Spatial Economics
This field addresses four themes: urban and regional dynamics, land use, transportation, and environment and resources. Many researchers combine policy research with fundamental research.
Researchers in this field
Fellows
Fellows
PhD Students
PhD Students
Key Publications
van der Ploeg, F. and Rezai, A. (2019). The agnostic's response to climate deniers: Price carbon! European Economic Review, 111:70-84.
Konig, M., Zenou, Y., and Liu, X. (2018). R&D networks: Theory, empirics and policy implications. Review of Economics and Statistics.
Koster, H. and van Ommeren, J. (2018). Place-based policies and the housing market. Review of Economics and Statistics.
Cheshire, P., Hilber, C., and Koster, H. (2018). Empty homes, longer commutes: The unintended consequences of more restrictive local planning. Journal of Public Economics, 158(2):126-151.
van der Ploeg, F. and de Zeeuw, A. (2018). Climate tipping and economic growth: Precautionary capital and the price of carbon. Journal of the European Economic Association, 16(5):1577–1617.
Discussion Papers
19-020/VIII - Residential parking costs and car ownership: Implications for parking policy and automated vehicles
Date: March 13, 2019
19-017/VIII - Regulating dynamic congestion externalities with tradable credit schemes: does a unique equilibrium exist?
Date: February 20, 2019
19-006/VIII - Priority Roads: the Political Economy of Africa's Interior-to-Coast Roads
Date: January 27, 2019
19-007/VIII - Tradable permits to manage urban mobility: market design and experimental implementation
Date: January 27, 2019
19-008/VIII - The economics of participatory value evaluation
Date: January 27, 2019
Upcoming events
Seminar
| 12:15 - 13:15
Liquid Constrained in California: Estimating the Potential Gains...
Nick Hagerty (University of California, Berkeley, United States)
- Spatial Economics Seminar
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Demand- versus Supply-Side Climate Policies with a Carbon Dioxide...
Gilbert Kollenbach (University of Hagen, Germany)
- Spatial Economics Seminar
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Inge van den Bijgaart (University of Gothenburg, Sweden)
- Spatial Economics Seminar
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Stefan Ambec (Toulouse School of Economics, France)
- Spatial Economics Seminar
PhD Defense
| 11:45 - 13:00
The Value of (Avoiding) Malaria
Mehmet Kutluay , Mehmet Kutluay (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam)
- PhD Defense