Laboratory for Market Theory and Spatial Economics, Higher School of Economics

• spatial economics;
• new economic geography;
• regional economy;
• economics of integration and agglomeration;
• interregional and international trade.

Specialization of the scientific activities of the laboratory : economic theory ; mathematical and instrumental methods of economics.

The lead scientist is Professor Jacques-Francois Thyss , a Belgian economist, an ordinary professor at the Center for Operations Research and Econometrics .

Scientific grant performers :

• Senior Researcher Evgeny Zhelobodko (1973-2013) [1] .
• Leading researcher Sergey Gelievich Kokovin [2] .
• Leading Researcher Christian Behrens [3] .
• Leading Researcher, General Director of ANO ICSER Leontief Center L.E. Lemons.
• Senior Researcher Matthew Parenti [4]
• Senior Researcher Philip A. Uschev [5]
• Head of the Laboratory Sergey Igorevich Kichko [6]

As associates, scientists from the Paris School of Economics, the Russian School of Economics (Moscow), the Institute of Mathematics of the SB RAS, as well as the Institute of Economics and Organization of Industrial Production of the SB RAS (Novosibirsk), the Institute of Energy Problems of the SB RAS (Russian Academy of Sciences Irkutsk), Leontief Center (St. Petersburg).

• Zhelobodko Evgeny, Sergey Kokovin, Mathieu Parenti, and Jacques-François Thisse. "Monopolistic Competition: Beyond the CES" ( Econometrica Magazine, 2012).
• Ken-Ichi Shimomura, Jacques-Francois Thisse. "Competition Among the Big and the Small" ( Rand Journal of Economics , 2012).
• Kristian Behrens, Alain Pholo-Bala. "Do rent-seeking and interregional transfers contribute to urban primacy in sub-Saharan Africa?" ( Papers in Regional Science , 2013).
• Alexander Sidorov, Evgeny Zhelobdoko. "International Trade and Agglomeration in Asymmetric World: Core-Periphery Approach" ( Review of Development Economics , 2013).
• Kristian Behrens, Grégory Corcos, Giordano Mion. "Trade crisis? What trade crisis?" ( Review of Economics and Statistics , 2013).
• Sergey Kichko, Sergey Kokovin, Evgeny Zhelobdoko. "Trade patterns and export pricing under non-CES preferences" ( Journal of International Economics , 2014).
• Francesco Di Comite, Jacques-Francois Thisse, Hylke Vandenbussche. "Verti-zontal differentiation in export markets" ( Journal of International Economics , 2014).
• Kristian Behrens, Gilles Duranton, Frederic Robert-Nicoud. "Productive cities: Agglomeration, selection and sorting" ( Journal of Political Economy , 2014).
• Kristian Behrens, Giordano Mion, Yasusada Murata and Jens Südekum. "Trade, wages, and productivity" ( International Economic Review , 2014).
• Kristian Behrens, Frederic Robert-Nicoud. "Survival of the filter in cities: urbanization and inequality" ( Economic Journal , 2014).
• Kristian Behrens, Yoshitsugu Kanemoto, and Yasusada Murata. "The Henry George Theorem in a second-best world" ( Journal of Urban Economics , 2015).
• Philip Ushchev, Igor Sloev, and Jacques-Francois Thisse. "Do we go shopping downtown or in the` burbs? " ( Journal of Urban Economics , 2015).
• Maxim Goryunov and Sergey Kokovin. "Vanishing Cities:" Can Urban Costs Explain Deindustrialization? "( Papers in Regional Science , 2015).

• Tiss, Jacques Francois .
• Higher School of Economics .

• Attraction of world-famous scientists . - September 22, 2011.
• Page on the website of the Laboratory for Market Theory and Spatial Economics of the Higher School of Economics . - 10.21.2011.
• Page on the official website of the Higher School of Economics . - 10.21.2011.
• The reputation of the university and the happiness of the scientist cost serious money . - 10/05/2011.
• Jacques-Francois Thyss: “You have to be there to act quickly . ” - 10/03/2011.
• World-famous scientists will work in St. Petersburg universities . - September 22, 2011.
• NRU HSE will open a market theory laboratory in St. Petersburg . - 10/03/2011.
• Y. Kuzminov: Triple the financing of transport infrastructure is the largest innovation of Strategy 2020 (inaccessible link) . - 10/03/2011.
• Is it good that Petersburg is not a metropolis? . - March 11, 2012.
• Econometrica . - March 30, 2012.