Groupe d’Analyse et de Théorie Economique - UMR5824

Last updated : 28/11/2016

 CNRS Research Professor at GATE-LSE, CNRS-University of Lyon-ENS Lyon.

 Part-time professor at the economics department Sciences Po (Paris).

 CEPR research fellow.

 Member of the editorial boards of the Journal of Economic Geography, Journal of Urban Economics and Regional Science and Urban Economics.

 Fields : economic geography, urban economics, labour economics.

 Google Scholar page,  REPEC page (stats).

 Curriculum Vitae : CV English,   CV French

 Contact :ppcombes@gmail.com

 Urban and Regional Economics, Master in Economics, Sciences Po. Outline

 Urban Economics, Master in Public Policy, School of Public Affairs, Sciences Po. Outline

 Economics of the Large Metropolis, Master Governing the Large Metropolis, Urban School, Sciences Po. Outline

 Economic Geography, not taught for the moment, formerly at ENSAE and master APE, Paris School of Economics. More details

• Peer Effects in Academic Research : Senders and Receivers, with Clément Bosquet, Emeric Henry and Thierry Mayer. CEPR DP 14376 Updated.
  R&R Economic Journal.
  

• Urban economics in a historical perspective : Recovering data with machine learning, with Laurent Gobillon and Yanos Zylberberg. CEPR DP 15308.
  R&R Regional Science and Urban Economics.
  

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Main publications

• The Production Function for Housing : Evidence from France, with Gilles Duranton and Laurent Gobillon. CEPR DP 11669 Updated. Supplemental material.
  Forthcoming at the Journal of Political Economy.
  

• Delineating Urban Areas Using Building Density, with Marie-Pierre de Bellefon, Gilles Duranton and Laurent Gobillon.
  Journal of Urban Economics, forthcoming. PDF.

• Unequal Urbanisation and Migration Gains in China, with Sylvie Démurger, Shi Li and Jianguo Wang.
  Journal of Development Economics, 142 (2020).

• The cost of agglomeration : House and Land prices in cities, with Gilles Duranton and Laurent Gobillon. CEPR DP 9240 Updated.
  Review of Economic Studies 86, 1556-1589 (2019).

• Gender and competition : Evidence from academic promotions in France, with Clément Bosquet and Cecilia Garcia-Peñalosa.
  Journal of Scandinavian Economics 121, 1020-1053 (2019).

• Neighbor Discrimination:Theory and evidence from the French rental market, with Bruno Decreuse, Benoît Schmutz, and Alain Trannoy.
  Journal of Urban Economics, 104, 104–123 (2018).

• Productivity gains from agglomeration and migration in the People’s Republic of China between 2002 and 2013, with Sylvie Démurger and Shi Li.
  Asian Development Review, 34 (2), 184–200 (2017).

• Do large departments make academics more productive ? Sorting and agglomeration economies in research, with Clément Bosquet.
  Journal of Urban Economics, 101, 27–44 (2017).

• Customer discrimination and employment outcomes : Theory and evidence from the French labor market, with Bruno Decreuse, Morgane Laouénan, and Alain Trannoy.
  Journal of Labor Economics, 34 (1), 107–160 (2016).

• The empirics of agglomeration economies, with Laurent Gobillon.
  Handbook of Urban and Regional Economics vol. 5, G. Duranton, V. Henderson and W. Strange (eds.), Elsevier-North Holland, Amsterdam, 247–348 (2015).

• Migration externalities in China, with Sylvie Démurger and Shi Li.
  European Economic Review 76, 152–167 (2015).

• Product complexity, quality of institutions and the pro-trade effect of immigrants, with Anthony Briant and Miren Lafourcade.
  World Economy 37 (1), 63–85 (2014).

• Are academics who publish more also more cited ? Individual determinants of publication and citation records, with Clément Bosquet.
  Scientometrics 97, 831–857 (2013).

• The productivity advantages of large cities : Distinguishing agglomeration from firm selection, with Gilles Duranton, Laurent Gobillon, Diego Puga and Sébastien Roux. PDF, Supplement. Online documentation for replication can be found here.
  Econometrica 80 (6), 2543–2594 (2012).

• Sorting and local wage and skill distributions in France, with Gilles Duranton, Laurent Gobillon, and Sébastien Roux.
  Regional Science and Urban Economics 42, 913–930 (2012).

• The rise and fall of spatial inequalities in France : A long-run perspective, with Miren Lafourcade, Jacques-François Thisse and Jean-CLaude Toutain.
  Explorations in Economic History 48, 243–271 (2011).

