 Photo : UQAM / Service des communications 2011 Current research: [New] “Spatial frictions”, CEPR Discussion Paper #8572 (with G. Mion, Y. Murata and J. Südekum) [VoX EU Version]. “Productive cities: Agglomeration, selection and sorting”, CEPR Discussion Paper #7922 (with G. Duranton and F. Robert-Nicoud). [Revise and resubmit] [PDF].
“Globalization and individual gains from trade”, CEPR Discussion Paper #7448; and CIRPÉE Discussion Paper 09-28 (with Y. Murata). [Revise and resubmit]. “Transfer pricing rules, OECD guidelines, and market distortions”, CIRPÉE Discussion Paper #09-43 (with S. Peralta and P.M. Picard). [Revise and resubmit]. “Trade, wages, and productivity”, CEPR Discussion Paper #7369; revised version of IZA DP #3682 (with G. Mion, Y. Murata and J. Südekum). [Revise and resubmit]. "Survival of the fittest in cities: Agglomeration, polarization, and inequality", CIRPÉE Discussion Paper #09-19. Revised version of the CEPR Discussion Paper #7019 (with F. Robert-Nicoud). [PDF].
“The Henry George Theorem in a second-best world”, CIRJE Discussion Paper #F-773, Univ. of Tokyo (with Y. Kanemoto and Y. Murata). [PDF]. Work in progress:
“On the lumpiness of space: Implications for regression analysis” (with G. Mion and W. Koch). "Industrial localization in Canada, 2001-2009: A microgeographic view". "Input-output linkages and firms' export status" (with G. Mion and W. Koch). “Power magnifiers and Zipf’s law” (with G. Duranton and F. Robert-Nicoud).
“Incomplete contracts, legal (dis)similarities, and the volume of bilateral trade” (with G. Corcos, G. Mion and G.I.P. Ottaviano).
“Assortative matching in the transport sector” (with C. Gaigné, G.I.P. Ottaviano and J.-F. Thisse).
“Changes in immigration source countries and the composition of immigrant flows: Impacts on Canada and the U.S.” (with Y. Sato).
| Latest update: May 20, 2012 I am currently associate professor at the University of Québec at Montréal (UQAM) and holder of the tier-II "Canada Research Chair in Regional Impacts of Globalization". I am also affiliated with CEPR and CIRPÉE. Click here for a recent version of my CV. I am currently an editor of the Journal of Economic Geography and treasurer of the Urban Economics Association. I also serve as an editorial board member of Papers in Regional Science. Contact details: Phone: +1 514 987 3000 (ext 6513) Email: behrens(dot)kristian[at]uqam(dot)ca Université du Québec à Montréal, Département des Sciences Economiques Case postale 8888, Succ. Centre-Ville Montréal, QC, Canada, H3C 3P8 Selected publications: [New] “Trade crisis? What trade crisis?” (with G. Corcos and G. Mion). Forthcoming in Review of Economics and Statistics. [New] “Trade, competition, and efficiency” (with Y. Murata). Forthcoming in Journal of International Economics. “Do rent-seeking and interregional transfers contribute to urban primacy in sub-Saharan Africa?” (with A. Pholo-Bala). Forthcoming in Papers in Regional Science. “Transportation, freight rates, and economic geography” (with P.M. Picard), Journal of International Economics, in press. “Dual gravity: Using spatial econometrics to control for multilateral resistance” (with C. Ertur and W. Koch), Journal of Applied Econometrics, in press. “Tempora mutantur: In search of a new testament for NEG” (with F. Robert-Nicoud), Journal of Economic Geography 11, March 2011, pp. 215–230. “Beyond the Home Market Effect: Market size and specialization in a multi-country world”, Journal of International Economics 79, Novembre 2009, pp. 259-265 (with A.R. Lamorgese, G.I.P. Ottaviano and T. Tabuchi). “Commodity tax competition and industry location under the destination and the origin-principle”, Regional Science and Urban Economics 39, July 2009, pp. 422–433 (with J.H. Hamilton, G.I.P. Ottaviano and J.-F. Thisse). “City size and the Henry George theorem under monopolistic competition”, Journal of Urban Economics 65, March 2009, pp. 228-235 (with Y. Murata). “Industry location and welfare when transport costs are endogenous”, Journal of Urban Economics 65, March 2009, pp. 195-208 (with C. Gaigné and J.-F. Thisse). “Bidding for horizontal multinationals”, Journal of the European Economic Association 6, December 2008, pp. 1244-1278 (with P.M. Picard). “Changes in transport and non-transport costs: local vs global impacts in a spatial network”, Regional Science and Urban Economics 37, November 2007, pp. 625-648 (with A.R. Lamorgese, G.I.P. Ottaviano and T. Tabuchi). “Welfare, home market effects, and horizontal foreign direct investment”, Canadian Journal of Economics 40, November 2007, 1118-1148 (with P.M. Picard). “General equilibrium models of monopolistic competition: a new approach”, Journal of Economic Theory 136, September 2007, pp. 776-787 (with Y. Murata). “Countries, regions and trade: On the welfare impacts of economic integration”, European Economic Review 51, July 2007, pp. 1277-1301 (with C. Gaigné, G.I.P. Ottaviano and J.-F. Thisse). “Regional economics: a new economic geography perspective”, Regional Science and Urban Economics 37 (“Regional Science and Urban Economics at 35. A Retrospective/Prospective Special Issue”), July 2007, pp. 457-465 (with J.-F. Thisse). “Commodity tax harmonization and the location of industry”, Journal of International Economics 72, June 2007, pp. 271-291 (with J.H. Hamilton, G.I.P. Ottaviano and J.-F. Thisse). “On the location and lock-in of cities: geography vs transportation technology”, Regional Science and Urban Economics 37, January 2007, pp. 22-45. “How density economies in international transportation link the internal geography of trading partners”, Journal of Urban Economics 60, September 2006, pp. 248-263 (with C. Gaigné, G.I.P. Ottaviano and J.-F. Thisse). “Is remoteness a locational disadvantage?”, Journal of Economic Geography 6, June 2006, pp. 347-368 (with C. Gaigné, G.I.P. Ottaviano and J.-F. Thisse). “How endogenous asymmetries in interregional market access trigger regional divergence”, Regional Science and Urban Economics 35, September 2005, pp. 471-492. “Market size and industry location: traded vs non-traded goods”, Journal of Urban Economics 58, July 2005, pp. 24-44. “Agglomeration without trade: how non-traded goods shape the space-economy”, Journal of Urban Economics 55, January 2004, pp. 68-92. |