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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; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 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...

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

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

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Relaxing Hukou: Increased labor mobility and China’s economic geography

Bosker, Maarten; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; … - In: Journal of Urban Economics 72 (2012) 2, pp. 252-266

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

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010608588

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...

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Looking for multiple equilibria when geography matters : German city growth and the WWII shock

Bosker, E. Maarten; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; … - 2005

Many modern trade and growth models are characterized by multiple equilibria. In theory the analysis of multiple equilibria is possible, but in practice it is difficult to test for the presence of multiple equilibria. Based on the methodology developed by Davis and Weinstein (2004) for the case...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271819

Relaxing Hukou: Increased labor mobility and China's economic geography

Bosker, Maarten; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; … - 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/10010274934

Resilience, Supply Chains and the Great Recession

Brakman, Steven; van Marrewijk, Charles - 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 …

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What's in a Name? Initial Geography and German Urban Development

Nguyen, Duc A.; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; … - 2023

Place names, or toponyms, provide insight into the initial geographical characteristics of settlements. We present a unique dataset of 3,705 German toponyms that includes the date of the first historical record mentioning the settlement and the date it was granted city rights. We show that the...

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

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; van Marrewijk, Charles - 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/10010352435