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Introduction
Trained as an economist, I am particularly interested in the impact of public decisions linked to regional planning and development. My approach is essentially quantitative, taking advantage of spatial micro-data freely (or easily) available online. I have a keen interest in developing methodologies appropriate to problem under consideration. I have worked on real estate data, assessment roll data and business location.
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June 2014 - present
August 2010 - May 2014
July 2014 - present
Education
September 2005 - December 2009
Univeristé Laval
Field of study
- Aménagement et développement
May 2001 - March 2003
September 1998 - May 2001
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Publications (148)
Rapid urbanization represents a major challenge for the preservation of urban canopy and green spaces in many cities. With urban growth, trees fall victim to new residential developments, significantly reducing short-term green cover. In the medium and long term, homeowners can influence the presence of tree cover by landscaping yards or planting t...
In light of climatic change and global warming, electricity transmission networks need to be developed for the integration of renewable sources. In North America and Europe, to achieve renewable electricity goals, massive investments in electricity transport infrastructure are planned to connect solar and wind generation sites to the grid network....
Purpose- This paper aims to estimate the price premium for a sea view on room rent in a Nordic context, i.e. where proximity to the sea is not valued for the presence of swimmable beaches and suntanning activities. The analysis also explores regional and seasonal variations in price premiums.
Design/methodology/approach- To do so, the study uses i...
Many empirical applications aim to isolate the impact of implementing new public transport on real estate uplift value. While their conclusions generally point to positive impact, due to reduction in transportation cost, the methodological framework to investigate uplift value has largely evolved over time. This paper reviews the different methodol...
Background
Prevention policies against type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) focus solely on individual healthy lifestyle behaviours, while an increasing body of research recognises the involvement of environmental determinants (ED) (cultural norms of land management and planning, local foodscape, built environment, pollution, and neighbourhood deprivati...
The aim of the paper is to investigate the impact of the extension of a metro line on the survival of individual firms. An empirical analysis focuses on the relation between proximity to new stations and firm survival following the announcement of the extension of the orange line of the metro in Montréal (Canada) between 1996 and 2016. To do so, a...
The aim of this paper is to study the impact of Walmart's entry on the survival of new and small retail businesses within non‐metropolitan areas in the province of Quebec. To do so, the study covers the years 1999–2007 and focuses on four non‐metropolitan cities. These include two Walmart entry cities, Rimouski and Salaberry‐de‐Valleyfield, and two...
En sciences régionales, plusieurs conclusions empiriques reposent sur des tests de significativité. La significativité des paramètres dans des modèles de régression revêt souvent une importance capitale pour les chercheurs. Or, le calcul des tests statistiques classiques (test-t ou test-F) repose sur un certain nombre d'hypothèses qui, si elles s'a...
Note éditoriale de la RCSR pour le 46(3) / Editorial Note of the CJRS for 46(3)
This research answers the following question: what are the main modal shift strategies discussed in the literature of the last 10 years? It also undertakes to analyze the impacts of each of the strategies present in the literature. It exposes a scoping review of the literature aiming to draw an up-to-date portrait of the literature on modal shift i...
Residential reconversion can foster density and change the structure of neighborhoods. It also upsets current residents when it affects or obstructs their original panorama. Many nearby homeowners argue that new construction of visually imposing residential buildings negatively affects the value of their house. The aim of this paper is to test such...
Background: Prevention policies of the risk of developing type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) focus solely on individual healthy lifestyle behaviours; while, an increasing number of research recognizes involvement of environmental determinants such as, cultural norms of land management and planning in urban or rural areas, local foodscape, built enviro...
Despite its impact on both sprawl and carbon emissions, developing or expanding highway infrastructure remains the object of strong political support. Highway access provides important advantages for firms and households, generating powerful incentives to develop new built areas through the conversion of vacant land. Based on the case study of the...
La Révolution du 14 Janvier 2011 et le printemps arabe qui s’en est suivi a eu des conséquences sur le développement économique en Tunisie. L’article s’intéresse à la distribution de l’emploi du secteur industriel en Tunisie à l’échelle de délégations sur la période 2003-2018. Il s’agit de mettre en évidence un potentiel retournement des disparités...
The aim of the paper is to propose a methodological framework to explore how urban planning policies, such as the construction of highways, and other major events, such as opening/closure of major plants, affect the spatial distribution of residential and economic activities within a specific location over time. To do so, the paper proposes to use...
