CESS Seminar: About the Origin of Cities
Event details
| Date | 22.02.2019 |
| Hour | 12:15 › 13:00 |
| Speaker | Prof. André de Palma, ENS Cachan - University Paris-Saclay |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Abstract
We provide a barebones framework that uncovers the circumstances which lead either to the emergence of equally-spaced and equally-sized central places or to a hierarchy of central places. We show how these patterns reflect the preferences of agents and the efficiency of transportation and communication technologies. With one population of homogeneous individuals, the economy is characterized by a uniform distribution or by a periodic distribution of central
places having the same size. The interaction between two distinct populations may give rise to a hierarchy of central places with one or several primate cities.
Bio
André de Palma is a specialist in individual (and couple) decision making under risk and uncertainty, industrial organization and operations research. He has widely published in Economics and Transportation Journals. He is the father of Dynamic models in Transportation with Moshe Ben-Akiva, Richard Arnott and Robin Lindsay. He has also introduced Discrete choice models in industrial organization : His book, Anderson, de Palma and Thisse (1992), Discrete Choice Theory of Product Differentiation, MIT Press, is used worldwide in major institutions, and has become a classic.
We provide a barebones framework that uncovers the circumstances which lead either to the emergence of equally-spaced and equally-sized central places or to a hierarchy of central places. We show how these patterns reflect the preferences of agents and the efficiency of transportation and communication technologies. With one population of homogeneous individuals, the economy is characterized by a uniform distribution or by a periodic distribution of central
places having the same size. The interaction between two distinct populations may give rise to a hierarchy of central places with one or several primate cities.
Bio
André de Palma is a specialist in individual (and couple) decision making under risk and uncertainty, industrial organization and operations research. He has widely published in Economics and Transportation Journals. He is the father of Dynamic models in Transportation with Moshe Ben-Akiva, Richard Arnott and Robin Lindsay. He has also introduced Discrete choice models in industrial organization : His book, Anderson, de Palma and Thisse (1992), Discrete Choice Theory of Product Differentiation, MIT Press, is used worldwide in major institutions, and has become a classic.
Practical information
- Informed public
- Free
- This event is internal
Organizer
- Profs. Brice Lecampion and Alexandre Alahi
Contact
- Prof. Nikolas Geroliminis