Jens Südekum's research page



JS

Curriculum Vitae (pdf)
Current working papers
Work in progress
Publications
Fun stuff

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Affiliations
Professor of Economics at the University of Duisburg-Essen (Mercator School of Management) - Chair for Microeconomics and International Trade.
Affiliated faculty member of the Ruhr Graduate School of Economics
Research fellow of IZA and the Institute for Employment Research (IAB).

For full details about current and previous affiliations: Curriculum Vitae (pdf)


Current research interests
International economics  -  heterogeneous firms and international trade, new economic geography
Regional and urban economics  -  causes&consequences of spatial agglomeration, local labour markets, city size distributions
Industrial organization  -  cross-border M&A, competition policy


Current working papers

Cultural Diversity and Local Labour Markets (with Katja Wolf and Uwe Blien)
IZA Working Paper 4619, December 2009

The Size Distribution across All Cities - Zipf, Lognormal, Double Pareto, or What? (with Kristian Giesen and Arndt Zimmermann)
Mimeo, September 2009

Subsidizing Firm Entry in Open Economies (with Michael Pflüger)
IZA Working Paper 4384, September 2009

Trade, Wages, and Productivity (with Kristian Behrens, Giordano Mion and Yasusada Murata)
new version - CEPR Discussion Paper 7369, July 2009

De-Industrialization, Entrepreneurial Industries and Welfare  (with Albert Schweinberger)
Ruhr Economic Papers Nr. 101, RWI Essen, March 2009

Zipf's Law for Cities in the Regions and the Country (with Kristian Giesen)
IZA Working Paper 3928, January 2009
under revision for: Journal of Economic Geography

Towards a Unifying Approach of the ´New Economic Geography´ (with Michael Pflüger)
IZA Working Paper 2256, Bonn, August 2006
parts of this working paper are published in the Journal of Economic Geography (under the title: "A synthesis of footloose-entrepreneur new economic geography models")

Work in progress

Firm Selection and Agglomeration
(with  Kristian Behrens, Yasusada Murata and Giordano Mion)

Dialects, Cultural Identity and Economic Exchange
(with Oliver Falck, Stephan Heblich and Alfred Lameli)


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Publications in refereed journals

"On Pitchforks and Tomahawks" (with Michael Pflüger)
forthcoming, Journal of Regional Science (pdf)
Click here to download the supplementary material for this paper (ZIP-file, 386kb)

"Public Budget Composition, Fiscal (De-)Centralization, and Welfare" (with Calin Arcalean, Gerhard Glomm and Ioana Schiopu)
forthcoming, Canadian Journal of Economics (pdf)

"Human Capital Externalities and Growth of High- and Low-Skilled Jobs"
forthcoming, Jahrbücher für Nationalökonomie und Statistik (Journal of Economics and Statistics) (pdf)

"Human Capital Externalities and the Urban Wage Premium: Two Literatures and their Interrelations" (with Benedikt Halfdanarson and Daniel Heuermann)
forthcoming, Urban Studies (pdf)

"National Champions and Globalization"
Canadian Journal of Economics, 2010, Vol. 43 (1): 204-231 (pdf)

"Vertical Industry Relations, Spillovers and Productivity: Evidence from Chilean Plants" (with Ricardo A. López)
Journal of Regional Science, 2009, Vol. 49 (4): 721-747 (pdf)

"Voting on Income Tax Exemptions" (with Salvatore Barbaro)
Public Choice, 2009, Vol. 138 (1-2): 239-253 (pdf)

"Regional Costs-of-Living with Congestion and Amenity Differences - An Economic Geography Perspective"
Annals of Regional Science, 2009, Vol. 43 (1): 49-69  (pdf)

"Industry Churning and the Evolution of Cities: Evidence for Germany" (with Sebastian Findeisen)
Journal of Urban Economics, 2008, Vol. 64 (2): 326-339   (pdf)

"Cross-Border Mergers and National Champions in an Integrating Economy"
Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics, 2008, Vol. 164 (3): 477-508  (pdf)

"Convergence of the Skill Composition across German Regions"
Regional Science and Urban Economics, 2008, Vol. 38 (2): 148-159 (pdf)

"Integration, Agglomeration and Welfare" (with Michael Pflüger)
Journal of Urban Economics, 2008, Vol. 63 (2): 544-566 (pdf)

"A synthesis of footloose-entrepreneur new economic geography models: When is agglomeration smooth and easily reversible?" (with Michael Pflüger)
Journal of Economic Geography, 2008, Vol. 8 (1): 39-54  (pdf)

"Identifying the Dynamic Home Market Effect in a Three-Country Model"
Journal of Economics, 2007, Vol. 92 (3): 209-228  (pdf)

"Stimulating Employment Growth with Higher Wages? A New Approach to Addressing an Old Controversy" (with Uwe Blien)
Kyklos, 2007, Vol. 60 (3): 441-464 (pdf)

"Concentration and Specialisation Trends in Germany since Re-Unification"
Regional Studies, 2006, Vol. 40 (8): 861-873 (pdf)

"Local Employment Growth in West Germany: A Dynamic Panel Approach" (with Uwe Blien and Katja Wolf)
Labour Economics, 2006, Vol. 13 (4): 445-458  (pdf)  