The development of new social housing faces important resistance by local population, a phenomenon knows as the “not in my backyard” movement. One argument from residents to oppose such project is the idea that new construction will negatively impact property values. This is what this paper aims to investigate. The analysis is based on a complete r...
A fine spatial scale is essential to the widely applied omitted variable bias treatment of small-area-fixed-effects in Hedonic Pricing. However, amenity valuation is subsumed into the fixed-effects when amenities vary at a coarser spatial scale. To recover amenity valuation while retaining the treatment of spatial omitted variable bias, we derive a...
En sciences régionales, plusieurs conclusions empiriques reposent sur des tests de significativité. La significativité des paramètres dans des modèles de régression revêt souvent une importance capitale pour les chercheurs. Or, le calcul des tests statistiques classiques (test-t ou test-F) repose sur un certain nombre d’hypothèses qui, si elles s’a...
Bien qu'il soit admis qu'Internet a des effets importants sur la façon dont les régions se développent économiquement, les études restent partagées son impact réel. À l'aube d'un élargissement des politiques de connectivité, quels impacts la mise en place de l'Internet haute vitesse dans les territoires du Québec at -elle eu sur la création et la f...
Bien qu'il soit admis qu'Internet a des effets importants sur la façon dont les régions se développent économiquement, les études restent partagées son impact réel. À l'aube d'un élargissement des politiques de connectivité, quels impacts la mise en place de l'Internet haute vitesse dans les territoires du Québec at -elle eu sur la création et la f...
The aim of the paper is to investigate the impact of the extension of a metro line on real estate development. An empirical analysis focuses on the relationship between proximity to new stations and the number of new constructions, both commercial and residential, from the announcement of the project. A matching approach based on pre-project charac...
Cette recherche répond à la question suivante: quelles sont lesprincipalesstratégies de transfert modal discutées dans la littérature des 10 dernières années. Elle entreprend aussi d’analyser les impacts de chacune des stratégies présentes dans littérature. Elle présente une étude de la portée de la littérature visant à dresser un portrait à jour d...
This research answers the following question: what are the main modal shift strategies discussed in the literature of the last 10 years? It also undertakes to analyze the impacts of each of the strategies present in the literature. It presents a scoping review of the literature aiming to draw an up-to-date portrait of the abundant literature on mod...
Cette recherche répond à la question suivante: quelles sont lesprincipalesstratégies de transfert modal discutées dans la littérature des 10 dernières années. Elle entreprend aussi d’analyser les impacts de chacune des stratégies présentes dans littérature. Elle présente une étude de la portée de la littérature visant à dresser un portrait à jour d...
Noise has important consequences on health, and these impacts are internalized into real estate prices. From a landscape and public policy perspective, the construction of noise barriers appears to be an effective solution to reduce the impact of negative externalities. However, barriers also create local negative externalities for owners, such as...
We examine the effects of broadband on establishment births for five types of areas, six industries and two speed levels. Econometric results indicate that broadband has an overall positive effect in larger, medium and small urban centers and in periurban areas but has little or no impact in rural areas. However, industry‐level analyses show that b...
This article studies the spatial evolution of mergers and acquisitions (M&A) in Canada to investigate the path dependence process of corporate control geography. The analysis is based on network analysis and quadratic assignment procedure (QAP) regression models for transactions of more than C$5 million between 1994 and 2016. The results indicate t...
This paper aims to estimate and decompose the spatial and temporal effect of a flood event occurring in the city of Laval in 1998 using a hedonic pricing model (HPM) based on a difference-in-differences (DID) estimator. The empirical investigation of the impact of flood as a natural disaster must take into account the fact that the negotiation proc...
Depuis les années 2000, les microbrasseries et leurs produits ont connu un essor impressionnant. Si certains écrits se sont intéressés aux particularités des microbrasseries et de ses consommateurs, encore peu d’efforts ont été voués à explorer l’hypothèse selon laquelle cette industrie représente un vecteur de développement économique, mais aussi...
En sciences régionales, la notion de centre(s) revêt une importance capitale pour plusieurs modèles théoriques et cadres conceptuels. Les dynamiques urbaines et locales ont conduit à une multiplication des centres rendant le polycentrisme la norme dans la plupart des aires métropolitaines. Or, la localisation du centre (ou des centres) est souvent...
Many applications have relied on the hedonic pricing model (HPM) to measure the willingness-to-pay (WTP) for urban externalities and natural disasters. The classic HPM regresses housing price on a complete list of attributes/characteristics that include spatial or environmental amenities (or disamenities), such as floods, to retrieve the gradients...
