Jacques-François Thisse
Biographic Data
| ID | 1004407 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jacques-François Thisse |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jacques-François |
| FAMILY NAME | Thisse |
| SIGNATURE | THISSE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | École nationale des ponts et chaussées |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 62 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 148 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 61 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1974 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
High-speed rail and the spatial economy
High-speed rail (HSR) is expanding rapidly worldwide. This review identifies three defining features of HSR: its strong appeal to high-value business travelers, the presence of long-haul economies whereby costs per kilometer decline with distance, and its capacity to enable intercity commuting between cities. These characteristics lead to non-trivial implications for the spatial economy. While HSR infrastructure is costly, travel-time savings and…
An Itinerary in the Theory of Product Differentiation. An Interview with Jacques-François Thisse
This interview revisits the contributions of Jacques-François Thisse to the theory of product differentiation, covering vertical differentiation, horizontal differentiation, and random utility models of discrete choice
Working from home: Too much of a good thing
We develop a general equilibrium model with skilled workers who can and unskilled workers who cannot work from home (WFH). Firms choose the amount of time they require workers in the office, whereas workers choose to either work on-site or hybrid, splitting working time between office and home. The endogenous work arrangements determine productivity, wages, and demand for residential and commercial real estate. We find that firms ‘outsource’ work…
The rise (and fall) of tech clusters
Tech clusters play a growing role in knowledge-based economies by accommodating high-tech firms and providing an environment that fosters location-dependent knowledge spillovers and promote R&D investments by firms. Yet, not much is known about the economic conditions under which such entities may form in equilibrium without government interventions. This paper develops a spatial equilibrium model with a competitive final sector and a monopolisti…
Urban and spatial economics after 50 years
Foundations of cities
Who lives where in the city? Amenities, commuting and income sorting
To be connected or not to be connected? The role of long-haul economies
We investigate whether localities gain or lose employment when there are connected to a transportation network, such as a high-speed railway line. We argue that long-haul economies—implying that the marginal transportation cost decreases with network distance—play a pivotal role in understanding the location choices of firms. We develop a new spatial model to show that improvements in transportation infrastructure have nontrivial impacts on the l…
Stability and sustainability of urban systems under commuting and transportation costs
About the origin of cities
How do trade and communication costs shape the spatial organization of firms
Do we go shopping downtown or in the ‘burbs
Economics of Agglomeration: Cities, Industrial Location, and Globalization
Economic activities are not concentrated on the head of a pin, nor are they spread evenly over a featureless plane. On the contrary, they are distributed very unequally across locations, regions and countries. Even though economic activities are, to some extent, spatially concentrated because of natural features, economic mechanisms that rely on the trade-off between various forms of increasing returns and different types of mobility costs are mo…
Are compact cities environmentally friendly
A new economic geography model of central places
The rise and fall of spatial inequalities in France: A long-run perspective
Économie géographique du développement
Quelles sont les principales raisons du developpement inegal des territoires ? L’economie geographique, mais aussi l’histoire economique, permettent de comprendre pourquoi la croissance economique et ses deux sources principales, le capital humain et l’innovation, sont des phenomenes localises dont la diffusion dans l’espace est lente et imparfaite. Si la proximite des ressources naturelles a largement vu son importance decliner, cela n’implique …
The spatial selection of heterogeneous firms
Industry location and welfare when transport costs are endogenous
Economic Geography: The Integration of Regions and Nations
Bruxelles et Wallonie: Une lecture en termes de géo-économie urbaine
Trade and the structure of cities
Is remoteness a locational disadvantage
We study the impacts of changes in international trade and domestic transport costs on the internal geography of countries in the presence of geographical asymmetries. To do so, we develop a two-country four-region model in which one country has a region that exhibits a ‘geographical advantage’ in terms of better access to the other country's markets. Our analysis reveals that, in equilibrium, the space-economies of the trading partners are inter…
