Work in Progress
Cultivating coca: the (un)importance of the price of legal alternatives in the decision to grow coca. With Sophie de Vries Robbé. - slides -
Going the first-/last-mile. Ride hailing activity and the opening of Jakarta's MRT system. With Mark Roberts, Sailesh Tiwari, Putu Sanjiwacika Wibisana, and Maria Monica Wihardja. - pdf - - slides -
Domestic infrastructure and the regional effects of trade liberalization. With Megan Haasbroek.
Sanctions - who gains, who loses? Evidence from Iranian microdata. With Julian Emami Namini, Aksel Erbahar, and Mohammad Dehghani.
Journal Articles
The network origins of the gains from trade. Journal of Economic Theory, 2024, Vol.216, 105800. With Bastian Westbrock. - pdf - - VoxEU column -
City origins. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2022, Vol.94, 103677. - pdf - - Densely Speaking podcast -
Definition Matters. Metropolitan areas and agglomeration economies in a large developing country. With Jane Park and Mark Roberts. Journal of Urban Economics, 2021, Vol.125, 103275. - pdf - - World Bank blogpost -
Iceberg Transport Costs. Evidence from the 19th century ice trade. The Economic Journal, 2020, Vol.130, pp.1262-1287. With Eltjo Buringh. - pdf -
Nether Lands. Evidence on the price and perception of rare natural disasters. Journal of the European Economic Association, 2019, Vol.17, pp.413-453. With Harry Garretsen, Gerard Marlet and Clemens van Woerkens. - pdf - - slides -
Hukou and Highways. The impact of China's spatial development policies on urbanization and regional inequality. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2018, Vol.71, pp.91-109. With Uwe Deichmann and Mark Roberts.- pdf -
City seeds: geography and the origins of European cities. Journal of Urban Economics, 2017, Vol.98, pp.139-157. With Eltjo Buringh. The rise of the European city system visualized (red: city >= 5k)
Ethnicity and the spread of civil war. Journal of Development Economics, 2014, Vol.108, pp.206-221. With Joppe de Ree. - pdf - - VoxEU column -
From Baghdad to London: unravelling urban development in Europe and the Arab world 800-1800. Review of Economics and Statistics, 2013, Vol.95-4, pp.1418-1437. With Eltjo Buringh and Jan Luiten van Zanden. - pdf - - Appendix A - - Data Appendix - - VoxEU column -
Economic geography and economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa. World Bank Economic Review, 2012, Vol.26-3, pp.443-485. With Harry Garretsen. - pdf - - World Bank blogpost -
Relaxing Hukou. Increased labor mobility and China's Economic Geography. Journal of Urban Economics, 2012 Vol.72, pp.252-266. With Steven Brakman, Harry Garretsen and Marc Schramm. - pdf -
The rise and decline of European parliaments, 1188-1800. Economic History Review, 2012, Vol.65-3, pp.835-861. 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. - 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. - 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 - (part of my MA thesis)
Book Chapters
Soldiers and Booze, the rise and decline of a Roman market economy in north-western Europe. 2014. In R.J. van der Spek, Jan Luiten van Zanden and Bas van Leeuwen (eds.), A history of market performance. From Ancient Babylonia to the Modern World. Routledge. With Eltjo Buringh.
Pre-Modern Cities: Economy. 2013. In Peter Clarke (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Cities in World History, Oxford University Press. With Bas van Bavel, Eltjo Buringh and Jan Luiten van Zanden.
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.
New economic geography and services. 2010. In Ejaz Ghani (ed), The Service Revolution in South Asia, Oxford University Press. With Harry Garretsen.