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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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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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Are Compact Cities Environmentally Friendly?
Gaigne, 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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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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011117748
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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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Spatial duopoly and residential structure
Fujita, Masahisa - In: Journal of urban economics 30 (1991) 1, pp. 27-47
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Impact de la formation des salaires sur la structure résidentielle
Thisse, Jacques-François - In: Revue économique : revue bimestrielle 49 (1998) 3, pp. 891-899
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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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Amenities and the Social Structure of Cities
Gaigne, Carl - 2017
We develop a new model of a "featureful" city in which locations are differentiated by two attributes, that is, the distance to employment centers and the accessibility to given amenities, and we show how heterogeneous households in income are sorted out across the urban space. Under Stone-Geary...
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