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...

The aim of this paper is to study the impact of local amenities on urban wages in Greece. It breaks through the previous recent dichotomous approaches on urban wage premium, according to which, salary differentials are due either to productivity effects or to the heterogeneity of the labor...

J.-E. Cairnes developed an original analysis of the segmentation of the labour market within the first part of its Principles of political economy, newly expounded. This analysis is based upon the concept of a non-competing group which can be defined as a group whose members, by their education...

The aim of this paper is to study the impacts of wars and conflicts on city-size growth and city-size distributions. It follows recent empirical work from Davis and Weinstein (2002), Bosker and al (2008) and Dimou and Schaffar (2009) who tried to understand how wars affected the Japanese, the...

Small islands economic development may follow different pathways, according to the particular combination of growth mechanisms. A comparative study of the long term growth in Mauritius and in La Reunion, two islands with strong historical, sociological and cultural links, shows that they are...

Modern urban landscapes are characterized by the progressive separation of the location of jobs, houses and amenities, which inexorably leads to the increase of urban travel and transit. This is the beginning point for some recent research programs in regional economics (Krugman, 1991 ; Glaeser,...