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...
The impact of newspapers on consumer confidence: does spin bias exist? (2004)
Alsem, Karel-Jan, Brakman, Steven, Hoogduin, Lex, Kuper, Gerard
Mullainathan and Shleifer (2002) argue that there are two types of media bias. One bias, called ideology, reflects a news outlet's desire to affect reader opinions in a particular direction. The...
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...
The monopolistic competition revolution in retrospect (2002)
Brakman, Steven, Heijdra, Ben J.
In this paper we argue that there have been two monopolistic competition revolutions. The first was started by Joan Robinson and Edward Chamberlin in the 1930s but failed to have much 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...
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....
Transfers, money and the balance of payments (1999)
Brakman, Steven, Marrewijk, Charles Van
The literature on international transfers largely ignores the fact that transfers are often given in the form of money. We analyze both the welfare consequences of financial transfers for the donor...
Transfers, money and the balance of payments (1998)
The literature on international transfers largely ignores the fact that transfers are often given in the form of money. We analyze both the welfare consequences of financial transfers for the donor...
International trade modeling : decomposition analyses / (1991)
Thesis (doctoral)--Rijksuniversiteit Groningen, 1991.
Transfers, Non-Traded Goods, and Unemployment: An Analysis of the Keynes - Ohlin Debate
Steven Brakman, Charles Van Marrewijk
In the famous debate between Keynes and Ohlin on the transfer problem, the interaction between non-traded goods and unemployment complicates the analysis considerably. We analyze these issues using...
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...
The Impact of Newspapers on Consumer Confidence: Does Spin Bias Exist?
Karel-Jan Alsem, Steven Brakman, Lex Hoogduin, Gerard Kuper
It is sometimes argued that news reports in the media suffer from biased reporting. Mullainathan and Shleifer (2002) argue that there are two types of media bias. One bias, called ideology, reflects...
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....
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...
Steven Brakman, Charles Van Marrewijk
Thomas Friedman’s book the world is flat has been a bestseller since it appeared in 2005. The remarkable success of the book reflects to a certain extent the present fears with respect to...
The Impact of Newspapers on Consumer Confidence: Does Spin Bias Exist?
Karel-Jan Alsem, Steven Brakman, Lex Hoogduin, Gerard Kuper
Mullainathan and Shleifer (2002) argue that there are two types of media bias. One bias, called ideology, reflects a news outlet's desire to affect reader opinions in a particular direction. The...
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...
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...
Transfers, money and the balance of payments
The literature on international transfers largely ignores the fact that transfers are often given in the form of money. We analyze both the welfare consequences of financial transfers for the donor...
The monopolistic competition revolution in retrospect
Brakman, Steven, Heijdra, Ben J.
In this paper we argue that there have been two monopolistic competition revolutions. The first was started by Joan Robinson and Edward Chamberlin in the 1930s but failed to have much impact on...
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...
The impact of newspapers on consumer confidence: does spin bias exist?
Karel Jan Alsem, Steven Brakman, Lex Hoogduin, Gerard Kuper
It is sometimes argued that news reports in the media suffer from biased reporting. Mullainathan and Shleifer (2002, 2005) argue that there are two types of media bias. One bias, called ideology,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
The impact of newspapers on consumer confidence: does spin bias exist?
Alsem, Karel-Jan, Brakman, Steven, Hoogduin, Lex, Kuper, Gerard
Mullainathan and Shleifer (2002) argue that there are two types of media bias. One bias, called ideology, reflects a news outlet\'s desire to affect reader opinions in a particular direction. 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 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...
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...
The Final Frontier? Border Effects and German Regional Wages
Brakman, Steven, Garretsen, Harry, Schramm, Marc
Recent studies of border effects have focused on the intra-country and inter-country comparison of trade flows. It is found that borders have a negative impact on the size of cross-border trade. In...
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...