Frédéric Robert-Nicoud
Biographic Data
| ID | 1083151 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frédéric Robert-Nicoud |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frédéric |
| FAMILY NAME | Robert-Nicoud |
| SIGNATURE | ROBERT-NICOUD F |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Geneva |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 132 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2005 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
A Unified Urban Model With Non-Homothetic Housing Demand
Canonical urban models fail to jointly account for flexible housing demand, nondegenerate city sizes, and observed urban systems. We introduce a unifying urban framework based on price-independent generalized linear (PIGL) preferences in which housing is a necessity. Non-homothetic housing demand generates income effects that cause urban costs to scale more strongly with population than wages, restoring a unique interior efficient city size under…
On the economic geography of climate change
Climate change is a defining challenge of our times. The five papers collected in this special issue provide foundations to well-informed policymaking by addressing two main themes of the economic geography of climate change. First, it brings effects that are heterogeneous across space. Some regions of the globe will lose more than others and some may even be better off as a result. Second, humans will have to adapt in order to survive. We emphas…
Highways, Market Access and Spatial Sorting
We design a parsimonious spatial equilibrium model featuring workers embodied with heterogeneous skills and non-homothetic preferences. In equilibrium, locations with improved commuting access become relatively more attractive to high-income earners. We empirically analyse the effects of the construction of the Swiss highway network between 1960 and 2010 on the population size and composition of municipalities. We find that the advent of a new hi…
Tech Clusters
Tech clusters like Silicon Valley play a central role for modern innovation, business competitiveness, and economic performance. This paper reviews what constitutes a tech cluster, how they function internally, and the degree to which policy makers can purposefully foster them. We describe the growing influence of advanced technologies for businesses outside of traditional tech fields, the strains and backlash that tech clusters are experiencing,…
Productive Cities: Sorting, Selection, and Agglomeration
Large cities produce more output per capita than small cities. This higher productivity may occur because more talented individuals sort into large cities, because large cities select more productive entrepreneurs and firms, or because of agglomeration economies. We develop a model of systems of cities that combines all three elements and suggests interesting complementarities between them. The model can replicate stylized facts about sorting, ag…
Survival of the Fittest in Cities: Urbanisation and Inequality
We develop a framework that integrates natural advantage, agglomeration economies and firm selection to explain why large cities are both more productive and more unequal than small towns. Our model highlights complementarities among those factors and matches a number of key stylised facts about cities. A larger city size increases productivity via selection and higher urban productivity provides incentives for rural–urban migration. Tougher sele…
On the origins of land use regulations: Theory and evidence from US metro areas
The ‘genome’ of NEG models with vertical linkages: A positive and normative synthesis
This Paper takes a broader look at how vertical linkages can trigger the spatial agglomeration of economic activity in a ‘new economic geography’ (NEG) set-up. First, it formally establishes the key positive features of a wide class of vertical-linkage models without resorting to numerical simulations. Second, it proposes an analytically solvable model of this class. Third, it addresses the important though neglected issue of whether in such mode…
Productive Cities: Sorting, Selection, and Agglomeration
Large cities produce more output per capita than small cities. This higher productivity may occur because more talented individuals sort into large cities, because large cities select more productive entrepreneurs and firms, or because of agglomeration economies. We develop a model of systems of cities that combines all three elements and suggests interesting complementarities between them. The model can replicate stylized facts about sorting, ag…
On the origins of land use regulations: Theory and evidence from US metro areas
Survival of the Fittest in Cities: Urbanisation and Inequality
We develop a framework that integrates natural advantage, agglomeration economies and firm selection to explain why large cities are both more productive and more unequal than small towns. Our model highlights complementarities among those factors and matches a number of key stylised facts about cities. A larger city size increases productivity via selection and higher urban productivity provides incentives for rural–urban migration. Tougher sele…
Tech Clusters
