[1] In 2016, Zenou joined Monash University as a professor and was appointed the Richard Snape Chair in Business and Economics.
Using an amenity-based theory, Zenou and his co-authors showed that the location of different income groups is related to the spatial pattern of amenities (such as restaurants, theatres, parks, etc.)
Sato also states that "the book provides a framework for further empirical tests of hypotheses concerning the urban labor market.
"[7] Rouwendal and Ommeren called the book "competently written" and "compulsory reading for anyone in Urban Land Economics".
[8] While reviewing the book in the Journal of Economic Geography, Duranton calls it "a lone star in the literature" and "a demanding read".
About the content written in the book, Duranton states that "The first two appendices about the monocentric model and dynamic optimization are remarkable.
In this paper, Zenou and his co-authors demonstrate that, for a class of linear-quadratic utility functions, at any Nash equilibrium, the action of each agent corresponds to their Katz-Bonacich centrality—a well-known centrality measure in sociology.
This seminal paper is the first to introduce the concepts of network centrality (Katz-Bonacich) and targeting (key players) in economics.
In 2009, Zenou, along with Calvo-Armengol and Patacchini, published an article titled "Peer Effects and Social Networks in Education."
It revealed that being more central in a network positively impacts students' grades due to the complementarity of study efforts among peers in the same classroom.
They found that, contrary to the predictions of the LIM model, agents in most activities do not focus solely on the average behavior of their peers.