Maarten Bosker
Key publications
List of publications
Bosker, M. and Westbrock, B. (2024). The network origins of the gains from trade Journal of Economic Theory, 216:.
Bosker, M. (2022). City origins Regional Science and Urban Economics, 94:.
Bosker, M., Park, J. and Roberts, M. (2021). Definition matters. Metropolitan areas and agglomeration economies in a large-developing country Journal of Urban Economics, 125:.
Bosker, M. and Buringh, E. (2020). Ice(berg) transport costs Economic Journal, 130(629):1262--1287.
Bosker, M., Garretsen, H., Marlet, G. and van Woerkens, C. (2019). Nether Lands. Evidence on the price and perception of rare natural disasters. Journal of the European Economic Association, 17:413--453.
Bosker, M., Deichmann, U. and Roberts, M. (2018). Hukou and highways the impact of China's spatial development policies on urbanization and regional inequality Regional Science and Urban Economics, 71:91--109.
Bosker, M. and Buringh, E. (2017). City seeds. Geography and the origins of the European city system. Journal of Urban Economics, 98:139--157.
Bosker, M. and Buringh, E. (2015). City seeds. Geography and the origins of European cities Journal of Urban Economics, 98:139--157.
Bosker, M. and de Ree, J. (2014). Ethnicity and the spread of civil war Journal of Development Economics, 108:206--221.
Bosker, M., Buringh, E. and van Zanden, J. (2013). From Baghdad to London: unravelling urban development in Europe, the Middle East and North Africa, 800-1800 Review of Economics and Statistics, 95(4):1418--1437.
Bosker, M. and Garretsen, J. (2012). Economic geography and economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa World Bank Economic Review, 26(3):443--485.
Bosker, M., Brakman, S., Garretsen, J. and Schramm, M. (2012). Relaxing Hukou: increased labor mobility and China's economic geography Journal of Urban Economics, 72:252--266.
Smeets, R. and Bosker, M. (2011). Leaders, laggards and technology seeking strategies Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization, 80(3):481--497.
Bosker, M., Brakman, S., Garretsen, J. and Schramm, M. (2010). Adding geography to the new economic geography Journal of Economic Geography, 10(6):793--823.
Bosker, M., Matthee, M. and Naude, W. (2010). Export specialization and economic growth The World Economy, 33(4):552--572.
Bosker, M. and Garretsen, J. (2010). Trade costs in empirical New Economic Geography Papers in Regional Science, 89(3):485--511.
Bosker, M. (2009). Economic development and the geography of institutions Journal of Economic Geography, 9(3):295--328.
Bosker, M. (2009). The spatial evolution of regional GDP disparities in the 'old' and the 'new' Europe Papers in Regional Science, 88(1):3--27.
Bosker, M., Brakman, S., Garretsen, J. and Schramm, M. (2008). A century of shocks: the evolution of the German city size distribution 1925-1999 Regional Science and Urban Economics, 38(4):330--347.
Bosker, M. and Krugell, W. (2008). Regional income evolution in South Africa after Apartheid Journal of Regional Science, 48(3):493--524.
Bosker, M. (2007). Growth, agglomeration and convergence, a space-time analysis for European regions. Spatial Economic Analysis, 2(1):91--100.
Bosker, M., Brakman, S., Garretsen, J. and Schramm, M. (2007). Looking for multiple equilibria when geography matters: German city growth and the WWII shock Journal of Urban Economics, 61:152--167.
Bosker, M. (2006). On the aggregation of Eurozone data. Economics Letters, 90(2):260--265.