Harry Garretsen
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1150707 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Harry Garretsen |
| PRENOMES | Harry |
| SOBRENOME | Garretsen |
| ASSINATURA | GARRETSEN H |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Groningen |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9024-4222 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 38 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 300 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 38 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1994 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Globalisation in flux
A growing debate in the literature addresses the challenges posed by globalisation to regional economies and the strategic shift toward regionalisation. However, tension exists between reducing global integration and the quest for balancing global and local views on regional development. Moreover, the rising uncertainty and lack of stability in today’s global economy intensify the tension and further fuel the debate. In this paper, we contribute …
Global forces and local impacts
The pandemic that shocked managers across the world
In March 2020, the COVID-19 virus turned into a pandemic that hit organizations globally. This pandemic qualifies as an exogenous shock. Based on the threat-rigidity hypothesis, we hypothesize that this shock led to an increase in directive leadership behavior. We also argue that this relationship depends on the magnitude of the crisis and on well-learned responses of managers. In our empirical analysis we employ a differences-in-differences desi…
Firm interconnectedness and resilience
This article explores how firm interconnectedness determines firm-level resilience. We argue that firms that engage in outward foreign direct investment are more interconnected, and therefore better equipped to deal with structural and economic shocks, than firms that are not engaged in outward foreign investment. Interconnectedness is measured along two dimensions; cross-border firm linkages and embeddedness in interconnected regions. We use a s…
Managerial stereotypes over time
Purpose A key obstacle to women’s advancement to managerial roles and leadership positions is the stereotype of the “good” manager, which is characterized by masculine traits. Although this gendered managerial stereotype has been very persistent over the past decades, Powell et al. (2021) recently showed that business students in the USA reported a decreased preference for masculine leadership traits and an increased preference for feminine leade…
Globalisation in reverse? Reconfiguring the geographies of value chains and production networks
Standing at a crossroads, where ongoing ‘slowbalisation’ coincides with new forces such as the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, heightened geopolitical tensions, the emergence of disruptive technologies and the increasing urgency of addressing environmental challenges, many important questions remain unsolved regarding the nature and impact of the current economic globalisation. This special issue on ‘Globalisation in Reverse? Reconfiguring the…
Leading and Working From Home in Times of Covid-19
Due to the COVID-19 crisis, managers and employees in many organizations suddenly are forced to work from home. Although working from home (WFH) is not a new phenomenon, it is new in its current scale and scope because of COVID-19. Against this background, we investigate the effect of WFH during the COVID-19 crisis on changes in leadership behaviors, and associated changes in perceived manager quality and productivity, at different hierarchical l…
The turn from just-in-time to just-in-case globalization in and after times of Covid-19
In this essay, we apply insights from International Economics and Economic Geography to examine how the current COVID-19 crisis may structurally change the international economy. Our key argument is that the current crisis will fundamentally change key economic actors' risk appetite, triggering a renewed risk assessment that will lead to the comeback of buffers and borders across industries. This partial return to regionalization will involve a f…
Political ideology and the intragenerational prospect of upward mobility
We re-examine the effect of prospects of upward mobility (POUM) on the support for redistribution. Unlike previous studies, we analyse this relation in an intragenerational context and consider the moderating effect of political ideology through which mobility expectations affect redistributive preferences. We find that the POUM effect is conditional on political preferences. That is, we find that only for right-wing individuals expected upward i…
The New Silk Roads
You Can Leave Your Glasses on
Does wearing glasses hurt or help politicians in elections? Although some research shows that glasses signal unattractiveness, glasses also increase perceptions of competence. In eight studies, participants voted for politicians wearing (photoshopped) glasses or not. Wearing glasses increased politicians' electoral success in the US (Study 1), independent of their political orientation (Studies 2a and 2b). This positive effect was especially stro…
Brexit and the relevance of regional personality traits
This article adds a psychological perspective to help explain the regional Brexit vote. Based on an extensive dataset with personality traits, combined with socio-economic data, our findings suggest that the regional clustering of these personality traits contribute to an understanding of the regional dispersion of the Brexit vote. We find evidence that psychological 'Openness' is the personality trait that matters most and that modest changes in…
