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CEPR Discussion Paper 5452 (methodological/pedagogical contribution not
for publication) [with Richard Baldwin, GIIS.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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