research focus

Our research focuses on topics in international economics, industrial organization and regional economics by combining theory with empirics.

In international economics, we are particularly interested in:

• the determinants and the behavior of multinational enterprises
• the role of imperfect labor markets in the global economy
• the implications of credit constraints for the behavior of firms
• the effects of taxes for the pattern of international trade

In industrial organization, we study:

• product market competition effects of trade liberalization
• the effects of credit constraints for price-cost markups

In regional economics, we focus on:

• the determinants of agglomeration
• the role of economic policy for shaping the regional distribution of economic activity