Geographical Economics
Topic outline
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Si ce cours est réalisé à distance, le code d'accès teams sera wsqehuc
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You can find below the power point explaining how this course is evaluated (file "eval").
The data analysis asked on French cities should replicate the study of Jordan Rappaport “The Faster Growth of Larger, Less Crowded Locations”.
The lecture on Rappaport is available here.
Some data
- French income at the local level (IRIS) are available at INSEE, database Filosofi:
- Revenus localisés sociaux et fiscaux / dispositif FiLoSoFi. https://www.data.gouv.fr/fr/datasets/revenus-localises-sociaux-et-fiscaux-dispositif-filosofi/
- Recent data on the population of French cities (1968-2015) (Source: INSEE) can be dowloaded here while the historical data (1800-1925) are available at: https://www.insee.fr/fr/statistiques/2591293?sommaire=2591397.
- Global Human Settlement Layer (GHSL)
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- Handbook of Duranton et al. (2014)
- Other articles on related subject:
- Enemies of the people, by Gerhard Toews and Pierre-Louis Vezina. ́
- Loss in the Time of Cholera: Long-Run Impact of a Disease Epidemic on the Urban Landscape, By Attila Ambrus, Erica Field, and Robert Gonzalez, American Economic Review 2020, 110(2): 475–525
- Jobs for the Heartland: Place-Based Policies
in 21st-Century America, by E. Glaeser et al. (2018)
- Importing Political Polarization? The Electoral
Consequences of Rising Trade Exposure, by D. Autor et al. (2020)
- East Side Story: Historical Pollution and
Persistent Neighborhood Sorting, By Heblich (2021).
- The Economics of Urban Density, G Duranton and D Puga (2020)
- Gentrification and Pioneer Businesses, K Behrens et al. (2021)
- Urban economics in a historical perspective: Recovering data with machine learning, P-Ph Combes et al. (2021)
- Trade and Geography, Stephen Redding (2021)
- Davis, Donald, R. and David E. Weinstein.
2002.
"Bones, Bombs, and Break Points: The Geography of Economic Activity" American Economic Review,
92 (5): 1269-1289.
Video/radio
- Time to embrace cities, E Glaeser https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILDwnzQNlGc
- Cities and opportunities in the U.S, Raj Chetty: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOcJvFJ7HOg&t=695s
- Cities and growth, D. Puga and G Duranton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBxWdGht4pw
- Cities in developing countries, V Henderson: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJelVmvSV_M
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Here the lecture on the theory of the New Economic Geography literature.
You can also find the mathematica file HERE to resolve the following two models:
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Here the course on the empirics and quantitative models in Economic Geography (2022/2023). You can find the different articles that have been used to present this course below. I also add a program (in Julia) that enables to run the Redding and Rossi-Hansberg (2017, ARE) model presented during the course.
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I do not longer teach this lecture (since 2021/22), but I leave the slide if you are interested.
One important result of the Economic Geography is that many economical variables are influenced by the market potential/access of locations. In this lecture, we are going to analyse how researchers have taken the theory seriously enough to build an indicator of market potential/access and then used it to test the "wage equation".
This lecture is based on:
- Redding and Venables, 2004, Economic geography and international inequality. Journal of International Economics 62 (2004) 53 – 82
- Head, K. and Mayer T., 2011, Gravity, Market Potential and Development, Journal of Economic Geography 11(2): 281-294
The "wage equation" presents the causal impact of the market access on wages, however depending of the theoretical model considered, the market access can also explain profits, location choices of individuals and firms. The following article analyzes how this market access influences the location choice of Europeans polluting firms.
- Candau, F, and E, Dienesch, 2017. Corruption Paradise and Pollution Haven, Volume 85, Pages 171-192
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I do not longer teach this lecture (since 2021/22), but I leave the slide if you are interested.
This lecture presents the state of art concerning the impact of density on wages, mainly based on: