Brakman, Steven, Garretsen, Harry, Schramm, Marc
Based on a new economic geography model by Puga (1999), we use the equilibrium wage equation to estimate two key structural model parameters for the NUTS II EU regions. The estimation of these...
Corporate control mechanisms, voting and cash flow rights, and the performance of Dutch firms (2003)
Chirinko, Robert, Garretsen, Harry, Sterken, Elmer
This paper exploits several unique institutional features in the Dutch system of corporate control to examine the relations among investor protections, concentrated ownership, and firm performance....
The strategic bombing of German cities during World War II and its impact on city growth (2002)
Brakman, Steven, Garretsen, Harry, Schramm, Marc
It is a stylized fact that city size distributions are rather stable over time. Explanations for city growth and the resulting city-size distributions fall into two broad groups. On the one hand...
Locational competition and agglomeration: the role of government spending (2002)
Brakman, Steven, Garretsen, Harry, Marrewijk, Charles Van
With the completion of EMU, tax competition and, more in general, locational competition is high on the EU policy agenda. In contrast to the standard neo-classical reasoning, recent advances in the...
Locational competition and agglomeration: the role of government spending (2002)
Brakman, Steven, Garretsen, Harry, Marrewijk, Charles Van
With the completion of EMU, tax competition and, more in general, locational competition is high on the EU policy agenda. In contrast to the standard neo-classical reasoning, recent advances in the...
Growth, financial development, societal norms and legal institutions (2002)
Garretsen, Harry, Lensink, Robert, Sterken, Elmer
This paper analyses whether societal norms help to explain cross-country differences in financial development. We analyze whether societal norms in addition to legal institutions have an impact on...
New economic geography in Germany: testing the Helpman-Hanson model (2001)
Brakman, Steven, Garretsen, Harry, Schramm, Marc
In this paper we find evidence that the new economic geography approach is able to describe and explain the spatial characteristics of an economy, in our case the German economy. Using German...
Development of stock markets, societal norms and legal institutions (2000)
Garretsen, Harry, Lensink, Robert, Sterken, Elmer
We explain the development of stock markets by both legal and societal determinants and analyze the relevance of both determinants in the Levine-Zervos (1998) cross-sectional growth regressions. We...
Liquidity constraints and investment in transition economies : the case of Bulgaria (1999)
Budina, Nina, Garretsen, Harry, Jong, Eelke De
We use Bulgarian firm level data to investigate the impact of liquidity constraints on investment performance. Internal funds are an important determinant of investment in most industrialized...
Brakman, Steven, Garretsen, Harry, Schramm, Marc
In the paper we analyse, ten years after the German unification, the relevance of modern theoretical developments on trade, location and growth for East Germany using sectoral and regional data....
Beyond the invisible hand: how to extend keynes'analysis of the coordination problem. (1991)
In deze studie ligt de nadruk op de theoretische aspecten van The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money van John Maynard Keynes (Keynes (1936), hierna GT) en in het bijzonder op de...
Liquidity constraints and investment in transition economies - the case of Bulgaria
Budina, Nina, Garretsen, Harry, De Jong, Elke
The authors use firm level data on Bulgaria to investigate the impact of liquidity constraints on firms'investment performance. Internal funds are a important determinant of investment in most...
Putting New Economic Geography to the Test: Free-ness of Trade and Agglomeration in the EU Regions
Steven Brakman, Harry Garretsen, Marc Schramm
Based on a new economic geography (NEG) model by Puga (1999), we use the equilibrium wage equation to estimate two key structural model parameters for the NUTS II EU regions. These estimations enable...
Transatlantic Monetary and Fiscal Policy Interaction
Bas Van Aarle, Harry Garretsen, Florence Huart
This paper studies the design, effects and interactions of monetary and fiscal policies in the euro-area and between the euro-area and the non euro-area. To do so, a stylized three-country model of...
On the Contribution of New Keynesian Economics
In this paper we consider whether New Keynesian economics provides a meaningful framework for the analysis of the coordination problem in economic society. At this stage the New Keynesian...
Brakman, Steven, Garretsen, Harry, Schramm, Marc
In the paper we analyse, ten years after the German unification, the relevance of modern theoretical developments on trade, location and growth for East Germany using sectoral and regional data....
Liquidity constraints and investment in transition economies : the case of Bulgaria
Budina, Nina, Garretsen, Harry, Jong, Eelke De
We use Bulgarian firm level data to investigate the impact of liquidity constraints on investment performance. Internal funds are an important determinant of investment in most industrialized...
Keynesian, Non-Keynesian or No Effects of Fiscal Policy Changes? The EMU Case
Bas Van Aarle, Harry Garretsen
This paper studies the experiences with fiscal adjustments in the European Union (EU) countries during the transition period to the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU). Using several approaches...
Geography Rules Too! Economic Development and the Geography of Institutions
Maarten Bosker, Harry Garretsen
To explain cross-country income differences, research has recently focused on the so-called deep determinants of economic development, notably institutions and geography. This paper sheds a different...
Capital Mobility, Agglomeration and Corporate Tax Rates: Is the Race to the Bottom for Real?
Harry Garretsen, Jolanda Peeters
Based on a data set for 19 OECD countries for the period 1981-2001, we estimate the impact of capital mobility (FDI) on corporate tax rates. So far the literature has been concerned with the related...
Rethinking the "New' Geographical Economics
Steven Brakman, Harry Garretsen
B RAKMAN S. and G ARRETSEN H. (2003) Rethinking the "new' geographical economics, Reg. Studies 37 , 637-648. Mainstream economics and geography have largely developed separately. With some notable...
Steven Brakman, Harry Garretsen, Charles Van Marrewijk
A key issue in development economics is the explanation of core-periphery patterns around the world. Combining this issue with that of analyzing unilateral transfers (e.g. foreign aid) points in the...
A Century of Shocks: The Evolution of the German City Size Distribution 1925 – 1999
Maarten Bosker, Steven Brakman, Harry Garretsen, Marc Schramm
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...
The Development of Cities in Italy 1300 – 1861
Maarten Bosker, Steven Brakman, Harry Garretsen, Herman De Jong, Marc Schramm
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...
Cross-Border Mergers & Acquisitions: The Facts as a Guide for International Economics
Steven Brakman, Harry Garretsen, Charles Van Marrewijk
Using a detailed and large data set on cross-border merger and acquisitions we discuss the relationship between theory and observed empirical characteristics: (i) most FDI is in the form of M&As,...
Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions: On Revealed Comparative Advantage and Merger Waves
Steven Brakman, Harry Garretsen, Charles Van Marrewijk
By combining two large data sets (on international trade flows and on mergers and acquisitions - M&As), we are able to test two implications of Neary’s (2003, 2004a) recent theoretical work....
Looking for Multiple Equilibria when Geography Matters: German City Growth and the WWII Shock
Maarten Bosker, Steven Brakman, Harry Garretsen, Marc Schramm
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...
Maarten Bosker, Harry Garretsen
Trade costs are a crucial in new economic geography (NEG) models. The unavailability of actual trade costs data requires the approximation of trade costs. Most NEG studies do not deal with the...
The Spatial Distribution of Wages: Estimating the Helpman-Hanson Model for Germany
Steven Brakman, Harry Garretsen, Marc Schramm
Using German district data we estimate the structural parameters of a new economic geography model as developed by Helpman (1998) and Hanson (1998, 2001a). The advantage of the Helpman-Hanson model...
Ports, plagues and politics: explaining Italian city growth 1300?1861
BOSKER, MAARTEN, BRAKMAN, STEVEN, GARRETSEN, HARRY, DE JONG, HERMAN, SCHRAMM, MARC
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...
