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SUMMARY:CESS Seminar: About the Origin of Cities
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DESCRIPTION:Prof. André de Palma\, ENS Cachan - University Paris-Saclay\
 nAbstract\nWe provide a bare–bones framework that uncovers the circumstan
 ces 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 pat
 terns reflect the preferences of agents and the efficiency of transportati
 on and communication technologies. With one population of homogeneous indi
 viduals\, the economy is characterized by a uniform distribution or by a p
 eriodic distribution of central\nplaces having the same size. The interact
 ion between two distinct populations may give rise to a hierarchy of centr
 al places with one or several primate cities.\n\nBio\nAndré de Palma is a
  specialist in individual (and couple) decision making under risk and unce
 rtainty\, industrial organization and operations research. He has widely p
 ublished in Economics and Transportation Journals. He is the father of Dyn
 amic models in Transportation with Moshe Ben-Akiva\, Richard Arnott and Ro
 bin Lindsay. He has also introduced Discrete choice models in industrial o
 rganization : His book\, Anderson\, de Palma and Thisse (1992)\, Discrete 
 Choice Theory of Product Differentiation\, MIT Press\, is used worldwide i
 n major institutions\, and has become a classic.
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