“Agglomeration and Regional Costs of Living"
Journal of Regional Science, 2006, Vol. 46 (3): 529-543  (pdf)

“Reforming a Complicated Income Tax System: The Political Economics Perspective”  (with Salvatore Barbaro)
European Journal of Political Economy, 2006, Vol. 22 (1): 41-59 (pdf)

"What has Caused Regional Employment Growth Differences in East Germany?" (with Uwe Blien and Johannes Ludsteck)
Review of Regional Research (Jahrbuch für Regionalwissenschaft), 2006, Vol. 26 (1): 51-73  (pdf)

"The Pitfalls of Regional Education Policy"
Finanzarchiv, 2005, Vol. 61 (3): 327-352 (pdf)

“Increasing Returns and Spatial Unemployment Disparities”
Papers in Regional Science, 2005, Vol. 84 (2): 159-181  (pdf)

“Local Economic Structure and Industry Development in Germany, 1993-2001”  (with Uwe Blien)
Economics Bulletin, 2005, Vol. 17 (15): 1-8 (pdf)

“Die Neue Ökonomische Geographie und Effizienzgründe für Regionalpolitik”  (with Michael Pflüger)
Vierteljahreshefte für Wirtschaftsforschung  (Quarterly Journal for Economic Research), 2005, Vol. 74 (1): 26-46

“Selective Migration, Union Wage Setting, and Unemployment Disparities in West Germany”
International Economic Journal, 2004, Vol. 18 (1): 33-48  (pdf)

“Severance Payments and Firm-Specific Human Capital“ (with Peter Rühmann)
Labour, 2003, Vol. 17 (1): 47-62

“Wie sinnvoll ist die Regionalpolitik der Europäischen Union?“
Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik, 2002, Vol. 51 (2): 121-141


Book reviews

"Economic Geography - The Integration of Regions and Nations" (by Pierre-Philippe Combes, Thierry Mayer and Jacques Thisse)
forthcoming: Journal of Regional Science, 2010

"Cluster und die ´New Economic Geography´" (by Timo Litzenberger)
Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie, 2008, Vol. 52 (2-3): 184-187

"Regional Disparities in Small Countries" (by Daniel Felsenstein and Boris A. Portnov)
Journal of Regional Science, 2006, Vol. 46 (5): 1002-1004

"Das große Spiel ums Vertrauen" (book review of "The Return of Depression Economics“ by Paul Krugman)
(with Salvatore Barbaro), Süddeutsche Zeitung, 1999, Sept. 17


Monographs

"Agglomeration and Regional Unemployment Disparities"
PhD thesis. CeGE-Schriften, No. 6, Frankfurt a.M.: Peter Lang, 2003.


Articles in collected volumes and other publications

"Die Fallen regionaler Bildungspolitik“
in: Cordes, A., M. Revilla-Diez (eds.), Regionale Beschäftigungschancen gering Qualifizierter - Eine Frage der Weiterbildung, Hannover: NIW, 2009, pp. 35-36

"Diversität und Spezialisierung als treibende Einflüsse von regionalem Beschäftigungswachstum“ (with Uwe Blien and Katja Wolf)
in: Clemens, C., M. Heinemann and S. Soretz (eds.), Auf allen Märkten zu Hause - Gedenkschrift für Franz Haslinger, Marburg: Metropolis, 2006, pp. 145-166

"Konzentrations- und Spezialisierungstrends in Deutschland - eine Analyse unter besonderer Berücksichtigung Sachsen-Anhalts“
in: Sonnabend, R. and R. Stein (eds.), Die anderen Städte - Urban Distinctiveness, Reihe IBA Stadtumbau 2010, Bd. 4, Berlin: Jovis, 2006, pp. 90-103

"The Wage Curve and Agglomeration"
in: Caroleo, F.E. and S. Destefanis (eds.), Regions, Europe and the Labour Market. Recent Problems and Developments, Physica, 2005, pp. 195-211

"Spezialisierung und Branchenkonzentration in Deutschland" (with Anette Haas)
IAB Kurzbericht no. 01, 2005

"Normative and Positive Problems of Regional Policies"
in: Bradley, J., G. Petrarkos and I. Traistaru (eds.), Integration, Growth, and Cohesion in an Enlarged European Union, New York: Springer, 2004, pp. 313-328


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Fun stuff

Most valuable information about a very important aspect of life: Kicker
THIS is my favourite team. Also check out this video ("Hamburg meine Perle")
I also care about these teams: [1] and [2]

Interested in geography games? Check this out! Note: Don't confuse "Slovakia" and "Slovenia", like certain other people...

Not only economic activity differs across regions of the same country, but also language!
Here is some nice stuff about German dialects. In the English language there is also substantial regional variation, as can be seen here or here

Here are videos of some great pieces of music:  [1]   [2]    [3]    [4]    [5]    [6]    [7]    [8]    

Some wonderful movies and TV series:   [1]    [2]    [3]    [4]    [5]     [6] 

Here is a slideshow with some pictures from the Ruhr area. And here is a very special hommage to the city of Duisburg.
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