New economic geography in Germany: testing the Helpman-Hanson model
Brakman, Steven, Garretsen, Harry, Schramm, Marc
In this paper we find evidence that the new economic geography approach is able to describe and explain the spatial characteristics of an economy, in our case the German economy. Using German...
Development of stock markets, societal norms and legal institutions
Garretsen, Harry, Lensink, Robert, Sterken, Elmer
We explain the development of stock markets by both legal and societal determinants and analyze the relevance of both determinants in the Levine-Zervos (1998) cross-sectional growth regressions. We...
Growth, financial development, societal norms and legal institutions
Garretsen, Harry, Lensink, Robert, Sterken, Elmer
This paper analyses whether societal norms help to explain cross-country differences in financial development. We analyze whether societal norms in addition to legal institutions have an impact on...
Corporate control mechanisms, voting and cash flow rights, and the performance of Dutch firms
Chirinko, Robert, Garretsen, Harry, Sterken, Elmer
This paper exploits several unique institutional features in the Dutch system of corporate control to examine the relations among investor protections, concentrated ownership, and firm performance....
Putting new economic geography to the test: free-ness of trade and agglomeration in the EU regions
Brakman, Steven, Garretsen, Harry, Schramm, Marc
Based on a new economic geography model by Puga (1999), we use the equilibrium wage equation to estimate two key structural model parameters for the NUTS II EU regions. The estimation of these...
FDI and the Relevance of Spatial Linkages: do third country effects matter for Dutch FDI?
Harry Garretsen, Jolanda Peeters
The aim of this paper is to test for the relevance of spatial linkages for Dutch (outbound) FDI. To do so, and based on recent FDI theories, we estimate a spatial lag model to assess the importance...
Cross-border Mergers and Acquisitions
Steven Brakman, Harry Garretsen, Charles Van Marrewijk
By combining two large data sets (on international trade flows and cross-border mergers and acquisitions – M&As), we test two implications of Neary’s (2003, 2007) general oligopolistic...
Steven Brakman, Harry Garretsen, Marc Schramm
In this paper we want to shed some light on the empirical relevance of the new economic geography. Using one of the central features of the core new economic geography models, namely that wages have...
Globalisation, Wages and Unemployment: An Economic Geography Perspective
Peeters, Jolanda, Garretsen, Harry
This paper is about the impact of globalisation on (low-skilled) labour. We build a new economic geography model i n which two types of labour (low and high-skilled) are distinguished and in which,...
Firm Performance, Financial Institutions and Corporate Governance in the Netherlands
Chirinko, Bob, Ees, Hans Van, Garretsen, Harry, Sterken, Elmer
This paper analyses the impact of share ownership, creditorship and networking by financial institutions on the performance of 94 Dutch non-financial firms in the period 1992-1996. We find a...
Adding Geography to the New Economic Geography
Maarten Bosker, Steven Brakman, Harry Garretsen, Marc Schramm
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...
On the Contribution of New Keynesian Economics
In this paper we consider whether New Keynesian economics provides a meaningful framework for the analysis of the coordination problem in economic society. At this stage the New Keynesian...
Robert Chirinko, Hans Van Ees, Harry Garretsen, Elmer Sterken
The Berle-Means problem - information and incentive asymmetries disrupting relations between knowledgeable managers and remote investors - has remained a durable issue engaging researchers since the...
The Strategic Bombing of German Cities during World War II and its Impact on City Growth
Steven Brakman, Harry Garretsen, Marc Schramm
We construct a unique data set to analyze whether or not a large temporary shock had an impact on German city growth and city size distribution. Following recent work by Davis and Weinstein (2001) on...
Locational Competition and Agglomeration: The Role of Government Spending
Brakman, Steven, Garretsen, Harry, Van Marrewijk, Charles
With the completion of EMU, tax competition and, more in general, locational competition is high on the EU policy agenda. In contrast to the standard neo-classical reasoning, recent advances in the...
