Papers by Jacques-françois Thisse
Southern Economic Journal, Apr 1, 1992
Page 1. Social Surplus and Profitability under Different Spatial Pricing Policies* SIMON P. ANDER... more Page 1. Social Surplus and Profitability under Different Spatial Pricing Policies* SIMON P. ANDERSON University of Virginia Charlottesville, Virginia ANDRE DE PALMA Northwestern University Evanston, Illinois JACQUES-FRANCOIS ...
LIDAM Reprints CORE, 1992
Social Science Research Network, Jan 4, 2003
We present a new way of modeling local labor markets by linking the space of workers' skills and ... more We present a new way of modeling local labor markets by linking the space of workers' skills and the physical space of cities. The key lesson of our analysis is that ®rms exploit workers in these two spaces by setting wages that are below the competitive level. The degree of monopsony power depends on the elasticity of the ®rm's labor pool, which is inversely related to the costs workers incur in commuting and acquiring skills. Our analysis thus shows how socioeconomic ghettos emerge as workers with poor skill matches are also those who incur the highest commuting costs.
Cambridge University Press eBooks, Nov 30, 2000
HAL (Le Centre pour la Communication Scientifique Directe), 1991
INRA Sciences Sociales, 2004
Value of the rural environment in periurban belts An agricultural, forest or natural environment ... more Value of the rural environment in periurban belts An agricultural, forest or natural environment represents a setting that households may seek. By integrating this behaviour into an economic urban model, we generate periurban belts where farmers produce amenities that inhabitants consume. The resolution of this model gives predicted values of some variables that may be compared to the values observed in reality. Calibrating the model, that is to say minimizing the gap between predictions and observations, provides a value of unobservable variables, in particular the price of rural amenities.
Economics Letters, Nov 1, 2005
A finite number of heterogeneous firms facing demand-induced price fluctuations imperfectly compe... more A finite number of heterogeneous firms facing demand-induced price fluctuations imperfectly compete for heterogeneous workers. Because firms must commit to wages and employment before the realization of product price, they exhibit a risk-averse behavior. It is then shown that unemployment may arise in equilibrium because of the combination of uncertainty on product price and mismatch between workers' skills and firms' job requirements.
Regional Science and Urban Economics, Feb 1, 1989
We consider a model of competition in which products may differ in both location and brand specif... more We consider a model of competition in which products may differ in both location and brand specification. We assume linear transportation costs in the geographic space and quadratic costs of deviation from the most preferred product in the brand space. Brand specifications are given but prices and locations are variable. It is shown that firms agglomerate at the market center when product differentiation is large enough. For lower degrees of differentiation, the central agglomeration is proved to be an equilibrium when locations are restricted to be in the neighborhood of the market center.
The Economic Journal, 1996
We re-examine the economicjustification for the regulation of firms' pri... more We re-examine the economicjustification for the regulation of firms' price policies. Existing analysis of the relative benefits of alternative pricing policies, by treating market structure as exogenous, loses an important trade-off. Price deregulation leading to, for example, ...
Journal of Industrial Economics, Jun 1, 1991
Page 1. THE JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS 0022-1821 $2.00 Volume XXXIX June 1991 No. 4 LOCATION... more Page 1. THE JOURNAL OF INDUSTRIAL ECONOMICS 0022-1821 $2.00 Volume XXXIX June 1991 No. 4 LOCATION MODELS OF HORIZONTAL DIFFERENTIATION: A SPECIAL CASE OF VERTICAL DIFFERENTIATION MODELS* ...
The Economic Journal, Mar 1, 1987
The primary purpose of this paper is to examine the potential for tacit collusion under free entr... more The primary purpose of this paper is to examine the potential for tacit collusion under free entry conditions. The issue is a relevant one for a number of reasons. In particular, it is widely recognised that oligopolists would prefer to collude than compete, and this recognition guides policy ...
Regional Science and Urban Economics, Feb 1, 1988
Abstract The demand system generated from a CES utility function is formally equivalent to the so... more Abstract The demand system generated from a CES utility function is formally equivalent to the solution of a nested logit model to which the second stage is described by a deterministic Cobb-Douglas utility. On the other hand, the logit demands can be associated with a representative consumer maximizing a deterministic utility of the entropy type.
Economics Letters, 1987
The CES demand function is a special case of a nested logit model whose second-stage is determini... more The CES demand function is a special case of a nested logit model whose second-stage is deterministic.
