Research

Working Papers

Quality of life under spatial frictions (2024, with Gabriel Ahlfeldt, Fabian Bald and Duncan Roth)

Quality of life in a dynamic spatial model (2021, with Gabriel Ahlfeldt, Fabian Bald and Duncan Roth)

• CESifo Working Paper No. 8767, 12/2020

• CEPR Discussion Paper No. 15594, 12/2020

• LSE Blog: "Lockdown shows us it is not work that attracts us to big cities – but the social life", Blog London School of Economics

Optimal minimum wages in spatial economies (2023, joint with Gabriel Ahlfeldt and Duncan Roth)

• Online Supplement

• CEPR DP16913, January 2022

• LSE Blog: "What is the optimal minimum wage?", Blog London School of Economics

• VOXEU: Optimal minimum wages

The role of consumption access (2022, with Maximilian von Ehrlich and Frédéric Kluser)

Work in Progress

Education, mobility and gender: Evidence from Sweden (with Martin Karlsson and Philipp Markus)

Publications (peer-reviewed)

Place-based policies, structural change, and female labor: Evidence from India's Special Economic Zones

Johannes Gallé, Daniel Overbeck, Nadine Riedel, and Tobias Seidel

Journal of Public Economics 240, December 2024, 105259

Integrated vs segmented markets: Implications for export pricing and welfare

Raphael Becker, Sergey Nigai, and Tobias Seidel

Review of International Economics 31(4), 1199-1221, 2023

• CESifo Working Paper 8602, 2020

Micro-geographic house price and rent indices

Gabriel Ahlfeldt, Stephan Heblich, and Tobias Seidel

Regional Science and Urban Economics 98, January 2023, 103836

• CESifo Working Paper 9187, 2021

• Videos

Fiscal transfers in the spatial economy

Marcel Henkel, Tobias Seidel, and Jens Suedekum

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 13(4), 433-468, 2021

• • • CEPR Discussion Paper (2018)

    • CESifo Working Paper No. 7012 (April 2018)

    • VOXEU: A Germany without fiscal transfers

Rush hours and urbanization

Tobias Seidel and Jan Wickerath

Regional Science and Urban Economics 85, November 2020, 103580 

Financial development and inequality in the global economy

Maximilian von Ehrlich and Tobias Seidel

Scandinavian Journal of Economics 121(4), 1533-1560, 2019

A spatial perspective on European integration: Heterogeneous welfare and migration effects from the Single Market and the Brexit 

 Marcel Henkel and Tobias Seidel

Economic Inquiry 57(1), 333-354, 2019

The persistent effects of place-based policy: Evidence from the West-German Zonenrandgebiet

Maximilian von Ehrlich and Tobias Seidel

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy 10(4), 344-374, 2018

• • • Policy summary (in German): ifo Dresden berichtet (issue 3, 2015) pdf

The regional effects of Germany's national minimum wage

Gabriel Ahlfeldt, Duncan Roth, and Tobias Seidel

Economics Letters 172, 127-130, 2018

• • • CESifo Working Paper No. 6924 (February 2018)

    • CEPR Discussion Paper No. 13005 (June 2018)

    • VOXEU: Spatial implications of minimum wages

The competitive effects of credit constraints in the global economy

        Peter Egger, Sebastian Kunert, and Tobias Seidel

Economica  85(340), 771-792, 2018

Firm integration strategies and imperfect labour markets

Hartmut Egger, Peter Egger, and Tobias Seidel

Canadian Journal of Economics 48(5), 1883-1901, 2015

Foreign market entry under incomplete contracts

Tobias Seidel

The World Economy 38(6), 899-912, 2015

Regional implications of financial market development: Industry location and income inequality

Maximilian von Ehrlich and Tobias Seidel

European Economic Review 73, 85-102, 2015

Corporate taxes and intra-firm trade

Peter Egger and Tobias Seidel

European Economic Review 63, 225-242, 2013

More similar firms – more similar regions? On the role of firm heterogeneity for agglomeration

Maximilian von Ehrlich and Tobias Seidel

Regional Science and Urban Economics 43, 539-548, 2013

How national and international financial development affect industrial R&D

Keith E. Maskus, Rebecca Neumann, and Tobias Seidel

European Economic Review 56, 72-83, 2012.

Tax competition, trade liberalisation, and imperfect labour markets

Peter Egger and Tobias Seidel

Oxford Economic Papers 63, 722-739, 2011

Rigid labour markets with trade and capital mobility: Theory and evidence

Peter Egger, David Greenaway, and Tobias Seidel

Canadian Journal of Economics 44, 509-540, 2011

International competition and employment

Tobias Seidel

Economics Letters 107, 214–216, 2010

Intra-regional tax competition and economic geography

Ossip Hühnerbein and Tobias Seidel

The World Economy 33, 1042–1051, 2010

Common political culture: Evidence on regional corruption contagion

Sascha O. Becker, Peter Egger, and Tobias Seidel

European Journal of Political Economy 25, 300–310, 2009

Agglomeration and fair wages

Peter Egger and Tobias Seidel

Canadian Journal of Economics 41, 271–291, 2008

Other publications

Place-based policy in India: How Special Economic Zones promoted structural change and women's employment, VoxDev article, December 2024

Optimale regionale Transfers, Wirtschaftsdienst - Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik, Heft 104, 763-767, 2024

Spatial implications of minimum wages, VoxEU article, 2018

A Germany without fiscal transfers, VoxEU article, 2018

Finanzierung von F&E: Worauf kommt es an?, Ökonomenstimme, www.oekonomenstimme.org; August 2011

Fiskalpolitik in Deutschland: Eine empirische Analyse am Beispiel des Vorziehens der Steuerreform, (with Michael Plötscher and Frank Westermann), Kredit und Kapital, 38(1), 23–51, 2005

Welfare effects of capital mobility with rigid wages, Applied Economics Quarterly, Supplement 56, 61–75, 2005

Gains from trade and labour market flexibility, CESifo DICE Report, Journal of Institutional Comparisons, Vol. 3, No.1, Spring 2005

Globalisierung und Arbeitsmärkte: Welche Auswirkungen haben Standortverlagerungen für Deutschland?, ifo Dresden berichtet 5/2004

Konjunkturelle Auswirkungen des Vorziehens der Steuerreform, (mit Frank Westermann), ifo Schnelldienst 01/2004