The relevance of personality traits for urban economic growth
Economic growth differences across regions and cities can only be partly explained by standard explanations in economic geography. One reason for this might be the neglect of the psychological make-up of cities and its citizens. To assess the value added of incorporating psychological factors alongside the more standard explanations, this paper tests the relevance of personality traits for economic growth for a sample of UK cities. We argue that …
Consequences of Brexit and options for a 'Global Britain’
Economics without equilibrium
Nicholas Kaldor (1908–86) was one of the leading economists in Britain for much of the 20th century, and especially so in the decades right after the Second World War. And as these invited lectures
Urban development in China
Urbanization is important for economic development. As the largest country in the world in terms of population, China has experienced a remarkable history of urbanization; one 1000 years ago it housed the largest cities in world, it went through a counter-urbanization revolution during the Mao reign. China is rapidly urbanizing again since the 1978 economic reforms of 1978, also compared to other countries. Given the sheer size of the country and…
Taxi drivers with a PhD
Attracting higher educated workers is often seen as a means to stimulate employment in cities in general, leading to lower unemployment for the lower educated, the 'trickledown' effect. However, lower educated workers may also experience crowding-out effects if these higher educated inhabitants accept jobs below their educational level. Based on an empirical analysis of a cross-section of Dutch cities, we find that these crowding-out effects inde…
CJRES ix/3 (2016年11月)
Amenities and the attraction of Dutch cities
Amenities and the attraction of Dutch cities. Regional Studies. Research on the relevance of amenities for urban wages, jobs or housing prices has mainly focused on the case of US cities. In many (European) countries, the labour and housing markets function, however, rather differently than in the case of the United States. As a result, amenities may affect urban labour or housing markets differently. In addition, in European countries the proxim…
Regional resilience across Europe
Using a novel data set for 207 European regions from 22 different countries, we analyse the relevance of urbanisation for the short-term resilience to a major shock. We take the Great Recession, the economic and financial crisis that started in 2008, as our shock and analyse how the European NUTS 2 regions differ in their short-run resilience in the aftermath to the crisis in terms of unemployment and real GDP per capita. We find that the degree …
Shocking aspects of monetary union
The economic recession in Europe, triggered by the financial crisis of 2008–2009, has rekindled the debate over whether Europe constitutes a viable single currency area. A key issue concerns the relationship between regional economic cyclicity and monetary union: in the absence of a common automatic fiscal stabilization mechanism and with limited geographical mobility of factors, the greater the asymmetry of shocks across the regions making up a …
Town Twinning and German City Growth
Brakman S., Garretsen H. and Oumer A. Town twinning and German city growth, Regional Studies. After the Second World War, town twinning became popular, notably in Germany. This was mainly a reaction to the war experience, and it was initially aimed at creating renewed international understanding and cooperation between former enemies. It also reduced transaction costs. The results show that counties that engage in town twinning grow faster than c…
Spatial Concentration of Manufacturing Firms in China
The future of regional policy
Recessionary Shocks and Regional Employment
We analyze the resilience of U.K. regions to employment shocks. Two basic notions of resilience are distinguished. With engineering resilience, there is an underlying stable growth path to which a regional economy rebounds following a shock. With ecological resilience, shocks can permanently affect the growth path of the regional economy. Our data set consists of quarterly employment series for 12 U.K. regions (NUTS I) for the period 1971–2010. U…
The strategic bombing of German cities during World War II and its impact on city growth
It is a stylized fact that city size distributions are rather stable over time. Explanations for city growth and the resulting city-size distributions fall into two broad groups. On the one hand there are theories that assume city growth to be a random process and this process can result in a stable city-size distribution. On the other hand there are theories that stress that city growth and the city-size distribution are driven by economically r…
Globalisation in reverse? Reconfiguring the geographies of value chains and production networks
Standing at a crossroads, where ongoing ‘slowbalisation’ coincides with new forces such as the outbreak of the Covid-19 pandemic, heightened geopolitical tensions, the emergence of disruptive technologies and the increasing urgency of addressing environmental challenges, many important questions remain unsolved regarding the nature and impact of the current economic globalisation. This special issue on ‘Globalisation in Reverse? Reconfiguring the…
Shocking aspects of monetary union