Tech clusters like Silicon Valley play a central role for modern innovation, business competitiveness, and economic performance. This paper reviews what constitutes a tech cluster, how they function internally, and the degree to which policy makers can purposefully foster them. We describe the growing influence of advanced technologies for businesses outside of traditional tech fields, the strains and backlash that tech clusters are experiencing,…
The ‘genome’ of NEG models with vertical linkages: A positive and normative synthesis
This Paper takes a broader look at how vertical linkages can trigger the spatial agglomeration of economic activity in a ‘new economic geography’ (NEG) set-up. First, it formally establishes the key positive features of a wide class of vertical-linkage models without resorting to numerical simulations. Second, it proposes an analytically solvable model of this class. Third, it addresses the important though neglected issue of whether in such mode…
On the economic geography of climate change
Climate change is a defining challenge of our times. The five papers collected in this special issue provide foundations to well-informed policymaking by addressing two main themes of the economic geography of climate change. First, it brings effects that are heterogeneous across space. Some regions of the globe will lose more than others and some may even be better off as a result. Second, humans will have to adapt in order to survive. We emphas…
The ‘genome’ of NEG models with vertical linkages: A positive and normative synthesis
This Paper takes a broader look at how vertical linkages can trigger the spatial agglomeration of economic activity in a ‘new economic geography’ (NEG) set-up. First, it formally establishes the key positive features of a wide class of vertical-linkage models without resorting to numerical simulations. Second, it proposes an analytically solvable model of this class. Third, it addresses the important though neglected issue of whether in such mode…
On the origins of land use regulations: Theory and evidence from US metro areas
Productive Cities: Sorting, Selection, and Agglomeration
Large cities produce more output per capita than small cities. This higher productivity may occur because more talented individuals sort into large cities, because large cities select more productive entrepreneurs and firms, or because of agglomeration economies. We develop a model of systems of cities that combines all three elements and suggests interesting complementarities between them. The model can replicate stylized facts about sorting, ag…
Survival of the Fittest in Cities: Urbanisation and Inequality
We develop a framework that integrates natural advantage, agglomeration economies and firm selection to explain why large cities are both more productive and more unequal than small towns. Our model highlights complementarities among those factors and matches a number of key stylised facts about cities. A larger city size increases productivity via selection and higher urban productivity provides incentives for rural–urban migration. Tougher sele…
Tech Clusters
Tech clusters like Silicon Valley play a central role for modern innovation, business competitiveness, and economic performance. This paper reviews what constitutes a tech cluster, how they function internally, and the degree to which policy makers can purposefully foster them. We describe the growing influence of advanced technologies for businesses outside of traditional tech fields, the strains and backlash that tech clusters are experiencing,…
On the economic geography of climate change
Climate change is a defining challenge of our times. The five papers collected in this special issue provide foundations to well-informed policymaking by addressing two main themes of the economic geography of climate change. First, it brings effects that are heterogeneous across space. Some regions of the globe will lose more than others and some may even be better off as a result. Second, humans will have to adapt in order to survive. We emphas…
Highways, Market Access and Spatial Sorting
We design a parsimonious spatial equilibrium model featuring workers embodied with heterogeneous skills and non-homothetic preferences. In equilibrium, locations with improved commuting access become relatively more attractive to high-income earners. We empirically analyse the effects of the construction of the Swiss highway network between 1960 and 2010 on the population size and composition of municipalities. We find that the advent of a new hi…
A Unified Urban Model With Non-Homothetic Housing Demand
Canonical urban models fail to jointly account for flexible housing demand, nondegenerate city sizes, and observed urban systems. We introduce a unifying urban framework based on price-independent generalized linear (PIGL) preferences in which housing is a necessity. Non-homothetic housing demand generates income effects that cause urban costs to scale more strongly with population than wages, restoring a unique interior efficient city size under…
Economics (7 works) · Economic geography (5 works) · Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis (5 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth (4 works) · Microeconomics (4 works) · Business (3 works) · Economies of agglomeration (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Population (3 works)