Ferdinand Rauch
Professor of Economics, Heidelberg
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WORKING PAPERS
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CONTACT
To contact me, please write to Christina Bommas: [email protected].
Professor of Economics, Heidelberg
Personal Site
CV
MAIN PUBLICATIONS
- Urbanization and Structural Transformation, The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 127(2), 535-586, May 2012, (lead article), with Guy Michaels and Stephen Redding. Online appendix. Link to paper.
- Trade as an Engine of Creative Destruction: Mexican experience with Chinese competition, Journal of International Economics, 89(2), 379-391, March 2013, with Leonardo Iaconvone and L. Alan Winters. Online appendix. Link to paper.
- Success and failure of African exporters, Journal of Development Economics, 101, 284-296, March 2013, with Olivier Cadot, Leonardo Iaconvone and Denisse Pierola. Link to paper.
- Advertising expenditure and consumer prices, International Journal of Industrial Organization, 31(4), 331-341, July 2013. Link to paper.
- Cities as spatial clusters, Journal of Economic Geography, Volume 14, Issue 4, pages 759-773, July 2014. Link to paper.
- The geometry of the distance coefficient in gravity equations in international trade, Review of International Economics, 24(5), 1167-1177, November 2016. Link to paper.
- The Benefits of Forced Experimentation: Striking Evidence from the London Underground Network., The Quarterly Journal of Economics, Volume 132, Issue 4, 1 November 2017, Pages 2019-2055, with Shaun Larcom and Tim Willems. Link to paper.
- Resetting the Urban Network: 117-2012, The Economic Journal, Volume 128, Issue 608, pages 378-412, February 2018, with Guy Michaels. Online appendix. Link to paper.
- A Dissection of Trading Capital: Trade in the Aftermath of the Fall of the Iron Curtain, Journal of Economic History, 78(2), 258-393, June 2018. With Matthias Beestermöller. Online appendix. Link to paper.
- Task Specialization in U.S. Cities from 1880-2000. Journal of the European Economic Association, Volume 17, Issue 3, June 2019, Pages 754–798. With Guy Michaels and Stephen Redding. Online appendix. Link to paper.
- Flooded Cities, with Adriana Kocornik-Mina, Thomas McDermott and Guy Michaels, American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 12 (2): 35-66, April 2020. Link to paper.
- Migration and urbanisation in Post-Apartheid South Africa, with Jan Bakker and Chris Parsons, World Bank Economic Review, Volume 34, Issue 2, June 2020, Pages 509–532. Link to paper.
- Planning Ahead for Better Neighborhoods: Long Run Evidence from Tanzania, with Guy Michaels, Dzhamilya Nigmatulina, Tanner Regan, Neeraj Baruah and Amanda Dahlstrand-Rudin, Journal of Political Economy, July 2021, 129(7), pages 2112-2156. Link to paper.
- Of Mice and Merchants - Trade and Growth in the Iron Age, with Jan Bakker, Stephan Maurer and Jörn-Steffen Pischke, Review of Economics and Statistics, 103(4), pages 652-665, 2021. Link to paper.
- What Future for History Dependence in Spatial Economics?, with Jeffrey Lin. Regional Science and Urban Economics, Volume 94, Article 103628, May 2022. Link to paper.
- Economic Geography Aspects of the Panama Canal, with Stephan Maurer. Oxford Economic Papers, Volume 75, Issue 1, January 2023, Pages 142-162. Link to paper.
- Within-City Roads and Urban Growth, with Paul Brandily. Journal of Regional Science, Forthcoming. Link to paper.
WORKING PAPERS
- Market Access and the Arrow of Time, with Marius Klein. Download.
- Identity in Trade - Evidence from the Legacy of the Hanseatic League, with Max Marczinek and Stephan Maurer. Download.
- Asymmetric Trading Costs and Ancient Greek Cities, with Yuxian Chen and Yannis Ioannides. Download.
Older Working Papers
- Technical Note: An Eaton and Kortum (2002) Model of Urbanization and Structural Transformation, with Guy Michaels and Stephen Redding. Download.
- Innovation Responses to Import Competition, with Leonardo Iacovone and Wolfgang Keller. Download.
- The distance elasticity at short distances - A study of the library choice of Oxford students, with Kristiina Tuomikoski. Download.
CONTACT
To contact me, please write to Christina Bommas: [email protected].