The economic recession in Europe, triggered by the financial crisis of 2008–2009, has rekindled the debate over whether Europe constitutes a viable single currency area. A key issue concerns the relationship between regional economic cyclicity and monetary union: in the absence of a common automatic fiscal stabilization mechanism and with limited geographical mobility of factors, the greater the asymmetry of shocks across the regions making up a …
Looking for multiple equilibria when geography matters
The New Silk Roads
Brexit and the relevance of regional personality traits
This article adds a psychological perspective to help explain the regional Brexit vote. Based on an extensive dataset with personality traits, combined with socio-economic data, our findings suggest that the regional clustering of these personality traits contribute to an understanding of the regional dispersion of the Brexit vote. We find evidence that psychological 'Openness' is the personality trait that matters most and that modest changes in…
Amenities and the attraction of Dutch cities
Amenities and the attraction of Dutch cities. Regional Studies. Research on the relevance of amenities for urban wages, jobs or housing prices has mainly focused on the case of US cities. In many (European) countries, the labour and housing markets function, however, rather differently than in the case of the United States. As a result, amenities may affect urban labour or housing markets differently. In addition, in European countries the proxim…
Regional resilience across Europe
Using a novel data set for 207 European regions from 22 different countries, we analyse the relevance of urbanisation for the short-term resilience to a major shock. We take the Great Recession, the economic and financial crisis that started in 2008, as our shock and analyse how the European NUTS 2 regions differ in their short-run resilience in the aftermath to the crisis in terms of unemployment and real GDP per capita. We find that the degree …
Relaxing Hukou
The future of regional policy
Consequences of Brexit and options for a 'Global Britain’
The world is not flat
Susan Christopherson, Harry Garretsen and Ron Martin Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University, 129 Sibley, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA. [email protected] Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen, PO Box, 800, 9700 AV Groningen, The Netherlands. [email protected] Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Downing Place, Cambridge CB2 3EN, UK. [email protected]
"Rethinking the "New' Geographical Economics
B RAKMAN S. and G ARRETSEN H. (2003) Rethinking the "new' geographical economics, Reg. Studies 37 , 637-648. Mainstream economics and geography have largely developed separately. With some notable exceptions, this had led to a situation in which economists and geographers analyse similar issues, but do so in a very different framework and without taking much notice of each other's work. The main topic of this paper is to show that something might…
Economic development and the geography of institutions
To explain cross-country income differences, research has recently focused on the so-called deep determinants of economic development, notably institutions and geography. This article shows that it is not only absolute geography, in terms of for instance climate or being landlocked, but also relative geography, the spatial linkages between countries, that matters for a country's GDP per capita. More specifically, we analyze the importance of the …
Leading and Working From Home in Times of Covid-19
Due to the COVID-19 crisis, managers and employees in many organizations suddenly are forced to work from home. Although working from home (WFH) is not a new phenomenon, it is new in its current scale and scope because of COVID-19. Against this background, we investigate the effect of WFH during the COVID-19 crisis on changes in leadership behaviors, and associated changes in perceived manager quality and productivity, at different hierarchical l…
Global forces and local impacts
The relevance of personality traits for urban economic growth
Economic growth differences across regions and cities can only be partly explained by standard explanations in economic geography. One reason for this might be the neglect of the psychological make-up of cities and its citizens. To assess the value added of incorporating psychological factors alongside the more standard explanations, this paper tests the relevance of personality traits for economic growth for a sample of UK cities. We argue that …
You Can Leave Your Glasses on
Does wearing glasses hurt or help politicians in elections? Although some research shows that glasses signal unattractiveness, glasses also increase perceptions of competence. In eight studies, participants voted for politicians wearing (photoshopped) glasses or not. Wearing glasses increased politicians' electoral success in the US (Study 1), independent of their political orientation (Studies 2a and 2b). This positive effect was especially stro…
Town Twinning and German City Growth
Brakman S., Garretsen H. and Oumer A. Town twinning and German city growth, Regional Studies. After the Second World War, town twinning became popular, notably in Germany. This was mainly a reaction to the war experience, and it was initially aimed at creating renewed international understanding and cooperation between former enemies. It also reduced transaction costs. The results show that counties that engage in town twinning grow faster than c…
The Journal of Economic Geography a decade on
