Henry G. Overman

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1.

Incubators, Accelerators and Regional Economic Development

IZA Discussion Paper No. 11856
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 08 Oct 2018
Margarida Madaleno, Max Nathan, Henry G. Overman and Sevrin Waights
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - London School of Economics, University College London, London School of Economics (LSE) - Department of Geography and Environment and German Institute for Economic Research (DIW Berlin)
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entrepreneurship, incubators, accelerators, clusters, cities, economic development

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Unemployment Clusters Across European Regions and Countries

London School of Economics CEP Working Paper No. 434
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 27 Nov 1999
Diego Puga and Henry G. Overman
IMDEA Social Sciences and London School of Economics (LSE) - Department of Geography and Environment
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Effect of Information and Communication Technologies on Urban Structure

CESifo Working Paper No. 2049
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 06 Jul 2007
Yannis M. Ioannides, Henry G. Overman, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg and Kurt Schmidheiny
Tufts University, London School of Economics (LSE) - Department of Geography and Environment, University of Chicago - Department of Economics and Universität Basel
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The Causal Effects of an Industrial Policy

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The Causal Effects of an Industrial Policy

IZA Discussion Paper No. 6323
Number of pages: 55 Posted: 12 Feb 2012
Chiara Criscuolo, Ralf Martin, Henry G. Overman, John Van Reenen and John Van Reenen
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Economics, London School of Economics (LSE) - Department of Geography and Environment and London School of Economics - Centre for Economic Performance (CEP)Stanford Graduate School of Business
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industrial policy, regional policy, employment, investment, productivity

The Causal Effects of an Industrial Policy

NBER Working Paper No. w17842
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 20 Feb 2012 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2022
Chiara Criscuolo, Ralf Martin, Henry G. Overman, John Van Reenen and John Van Reenen
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Centre for Economic Performance (CEP), London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Economics, London School of Economics (LSE) - Department of Geography and Environment and London School of Economics - Centre for Economic Performance (CEP)Stanford Graduate School of Business
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The Economic Geography of Trade Production and Income: A Survey of Empirics

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 16 Oct 2001
Henry G. Overman, Stephen J. Redding and Anthony J. Venables
London School of Economics (LSE) - Department of Geography and Environment, Princeton University and University of Oxford
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Economic geography, international trade, location of production, income inequality

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The Spatial Distribution of Economic Activities in the EU

Number of pages: 66 Posted: 19 Sep 2003
Pierre-Philippe Combes and Henry G. Overman
Sciences Po - Department of Economics and London School of Economics (LSE) - Department of Geography and Environment
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Location, European Union, descriptive statistics, empirical studies

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Testing for Localization Using Micro-Geographic Data

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 25 Jun 2002
Gilles Duranton and Henry G. Overman
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Geography and Environment and London School of Economics (LSE) - Department of Geography and Environment
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Localization, clusters, K-density, spatial statistics

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Agglomeration and the Adjustment of the Spatial Economy

CEPR Discussion Paper No. 5028
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 12 Sep 2005
Pierre-Philippe Combes, Gilles Duranton and Henry G. Overman
Sciences Po - Department of Economics, London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Geography and Environment and London School of Economics (LSE) - Department of Geography and Environment
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Urban systems, new economic geography, urban and regional policy, diagrammatic exposition

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Assessing the Effects of Local Taxation Using Microgeographic Data

CEPR Discussion Paper No. 5856
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 20 Dec 2006
Gilles Duranton, Laurent Gobillon and Henry G. Overman
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Geography and Environment, National Institute of Statistics and Economic Studies (INSEE) - Center for Research in Economics and Statistics (CREST) and London School of Economics (LSE) - Department of Geography and Environment
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Local taxation, spatial differencing, borders, regression discontinuity

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Trade and Economic Geography: The Impact of Eec Accession on the UK

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Trade and Economic Geography: The Impact of Eec Accession on the UK

CEPR Discussion Paper No. 5574
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 27 Jun 2006
Henry G. Overman and L. Alan Winters
London School of Economics (LSE) - Department of Geography and Environment and University of Sussex
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Economic geography, EEC, UK manufacturing

Trade and Economic Geography: The Impact of EEC Accession on the UK

The Manchester School, Vol. 79, Issue 5, pp. 994-1017, 2011
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 27 Aug 2011
Henry G. Overman and L. Alan Winters
London School of Economics (LSE) - Department of Geography and Environment and Government of the United Kingdom - Department for International Development (DFID)
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Monetary Union and the Economic Geography of Europe

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 17 Mar 2004
Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe, Henry G. Overman and Anthony J. Venables
University of Oslo - Department of Economics, London School of Economics (LSE) - Department of Geography and Environment and University of Oxford
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Exploring the Detailed Location Patterns of UK Manufacturing Industries Using Microgeographic Data

CEPR Discussion Paper No. 5858
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 20 Dec 2006
Gilles Duranton and Henry G. Overman
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Geography and Environment and London School of Economics (LSE) - Department of Geography and Environment
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Localisation, location patterns, clusters, k-density, spatial statistics

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The Geography of UK International Trade

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 31 Mar 2004
Henry G. Overman and L. Alan Winters
London School of Economics (LSE) - Department of Geography and Environment and University of Sussex
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UK trade, EEC, economic geography

