• Tsvetkova, A., Terzidis, N., Jong, D., Lembcke A., Ahrend, A., Oliveira Martins, J., & Knutsson, P. (forthcoming). Why should we think about productivity spatially? A policy-relevant literature review. (Bookchapter).

• Jong, D., McCann, P. & Venhorst, V. (2025), Revealed Preferences for the Composition of Local Government Expenditures in US Cities. Appl. Spatial Analysis 18, 112. https://doi.org/10.1007/s12061-025-09711-0

• Jong, D., et al. (2021), "A comprehensive approach to understanding urban productivity effects of local governments: Local autonomy, government quality and fragmentation", OECD Regional Development Papers, No. 11, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/5ebd25d3-en.

• Jong, D. (2021). The Economic Impact of Local Government. PhD dissertation. Urban and Regional Studies Institute, Rijksuniversiteit Groningen. https://doi.org/10.33612/diss.155033813. 

• Tsvetkova, A., et al. (2020), "The spatial dimension of productivity: Connecting the dots across industries, firms and places", OECD Regional Development Working Papers, No. 2020/01, OECD Publishing, Paris, https://doi.org/10.1787/ba5edb47-en.

Work in progress

• Jong, D. & Stephan, L. S. Inter-municipal cooperation network centrality, fiscal shocks and allocative efficiency.

• Jong, D., Tsvetkova, A., Lembcke, A. C., & Ahrend, R. Governance and spatial productivity in European cities: Unpacking interactions between governmental quality, local autonomy and fragmentation. 

• Allers, M.A. & Jong, D. Capitalization of the Windfalls from the Privatization of Energy Companies by Dutch Municipalities.

• Jong, D., & Craig, S. How US local governments spend their resource windfalls Decomposing the local public fiscal response to the fracking-boom. 

• Jong, D., McCann, P., & Venhorst, V. How does the local public fiscal composition affect local economic growth? Insights from US cities.

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