Highways, Market Access, and Spatial Sorting

Fretz, Stephan; Parchet, Raphaël; Robert‐Nicoud, Frédéric

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“…2 Source: 5.3 millions across US State borders, Census Bureau, 2011; 3.6 million across Länder borders, Regionaldatenbank, 2018;4.6 million across Département borders, INSEE, 2010. 3 See, among others, Baum-Snow (2007); Duranton and Turner (2012); Faber (2014); Tombe and Zhu (2015); Fretz, Parchet, and Robert-Nicoud (2017); Caliendo, Parro, Rossi-Hansberg, and Sarte (2018).…”

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Regional Borders, Commuting and Transport Network Integration

Loumeau

2023

Review of Economics and Statistics

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This paper exploits spatial quasi-experimental variation around French departmental borders to provide novel evidence that regional borders disturb surrounding economic activity; namely, commuting flows, catchment areas, and residential density. The lack of integration of local transport networks at regional borders – leading to a 4.5km travel distance penalty when crossing borders – explains the observed border effects. Using a spatial quantifiable equilibrium framework and accounting for construction costs, a policy simulation exercise shows that integrating local transport networks leads to a 6.36% average growth in real per capita residential income.

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Regional Borders, Commuting and Transport Network Integration

Loumeau

2023

Review of Economics and Statistics

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Accounting for spatial economic interactions at local and meso scales in integrated assessment model (IAM) frameworks: challenges and recent progress

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2023

Environ. Res. Lett.

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The scientific and policy needs to assess and manage climate change impacts have spawned new coupled, multi-scale integrated assessment model (IAM) frameworks that link global climate and economic processes with high-resolution data and models of human-environmental systems at local and meso scales (Fisher-Vanden and Weyant 2020). A central challenge is in accounting for the fundamental interdependence of people, firms, and economic activities across space at multiple scales. This requires modeling approaches that can incorporate the relevant spatial details at each scale while also ensure consistency with spatially varying feedbacks and interactions across scales—a condition economists refer to as spatial equilibrium. In this paper, we provide an overview of how economists think about and model spatial interactions, particularly those at the local level. We describe challenges and recent progress in accounting for greater spatial heterogeneity at individual (field, agent) scales and incorporating heterogeneous spatial interactions and dynamics into consistent IAM frameworks. We conclude that the most notable progress is in advancing global IAMs with spatial heterogeneity and dynamics embedded in spatial equilibrium frameworks and that less progress has been made in incorporating features of spatial equilibrium into highly detailed multi-scale IAMs.

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Highways, Market Access, and Spatial Sorting

Cited by 2 publications

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Regional Borders, Commuting and Transport Network Integration

Regional Borders, Commuting and Transport Network Integration

Accounting for spatial economic interactions at local and meso scales in integrated assessment model (IAM) frameworks: challenges and recent progress

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