Maarten Bosker

CV                                             email: bosker[at]ese.eur.nl                             my PhD-thesis

Main affiliation:            Assistant Professor, Erasmus University Rotterdam
 
Other affiliations:         Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR), London
                                  Tinbergen Institute, Amsterdam/Rotterdam
                                  Utrecht University (Research Institute for History and Culture)
                                  OxCarre, Oxford University
                                  Centro Studi Luca d'Agliano, University of Milan
 
Research interests:      applied econometrics, urban history, economic development, economic                                          geography, conflict studies

Selected Publications

From Baghdad to London: unravelling urban development in Europe and the Arab world 800-1800.

         Review of Economics and Statistics, forthcoming. With Eltjo Buringh and Jan Luiten van

         Zanden. - pdf - - Appendix A - - Data Appendix -

 
Economic geography and economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa. World Bank Economic
         Review, forthcoming. With Harry Garretsen. - pdf - 
 
The rise and decline of European parliaments, 1188-1800. Economic History Review, forthcoming.
         With Jan Luiten van Zanden and Eltjo Buringh. - pdf -  


Adding geography to the new economic geography. Journal of Economic Geography, 2010, Vol.10-6,          pp.793-823. With Steven Brakman, Harry Garretsen and Marc Schramm. [lead article] - pdf - 


Economic development and the geography of institutions. Journal of Economic Geography, 2009,           Vol.9-3, pp.295-328. With Harry Garretsen. [lead article] - pdf - 

 

A century of shocks: The evolution of the German city size distribution 1925-1999. Regional

         Science and Urban Economics, 2008, Vol.38, pp.330-347. With Steven Brakman, Harry

         Garretsen and Marc Schramm. - pdf -

 

Regional income evolution in South Africa after Apartheid. Journal of Regional Science, 2008,

         Vol.48-3, pp.493-524. With Waldo Krugell. [lead article] - pdf -


  

Other Publications


Of leaders, laggards and their motives for FDI. Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization,             2011, Vol. 80-3, pp.481-497 . With Roger Smeets. - pdf -

Trade costs in empirical new economic geography. Papers in Regional Science, 2010, Vol. 89-3,                   pp.485-511. With Harry Garretsen. - pdf -

Export specialization and local economic growth in South Africa. The World Economy, 2010, Vol.33-4,
         pp.552-572. With Marianne Matthee and Wim Naudé. - pdf -

The spatial evolution of regional GDP disparities in the ‘old’ and the ‘new’ Europe. Papers in Regional          Science, 2009, Vol.88-1, pp.3-27. [lead article]- pdf -
 
Ports, Plagues and Politics: Explaining Italian city growth 1300-1861. European Review of                          Economic History, 2008, Vol.12, pp.97-131. With Steven Brakman, Harry Garretsen, Herman              de Jong and Marc Schramm. - pdf -
 

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

         Journal of Urban Economics, 2007, Vol.61, pp.152-167. With Steven Brakman, Harry

         Garretsen and Marc Schramm. - pdf -

 

On the aggregation of Eurozone data. Economics Letters, 2006, Vol.90-2, pp.260-265.

         - pdf -



Book Chapters

New Economic Geography and Market Access. 2010. In Ejaz Ghani (ed.), The Poor Half Billion in South          Asia. What is Holding Back Lagging Regions?, Oxford University Press. With Harry Garretsen.
 
Trade costs, market access and economic geography: why the empirical specification of trade costs
         matters.  2010. In Steven Brakman and Peter van Bergeijk (eds.), The Gravity Model in                     International Trade: Advances and Applications, Cambridge University Press. With Harry
         Garretsen. [chapter 2 of my PhD-thesis]
 
New economic geography and services. 2010. In Ejaz Ghani (ed), The Service Revolution in South
         Asia, Oxford University Press. With Harry Garretsen.
 
 
Policy reports


The World Bank:

         The new economic geography of South Asia and its regions.

         New economic geography, services and South Asia.


Atlas voor Gemeenten:

         De schaal van de stad, 2008.

         De effectiviteit van grotestedenbeleid, ch.4, pp.59-81.


The Dutch Central Bank:

         Eurozone money demand: Evidence from a nonstationary dynamic panel data analysis. DNB

         staff reports, 2004, no. 126, Amsterdam. - pdf -


Work in Progress

Ethnicity and the spread of civil war. With Joppe de Ree. - pdf - 
         (CEPR Discussion Paper 8055): - pdf - 
 
City seeds: geography and the origins of European cities. With Eltjo Buringh.                                            - pdf -  (CEPR Discussion Paper 8066): - pdf -                                                    
         the rise of the European city system visualized    (red: city >= 5k)
 
Relaxing Hukou. Increased labor mobility and China's Economic Geography. With Steven Brakman,
         Harry Garretsen and Marc Schramm. - pdf -  (CEPR Discussion Paper 8106): - pdf - 

Growth and decline of European cities in the 1990s. With Gerard Marlet.

         - pdf -

 
Black holes and the bell curve.

         - pdf -

 

 
Publications in Dutch
 
Huizenprijsverschillen in Nederland: werk- of woonomgeving? Aelementair, 2007, Vol.6-2, p.8-11.

         - pdf -


Transportkosten en nullen in de internationale handelstheorie. Aelementair, 2008, Vol.7-2, p.12-15.

         - pdf -

 
 
Press coverage
 
The spread of civil war. VoxEU, January 18, 2012. - click here -
 
De verspreiding van burgeroorlog. EconomieOpinie.nl, December 2, 2011. - click here -
 
The service elevator. The Economist, May 19, 2011. - click here -
 
South Asia Revitalised. Deccan Herald, November 14, 2010. - click here -
 
Warum gibt es eigentlich Düsseldorf? Handelsblatt, November 1, 2010. - click here -
         Online version: - click here -
 
Van Bagdad naar Londen. Meer welvaart door grotere macht stedeling.
         Het Financieele Dagblad, May 23, 2009 - click here - (Weekend-essay)
 
1000 years of urban history: the rise and fall of European and Arab cities.
         VoxEU, June 28, 2008 - click here - (main column)
         The Economist (Free exchange), July 2, 2008 - click here -
         Marginal Revolution, July 2, 2008 - click here -

Van Bagdad naar Londen: Lessen uit duizend jaar stedelijke netwerken in Europa en de Arabische                 wereld. Me Judice, August 19, 2008 - click here -

Vrijhandel goed voor de welvaart. Kennislink, June 6, 2008. - click here -