• Competition, market access and economic geography : Structural estimations and predictions for France, with Miren Lafourcade.
  Regional Science and Urban Economics 41, 508–524 (2011).

• The identification of agglomeration economies, with Gilles Duranton and Laurent Gobillon.
  Journal of Economic Geography 11, 253-266 (2011).

• The empirics of economic geography : How to draw policy implications ?
  Review of World Economics 147, 567–592 (2011).

• Some empirical results from economic geography and their regional policy implications, the European experience.
  Integration and Trade Journal 31, 13-22 (2010).

• Dots to boxes : Do the size and shape of geographical units jeopardize economic geography estimations ?, with Anthony Briant and Miren Lafourcade.
  Journal of Urban Economics 67, 287–302 (2010).

• Estimating Agglomeration Economies with History, Geology, and Worker Effects, with Gilles Duranton, Laurent Gobillon and Sébastien Roux.
  Agglomeration Economics, Edward L. Glaeser (ed.), NBER, Cambridge, MA (2010).

• Economic Geography : The Integration of Regions and Nations, with Thierry Mayer and Jacques-François Thisse.
  Princeton University Press (2008), Chinese version at Remnin University Press (2011), French version at Economica (2006).

• Spatial Wage Disparities : Sorting Matters !, with Gilles Duranton and Laurent Gobillon.
  Journal of Urban Economics 63, 723-742 (2008).

• Publish or Peer-rich ? The Role of Skills and Networks in Hiring Economics Professors, with Laurent Linnemer and Michael Visser.
  Labour Economics 15, 423–441 (2008).

• Gravity Models. PDF
  The New Palgrave Dictionary of Economics, 2nd edition, S. Durlauf and L. Blume (eds.), Macmillan, London (2008).

• Labor Pooling, Labor Poaching, and Spatial Clustering, with Gilles Duranton.
  Regional Science and Urban Economics 36, 1-28 (2006).

• Agglomeration and the Adjustment of the Spatial Economy, with Gilles Duranton and Henry G. Overman.
  Papers in Regional Science 84, 311-349 (2005).

• The Trade Creating Effects of Business and Social Networks : Evidence from France, with Miren Lafourcade and Thierry Mayer.
  Journal of International Economics 66, 1-29 (2005).

• Transport Costs : Measures, Determinants, and Regional Policy Implications for France, with Miren Lafourcade.
  Journal of Economic Geography 5, 319–349 (2005).

• The Dynamics of Local Employment in France, with Thierry Magnac and Jean-Marc Robin.
  Journal of Urban Economics 56, 217-243 (2004).

• The Spatial Distribution of Economic Activities in the European Union, with Henry G. Overman.
  Handbook of Urban and Regional Economics vol. 4, V. Henderson and J.-F. Thisse (eds.), Elsevier-North Holland, Amsterdam, 2846–2909 (2004).

• Climatic Information from δ13C in plants by Combining Statistical and Mechanistic Approaches, with Guillemette Ménot-Combes and Steve J. Burns.
  The Holocene 14 (6), 931-939 (2004).

• Where are the Economists who Publish ? Publication Concentration and Stock Rankings in Europe, with Laurent Linnemer.
  Journal of the European Economic Association 1, 1250-1308 (2003).

• Intermodal Competition and Regional Inequalities, with Laurent Linnemer.
  Regional Science and Urban Economics 30, 131-184 (2000).

• Economic Structure and Local Growth : France, 1984-1993.
  Journal of Urban Economics 47, 329-355 (2000).
  Reprinted in Recent Developments in Urban and Regional Economics, P. C. Cheshire and G. Duranton (eds.), The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics series, Edward Elgar, (2005).

• Common Market with Regulated Firms, with Bernard Caillaud and Bruno Jullien.
  Annales d’Economie et de Statistique 47, 65-100 (1997).

• Industrial Agglomeration under Cournot Competition.
  Annales d’Economie et de Statistique 45, 161-182 (1997).

• Report in French on the Comparisons of Econlit and Google Scholar Publication Measures, with Clément Bosquet. PDF, extended abstract.

• Report in French on the Publications in Economics in France, 1998-2008, with Clément Bosquet and Laurent Linnemer. PDF, extended abstract.

• Inferring missing citations : A quantitative multi-criteria ranking of all journals in economics, with Laurent Linnemer. GREQAM DP 2010-28.
  Extra-tables with ranks and weights of all journals : with the econ correction, without the econ correction.

• Marshall-Arrow-Romer externalities and city growth, CERAS WP 99-06.

• Signalling effects of strategic trade policy, with Bernard Caillaud et Bruno Jullien, CREST WP 96-31.