Research

In progress

• Public spending and the location of jobs.

• Micro strategies to deal with supply chain risk

Papers and articles

• Rösch, M., Gerritse, M., & Karreman, B. (2024) Careers in Multinational Enterprises. Tinbergen Institute discussion paper

• Gerritse, M. Wang, Z. and Van Oort, F. (2024) Industrial Transfer Policy in China: Migration and Development. [pdf] [code coming] under review

• Rösch, M., Gerritse, M., Karreman, B. Van Oort, F. & Loog, B. (2022). Do firms or workers drive the foreign acquisition wage premium? (2022) Tinbergen Institute working paper TI22-014/V.  under review

• Brakman, S., Garretsen, H., Gerritse, M. & Van Marrewijk, C. (2018) A model of heterogeneous firm matches in cross-border mergers & acquisitions. CESifo Working Paper 7083.  [code] under review

• Caragliu, A. & Gerritse, M. (2022) Import competition and domestic transport costs. Tinbergen Institute discussion paper TI22-071/VIII.  under review 

• Gerritse, M. (2022). COVID-19 transmission in cities (2022). European Economic Review  [data and code]

• Capello, R., Caragliu, A., & Gerritse, M.  (2022) L’evoluzione nella gerarchia urbana in Italia negli ultimi quarant’anni: quale ruolo per le città metropolitane della Legge Delrio? Scienze Regionali, 1-28.

• Capello, R., Caragliu, A., & Gerritse, M. (2022). Continuous vs. Discrete Urban Ranks: Explaining the Evolution in the Italian Urban Hierarchy over Five Decades. Economic Geography, 1-26.  

• Gerritse, M. (2021). Does trade cause detrimental specialization in developing economies? Evidence from countries south of the Suez Canal. Journal of Development Economics, 152, 102676. [data and code]   

• Hogetoorn, B., & Gerritse, M. (2021). The impact of terrorism on international mergers and acquisitions: Evidence from firm-level decisions. Journal of Peace Research, 58(3), 523-538.   

• Koster, H. R., Cheng, F. F., Gerritse, M., & van Oort, F. G. (2019). Place‐based policies, firm productivity, and displacement effects: Evidence from Shenzhen, China. Journal of Regional Science, 59(2), 187-213. 

• Gerritse, M. (2019) World trade evolution: Growth, productivity, and employment. L. Yan Ing, M. Yu (review) Journal of Regional Science,  59(5), 988-989

• Gerritse, M., & Rodríguez-Pose, A. (2018). Does federal contracting spur development? Federal contracts, income, output, and jobs in US cities. Journal of Urban Economics, 107, 121-135.  [processed data and code]

• Gerritse, M. (2018). Masters of craft. Old jobs in the new urban economy. Ocejo (review). Papers in Regional Science, 97(3), 829-831.

• Gerritse, M., & Arribas-Bel, D. (2018). Concrete agglomeration benefits: do roads improve urban connections or just attract more people? Regional Studies, 52(8), 1134-1149.  [data]

• Faber, G., & Gerritse, M. (2017). Does institutional change spread across countries? Explaining spatial patterns in human rights. The World Economy, 40(5), 906-930.

• Gerritse, M. (2016) From Neighborhoods to nations (review). Environment and Planning B, 45(2).

• Arribas-Bel, D., & Gerritse, M. (2015). From manufacturing belt, to rust belt, to college country: a visual narrative of US urban growth. Environment and Planning A, 47(6), 1241-1253.  [code]

• Gerritse, M. (2014). Competing for firms under agglomeration: Policy timing and welfare. Regional Science and Urban Economics, 49, 48-57.

• Gerritse, M. (2014). Policy Competition and the Spatial Economy. Dissertation, Tinbergen Institute (link)

• Gerritse, M., & Moreno-Monroy, A. I. (2012). Informal sector and manufacturing location: in search of the missing links. Spatial Economic Analysis, 7(2), 179-201.  

• Arribas-Bel, D., & Gerritse, M. (2012). Monocentricity? Commuting flows visually. Environment and Planning A, 44(9), 2041-2042. [data]

• Faber, G., & Gerritse, M. (2012). Foreign determinants of local institutions: Spatial dependence and openness. European Journal of Political Economy, 28(1), 54-63.