How density economies in international transportation link the internal geography of trading partners
Fiscal competition and regional differentiation
Are compact cities environmentally friendly
On the Endogeneous Formation of Secondary Employment Centers in a City
Taste heterogeneity, labor mobility and economic geography
The rise and fall of spatial inequalities in France: A long-run perspective
A new economic geography model of central places
A simple model of economic geography à la Helpman–Tabuchi
An Economic Theory of Regional Clusters
Is remoteness a locational disadvantage
We study the impacts of changes in international trade and domestic transport costs on the internal geography of countries in the presence of geographical asymmetries. To do so, we develop a two-country four-region model in which one country has a region that exhibits a ‘geographical advantage’ in terms of better access to the other country's markets. Our analysis reveals that, in equilibrium, the space-economies of the trading partners are inter…
Learning-by-Doing and the Development of Industrial Districts
How density economies in international transportation link the internal geography of trading partners
Interregional equilibrium with heterogeneous labor
Les implications de l'espace pour la concurrence
Thisse Jacques-François, Scotchmer Suzanne. Les implications de l'espace pour la concurrence. In: Revue économique, volume 44, n°4, 1993. pp. 653-670
Who lives where in the city? Amenities, commuting and income sorting
Trade and the structure of cities
Métropoles et concurrence territoriale
Metropolen und territorialer Wettbewerb Bei der derzeitigen Neugestaltung der Gebiete stellen die Ausweitung der Wirtschaftstâtigkeit im Umkreis der. groen Stâdte (Metropolisierung der Wirtschaft) und der zunehmende Wettbewerb zwischen den Regionen beim s Anlocken von Investitionen schwerwiegende Tendenzen- dar, wie aus einer Fachliteratur, die hier eingehend erôrtert . wird, hervorgeht. Denn die Unternehmen messen den. lokalen Vorteilen im Hinbl…
Industry location and welfare when transport costs are endogenous
On the number and size of cities
We study the effects of a decrease in trade costs on the spatial distribution of industry in a multi-regional economy, when a rise in the regional population of workers generates higher urban costs. When the number of cities is unaffected by falling trade costs, small cities become smaller for large trade costs, medium-sized cities for medium values of trade costs, and large cities for small trade costs. Furthermore, when urban costs are identica…
Foundations of cities
About the origin of cities
How do trade and communication costs shape the spatial organization of firms
New Economic Geography: What about the N
Since its very appearance, probably thanks to its provocative name, new economic geography (NEG) has stirred a debate on whether it is economic geography proper or rather geographical economics. In both cases, its real novelty has been questioned. We focus on this last issue. In particular, we argue that many NEG ideas have been around for a long time in the works of economic geographers and location theorists. However, NEG has the fundamental me…
Economic geography and the distribution of profits
To be connected or not to be connected? The role of long-haul economies
We investigate whether localities gain or lose employment when there are connected to a transportation network, such as a high-speed railway line. We argue that long-haul economies—implying that the marginal transportation cost decreases with network distance—play a pivotal role in understanding the location choices of firms. We develop a new spatial model to show that improvements in transportation infrastructure have nontrivial impacts on the l…
Dispersion, agglomération et re-dispersion
Cet article a pour but de présenter de manière synthétique les principaux résultats théoriques obtenus récemment en économie géographique. Pour cela, on utilise un nouveau modèle qui permet d’établir de manière simple des résultats analytiques. Ce modèle est ensuite utilisé pour étudier un certain nombre de questions peu abordées jusqu’à présent en économie géographique. Cet article ne prétend pas couvrir l’ensemble du champ
On the Pricing Strategy of a Land Developer
Une application de la metrique circum-radiale a l'etude des deplacements urbains
[fre] Une application de la métrique circum-radiale à l'étude des déplacements urbains Dans un certain nombre de villes, la métrique rectilinéaire peut être utilisée pour analyser les déplacements. Toutefois, pour les villes anciennes, cette représentation ne convient pas. Pour se rendre d'un point à un autre, les agents passent par le centre ou par le périphérique de manière à minimiser le coût (ou temps) de transport. Dans ce cas, la métrique c…
Analyse mathématique pour l'économie
On Hotelling's "Stability in Competition"
The purpose of this note is to show that the so-called Principle of Minimum Differentiation, as based on Hotelling’s 1929 paper “Stability in Competition” is invalid. The purpose of this note is to show that the so-called Principle of Minimum Differentiation, as based on Hotelling’s 1929 celebrated paper (Hotelling [3]), is invalid. Firstly, we assert that, contrary to the statement formulated by Hotelling in his model, nothing can be said about …