In terms of the discipline of economic geography, 2011 is a significant year for two, interrelated, reasons. For one thing, it marks a decade since the launch of the Journal of Economic Geography (JEG), which over this limited span of time has experienced a meteoric rise to prominence among both geographical and economics journals. For another, it marks two decades since the publication of two works by Paul Krugman (1991a, b) which formed the bas…
References across the fence
In this article, we try to measure the dialogue between economists and geographers. It has been argued that this dialogue can be best described as one of 'mutual neglect' but quantitative evidence is scarce. Our main data set covers all references from the first decade of the Journal of Economic Geography. Based on our results, the 'mutual neglect' obervation should be qualified. First, and correcting for the fact that geographers generally cite …
Firm interconnectedness and resilience
This article explores how firm interconnectedness determines firm-level resilience. We argue that firms that engage in outward foreign direct investment are more interconnected, and therefore better equipped to deal with structural and economic shocks, than firms that are not engaged in outward foreign investment. Interconnectedness is measured along two dimensions; cross-border firm linkages and embeddedness in interconnected regions. We use a s…
Adding geography to the new economic geography
For reasons of analytical tractability, new economic geography (NEG) models treat geography in a very simple way, focusing on stylized 'unidimensional' geography structures (e.g. an equidistant or line economy). All the well-known NEG results are based on these simple geography structures. When doing empirical work, these simplifying assumptions become problematic: it may very well be that the main NEG results do not carry over to the heterogeneo…
Trade costs in empirical New Economic Geography
Spatial circuits of global finance
Harry Garretsen, Michael Kitson and Ron Martin Department of International Economics and Business, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen, PO Box 800, 9700 AV, Groningen, The Netherlands, [email protected] Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1AG, UK, [email protected] Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Downing Place, Cambridge CB2 3EN, UK, [email protected]
Keynes, Coordination and Beyond
Journal Article Keynes, Coordination and Beyond: The Development of Macroeconomic and Monetary Theory Since 1945 Get access Keynes, Coordination and Beyond: The Development of Macroeconomic and Monetary Theory Since 1945. By Garretsen (Harry). (Aldershot and Brookfield, VT: Edward Elgar, 1992. Pp. ix + 228. £39.95 hardback. ISBN 1 852786205.) Robert W. Dimand Robert W. Dimand Brock University Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Acade…
"Rethinking the "New' Geographical Economics
B RAKMAN S. and G ARRETSEN H. (2003) Rethinking the "new' geographical economics, Reg. Studies 37 , 637-648. Mainstream economics and geography have largely developed separately. With some notable exceptions, this had led to a situation in which economists and geographers analyse similar issues, but do so in a very different framework and without taking much notice of each other's work. The main topic of this paper is to show that something might…
The strategic bombing of German cities during World War II and its impact on city growth
It is a stylized fact that city size distributions are rather stable over time. Explanations for city growth and the resulting city-size distributions fall into two broad groups. On the one hand there are theories that assume city growth to be a random process and this process can result in a stable city-size distribution. On the other hand there are theories that stress that city growth and the city-size distribution are driven by economically r…
Looking for multiple equilibria when geography matters
The world is not flat
Susan Christopherson, Harry Garretsen and Ron Martin Department of City and Regional Planning, Cornell University, 129 Sibley, Ithaca, NY 14853, USA. [email protected] Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen, PO Box, 800, 9700 AV Groningen, The Netherlands. [email protected] Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Downing Place, Cambridge CB2 3EN, UK. [email protected]
Economic development and the geography of institutions
To explain cross-country income differences, research has recently focused on the so-called deep determinants of economic development, notably institutions and geography. This article shows that it is not only absolute geography, in terms of for instance climate or being landlocked, but also relative geography, the spatial linkages between countries, that matters for a country's GDP per capita. More specifically, we analyze the importance of the …
Spatial circuits of global finance
Harry Garretsen, Michael Kitson and Ron Martin Department of International Economics and Business, Faculty of Economics and Business, University of Groningen, PO Box 800, 9700 AV, Groningen, The Netherlands, [email protected] Judge Business School, University of Cambridge, Trumpington Street, Cambridge CB2 1AG, UK, [email protected] Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Downing Place, Cambridge CB2 3EN, UK, [email protected]
Adding geography to the new economic geography
