Marcel Henkel

Bern, Switzerland 

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WORKING PAPERS

The Unintended Consequences of Post-Disaster Policies for Spatial Sorting, with Eunjee Kwon and Pierre Magontier

R&R, Journal of Political Economy. CRED Research Paper No. 37, 03/2023, VoxEU column.

Coverage by: nadaesgratis, Freakonomics Radio.

Spatial Policies and Heterogeneous Employment Responses, with Fabian Bald

under review, Berlin School of Economics Discussion Paper No. 63, 03/2025.

WORK IN PROGRESS

Endogenous Government Formation and Spatial Sorting, with Pierre Magontier.

The Political Economy of Redistribution: Evidence from Urbanization in American Economic History, 1820-2010, with Pierre Magontier.

PUBLICATIONS

Fiscal Transfers in the Spatial Economy, with Tobias Seidel and Jens Suedekum

American Economic Journal: Economic Policy, Vol. 13, Issue 4, 433-68, November 2021. Online Supplement, Replication Package.

Coverage by: VoxEU, Spiegel Online

A Spatial Perspective on European Integration: Heterogeneous Welfare and Migration Effects from the Single Market and the Brexit, with Tobias Seidel

Economic Inquiry, Vol. 57, Issue 1, 333-352, January 2019.

OLDER WORKING PAPERS

The Role of Local Public Goods for Fiscal Policy in the Spatial Economy, with Fabian Bald. 

CRED Research Paper No. 33, 09/2021.

Note: This paper precedes the current working paper "Spatial Policies and Heterogeneous Employment Responses".

The Role of Key Regions in Spatial Development, with Raphael N. Becker. 

DICE Discussion Paper No. 331, 02/2020.