Jens Suedekum's research page


JS

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

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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 the CESifo Network,  Research fellow of IZA , Research fellow of the Institute for Employment Research (IAB)

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

Current research interests

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

News
Recent and forthcoming research-related events

--     03-06/2012:   Visiting Researcher at the Spatial Economic Research Center at the London School of Economics (LSE)
--     10/2011:         Visiting Researcher at the Institut d`Economia de Barcelona

Recent and forthcoming research presentations
--    London School of Economics (03/2012)
--    Schumpeter Business School Wuppertal (12/2011)
--     North American Regional Science Council (NARSC), Miami (11/2011)
--     CEPR Conference on Regional and Urban Economics (CURE), Carlos III Madrid (9/2011)


Professional Service
Associate Editor, Journal of Regional Science
Editorial Board Member, Papers in Regional Science

Rankings

Handelsblatt-Ranking 2011 on the research output of economists in Germany, Austria and Switzerland.
-- Among the TOP-20 Economists below the age of 40
-- Among the TOP-100 Economists, current research performance (2007-2011)



Current working papers and forthcoming publications 

The Size Distribution across all "Cities": A Unifying Approach (with Kristian Giesen)
CESifo Working Paper 3730, February 2012

Spatial Frictions (with Kristian Behrens, Giordano Mion and Yasusada Murata)
CEPR Discussion Paper 8572, September 2011

Global Sourcing of Complex Production Processes (with Christian Schwarz)
CESifo Working Paper 3559, August 2011

Dialects, Cultural Identity, and Economic Exchange (with Oliver Falck, Stephan Heblich and Alfred Lameli)
IZA Working Paper 4743, February 2010
press coverage: ECONOMIST (03/19/10), DER SPIEGEL (04/03/10), Handelsblatt (03/08/10), Deutschlandfunk (03/09/10 - mp3), Berliner Zeitung (03/25/10),  Der Standard (02/21/10)

Cultural Diversity and Local Labour Markets (with Katja Wolf and Uwe Blien)
IZA Working Paper 4619, December 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)
CEPR Discussion Paper 7369, July 2009

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




Work in progress

Education, culture and mobility (with Stefan Bauernschuster, Stephan Heblich and Oliver Falck)

Structural change and regional growth (with Wolfgang Dauth)

Make or buy – on the organizational structure of firms with asymmetric suppliers (with Verena Nowak and Christian Schwarz)

Trade and local labor markets in Germany (with Wolfgang Dauth and Sebastian Findeisen)

 
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Publications in refereed journals

forthcoming

Globalization and Strategic Research Investments (with Anna Bohnstedt and Christian Schwarz)
forthcoming: Research Policy, 2012, Vol. 41 (1): 13-23. (pdf)


2011

 Zipf's Law for Cities in the Regions and the Country (with Kristian Giesen),
Journal of Economic Geography, 2011, Vol. 11 (4): 667-686. (pdf)

On Pitchforks and Tomahawks (with Michael Pflüger)
Journal of Regional Science, 2011, Vol. 51 (2): 292-298. (pdf) - Click here for the supplementary material of this paper (ZIP-file, 386kb)


2010

Public Budget Composition, Fiscal (De-)Centralization, and Welfare (with Calin Arcalean, Gerhard Glomm and Ioana Schiopu),
Canadian Journal of Economics, 2010, Vol. 43 (3): 832-859. (pdf)

The Size Distribution Across All Cities - Double Pareto Lognormal Strikes (with Kristian Giesen and Arndt Zimmermann),
Journal of Urban Economics, 2010, Vol. 68 (2): 129-137. (pdf)

Human Capital Externalities and the Urban Wage Premium: Two Literatures and their Interrelations (with Benedikt Halfdanarson and Daniel Heuermann),
Urban Studies, 2010, Vol. 47 (4): 749-767. (pdf)

Human Capital Externalities and Growth of High- and Low-Skilled Jobs,
Jahrbuecher fuer Nationaloekonomie und Statistik, 2010, Vol 230 (1): 92-114. (pdf)

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

2009

Vertical Industry Relations, Spillovers and Productivity: Evidence from Chilean Plants (with Ricardo A. Lopez),
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)

2008

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) - The longer working paper version ("Towards a unifying approach of the new economic geography") is here

2007

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)

2006

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

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),
Jahrbuch fuer Regionalwissenschaft, 2006, Vol. 26 (1): 51-73 (pdf)

2005

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

Die Neue Oekonomische Geographie und Effizienzgruende fuer Regionalpolitik (with Michael Pflüger),
Vierteljahreshefte fuer Wirtschaftsforschung, 2005, Vol. 74 (1): 26-46

2002-2004

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

Severance Payments and Firm-Specific Human Capital (with Peter Ruehmann),
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),
Journal of Regional Science, 2011, Vol. 51 (1): 214-215

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

The Return of Depression Economics (by Paul Krugman) - book review jointly 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

Economic Patriotism, Foreign Takeovers, and National Champions
in: Falck, O., C. Gollier and L. Woessmann (eds.), Industrial Policy for National Champions, Cambridge (Mass.): MIT Press, forthcoming

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

Diversität und Spezialisierung als treibende Einfluesse von regionalem Beschäftigungswachstum (with Uwe Blien and Katja Wolf)
in: Clemens, C., M. Heinemann and S. Soretz (eds.), Auf allen Märkten zu Hause - Gedenkschrift fuer 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 Staedte - 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...

Probably because of this paper I recently developed a strong interest in dialects. In fact, 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]

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

Here is a very special hommage to the city of Duisburg, and here is a hymn of my current residence.
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