Maarten Bosker's research while affiliated with Erasmus University Rotterdam and other places

... Actor-centric approaches and assessments using the information on administrative units (mostly cities and regions) have undeniably improved our understanding of the dynamics of knowledge-intensive entrepreneurship. However, for the reasons exposed earlier in this paper, they fall short in providing a proper comprehension of how EE spread across territories, thus seldom reflecting how economic events occur in geographical space (Bosker et al., 2018). As our argument goes, if the core of the entrepreneurial ecosystem is based on linkages and interactions, then relational data is key (Schäfer, 2021). ...

... City size is often operationalised with the help of administrative data based on zoning systems. A downside of this method is that multiple zoning systems exist with cities often spanning multiple zones (Bosker, Park, and Roberts 2021). The choice of zoning system, and the level of aggregation thereof, can greatly influence the effects of agglomerations (Briant, Combes, and Lafourcade 2010). ...

... Later work did something similar because it included trade costs based on the value of a firm's exports. Economies of scale in transport are so pervasive that ice (melted, which underlies the term "cost of the iceberg") is also subject to them (Bosker and Buringh, 2020 [27]). ...

... In recent years, with the completion of the HSR system, the interest in understanding the socioeconomic impact assessment of the HSR system has also continued to increase (Cheng and Chen, 2022;Chen, 2022). Previous studies that examined the economic effects of HSR primarily focused on the impact of HSR on economic growth (Qin, 2017), knowledge spillover (Ahlfeldt and Feddersen, 2017;Lin, 2017;Mayer and Trevien, 2017), the gaps in urban-rural incomes (Bosker et al., 2018), and labor wages (Kong et al., 2021;Fingleton and Szumilo, 2019). Although the literature has also evaluated the social and economic impact of HSR from different perspectives, the research on the mobility of high-skilled labor is still relatively limited. ...

... Similarly, Gawande and Jenkins-Smith (2001) estimate the effects of perceived risks on residential property values in locations near a road transited by nuclear waste transporters in South Carolina. A couple of Dutch studies address the impact on housing prices, insurance premiums, and capital accumulation of being located in areas prone to be flooded since a large part of the Netherlands is located below sea level (Ermolieva et al. 2017;Bosker et al. 2019). Regarding the specific case of earthquakes, in addition to those on the impact of induced earthquakes, there are many studies on the impact of natural earthquakes, among which Brookshire et al. (1997), Beron et al. (1997), Nakagawa et al. (2007), and Naoi et al. (2009). ...

... However, extracting gas from it induces mild earthquakes (Kamp 2013, p.443) that negatively impact house prices in the region. Although this impact has been clearly documented in the literature Lee 2013, 2014;Koster and van Ommeren 2015;Bosker et al. 2016;Marlet et al. 2017), there is still uncertainty about the spatial and temporal extensions of the problem. Their determination is as policy relevant as it is difficult to achieve for at least two reasons. ...

... Third, houses have become less valuable both for homeowners with and without property damage, albeit to a different degree, as a result of the mining activities. This drop in house prices usually is much greater than the one-size-fitsall amount of 4000 euros (De Kam, 2016), although different calculation methods lead to different (also lower) estimates of this price fall (Bosker et al., 2016;Koster and Van Ommeren, 2015). NAM does provide compensation for the lower value of the house, but only for those homeowners who have been able to sell the house, which may be difficult and sometimes even impossible. ...

... These results are consistent with our interpretation that a longer Muslim rule inhibited the formation of a politically and economically strong merchant class and slowed down the demand for human capital. Secondly, we make use of the panel dimension of the city-level dataset of Bosker et al. (2013) which, among others, provides valuable information on institutional variables such as the occurrence of forms of self-government. Accounting for city-and time-fixed effects, our estimates show that cities in Spain under Muslim rule between 1200 and 1500 did not develop any form of self-government. ...

... Modification of the Crozet [2004]-like NEG approach presented in the earlier section is based on the literature focused on the market potential formula applied to modeling. Very useful studies have been presented by Mayer [2003, 2004], Aoki [2007], and Bosker et al. [2010]. Head and Mayer [2003] underline that there are three main specifications of the estimated market potential. ...

... These three reviews lament the paucity of work on agglomeration effects in such countries and call for more work on the topic (Duranton, 2015). Recently, the association between urban density and productivity has been documented in a number of developing countries (e.g., Turkey [Coulibaly et al., 2007], China [Bosker et al., 2012], India [Chauvin et al., 2017], Colombia [Duranton, 2016], Sub-Saharan Africa [Siba & Söderbom, 2015], Tunisia [Amara & Thabet, 2019], Egypt [Badr et al., 2019], Morocco [Fafchamps & El Hamine, 2004], Nigeria [Owoo & Naudé, 2017], and Ethiopia [Owoo & Naudé, 2017]). ...