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The Crisis and Regional Resilience in Europe : On the Importance of Urbanization and Specialization

Brakman, Steven - 2015

Using a rich data set on the EU regions, we analyze the relevance of two possible determinants of a region's resilience to shocks, the degree of urbanization and specialization. We take the Great Recession, the economic and financial crisis that started in 2008, as our shock and then analyze how...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013033744

Relaxing Hukou - Increased Labor Mobility and China’s Economic Geography

Bosker, Maarten; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; … - CESifo - 2010

China’s Hukou system poses severe restrictions on labor mobility. This paper assesses the consequences of relaxing these restrictions for China’s internal economic geography. We base our analysis on a new economic geography model. First, we obtain estimates of the important model parameters...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008799736

Smart Cities are Big Cities - Comparative Advantage in Chinese Cities

Hu, Shiwei; Brakman, Steven; Marrewijk, Charles van - CESifo - 2014

The literature on China indicates that the concentration of economic activities in China is less than in other industrialized countries. Institutional limits are largely held responsible for this finding (e.g. the Hukou system); firms and workers are not able to take full advantage of the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010948875

The Crisis and Regional Resilience in Europe: On the Importance of Urbanization and Specialization

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Marrewijk, Charles van - CESifo - 2014

Using a rich data set on the EU regions, we analyze the relevance of two possible determinants of a region’s resilience to shocks, the degree of urbanization and specialization. We take the Great Recession, the economic and financial crisis that started in 2008, as our shock and then analyze...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010756164

Smart Cities are Big Cities -- Comparative Advantage in Chinese Cities

Hu, Shiwei - 2014

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013044595

Resilience, Supply Chains and the Great Recession

Brakman, Steven - 2017

using gross-export data. Regarding value added measures we find, in general, no effect. Only if we separate out Europe do we … find that the trough in Europe occurs about 0.17 years later and the recovery (for the countries that have recovered) about … 1.55 years later. Moreover, the duration of the decline in Europe is about 4 months longer and of the recovery about 17 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012953709

Relaxing Hukou - Increased Labor Mobility and China's Economic Geography

Bosker, Erik Maarten - 2010

China's Hukou system poses severe restrictions on labor mobility. This paper assesses the consequences of relaxing these restrictions for China's internal economic geography. We base our analysis on a new economic geography model. First, we obtain estimates of the important model parameters on...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135264

Adding Geography to the New Economic Geography

Bosker, Maarten; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; … - CESifo - 2007

For reasons of analytical tractability, new economic geography (NEG) models treat geography in a very simple way: attention is either confined to a simple 2-region or to an equidistant multi-region world. As a result, the main predictions regarding the impact of e.g. diminishing trade costs are...

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A Century of Shocks: The Evolution of the German City Size Distribution 1925 – 1999

Bosker, Maarten; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; … - CESifo - 2006

The empirical literature on city size distributions has mainly focused on the USA. The first major contribution of this paper is to provide empirical evidence on the evolution and structure of the West-German city size distribution. Using a unique annual data set that covers most of the 20th...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005094396

The Development of Cities in Italy 1300 – 1861

Bosker, Maarten; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; … - CESifo - 2007

The evolution of city growth is usually studied for relatively short time periods. The rise and decline of cities is, however, typically a process that takes many decades or even centuries. In this paper we study the evolution of Italian cities over the period 1300-1861. The first contribution...

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