La théorie hédonique stipule que les externalités sont internalisées dans le prix de vente des biens immobiliers. Pour la proximité aux autoroutes, le défi est de taille puisque ces infrastructures génèrent à la fois des effets positifs, une amélioration de l'accessibilité, mais également des effets négatifs, notamment sur la santé des individus. E...
L'objectif de cet article est de vérifier si les caractéristiques locales et/ou individuelles influencent la croissance de l'emploi des nouveaux établissements dans la région non métropolitaine du Bas-Saint-Laurent (BSL) au Québec. À partir des microdonnées de nouveaux établissements créés entre 2008 et 2014, des indicateurs de concentration spatia...
En géographie économique, les déterminants du développement économique favorisent souvent les grandes villes et agglomérations. Pour les plus petites villes, plusieurs études ont souligné l'importance des facteurs endogènes dans le développement et, par extension, le rôle de la territorialité. À ce jour, peu d'études statistiques ont formellement d...
L'actualité fait état d'un certain engouement pour le développement du transport en commun dans la région de Québec. Que ce soit par le projet d'implantation du tramway, du trambus, ou encore par la construction d'un troisième lien permettant de lier plus directement le secteur historique de la ville de Lévis. Bien que ces projets cherchent à augme...
For mass appraisal in real estate, the hedonic pricing method (HPM) tends to be most commonly used by academic researchers, while the comparable sales approach (CSA) is mostly preferred by professionals. This paper shows how CSA is a constrained version of a spatial autoregressive model, which can be implemented by simple matrix calculations. The C...
L’article propose d’explorer l’impact du choix de l’échelle spatiale ainsi que le choix de la période temporelle sur l’ampleur du coefficient d’hiérarchisation issue de la relation rang-taille (ou loi de Zipf). Pour ce faire, les données des recensements de la population du Bénin sont utilisées afin de définir trois unités géographiques distinctes...
L'allocation d'aides financières gouvernementales soulève toujours un certain débat. Est-ce que les aides financières ont un réel impact sur la performance des entreprises ? Cet article s'intéresse aux impacts de l'aide financière sur la performance des entreprises manufacturières en région non-métropolitaine (Bas-St-Laurent, Québec, Canada). La pe...
The Canadian Journal of Regional Science (CJRS) plays an important role in the regional science community in Canada and abroad. For more than four decades, it has been a valuable outlet among scholars for interdisciplinary research on regional and urban issues.
La Revue canadienne des sciences régionales (RCSR) joue un rôle important pour la comm...
L’article propose d’étudier les schémas spatiaux sectoriels de relocalisation des centres de décisions à partir d’une base de données renfermant l’ensemble des fusions et acquisitions (F&A) d'entreprises effectuées au Canada par des entreprises canadiennes entre 1994 et 2016. Les schémas spatiaux issus des liens entrants et sortants sont étudiés à...
The aim of this paper is to identify the impact of local characteristics, such as the relative concentration of economic activities, on new business location decisions based on their sectors of economic activity. Spatial establishment-level, micro-data, pooled over time (2008–2014) was used for a typical Canadian nonmetropolitan area—the Lower St....
The recent surge in populist movements sweeping many countries has brought into focus the issue of regional inequality. In this paper, we develop a panel dataset for Canada that includes information on 284 regions observed at 5-year intervals (from 1981 to 2011) and estimate a series of spatial econometric models to study the causes and consequence...
This work provides a long-term study of housing development in the Brest region (France). Its main objective is to test the efficiency of the French laws and of urban planning bylaws to control housing development in the coastal zone. Based on the yearly status of available plots, a panel longitudinal analysis (1968-2009) is developed. It combines...
volution et trajectoires de la géographie des activités de fusion et d'acquisition (F&A) : Une analyse des réseaux des villes canadiennes, Résumé Est-ce que les transferts de contrôle entrepreneurial ont renforcé le rôle des grandes villes dans le développement du pays et introduit une plus forte dépendance des villes de taille plus modeste ? Est-c...
This code is a simple example of how researchers can conduct falsification test, a method that recently become popular to investigate robustness
The smart cities are considered to be an engine of economic and social growth. Most countries started to convert their existing cities into smart cities or construct new smart cities in order to improve the quality of life of their inhabitants. However, the problem that facing those countries while applying the concept of smart cities is the costs,...