For reasons of analytical tractability, new economic geography (NEG) models treat geography in a very simple way, focusing on stylized 'unidimensional' geography structures (e.g. an equidistant or line economy). All the well-known NEG results are based on these simple geography structures. When doing empirical work, these simplifying assumptions become problematic: it may very well be that the main NEG results do not carry over to the heterogeneo…
References across the fence
In this article, we try to measure the dialogue between economists and geographers. It has been argued that this dialogue can be best described as one of 'mutual neglect' but quantitative evidence is scarce. Our main data set covers all references from the first decade of the Journal of Economic Geography. Based on our results, the 'mutual neglect' obervation should be qualified. First, and correcting for the fact that geographers generally cite …
Trade costs in empirical New Economic Geography
Geography and development
The recent (re-)discovery of geography by economists through the lens of the new economic geography literature (Krugman, 1991) has had its counterpart in policy making with the promotion of the idea that economic geography is central to understanding and influencing actual economic development. The culmination of this was the publication of the World Development Report (WDR) 2009 by the World Bank in late 2008 (World Bank, 2008). In this report, …
The Journal of Economic Geography a decade on
In terms of the discipline of economic geography, 2011 is a significant year for two, interrelated, reasons. For one thing, it marks a decade since the launch of the Journal of Economic Geography (JEG), which over this limited span of time has experienced a meteoric rise to prominence among both geographical and economics journals. For another, it marks two decades since the publication of two works by Paul Krugman (1991a, b) which formed the bas…
Recessionary Shocks and Regional Employment
We analyze the resilience of U.K. regions to employment shocks. Two basic notions of resilience are distinguished. With engineering resilience, there is an underlying stable growth path to which a regional economy rebounds following a shock. With ecological resilience, shocks can permanently affect the growth path of the regional economy. Our data set consists of quarterly employment series for 12 U.K. regions (NUTS I) for the period 1971–2010. U…
Relaxing Hukou
The future of regional policy
Spatial Concentration of Manufacturing Firms in China
Regional resilience across Europe
Using a novel data set for 207 European regions from 22 different countries, we analyse the relevance of urbanisation for the short-term resilience to a major shock. We take the Great Recession, the economic and financial crisis that started in 2008, as our shock and analyse how the European NUTS 2 regions differ in their short-run resilience in the aftermath to the crisis in terms of unemployment and real GDP per capita. We find that the degree …
Shocking aspects of monetary union
The economic recession in Europe, triggered by the financial crisis of 2008–2009, has rekindled the debate over whether Europe constitutes a viable single currency area. A key issue concerns the relationship between regional economic cyclicity and monetary union: in the absence of a common automatic fiscal stabilization mechanism and with limited geographical mobility of factors, the greater the asymmetry of shocks across the regions making up a …
Town Twinning and German City Growth
Brakman S., Garretsen H. and Oumer A. Town twinning and German city growth, Regional Studies. After the Second World War, town twinning became popular, notably in Germany. This was mainly a reaction to the war experience, and it was initially aimed at creating renewed international understanding and cooperation between former enemies. It also reduced transaction costs. The results show that counties that engage in town twinning grow faster than c…
Urban development in China
Urbanization is important for economic development. As the largest country in the world in terms of population, China has experienced a remarkable history of urbanization; one 1000 years ago it housed the largest cities in world, it went through a counter-urbanization revolution during the Mao reign. China is rapidly urbanizing again since the 1978 economic reforms of 1978, also compared to other countries. Given the sheer size of the country and…
Taxi drivers with a PhD
Attracting higher educated workers is often seen as a means to stimulate employment in cities in general, leading to lower unemployment for the lower educated, the 'trickledown' effect. However, lower educated workers may also experience crowding-out effects if these higher educated inhabitants accept jobs below their educational level. Based on an empirical analysis of a cross-section of Dutch cities, we find that these crowding-out effects inde…
CJRES ix/3 (2016年11月)
Amenities and the attraction of Dutch cities
Amenities and the attraction of Dutch cities. Regional Studies. Research on the relevance of amenities for urban wages, jobs or housing prices has mainly focused on the case of US cities. In many (European) countries, the labour and housing markets function, however, rather differently than in the case of the United States. As a result, amenities may affect urban labour or housing markets differently. In addition, in European countries the proxim…
Consequences of Brexit and options for a 'Global Britain’
Economics without equilibrium
Nicholas Kaldor (1908–86) was one of the leading economists in Britain for much of the 20th century, and especially so in the decades right after the Second World War. And as these invited lectures
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