Coûts de transport et inégalités régionales. Une approche structurelle

Pierre-Philippe Combes and Miren Lafourcade

Revue économique, 2002, vol. 53, issue 3, 505-516

Abstract: This paper presents an economic geography model we use to investigate transport costs as a cause of regional inequalities. We perform a structural estimation of this model for 64 sectors simultaneously using a new dataset on generalized transport costs between the 341 French Employment Areas. Transport costs, intermediate inputs and geography play a critical role in the concentration pattern of economic activities. We provide simulations of local production conditions. Large concentration incentives exist in France, possibly inducing the emergence in the long-run of a monocentric core-periphery structure. Besides, in the short-run, a transport costs decline reduces concentration at the country level, but it increases inequalities in a large number of French regions. Classification JEL : F1, O1, R3, R4

JEL-codes: F1 O1 R3 R4 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2002
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