This paper develops a theoretical and methodological framework that integrates Hedonic Pricing (HP), grid comparable sales approach (CSA), and nearest neighbors into a general spatiotemporal specification. By explicitly providing a theoretical justification for introducing spatial (or spatiotemporal) econometrics to HP, this approach is not only re...
Près de quinze ans après son inauguration, le parc national des Pingualuit fait maintenant partie du paysage de la communauté de Kangiqsujuaq au Nunavik, au nord du Québec (Canada). Les études antérieures ont démontré des attentes élevées par rapport à l’implantation d’un tel parc dans la communauté, plus particulièrement en ce qui a trait aux impa...
Previous studies have attempted to measure the willingness-to-pay to locate inside a historic district. Yet not enough attention has been paid to the implicit value attributed to the impact of heritage policies within the historic district. This paper fills that gap by investigating the impact of such policies on individual condominium properties f...
Previous studies have attempted to measure the willingness-to-pay to locate inside a historic district. Yet not enough attention has been paid to the implicit value attributed to the impact of heritage policies within the historic district. This paper fills that gap by investigating the impact of such policies on individual condominium properties f...
Résumé
Cet article analyse l’impact des externalités spatiales et de la proximité géographique sur la capacité à résister aux chocs exogènes à partir d’une étude empirique de la survie d’entreprises individuelles dans la région du Bas-Saint-Laurent (Canada) entre 2006 et 2011. Bien que les externalités traditionnelles offrent de faibles preuves, n...
JEL codes: C10 C51 C54 R30 R40 A B S T R A C T Studies have already attempted to measure the impact of the development of a new bus rapid transit (BRT) route on real estate values. So far, results have proven to be generally positive, while the impact varies considerably among cities. One of the reasons explaining such heterogeneity is based on the...
People are exposed to chlorinated by-products (CBPs) through the consumption of cold tap water (CTW) (ingestion, inhalation, dermal contact) but also through the use of hot tap water (HTW) in such activities as showering and bathing (inhalation, dermal contact). This study focuses on the impact of residential water heating on CBP levels in tap wate...
This paper develops a comprehensive methodological framework demonstrating that hedonic pricing (HP), comparable sales and nearest neighbours are (constrained) versions of a general spatiotemporal hedonic specification. We meticulously account for existing real estate professional practice, illustrating that it complies with theoretical imperatives...
This paper tests for the presence of the modifiable areal unit problem on a bunch of local spatial indicators calculated using micro-data of 2011 on employments per establishment in the province of Quebec. From the localization of the ports of the province, the application first constructs the indicators selected by making a bunch of spatial delimi...
This paper proposes to develop a two-step model based on administrative (spatial) micro-data to identify the determinants that makes residential transactions resulting in demolition and reconversion. A logistic model is estimated and serves as a major input to build land use maps to identify where such pattern is more likely to occur in future. The...
Recent methodological developments provide a way to incorporate the temporal dimension, when accounting for spatial effects in hedonic pricing. Weight matrices should decompose the spatial effects into two distinct components: i) bidirectional contemporaneous spatial connections; ii) and unidirectional spatio-temporal effects from past transactions...
Empirical applications using individual spatial data pooled over time usually neglect the fact that such data are not only spatially localized: they are also collected over time, i.e. temporally localized. So far, little effort has been devoted to proposing a global way for dealing with spatial data (cross-section) pooled over time, such as real es...
It is now almost impossible to deal with spatial data without considering some explicit specification that captures possible spatial effects. One valuable feature of spatial econometrics models is their decomposition of marginal effects into spatial spillover effect and spatial externalities. Progress in interpreting spatial econometrics models has...
The application of hedonic pricing models has a long history in estimating the externalities associated with urban infrastructure, such as public transportation. However, results accuracy crucially depends on methodological and empirical considerations such as: i) presence of spatial latent component (spatial autocorrelation); ii) temporal breaks r...
Does new residential development cause new commercial development, or does the inverse hold true? Are residential and commercial developments dependent on each other? This paper investigates the causal links between residential and commercial development for a given city. Using information on assessment roles, a backward construction of the city of...
Herbarium specimens can be used to reconstruct spatiotemporal changes in plant morphology caused by environmental pressures. The reliability of herbarium-derived data requires evaluation, because specimen collection is subject to biases. We used herbarium and field data to investigate the impact of large herbivore browsing on the size of a forb. Wh...