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Exploring the Detailed Location Patterns of U.K. Manufacturing Industries Using Micro-Geographic Data

Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 48, Issue 1, pp. 213-243, February 2008
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 11 Jan 2008
Gilles Duranton and Henry G. Overman
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Geography and Environment and London School of Economics (LSE) - Department of Geography and Environment
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Economic Linkages Across Space

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP6786
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 12 Jun 2008
Henry G. Overman, Patricia Rice and Anthony J. Venables
London School of Economics (LSE) - Department of Geography and Environment, University of Southampton - Division of Economics and University of Oxford
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New Economic Geography, Spatial linkages, Urban and regional policy, Urban systems

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Fat City: Questioning the Relationship between Urban Sprawl and Obesity

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP6191
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 20 May 2008
Jean Eid, Henry G. Overman, Diego Puga and Matthew Turner
affiliation not provided to SSRN, London School of Economics (LSE) - Department of Geography and Environment, Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) and University of Toronto
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Obesity, selection effects, urban sprawl

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New Road Infrastructure: The Effects on Firms

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP11239
Number of pages: 63 Posted: 25 Apr 2016
Stephen Gibbons, Teemu Lyytikäinen, Henry G. Overman and Rosa Sanchis-Guarner
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Geography and Environment, Government of the Republic of Finland - VATT Institute for Economic Research, London School of Economics (LSE) - Department of Geography and Environment and Queen Mary University of London - School of Economics and Finance
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accessibility, employment, productivity, transport

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Spatial Methods

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP10135
Number of pages: 68 Posted: 25 Sep 2014
Stephen Gibbons, Henry G. Overman and Eleonora Patacchini
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics (LSE) - Department of Geography and Environment and Einaudi Institute for Economics and Finance (EIEF)
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agglomeration, neighbourhood effects, spatial analysis, spatial econometrics, weights matrix

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The Causal Effects of an Industrial Policy

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP8818
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 01 Mar 2012
Chiara Criscuolo, Ralf Martin, Henry G. Overman, John Van Reenen and John Van Reenen
Organization for Economic Co-Operation and Development (OECD), Imperial College London, London School of Economics (LSE) - Department of Geography and Environment and London School of Economics - Centre for Economic Performance (CEP)Stanford Graduate School of Business
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employment, industrial policy, investment, productivity, regional policy

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'GIS a Job': What Use Geographical Information Systems in Spatial Economics?

Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 50, Issue 1, pp. 165-180, February 2010
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 08 Feb 2010
Henry G. Overman
London School of Economics (LSE) - Department of Geography and Environment
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Labour Pooling as a Source of Agglomeration: An Empirical Investigation

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP7174
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 18 Feb 2009
Henry G. Overman and Diego Puga
London School of Economics (LSE) - Department of Geography and Environment and IMDEA Social Sciences
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labour market pooling, spatial concentration

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The (Displacement) Effects of Spatially Targeted Enterprise Initiatives: Evidence from UK LEGI

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP11112
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 17 Feb 2016
Elias Einiö and Henry G. Overman
VATT Institute for Economic Research and London School of Economics (LSE) - Department of Geography and Environment
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displacement, employment, place-based policy, programme evaluation

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Mostly Pointless Spatial Econometrics?

Journal of Regional Science, Vol. 52, Issue 2, pp. 172-191, 2012
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 21 Apr 2012
Stephen Gibbons and Henry G. Overman
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Geography and Environment and London School of Economics (LSE) - Department of Geography and Environment
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Decomposing the Growth in Residential Land in the United States

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP6190
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 20 May 2008
Henry G. Overman, Diego Puga and Matthew Turner
London School of Economics (LSE) - Department of Geography and Environment, Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) and University of Toronto
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Land use, population growth

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The Local Economic Impacts of Regeneration Projects: Evidence from UK's Single Regeneration Budget

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP12311
Number of pages: 44 Posted: 26 Sep 2017
Stephen Gibbons, Henry G. Overman and Matti Sarvimäki
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics (LSE) - Department of Geography and Environment and Aalto University - Department of Economics
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employment, neighbourhoods, regeneration, Single Regeneration Budget, urban policy

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Why Does Birthplace Matter so Much? Sorting, Learning and Geography

CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP11085
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 02 Feb 2016
Clément Bosquet and Henry G. Overman
Université Paris I Panthéon-Sorbonne - Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne (CES) and London School of Economics (LSE) - Department of Geography and Environment
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lifetime mobility, place of birth, spatial sorting

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Area Disparities in Britain: Understanding the Contribution of People vs. Place Through Variance Decompositions

Oxford Bulletin of Economics and Statistics, Vol. 76, Issue 5, pp. 745-763, 2014
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 27 Aug 2014
Stephen Gibbons, Henry G. Overman, Panu Pelkonen and Panu Pelkonen
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Geography and Environment, London School of Economics (LSE) - Department of Geography and Environment and London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Centre for Economic Performance (CEP)University of Sussex - Department of Economics
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Spatial Patterns of Development and the British Housing Market

Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Vol. 24, Issue 1, pp. 59-78, 2008
Posted: 02 Jul 2008
Timothy Leunig and Henry G. Overman
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Economic History and London School of Economics (LSE) - Department of Geography and Environment

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agglomeration economies, housing location, market potential, migration, spatial economics, urban economics