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SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
Highways, Market Access and Spatial Sorting

We design a spatial model featuring workers embodied with heterogeneous skills. In equilibrium, locations with improved market access become relatively more attractive to the high-skilled, high-income earners. We then em...Read more...

Stephan Fretz, Raphael Parchet and Frederic Robert-Nicoud

23 November 2017

SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
Trade and Frictional Unemployment in the Global Economy

We develop a multi-country, multi-sector trade model with labor market frictions and equilibrium unemployment. Trade opening leads to a reduction in unemployment if it raises real wages and reallocates labor towards sect...Read more...

Celine Carrere, Anja Grujovic and Frederic Robert-Nicoud

10 December 2015

CEP discussion paper
The 'Emulator Effect' of the Uruguay Round on US Regionalism.

Using a detailed data set at the tariff line level, we find an emulator effect of multilateralism on subsequent regional trade agreements involving the US. We exploit the variation in the frequency with which the US has ...Read more...

Marco Fugazza and Frederic Robert-Nicoud

March 2010

SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
On the Origins of Land Use Regulations: Theory and Evidence from US Metro Areas

We model residential land use constraints as the outcome of a political economy game between owners of developed and owners of undeveloped land. Land use constraints benefit the former group (via increasing property pric...Read more...

Christian A. L. Hilber and Frederic Robert-Nicoud

January 2010

CEP discussion paper
On the Origins of Land Use Regulations: Theory and Evidence from US Metro Areas

We model residential land use constraints as the outcome of a political economy game between owners of developed and owners of undeveloped land. Land use constraints benefit the former group (via increasing property pric...Read more...

Christian A. L. Hilber and Frederic Robert-Nicoud

December 2009

CentrePiece article
Industrial policy: why governments pick losers

Frederic Robert-Nicoud and Richard Baldwin explain why governments often support ailing sectors....Read more...

Richard E. Baldwin and Frederic Robert-Nicoud

October 2009

SERC/Urban and Spatial Programme Discussion Paper
Survival of the Fittest in Cities: Agglomeration, Selection and Polarisation

Empirical studies consistently report that labour productivity and TFP rise with city size. The reason is that cities attract the most productive agents, select the best of them, and make the selected ones even more prod...Read more...

Kristian Behrens and Frederic Robert-Nicoud

November 2008

CEP discussion paper
Survival of the Fittest in Cities: Agglomeration, Selection, and Polarisation

Empirical studies consistently report that labour productivity and TFP rise with city size. The reason is that cities attract the most productive agents, select the best of them, and make the selected ones even more prod...Read more...

Kristian Behrens and Frederic Robert-Nicoud

October 2008

CEP discussion paper
Labor Market Reforms, Job Instability, and the Flexibility of the Employment Relationship

We endogenize separation in a search model of the labor market and allow for bargaining over the continuation of employment relationships following productivity shocks to take place under asymmetric information. In such ...Read more...

Niko Matouschek, P Ramezzana and Frederic Robert-Nicoud

April 2008

CEP discussion paper
A Simple Model of the Juggernaut Effect of Trade Liberalisation

This paper posits a formal political economy model where the principle of reciprocity in multilateral trade talks results in the gradual elimination of tariffs. Reciprocity trade talks turn each nation?s exporters into a...Read more...

Richard E. Baldwin and Frederic Robert-Nicoud

January 2008

CEP discussion paper
Protection for Sale Made Easy

Formal analysis of the political economy of trade policy was substantially redirected by the appearance of Gene Grossman and Elhanan Helpman?s 1994 paper, ?Protection for Sale?. Before that article a fairly wide range of...Read more...

Richard E. Baldwin and Frederic Robert-Nicoud

June 2007

CEP discussion paper
Offshoring: General Equilibrium Effects on Wages, Production and Trade

A simple model of offshoring is used to integrate the complex gallery of results that exist in the theoretical offshoring/fragmentation literature. The paper depicts offshoring as `shadow migration? and shows that this a...Read more...

Richard E. Baldwin and Frederic Robert-Nicoud

May 2007

CEP discussion paper
Entry and Asymmetric Lobbying: Why Governments Pick Losers

Governments frequently intervene to support domestic industries, but a surprising amount of this support goes to ailing sectors. We explain this with a lobbying model that allows for entry and sunk costs. Specifically, p...Read more...

Richard E. Baldwin and Frederic Robert-Nicoud

May 2007

CEP discussion paper
Owners of Developed Land versus Owners of Undeveloped Land: Why Land Use is More Constrained in the Bay Area than in Pittsburgh

We model residential land use constraints as the outcome of a political economy game between owners of developed and owners of undeveloped land. Land use constraints are interpreted as shadow taxes that increase the land...Read more...

Christian A. L. Hilber and Frederic Robert-Nicoud

November 2006

CEP discussion paper
Off-Shoring of Business Services and De-Industrialization: Threat or Opportunity - and for Whom?

This paper takes a new look at the issue of overseas sourcing of services. In framework in which comparative advantage is endogenous to agglomeration economies and factor mobility, the fragmentation of production made po...Read more...

Frederic Robert-Nicoud

July 2006

CEP discussion paper
Trade and Growth with Heterogeneous Firms

This paper explores the impact of trade on growth when firms are heterogeneous. We find that greater openness produces anti-and pro-growth effects. The Melitz-model selection effects raises the expected cost of introduci...Read more...

Richard E. Baldwin and Frederic Robert-Nicoud

June 2006