Homepage for Frederic Robert-Nicoud

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[Current Positions] [Research] [Teaching] [CV] [Contact] [Miscellaneous]

Links

• Urban and Regional Economics seminar
• CEP/LSE International Economics Seminar
• LSE Political Science and Political Economy Group
• LSE Urban Economics Group
• RTN Transnationality Of Migrants (TOM)
  

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Current position and other professional activities

• Lecturer in Economic Geography, Department of Geography and Environment, LSE
• Research affiliate, International Trade programme, CEPR
• Associate, Globalisation programme, CEP
• Associate editor, Regional Science and Urban Economics
• August Loesch Prize 2008

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Research

• Published papers
• Forthcoming and working papers
• RePEc page
• IDEAS page
• LSE's "Academic Staff Publications" page (Published papers only)

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Published papers

• Labour market reform, job instability and the flexibility of the employment relationship [with N. Matouschek and P. Ramezzana] [doi].
  European Economic Review 53(1), pp. 19-36 (January 2009).

• Offshoring of routine tasks and deindustrialisation : Threat or opportunity -and for whom?.
  Journal of Urban Economics 63(2), pp. 517-35 (March 2008).

• Trade and growth with heterogenous firms [with R. Baldwin] [doi].
  Journal of International Economics 74(1), pp.21-34 (January 2008).

• Entry and asymmetric lobbying: Why governments pick losers [with R. Baldwin] [doi]
  Journal of the European Economic Association 5(5), pp. 1064-93 (September 2007). The Financial Times Deutschland's "Kommentar" column of February 2, 2002 and FT columnist Tim Harford's blog on February 15, 2008 both discuss this paper.

• Can South-South trade liberalisation stimulate North-South trade? [with M. Fugazza]
  Journal of Economic Integration 21(2), pp. 234-53 (June 2006).

• Agglomeration and trade with input-output linkages and capital mobility [doi]
  Spatial Economic Analysis (first issue), pp. 101-26 (June 2006).

• The 'genome' of NEG models with vertical linkages: A positive and normative synthesis [with G. Ottaviano] [doi]
  Journal of Economic Geography 6(2), pp. 113-39 (lead paper) (April 2006).
  See also Carl Gaigne's comment in the same issue of the Journal [doi].

• Agglomeration and welfare: The core-periphery model in the light of Bentham, Kaldor, and Rawls [with S. Charlot, C. Gaigne and J.-F. Thisse] [doi]
  Journal of Public Economics 90(1-2), pp. 325-47 (January 2006).

• The role of human capital investments in the location decision of firms [with N. Matouschek] [doi].
  Regional Science and Urban Economics 35(5), pp. 570-83, (September 2005).

• The structure of simple 'New Economic Geography' models (Or, on identical twins) [doi]
  Journal of Economic Geography 5(2), pp. 201-34 (April 2005).

• Home-market vs. vote-market effect: Location equilibrium in a probabilistic voting model [with F. Sbergami] [doi]
  European Economic Review 48(1), pp. 155-79, (January 2004).

• Economic Geography and Public Policy [with R. Baldwin, R. Forslid, G. Ottaviano and P. Martin]
  Princeton University Press (June 2003).

• The core-periphery model: Key features and effects [with R. Baldwin, R. Forslid, G. Ottaviano and P. Martin]
  In Heijdra and Brakman (eds), The Monopolistic Competition Revolution in Retrospect, Cambridge University Press (November 2003).

• Endogenous lobbying in search of import protection: A comment (invited paper)
  Rivista di Politica Economica, pp. 145-8 (Conference volume, January 2003). Reprinted in Ginebri and Sabani (eds), The Role of Organized Interest Groups in Policy Making, Palgrave Macmillan (February 2004).

• Free-trade liberalization without delocation [with R. Baldwin]
  Canadian Journal of Economics 33(3), pp. 766-86 (August 2000).

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Teaching

• Office hours: during the Michealmas term, office hours are held on Wednesday 11:30-12:15 and Thursday 9:05-9:50; EXCEPTION Week 10: No office hours on Thursday. OFFICE HOURS ARE BEING HELD IN OFFICE S513A.
• Term dates: check here

• EC230
• EC303
• GY201 (2006-7)[Syllabus MT, Syllabus LT], GY305 (2006-7)[Syllabus MT]

Access the pages of these courses via the undergraduate course guides. Note that the handouts, reading lists, and so on are posted on the public folders.

• GY404

Stylised facts about cities (2005/6) (adapted from lecture notes by Gilles Duranton, U. Toronto).

Access the page of this course via the graduate course guides.

• misc.

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CV

• Short bio on LSE's website [HTML]
• Short bio on CEP's website [HTML]

Should you care, there is even a picture on these pages.

• CV [PDF] (last updated: December 2007)

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Contact

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