Herbarium specimens can be used to reconstruct spatiotemporal changes in plant morphology caused by environmental pressures. The reliability of herbarium-derived data requires evaluation, because specimen collection is subject to biases. We used herbarium and field data to investigate the impact of large herbivore browsing on the size of a forb. Wh...
Recent studies have shown that urban vegetation is unevenly distributed across numerous North American cities: neighbourhoods predominantly inhabited by low-income populations and/or by certain ethnic groups have less vegetation cover. The goal of this paper is to examine the existence of environmental inequities related to access to urban vegetati...
Faits saillants
L'incidence de la taille initiale de la ville sur la croissance se manifeste de façon indirecte par l'intermédiaire d'autres variables.
La décroissance / croissance est principalement associée, respectivement, au degré de spécialisation dans les industries de première transformation et au taux d'emploi, un indicateur de la vigueur d...
This paper draws on location theories to statistically identify the relationship between the location of individual business establishments and the characterization of their local economic environment. Taking a micro-spatial perspective, the paper develops indicators from distance-based measures (DBM) to serve as independent variables in a discrete...
This paper draws on location theories to statistically identify the relationship between the location of individual business establishments and the characterization of their local economic environment. Taking a microspatial perspective, the paper develops indicators from distance-based measures (DBM) to serve as independent variables in a discrete...
Relationships between past events, future expectations and present decisions, typically examined through a temporal prism within applied economics, have been lately moving to the spatial dimension through spatial econometrics. However, violations of the "arrow of time", and thus causality, have been identified in spatial econometric techniques appl...
This paper draws on location theories to statistically identify the relationship between the location of individual business establishments and the characterization of their local economic environment. Taking a micro-spatial perspective, the paper develops indicators from distance-based measures (DBM) to serve as independent variables in a discrete...
Real estate transactions data usually consist of a collection, over time, of spatial layers of individual transactions. Despite the presence of a temporal dimension, it is not uncommon for these data to be analyzed using a strictly spatial approach. In this paper, we assess the impact of the temporal omission on spatial statistics (Moran's I and au...
There exists an important methodological challenge when dealing with sale price and time-on-the-market variables because both variables are simultaneously determined and related to the motivation of the sellers and buyers. Exploiting the fact that transactions occur over space and time, we propose a two-stage approach based on instrumental variable...
The article assesses the impact of the Great Recession on 83 Canadian regions, focussing on the unemployment rate as principal
indicator. A dual empirical approach is used: examination of regional unemployment rate variations before, during and after
the recession using a labour supply and demand framework; examination of the determinants of region...
Understanding the drivers of exotic plant invasions along waterways is crucial for helping environmental managers devise effective control strategies. We combined a field survey, molecular data and a logistic regression model to further our understanding of the spatial distribution of Japanese (Fallopia japonica) and bohemian (Fallopia × bohemica)...
Understanding the drivers of exotic plant invasions along waterways is crucial for helping environmental managers devise effective control strategies. We combined a field survey, molecular data and a logistic regression model to further our understanding of the spatial distribution of Japanese (Fallopia japonica) and Bohemian (Fallopia × bohemica)...
Viewing the 2007-2009 recession as an exogenous shock, the paper proposes an assessment of the ‘resilience’ of 83 Canadian regions using four standard metrics: population; employment; unemployment and employment rates. For each metric, regions are evaluated on three posited dimensions of ‘resilience’: resistance; rebound; recuperation. The results...
The spatial autocorrelation issue is now well established, and it is almost impossible to deal with spatial data without considering this reality. In addition, recent developments have been devoted to developing methods that deal with spatial autocorrelation in panel data. However, little effort has been devoted to dealing with spatial data (cross-...
This study aims at testing whether, and to what extent, chain affiliation within regional and super-regional shopping centers affects store rent levels. The rent impact of chain affiliation is assessed in interaction with store prestige. The research rests on a database of 1,367 retail leases running over the 2000-2003 period in eleven regional and...
There exists an important methodological challenge when dealing with sale price and time-on-the-market variables because both variables are simultaneously determined and related to the motivation of the sellers and buyers. Exploiting the fact that transactions occur over space and time, we propose a two-stage approach based on instrumental variable...
This book provides an introduction to spatial analyses concerning disaggregated (or micro) spatial data.
Particular emphasis is put on spatial data compilation and the structuring of the connections between the observations. Descriptive analysis methods of spatial data are presented in order to identify and measure the spatial, global and local dep...
