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Jacques-François Thisse

Jacques-François Thisse

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Economics and Finance
Belgium
2026

D-Index & Metrics

Economics and Finance

D-Index
94
Citations
50516
World Ranking
141
National Ranking
1

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2026 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2025 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2024 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2023 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Belgium Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Economics and Finance in Belgium Leader Award
  • 1992 - Fellows of the Econometric Society
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association
  • Elected Fellow of the European Economic Association

Overview

Jacques-François Thisse is affiliated with the Université Catholique de Louvain in Belgium. Their research primarily explores topics within Economics, Econometrics, and Finance, with a strong emphasis on regional economics and spatial analysis.

Their work spans several subfields, including Economics and Econometrics, General Economics, Econometrics and Finance, Transportation, Sociology and Political Science, and Finance. The main topics covered by their publications include:

  • Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
  • Housing Market and Economics
  • Spatial and Panel Data Analysis
  • Energy, Environment, Economic Growth
  • Regional Economic and Spatial Analysis
  • Digital Economy and Work Transformation
  • Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism

Thisse has authored numerous papers across several publication venues. Among the most frequent are:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Journal of Urban Economics
  • Regional Science and Urban Economics
  • Environmental and Resource Economics
  • Journal of Economic Geography

Their recent papers illustrate the focus on labor markets, teleworking, environmental economics, and connectivity in economic geography. Selected recent papers include:

  • "Working from Home: Too Much of a Good Thing?" (2021, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • "How the Rise of Teleworking Will Reshape Labor Markets and Cities" (2022, SSRN Electronic Journal)
  • "Working from home: Too much of a good thing?" (2024, Regional Science and Urban Economics)
  • "When is Environmentalism Good for the Environment?" (2022, Environmental and Resource Economics)
  • "To be connected or not to be connected? The role of long-haul economies" (2021, Journal of Economic Geography)

Frequent collaborators include:

  • Kristian Behrens
  • Sergey Kichko
  • Sergei Kichko
  • Marco A. Marini
  • Ornella Tarola

Throughout their career, Thisse has been recognized by multiple academic societies, including election as a Fellow of the Econometric Society in 1992 and election as a Fellow of the European Economic Association.

Best Publications

  • Economics of Agglomeration

    Masahisa Fujita;Masahisa Fujita;Jacques-François Thisse;Jacques-François Thisse

  • Discrete Choice Theory of Product Differentiation

    Simon P. Anderson;André De Palma;Jacques François Thisse

  • Economics of Agglomeration: Cities, Industrial Location, and Globalization

    Masahisa Fujita;Jacques-François Thisse

  • On hotelling's "Stability in competition"

    Claude d'Aspremont-Lynden;Jean Jaskold Gabszewicz;Jacques-François Thisse

  • Economics of Agglomeration: Cities, Industrial Location, and Regional Growth

    Masahisa Fujita;Jacques-Francois Thisse

  • Agglomeration and Trade Revisited

    Gianmarco Ottaviano;Takatoshi Tabuchi;Jacques-François Thisse

  • Price competition, quality and income disparities

    Jean Jaskold Gabszewicz;Jacques-François Thisse

  • Why is central Paris rich and downtown Detroit poor?: An amenity-based theory

    Jan K. Brueckner;Jacques François Thisse;Jacques François Thisse;Yves Zenou;Yves Zenou

  • Discrete choice theory of product differentiation

    Simon P Anderson;Jacques-François Thisse;André De Palma

  • Economic Geography: The Integration of Regions and Nations

    Pierre-Philippe Combes;Thierry Mayer;Thierry Mayer;Thierry Mayer;Jacques François Thisse

  • Economics of agglomeration

    Masahisa Fujita;Masahisa Fujita;Jacques-François Thisse;Jacques-François Thisse

  • On the Strategic Choice of Spatial Price Policy

    Jacques-François Thisse;X. Vives

  • Agglomeration and economic geography

    Gianmarco Ottaviano;Jacques-François Thisse;Jacques-François Thisse

  • Patent breadth, patent life, and the pace of technological progress

    Ted O'Donoghue;Suzanne Scotchmer;Jacques Thisse

  • The Economics of Agglomeration

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  • The Principle of Minimum Differentiation Holds Under Sufficient Heterogeneity

    A. Depalma;Victor Ginsburgh;Yy. Papageorgiou;Jacques-François Thisse

  • Competition in Multi-characteristics Spaces: Hotelling Was Almost Right

    Andreas Irmen;Jacques-François Thisse;Jacques-François Thisse

  • Entry (and exit) in a differentiated industry

    Jean J. Gabszewicz;Jacques-François Thisse

  • Competitive Location Models: A Framework and Bibliography

    H.A. Eiselt;Gilbert Laporte;Jacques-François Thisse

  • Monopolistic competition beyond the constant elasticity of substitution

    Evgeny Zhelobodko;Sergey Kokovin;Mathieu Parenti;Jacques-François Thisse

  • Does geographical agglomeration foster economic growth? And who gains and loses from it?

    Masahisa Fujita;Jacques‐François Thisse

  • Applied Industrial Economics: Spatial pricing schemes

    Jacques-François Thisse;Xavier Vives

Frequent Co-Authors

Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano
Gianmarco I.P. Ottaviano Bocconi University
Masahisa Fujita
Masahisa Fujita Kyoto University
Pierre Hansen
Pierre Hansen HEC Montréal
Yves Zenou
Yves Zenou Monash University
Takatoshi Tabuchi
Takatoshi Tabuchi Chuo University
Jean Jaskold Gabszewicz
Jean Jaskold Gabszewicz Université Catholique de Louvain
Simon P. Anderson
Simon P. Anderson University of Virginia
Martine Labbé
Martine Labbé Université Libre de Bruxelles
Victor Ginsburgh
Victor Ginsburgh Université Libre de Bruxelles

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