Trade and the structure of cities

Jean Cavailhes (1) , Carl Gaigné (2) , Takatoshi Tabuchi (3) , Jean-François Thisse (4)

1 CESAER - Centre d'Economie et de Sociologie Rurales Appliquées à l'Agriculture et aux Espaces Ruraux
2 SMART-LERECO - Structures et Marché Agricoles, Ressources et Territoires
3 Faculty of Economics
4 ECORE

Our purpose is to investigate how the interplay between trade, commuting and communication costs shapes the economy at both the interregional and intraurban levels.

Mots clés: city structure; secondary business centers; commuting costs; trade costs; communication costs

Domaines: Economies et finances

Jean Cavailhes, Carl Gaigné, Takatoshi Tabuchi, Jean-François Thisse. Trade and the structure of cities. Recent developments in the economics of transport, 1, Edward Elgar Publishing, 1284 p., 2012, The International Library of Critical Writings in Economics series, 978 1 78100 649 8. ⟨hal-01208823⟩