study market interactions between downtown retailers and an outlying … shopping mall. Consumers shop at either marketplace or at both, and buy each variety in volume. The market solution stems from … the interplay between the market expansion eff_x001B_ect generated by consumers seeking more opportunities, and the …

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Amenities and the social structure of cities

Gaigné, Carl; Koster, Hans; Moizeau, Fabien; Thisse, … - 2017

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Amenities and the social structure of cities

Gaigné, Carl; Koster, Hans; Moizeau, Fabien; Thisse, … - 2017

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011670132