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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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
Bas Karreman, Zhiling Wang & Frank van Oort (2020), Economisch Statistische Berichten. [download] De invoering van het sociale leenstelsel heeft voor veel studenten financiële consequenties. Zo bouwen ze een studieschuld op die terugbetaald moet worden, ongeacht welke studie men kiest. Maken studenten nu onder de druk van het leenstelsel ook andere studiekeuzes met een hoger verwacht … Continue reading Door leenstelsel kiezen havisten vaker studie met hoger verwacht salaris
Wen Chen, Bart Los, Philip McCann, Raquel Ortega-Argiles , Mark Thissen, Frank van Oort 19 December 2017 Also published on: https://voxeu.org/article/exposure-brexit-regions-both-sides-channel Analyses of the impact of various types of Brexit at the national level hide a lot of regional economic heterogeneity. This column deploys a new interregional dataset to quantify the shares of regional labour income … Continue reading Exposure to Brexit in regions on both sides of the Channel
