Kristian Behrens

Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE)

34 Voie du Roman Pays

B-1348 Louvain-la-Neuve, b-1348

Belgium

http://www.core.ucl.ac.be:16080/~behrens/

Université de Bourgogne - LATEC

Pôle d'Economie et de Gestion

21066 Dijon Cedex

France

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1.

General Equilibrium Models of Monopolistic Competition: CRRA Versus Cara

CORE Discussion Paper No. 2005/33
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 15 Nov 2005
Kristian Behrens and Yasusada Murata
Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) and Nihon University - Advanced Research Institute for the Sciences and Humanities
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monopolistic competition, general equilibrium, price equilibrium,additive quasi-separability, multiplicative quasi-separability

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'Dual' Gravity: Using Spatial Econometrics to Control for Multilateral Resistance

CORE Discussion Paper No. 2007/59
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 06 Sep 2007
Kristian Behrens, C. Ertur and Wilfried Koch
Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), University of Orleans - Faculty of Law and Economics and affiliation not provided to SSRN
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gravity equations, multi-region general equilibrium trade models, spatial econometrics, border effects

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International Integration and Regional Inequalities: How Important is National Infrastructure?

CORE Discussion Paper No. 2004/66
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 03 Feb 2005
Kristian Behrens
Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE)
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Trade liberalization, regional integration, transport costs, trade costs, economic geography

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Gains from Trade and Efficiency Under Monopolistic Competition: A Variable Elasticity Case

CORE Discussion Paper No. 2006/49
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 22 Aug 2006
Kristian Behrens and Yasusada Murata
Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) and Nihon University - Advanced Research Institute for the Sciences and Humanities
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international trade, monopolistic competition, variable elasticity, gains from trade, efficiency

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Tax Competition, Location, and Horizontal Foreign Direct Investment

CORE Discussion Paper No. 2005/91
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 24 Feb 2006
Kristian Behrens and Pierre M. Picard
Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) and Centre de Recherche en Économie Appliquée (CREA)
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capital tax competition, international trade, multi-plant location problem, foreign direct investment, imperfect competition

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Industry Reallocations in a Globalizing Economy

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Industry Reallocations in a Globalizing Economy

CORE Discussion Paper No. 2007/12
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 29 Mar 2007
Kristian Behrens, Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano and Giordano Mion
Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Bocconi University - Department of Economics and Paolo Baffi Centre on Central Banking and Financial Regulation and University of Sussex - Department of Economics
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international integration, resource reallocation, economic geography, firm heterogeneity, multinationals

Industry Reallocations in a Globalizing Economy

CEPR Discussion Paper No. 6049
Posted: 28 Jun 2007
Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano, Kristian Behrens and Giordano Mion
Bocconi University - Department of Economics and Paolo Baffi Centre on Central Banking and Financial Regulation, Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) and University of Sussex - Department of Economics

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Economic geography, firm heterogeneity, international integration, multinationals, resource reallocation

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Population Growth and Manufacturing Real Wages in 18th Century England: A Spatial Perspective

CORE Discussion Paper No. 2004/25
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 31 Mar 2007
Kristian Behrens
Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE)
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population growth, real wages, economic geography, agglomeration, Industrial Revolution

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Labor Market Integration and Migration: Impacts on Skill Formation and the Wage Structure

CORE Discussion Paper No. 2006/1
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 06 Jul 2006
Kristian Behrens and Yasuhiro Sato
Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) and Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE)
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Labor market integration, migration, skill heterogeneity, skill formation, income inequalities

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Changes in Transport and Non Transport Costs: Local vs. Global Impacts in a Spatial Network

Bank of Italy Temi di Discussione (Working Paper) No. 628
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 25 May 2007
Kristian Behrens, Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano, Andrea Roberto Lamorgese and Takatoshi Tabuchi
Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Bocconi University - Department of Economics and Paolo Baffi Centre on Central Banking and Financial Regulation, Bank of Italy and University of Tokyo - Faculty of Economics
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trade frictions, multi-country trade models, monopolistic competition, spatial networks, international integration

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Trade, Wages, and Productivity

IZA Discussion Paper No. 3682
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 14 Sep 2008
Kristian Behrens, Giordano Mion, Yasusada Murata and Jens Suedekum
Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), University of Sussex - Department of Economics, Nihon University - Advanced Research Institute for the Sciences and Humanities and Heinrich-Heine-University Duesseldorf, Duesseldorf Institute for Competition Economics (DICE)
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monopolistic competition, general equilibrium, gravity equations, heterogeneous firms, variable demand elasticities

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Commodity Tax Competition and Industry Location Under the Destination- and the Origin-Principle

CORE Discussion Paper No. 2007/34
Number of pages: 39 Posted: 17 Aug 2007
Kristian Behrens, Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano, Jonathan H. Hamilton and Jacques-François Thisse
Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Bocconi University - Department of Economics and Paolo Baffi Centre on Central Banking and Financial Regulation, University of Florida - Warrington College of Business Administration - Department of Economics and Catholic University of Louvain (UCL)
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commodity tax competition, origin principle, destination principle, tax harmonization, industry location

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Do Rent-Seeking and Interregional Transfers Contribute to Urban Primacy in Sub-Saharan Africa?

