Frédéric Robert-Nicoud


Professeur
Bureau: M 5266
Téléphone: +41 22 379 82 82
E-mail: Frederic Robert-Nicoud
Domaines de recherche:


Economie spatiale (commerce international, économie régionale, économie urbaine), Economie politique, Microéconomie appliquée

Bio / CV

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Personal web page (becoming obsolete)
Cours: Politiques économiques: Cas pratiques (bachelor)



Frédéric Robert-Nicoud est à l'Université de Genève depuis janvier 2009. Il est également affilié au Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) à Londres et au Spatial Economics Research Centre, basé à la London School of Economics (LSE). Auparavant, il a été Lecturer in Economic Geography à la LSE (2005-2008) et Maître-Assistant au département d'économie politique ici à Genève (2002-2005).

Il a obtenu en 2008 le prix 'August Lösch for outstanding research in the field of Regional Science'.

Ses recherches actuelles portent sur: (i) les déterminants de la régulation du foncier en zone urbaine; (ii) le lien entre taille et productivité des villes et inégalité de revenus; (iii) la dynamique des accords commerciaux.

Frédéric Robert-Nicoud joined the department in January 2009. He is also affiliated to the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR) and to the Spatial Economics Research Centre at the LSE. Previously, he was Lecturer in Economic Geography at the LSE (2005-2008) and Maître-Assistant ('assistant professor'), also in the Economics department of the University of Geneva.

In 2008 he earned the 'August Lösch prize for outstanding research in the field of Regional Science'.

His current research interests are: (i) the determinants of land use regulations in cities; (ii) the link between urban productivity, urban income inequality and city size; (iii) the dynamics of trade agreements.

Articles :

  • Protection For Sale made easy. CEPR Discussion Paper 5452 (methodological/pedagogical contribution not for publication) [with Richard Baldwin, GIIS. December 2007].

Publications :

  • Labour market reform, job instability and the flexibility of the employment relationship [with N. Matouschek and P. Ramezzana] [PDF] [doi].
    European Economic Review 53(1), 19-36 (January 2009).
  • Offshoring of routine tasks and deindustrialisation : Threat or opportunity -and for whom? [PDF]
    Journal of Urban Economics 63(2), 517-35 (March 2008).
  • Trade and growth with heterogenous firms [with R. Baldwin] [PDF] [doi].
    Journal of International Economics 74(1), 21-34 (January 2008).
  • Entry and asymmetric lobbying: Why governments pick losers [with R. Baldwin] [PDF ] [doi].
    Journal of the European Economic Association 5(5), 1064-93 (September 2007). The Financial Times Deutschland's "Kommentar" column of February 2, 2002 and FT columnist Tim Harford's blog on February 15, 2008 both discuss this paper. Click here for a short, non-technical version of the argument.
  • Can South-South trade liberalisation stimulate North-South trade? [PDF] [with M. Fugazza]
    Journal of Economic Integration 21(2), 234-53 (June 2006).
  • Agglomeration and trade with input-output linkages and capital mobility [PDF] [doi]
    Spatial Economic Analysis (first issue), 101-26 (June 2006).
  • The 'genome' of NEG models with vertical linkages: A positive and normative synthesis [with G. Ottaviano] [PDF] [doi]
    Journal of Economic Geography 6(2), 113-39 (lead paper) (April 2006).
    See also Carl Gaigne's comment in the same issue of the Journal [doi].
  • Agglomeration and welfare: The core-periphery model in the light of Bentham, Kaldor, and Rawls [with S. Charlot, C. Gaigne and J.-F. Thisse] [PDF] [doi]
    Journal of Public Economics 90(1-2), 325-47 (January 2006).
  • The role of human capital investments in the location decision of firms [with N. Matouschek] [PDF] [doi]
    Regional Science and Urban Economics 35(5), 570-83, (September 2005).
  • The structure of simple 'New Economic Geography' models (Or, on identical twins) [PDF] [doi]
    Journal of Economic Geography 5(2), 201-34 (April 2005).
  • Home-market vs. vote-market effect: Location equilibrium in a probabilistic voting model [with F. Sbergami] [PDF] [doi]
    European Economic Review 48(1), 155-79, (January 2004).
  • The core-periphery model: Key features and effects [with R. Baldwin, R. Forslid, G. Ottaviano and P. Martin] [PDF]
    In Heijdra and Brakman (eds), The Monopolistic Competition Revolution in Retrospect, Cambridge University Press (November 2003).
  • Endogenous lobbying in search of import protection: A comment (invited paper) [PDF]
    Rivista di Politica Economica, 145-8 (Conference volume, January 2003). Reprinted in Ginebri and Sabani (eds), The Role of Organized Interest Groups in Policy Making, Palgrave Macmillan (February 2004).
  • Free-trade liberalization without delocation [with R. Baldwin] [PDF] [jstor]
    Canadian Journal of Economics 33(3), 766-86 (August 2000).









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Mise à jour: jeudi 16 juillet 2009