Location of Public Services: A Selective Method‐oriented Survey
An economic theory of public facilities in space
Localisation de la firme sur un réseau
[fre] Cet article étudie la localisation d'une firme néo-classique sur un réseau de transport. On y montre que certains points remarquables, à savoir les nœuds et les lieux de marché, sont souvent les candidats naturels à l'implantation de la firme. [eng] The location of a firm on a network P. Hanjoul, J.-F. Thisse This paper is concerned with the location of a profit-maximizing firm on a transportation network. It is shown that some particular p…
Does Economic Space Matter?: Essays in Honour of Melvin L. Greenhut
This is a Festschrift to honour Professor Melvin Greenhut who has long toiled on spatial economics. The book accordingly focuses on a single question: in what sense 'economic space' matters in economi
Does Economic Space Matter: Essays in Honour of Melvin L. Greenhut
Technological Linkages and Efficient Location of Indivisible Activities: Koopmans – Beckmann and von Thünen Unified
Consider a model à la Koopmans–Beckmann involving two indivisible and interactive firms, as well as a continuum of workers. Firm 2 uses labor, while firm 1 uses labor and good 2 produced by firm 2; both goods 1 and 2 can be exported, but good 2 cannot be imported. The land capitalization process, based on workers′ competition in a perfectly competitive land market, is used to design a noncooperative game between firms 1 and 2. The equilibria of t…
Les implications de l'espace pour la concurrence
Thisse Jacques-François, Scotchmer Suzanne. Les implications de l'espace pour la concurrence. In: Revue économique, volume 44, n°4, 1993. pp. 653-670
Modèles de choix individuels discrets: Théorie et applications à la micro-économie
[eng] Discrete choice models : theory and applications to microeconomics In discrete choice models, the individual is assumed to be not necessarily consistent with the standard model of perfect rationality. This paper aims at providing several explanations of such a behavior and at illustrating this approach in microeconomics. Two specific applications are considered : the first one is devoted to product differentiation (a la Chamberlin) and the …
Appariement et concurrence spatiale sur le marché du travail
Tout individu, une fois embauché par une entreprise, doit subir un coût de formation spécifique de manière à être mieux apparié avec son emploi. Dans cet article, nous proposons un modèle de concurrence spatiale dans lequel les entreprises sont en compétition sur le marché du travail ; chacune essaie d'attirer des travailleurs ayant le même niveau de formation générale mais des degrés de spécialisation différents proches de ses besoins spécifiqu…
Economics of Agglomeration
Interregional equilibrium with heterogeneous labor
La politique foncière dans une économie spatiale
Thisse Jacques-François, Duranton Gilles. La politique foncière dans une économie spatiale. In: Revue économique, volume 47, n°2, 1996. pp. 227-261
Product Variety and Welfare under Tough and Soft Pricing Regimes
Journal Article Product Variety and Welfare under Tough and Soft Pricing Regimes Get access George Norman, George Norman Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Jacques-François Thisse Jacques-François Thisse Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar The Economic Journal, Volume 106, Issue 434, 1 January 1996, Pages 76–91, https://doi.org/10.2307/2234932 Published: 01 January 1996
On the Endogeneous Formation of Secondary Employment Centers in a City
Faut-il régionaliser l'enseignement supérieur
On étudie un modèle de concurrence entre régions qui ont en charge la gestion et le financement de l'enseignement supérieur et on compare les solutions ainsi obtenues à l'optimum social
Learning-by-Doing and the Development of Industrial Districts
Impact de la formation des salaires sur la structure résidentielle
Thisse Jacques-François, Zenou Yves. Impact de la formation des salaires sur la structure résidentielle. In: Revue économique, volume 49, n°3, 1998. pp. 891-899
Why is central Paris rich and downtown Detroit poor?
Métropoles et concurrence territoriale
Metropolen und territorialer Wettbewerb Bei der derzeitigen Neugestaltung der Gebiete stellen die Ausweitung der Wirtschaftstâtigkeit im Umkreis der. groen Stâdte (Metropolisierung der Wirtschaft) und der zunehmende Wettbewerb zwischen den Regionen beim s Anlocken von Investitionen schwerwiegende Tendenzen- dar, wie aus einer Fachliteratur, die hier eingehend erôrtert . wird, hervorgeht. Denn die Unternehmen messen den. lokalen Vorteilen im Hinbl…
Learning-by-Doing and the Development of Industrial Districts
On the Pricing Strategy of a Land Developer
Engouement collectif et concurrence
The development of collective passions for some goods or services may drastically affect the structure of the corresponding markets, and may even lead to the destruction of competition. Specifically, it is shown by using a simple model of spatial competition that the emergence of a dominant product on a market may be explained by the presence of social externalities in consumption
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