Monetary policy in the New-Keynesian model: An application to the Euro Area
Moons, Cindy, Garretsen, Harry, Van Aarle, Bas, Fornero, Jorge
Monetary and Fiscal Policy Rules in the EMU
Bas Van Aarle, Harry Garretsen, Florence Huart
This paper studies the design and effects of monetary and fiscal policy in the euro area. To do so, a stylized two-region model of monetary and fiscal policy rules in the EMU is built. We analyse how...
Robert Chirinko, Hans Van Ees, Harry Garretsen, Elmer Sterken
The Berle-Means problem - information and incentive asymmetries disrupting relations between knowledgeable managers and remote investors - has remained a durable issue engaging researchers since the...
The Relevance of Initial Conditions for the German Unification.
Brakman, Steven, Garretsen, Harry
The authors analyze whether and how recent theories in which equilibria are path-dependent can be used to sustain the proposition that the adverse initial conditions are relevant for the long-run...
Fiscal Stabilization in the EMU.
Van Aarle, Bas, Garretsen, Harry
This paper analyzes the effects of macroeconomic shocks in the Economic and Monetary Union (EMU) using a stylized two-country model. First, it is shown how asymmetries between countries might matter...
Looking for multiple equilibria when geography matters: German city growth and the WWII shock
Bosker, Maarten, Brakman, Steven, Garretsen, Harry, Schramm, Marc
Locational competition and agglomeration: the role of government spending
Brakman, Steven, Garretsen, Harry, Marrewijk, Charles Van
With the completion of EMU, tax competition and, more in general, locational competition is high on the EU policy agenda. In contrast to the standard neo-classical reasoning, recent advances in the...
The strategic bombing of German cities during World War II and its impact on city growth
Brakman, Steven, Garretsen, Harry, Schramm, Marc
It is a stylized fact that city size distributions are rather stable over time. Explanations for city growth and the resulting city-size distributions fall into two broad groups. On the one hand...
Locational competition and agglomeration: the role of government spending
Brakman, Steven, Garretsen, Harry, Marrewijk, Charles Van
With the completion of EMU, tax competition and, more in general, locational competition is high on the EU policy agenda. In contrast to the standard neo-classical reasoning, recent advances in the...
Learning about fundamentals: The widening of the French ERM bands in 1993
Harry Garretsen, Klaas Knot, Erwin Nijsse
E44, E52, F31,
The strategic bombing of German cities during World War II and its impact on city growth
Steven Brakman, Harry Garretsen, Marc Schramm
We construct a unique data set in order to analyse whether or not a large temporary shock has an impact on city growth. Following recent work by Davis and Weinstein on Japan, we take the strategic...
Unlocking the Value of Cross-Border Mergers and Acquisitions
Steven Brakman, Gus Garita, Harry Garretsen, Charles Van Marrewijk
Most FDI takes place between the developed countries, which suggests that the market-seeking motive is important for understanding FDI. However, given the stylized fact that trade barriers (e.g....
A century of shocks: The evolution of the German city size distribution 1925-1999
Bosker, Maarten, Brakman, Steven, Garretsen, Harry, Schramm, Marc
This paper uses empirical evidence on the evolution and structure of the West-German city size distribution to assess the relevance of three different theories of urban growth. The West-German case...
Accession to the euro-area: a stylized analysis using a NK model
Bas Aarle, Harry Garretsen, Cindy Moons
Euro-area, Fiscal policy, Monetary policy, F31, F41, G15,
The Spatial Distribution of Wages: Estimating the Helpman-Hanson model for Germany
Harry Garretsen, Marc Schramm, Steven Brakman
Using German district data we estimate the structural parameters of a new economic geography model as developed by Helpman (1998) and Hanson (1998, 2001a). The advantage of the Helpman-Hanson model...
The Strategic Bombing of German Cities during World War II and its Impact for Germany
Harry Garretsen, Marc Schramm, Steven Brakman
We construct a unique data set in order to analyze whether or not a large temporary shock has an impact on city growth. Following recent work by Davis and Weinstein (2002) on Japan, we take the...