Economic geography and the new urban theories create an original analytical framework in spatial economics in order to study location issues within an environment of increasing returns and imperfect competition. Two research topics are related : the first one wonders when a symmetric...

The marshallian approach of industrial organization is considered by many economists as the beginning of a huge literature that focuses, today, on the renewal of regional economics within the world. This paper aims to follow Professor?s BECATTINI pioneer work on MARSHALL writings. The later must...

This paper goes beyond simple contiguity in order to estimate the diffusion of spatial growth. It includes factors such us distance, communications infrastructure or population in the spatial weights matrix associated to a ?-convergence regression. Spatial interactions are explained principally...

The role of social relationships in economic development has been emphasized for a long time in local development literature. However, there is yet no synthetic framework to analyse the various relationships between economic and sociological phenomena. Recent works of the social capital...

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...

We use a typology of urban areas as an instrument to understand the differences and the inequalities into mainland France. It exists large differences between the cities ; they are not facing the same problems. In France, there are 354 urban areas which represent 18.4 millions households and...

We study the relationship between geography and growth. To do so, we first develop a dynamic spatial growth theory with realistic geography. We characterize the model and its balanced growth path and propose a methodology to analyze equilibria with different levels of migration frictions. We...

This paper reviews the empirical literature on growth and convergence that has addressed the importance of spatial factors. An important distinction in this literature is the one between absolute and relative location. The literature on absolute location predominantly uses non-spatial...

Policy makers spend large amounts of public resources on the foundation of science parks and other forms of geographically clustered business activities, in order to stimulate regional innovation. Underlying the relation between clusters and innovation is the assumption that co-located firms...

The business performance of firms in the creative high-tech sector shows much variation. This paper examines whether the geographical location of such business firms influences the performance of these firms. The overarching analysis framework of this paper emerges from the recently developed...