Welcome to the personal website of Frank van Oort. I am Professor of Urban and Regional Economics at Erasmus University Rotterdam, the Netherlands. My research interests include:
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In the Netherlands, a shift occurred over the last two decades from positively framed spatial-economic policies promoting the development of extra-large distribution centres (DCs) and their claimed positive employment benefits towards a critical stance questioning the benefits of such policies, fuelled by the connected debate regarding the extensive land use and environmental impacts of DCs. … Continue reading The limited regional employment benefits of XXL-logistics centres in The Netherlands
Wessel Ouwehand, Frank van Oort & Nicola Cortinovis, in Regional Studies (2021). Open Access. Through an analysis of total factor productivity for European regions using an econometric identification strategy, we find that significant impacts exist for both urban size and structure. A larger urban size positively affects regional productivity. Polycentric urban structures have no directly … Continue reading Spatial structure and productivity in European regions
Mark Thissen, Frank van Oort, Philip McCann, Raquel Ortega-Argiles & Trond Husby (2020) in Economic Geography. [open access] Any form of Brexit will impact heterogeneously in terms of sectors and regions on the competitive position of firms in both the UK and Europe. The ongoing uncertainty about the conditions under which the UK will be … Continue reading The implications of Brexit for UK and EU regional competitiveness
Nicola Cortinovis, Riccardo Crescenzi & Frank van Oort (2020), Journal of Economic Geography [open access] This article investigates the link between multinational enterprises (MNEs) and employment in their host regions by cross-fertilising the literature on MNE externalities with the emerging body of research on industrial relatedness. The link between employment and MNE presence in the … Continue reading Multinational enterprises, industrial relatedness and employment in European regions
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