CORE Discussion Paper No. 2006/114
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 14 Mar 2007
Kristian Behrens and Alain Pholo Bala
Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) and University of Johannesburg
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economic geography, rent-seeking, interregional transfers, urban primacy, developing countries

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On the Location and 'Lock-In' of Cities: Geography vs. Transportation Technology

CORE Discussion Paper No. 2004/44
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 25 Oct 2006
Kristian Behrens
Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE)
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transport hubs, transport costs, economic geography, location theory, smoothness

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Regional Inequality and Product Variety

CORE Discussion Paper No. 2005/9
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 26 Feb 2006
Kristian Behrens and Jacques-François Thisse
Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) and Catholic University of Louvain (UCL)
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fixed costs, set-up costs, market size, international trade, home market effect

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Welfare, Home Market Effects, and Horizontal Foreign Direct Investment

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Welfare, Home Market Effects, and Horizontal Foreign Direct Investment

CORE Discussion Paper No. 2005/65
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 30 Jun 2006
Kristian Behrens and Pierre M. Picard
Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) and Centre de Recherche en Économie Appliquée (CREA)
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international trade, imperfect competition, horizontal foreign direct investment, economic geography

Welfare, Home Market Effects, and Horizontal Foreign Direct Investment

Canadian Journal of Economics, Vol. 40, No. 4, pp. 1118-1148, November 2007
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 22 Oct 2007
Kristian Behrens and Pierre M. Picard
Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) and Centre de Recherche en Économie Appliquée (CREA)
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Agglomeration Versus Product Variety: Implications for Regional Inequalities

Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 46, No. 5, pp. 867-880, December 2006
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 19 Oct 2006
Kristian Behrens and Jacques-François Thisse
Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE) and Catholic University of Louvain (UCL)
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Changes in Infrastructure and Tariff Barriers: Local vs. Global Impacts

CEPR Discussion Paper No. 5103
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 08 Aug 2005
Kristian Behrens, Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano, Andrea Roberto Lamorgese and Takatoshi Tabuchi
Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Bocconi University - Department of Economics and Paolo Baffi Centre on Central Banking and Financial Regulation, Bank of Italy and University of Tokyo - Faculty of Economics
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Multi-country trade models, imperfect competition, transportation networks, international integration, home market effect

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Destination- Versus Origin-Based Commodity Taxation and the Location of Industry

CEPR Discussion Paper No. 4671
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 14 Dec 2004
Kristian Behrens, Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano, Jonathan H. Hamilton and Jacques-François Thisse
Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Bocconi University - Department of Economics and Paolo Baffi Centre on Central Banking and Financial Regulation, University of Florida - Warrington College of Business Administration - Department of Economics and Catholic University of Louvain (UCL)
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Commodity tax, origin principle, destination principle, tax harmonization, home market effect

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Location and Competition, Edited by Steven Brakman and Harry Garretsen

Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 46, Issue 5, pp. 998-1000, December 2006
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 17 Oct 2006
Kristian Behrens
Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE)
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Testing the Home Market Effect in a Multi-Country World: The Theory

CEPR Discussion Paper No. 4468
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 05 Aug 2004
Kristian Behrens, Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano, Andrea Roberto Lamorgese and Takatoshi Tabuchi
Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Bocconi University - Department of Economics and Paolo Baffi Centre on Central Banking and Financial Regulation, Bank of Italy and University of Tokyo - Faculty of Economics
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Home market effect, hub effect, market potential, new trade theory, economic geography

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Inter-Regional and International Trade: Seventy Years after Ohlin

CEPR Discussion Paper No. 4065
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 14 Nov 2003
Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano, Kristian Behrens, Carl Gaigne and Jacques-François Thisse
Bocconi University - Department of Economics and Paolo Baffi Centre on Central Banking and Financial Regulation, Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) - UMR 1302 SMART and Catholic University of Louvain (UCL)
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Economic geography, agglomeration, trade costs, transport costs

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Is the Regulation of the Transport Sector Always Detrimental to Consumers?

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP6185
Number of pages: 35 Posted: 20 May 2008
Kristian Behrens, Carl Gaigne and Jacques-François Thisse
Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) - UMR 1302 SMART and Catholic University of Louvain (UCL)
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Economic geography, imperfect competition, interregional trade, transport deregulation, transport sector

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Survival of the Fittest in Cities: Urbanisation and Inequality

The Economic Journal, Vol. 124, Issue 581, pp. 1371-1400, 2014
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 10 Dec 2014
Frédéric Robert‐Nicoud and Kristian Behrens
University of Geneva and Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE)
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Is Remoteness a Locational Disadvantage?

Journal of Economic Geography, Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 347-368, 2006
Posted: 29 Feb 2008
Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano, Kristian Behrens, Jacques-François Thisse and Carl Gaigne
Bocconi University - Department of Economics and Paolo Baffi Centre on Central Banking and Financial Regulation, Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) - Center for Operations Research and Econometrics (CORE), Catholic University of Louvain (UCL) and French National Institute for Agricultural Research (INRA) - UMR 1302 SMART

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JEL classifications: F12, F16, R12