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Pierre-Philippe Combes

Pierre-Philippe Combes

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Economics and Finance

D-Index
38
Citations
12190
World Ranking
2474
National Ranking
61

Overview

Pierre-Philippe Combes is affiliated with Sciences Po in France and has contributed extensively to the fields of economics, econometrics, social sciences, and urban studies. Their research spans a range of topics focused primarily on regional economics, housing markets, and urban development challenges.

Their notable recent papers include:

  • The Production Function for Housing: Evidence from France (2021), published in the Journal of Political Economy
  • Urban Economics in a Historical Perspective: Recovering Data with Machine Learning (2021), published in SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Peer Effects in Academic Research: Senders and Receivers (2022), published in The Economic Journal
  • Housing Costs and Real Income Differences Across Chinese Cities (2024), published in SSRN Electronic Journal
  • Housing Costs and Real Income Differences Across Chinese Cities (2025), published in Journal of Development Economics

Frequent co-authors working with Combes include:

  • Laurent Gobillon
  • Shohei Nakamura
  • Mark Roberts
  • Benjamin Stewart
  • Clément Bosquet

Their work appears across several publication venues with notable contributions to:

  • SSRN Electronic Journal (4 publications)
  • Regional Science and Urban Economics (2 publications)
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (2 publications)
  • Journal of Political Economy (1 publication)
  • The Economic Journal (1 publication)

Combes has authored books published through World Bank outlets, including:

  • An Anatomy of Urbanization in Sub-Saharan Africa (2023), released as a World Bank policy research working paper
  • Estimating Urban Poverty Consistently Across Countries (2022), published by Washington, DC: World Bank eBooks

Their research broadly concentrates in the fields of:

  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance
  • Social Sciences

Within these fields, the research covers subfields including:

  • Economics and Econometrics
  • Sociology and Political Science
  • Political Science and International Relations
  • Urban Studies
  • Transportation

Main topics addressed in their scientific work include:

  • Regional Economics and Spatial Analysis
  • Housing Market and Economics
  • Fiscal Policy and Economic Growth
  • Regional Development and Policy
  • Urban and Rural Development Challenges
  • Economic Growth and Productivity
  • Urban Transport and Accessibility

Best Publications

  • Spatial wage disparities: Sorting matters!

    Pierre-Philippe Combes;Gilles Duranton;Laurent Gobillon

  • THE PRODUCTIVITY ADVANTAGES OF LARGE CITIES: DISTINGUISHING AGGLOMERATION FROM FIRM SELECTION

    Pierre-Philippe Combes;Gilles Duranton;Laurent Gobillon;Diego Puga

  • Economic Geography: The Integration of Regions and Nations

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

  • Economic Structure and Local Growth: France, 1984–1993

    Pierre-Philippe Combes

  • The Trade Creating Effects of Business and Social Networks: Evidence from France

    Pierre-Philippe Combes;Miren Lafourcade;Thierry Mayer

  • The Empirics of Agglomeration Economies

    Pierre-Philippe Combes;Pierre-Philippe Combes;Pierre-Philippe Combes;Laurent Gobillon

  • The Spatial Distribution of Economic Activities in the European Union

    Pierre-Philippe Combes;Henry G. Overman

  • ESTIMATING AGGLOMERATION ECONOMIES WITH HISTORY, GEOLOGY, AND WORKER EFFECTS

    Pierre-Philippe Combes;Gilles Duranton;Laurent Gobillon;Laurent Gobillon;Sébastien Roux

  • Labour Pooling, Labour Poaching, and Spatial Clustering

    Pierre-Philippe Combes;Gilles Duranton;Gilles Duranton

  • Dots to boxes: Do the size and shape of spatial units jeopardize economic geography estimations?

    Anthony Briant;Pierre-Philippe Combes;Miren Lafourcade;Miren Lafourcade

  • The Identification of Agglomeration Economies

    Pierre-Philippe Combes;Gilles Duranton;Laurent Gobillon

  • Transport Costs: Measures, Determinants and Regional Policy Implications for France

    Miren Lafourcade;Pierre-Philippe Combes

  • Transport costs: measures, determinants, and regional policy implications for France

    Pierre-Philippe Combes;Miren Lafourcade

  • The rise and fall of spatial inequalities in France: A long-run perspective ☆

    Pierre-Philippe Combes;Pierre-Philippe Combes;Pierre-Philippe Combes;Miren Lafourcade;Miren Lafourcade;Jacques-François Thisse;Jacques-François Thisse;Jacques-François Thisse;Jean-Claude Toutain

  • Economic Geography

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  • The dynamics of local employment in France

    Pierre-Philippe Combes;Thierry Magnac;Jean-Marc Robin;Jean-Marc Robin

  • The trade-creating effects of business and social networks: evidence from France

    Pierre-Philippe Combes;Miren Lafourcade;Thierry Mayer

  • Where Are the Economists Who Publish? Publication Concentration and Rankings in Europe Based on Cumulative Publications

    Pierre-Philippe Combes;Laurent Linnemer

  • The Costs of Agglomeration: House and Land Prices in French Cities

    Pierre-Philippe Combes;Gilles Duranton;Laurent Gobillon

  • The Costs of Agglomeration: House and Land Prices in French Cities

    Pierre-Philippe Combes;Gilles Duranton;Laurent Gobillon

  • Agglomeration and the adjustment of the spatial economy

    Pierre-Philippe Combes;Gilles Duranton;Henry G Overman

  • Agglomeration and the adjustment of the spatial economy

    Pierre Philippe Combes;Gilles Duranton;Henry G. Overman

  • Sorting and local wage and skill distributions in France

    Pierre-Philippe Combes;Gilles Duranton;Laurent Gobillon;Sébastien Roux

  • Publish or peer-rich ? The role of skills and networks in hiring economics professors

    Pierre-Philippe Combes;Laurent Linnemer;Michael Visser

  • Inferring Missing Citations: A Quantitative Multi-Criteria Ranking of all Journals in Economics

    Pierre-Philippe Combes;Laurent Linnemer

Frequent Co-Authors

Gilles Duranton
Gilles Duranton University of Pennsylvania
Jacques-François Thisse
Jacques-François Thisse Université Catholique de Louvain
Thierry Mayer
Thierry Mayer Sciences Po
Henry G. Overman
Henry G. Overman London School of Economics and Political Science
Jean-Marc Robin
Jean-Marc Robin Sciences Po
Diego Puga
Diego Puga Centro de Estudios Monetarios y Financieros
Stephen J. Burns
Stephen J. Burns University of Massachusetts Amherst
Bruno Jullien
Bruno Jullien Toulouse School of Economics

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