| Reference : Effect of conformism on firm selection, product quality and home bias |
| Scientific journals : Article | |||
| Business & economic sciences : Microeconomics | |||
| Sustainable Development | |||
| http://hdl.handle.net/10993/48990 | |||
| Effect of conformism on firm selection, product quality and home bias | |
| English | |
Picard, Pierre M  [University of Luxembourg > Faculty of Law, Economics and Finance (FDEF) > Department of Economics and Management (DEM) >] | |
| Kichko, Sergey [Higher School of Economics, Moscow] | |
| 2021 | |
| Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization | |
| Elsevier | |
| 185 | |
| 402-18 | |
| Yes | |
| International | |
| 0167-2681 | |
| Netherlands | |
| [en] Conformism ; Product quality ; Consumer heterogeneity | |
| [en] This paper investigates the impact of local traffic pollution on the formation of residential and
business districts. While firms benefit from local production externalities, households commute to their workplaces with private vehicles and exert a local pollution externality on the residents living along the urban transport networks. The spatial location of firms and residents endogenously results from the trade-off between the production and pollution externalities and the commuting costs. The analysis shows that in monocentric cities the benefits associated with a fall in per-vehicle pollution are absorbed by rents paid to absentee landlords. When a city includes business and residential districts as well as a district mixing both agents, a lower per-vehicle pollution enlarges the residential districts and shifts the business districts closer to the geographical center of the city. The paper finally studies the optimal city structure. The first-best policies that fully internalize the externalities still foster business agglomeration. | |
| http://hdl.handle.net/10993/48990 |
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