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, Jul 1, 1998
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, 1987
A Hotelling-type model of spatial competition is considered, in which two firms compete in unifor... more A Hotelling-type model of spatial competition is considered, in which two firms compete in uniform delivered prices. First, it is shown that there exists no uniform delivered price-location equilibrium when the product sold by the firms is perfectly homogeneous and when consumers buy from the firm quoting the lower delivered price. Second, when the product is heterogeneous and when preferences are identically, independently Weibull-distributed with standard deviation p, we prove that there exists a single uniform delivered price-location equilibrium iff ~2 l/8 times the transportation rate times the size of the market. In equilibrium, firms are located at the center of the market and charge the same uniform delivered price, which equals their average transportation cost, plus a markup of 2~. Finally, we discuss how our result extends to the case of n firms and proceed to a comparison of equilibria under uniform mill and delivered pricing. *The authors thank S. Anderson and X. Vives for their comments on a first draft. The research of the first author was supported by Action de Recherche Concert&e of the Belgian Government under contract 84/8965
RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, 1988
Two models have been extensively used to study preference heterogeneity in various contexts: the ... more Two models have been extensively used to study preference heterogeneity in various contexts: the CES utility functiofi and the logit discrete choice model. Examples of both abund in the literature. For the CES. e nixit and Stiglitz (1977) in monopolistic compefition, Atkinson and Stigk (1980) in tax incidence, Katsoulacos (1984) in te&uologkai innovation, ~e~prn~~n and ICrugman (1985) in international trade, etc. For the logit, see Domencich and McFadden (1975) in transport modal choice, Anas (1982) in residential location, de Falma et al. (1985) in spatial competition, Train et rl. (1957) in telephone demand, etc. These two mod& are especially popular m regional science as by most of the papers contained in this issue. The first author thanks the Mgian govemment for financial support under the 'Projet d'ktion Cmmke', contract ?4/8965. **We haye learned from a referee that some materials p sted in 3 have developed independently by A. Anas.
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RePEc: Research Papers in Economics, 1991
Il est toujours extremement difficile de resumer la vie d'un homme que l'on a croise a un... more Il est toujours extremement difficile de resumer la vie d'un homme que l'on a croise a une epoque particuliere de sa propre existence et dont on a partage les enthousiasmes et les deceptions jusqu'a depasser cette relation du maitre a l'eleve dont l'alchimie est si particuliere, si delicate qu'il serait presomptueux d'en amorcer ici l'explication. Il s'agit neanmoins d'un fait, objectif, brut : le regard que nous allons poser sur l'homme et sur l'oeuvre n'est pas libre de tout sentiment. Nous avons admire l'esprit, la tenacite, la rigueur scientifiques de celui dont nous avons aime l'humanite, l'exigence et la chaleur. La difficulte de la tâche reside precisement en la construction d'une biographie qui n'exagere pas les qualites sous peine d'en discrediter l'enonce et qui n'amenuise pas les defauts sous peine d'edulcorer le portrait jusqu'a l'affadir.
Les choix de localisation de services publics font surgir deux problemes d’arbitrage importants. ... more Les choix de localisation de services publics font surgir deux problemes d’arbitrage importants. D’une part, on souhaite trouver un equilibre entre les couts d’installation et de fonctionnement des equipements a mettre en place et les couts d’acces des usagers a ces memes equipements. D’autre part, il faut parvenir a un compromis entre la recherche d’une plus grande efficacite dans l’organisation geographique des services et celle d’une meilleure equite entre les usagers dans l’acces a ces services. Dans cet article, on propose une approche de cette problematique basee sur l’utilisation de modeles de recherche operationnels. Le choix de ces modeles est base sur la nature du service en question, les contraintes qui lui sont inherentes et la maniere d’exprimer les problemes d’arbitrage evoques plus haut. L’approche est illustree par une synthese de deux etudes, l’une portant sur la localisation d’un bureau postal a Louvain-la-Neuve, l’autre sur les services de luttes contre l’incendie dans la province de Luxembourg.
Journal of the Operational Research Society, Apr 1, 1995
Page 1. Discrete Choice Theory of Product Differentiation Simon P. Anderson André de Palma Jacque... more Page 1. Discrete Choice Theory of Product Differentiation Simon P. Anderson André de Palma Jacques-François Thisse Page 2. Page 3. ...
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