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Ferdinand Rauch
Professor of Economics, St Gallen, Switzerland
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Haus Washington, SIAW-HSG, C83-4230, Rosenbergstrasse 22, 4th floor

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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, Volume 64, Pages 1236–1264, 2024.  Link to paper.
 
  • When market access gains do not spur urban growth, with Marius Klein, Journal of Economic Geography, Volume 24, Issue 6, November 2024, Pages 907–919, Link to paper.
 
  • Identity in Trade - Evidence from the Legacy of the Hanseatic League, with Max Marczinek and Stephan Maurer.  Journal of International Economics, Volume 157, September 2025, Link to paper, Online Appendix.

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WORKING PAPERS

  • Asymmetric Trading Costs and Ancient Greek Cities, with Yuxian Chen and Yannis Ioannides.  Download.
  • Identifying Agglomeration Shadows:  Long-run Evidence from Ancient Ports, with Richard Hornbeck and Guy Michaels.  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.






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