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Dr. Martijn J. Burger

Assistant Professor, Department of Applied Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam and Junior Research Fellow, Tinbergen Institute

University Education and Academic Degrees

2011: PhD in Urban and Regional Economics, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam (Cum Laude)

2006: Research MSc in Sociology and Social Research, Faculty of Social Sciences, Utrecht University (Cum Laude)

2005: MSc in Economics and Business, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam (Cum Laude)

2003: Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Social Sciences, University College, Utrecht University (With Honors)

Personal

Areas of Research Interest

- Economic sociology, urban and regional economics, economics of networks, economics of agglomerations

- Spatial econometrics, network analysis, gravity modeling, applied statistics, experimental research

- Economic and social history, international trade, world history, Dutch Golden Age

- Medical sociology, spatial epidemiology

Current Research Projects

1. Spatial Structure and Urban Networks

2. Investments and Regional Development

3. Gravity Models, FDI and Trade

4. Arts and Urban Development

5. Bubbles

Publications and Work in Preparation

Some documents can be downloaded. If not, please request by e-mail.

Doctoral Thesis

Martijn J. Burger (2011) Structure and Cooptition in Urban Networks. Rotterdam: ERIM and Haveka Publishers.

PhD was defended and awarded cum laude on September 22, 2011 at the Erasmus University Rotterdam

Promotors: Bert van der Knaap and Harry Commandeur

Other members doctoral committee: Peter Nijkamp, Philip McCann, Frank van Oort, Geert Teisman, and Frank Witlox.

Summary (in Dutch) is published in Economisch Statistische Berichten. 4619, 594.

Articles in Refereed International Journals

Martijn J. Burger & Evert J. Meijers (2011), ‘Form follows function? Linking morphological and functional polycentricity’. Accepted and forthcoming in Urban Studies. Working Paper: GaWC Research Bulletin 344.

Mirjam Hanstede, Martijn J. Burger, Anne Timmermans & Matthé P.M. Burger (2011), ‘Regional and temporal variation in hysterectomy rates and surgical routes for benign diseases in the Netherlands’. Accepted and forthcoming in Acta Obstetricia et Gynecologica Scandinavica.

Ronald S. Wall, Martijn J. Burger & Bert van der Knaap (2011), ‘The geography of global corporate networks: the poor, the rich and the happy few’, Environment and Planning A, 43(4), 904-927. Working paper: GaWC Research Bulletin 348.

Martijn J. Burger, Bastiaan de Goei, Lambert van der Laan & Fieke J.M. Huisman (2011), ‘Heterogeneous development of metropolitan spatial structure: evidence from commuting patterns in English and Welsh city-regions’. Accepted and forthcoming in Cities, 28(2), 160-170. Working Paper: GaWC Research Bulletin 367.

Bastiaan de Goei, Martijn J. Burger, Frank G. van Oort & Michael Kitson (2010), ‘Functional polycentrism and urban network development in the Greater South East UK: Evidence from commuting patterns, 1981-2001’, Regional Studies, 44(9), 1149-1170. Working paper: ERIM Research Report 2009-039-ORG and GaWC Research Bulletin 268.

Evert J. Meijers & Martijn J. Burger (2010), ‘Spatial structure and productivity in US metropolitan areas’, Environment and Planning A, 42(6), 1383-1402. Working paper: ERIM Research Report 2009-057-ORG and GaWC Research Bulletin 330.

Martijn J. Burger & Bas Karreman (2010), ‘Featured graph: Worldwide differences in executive pay, culture, well-being and economic growth’, Environment and Planning A, 42(2), 255-256.

Martijn J. Burger, Frank G. van Oort & Bert van der Knaap (2010), ‘A treatise of the geographical scale of agglomeration externalities and the MAUP’, Scienze Regionali - Italian Journal of Regional Science, 9(1), 19-40. Working paper: ERIM Research Report 2008-076-ORG

Matthias Brienen, Martijn J. Burger & Frank G. van Oort (2010), ‘The geography of Chinese and Indian greenfield investments in Europe’, Eurasian Geography and Economics, 51(2), 254-273.

Frank G. van Oort, Martijn J. Burger & Otto Raspe (2010), ‘On the economic foundations of the urban network paradigm. Spatial integration, functional integration and urban complementarities within the Dutch Randstad’, Urban Studies, 47(4), 725-748. Working paper: ERIM Research Report 2009-040-ORG and GaWC Research Bulletin 243.

Martijn J. Burger, Frank G. van Oort & Gert-Jan M. Linders (2009), ‘On the specification of the gravity model of trade: zeros, excess zeros and zero-inflated estimation’, Spatial Economic Analysis, 4(2), 167-190. Working paper: ERIM Research Report 2009-003-ORG

Martijn J. Burger, Frank G. van Oort, Koen Frenken & Bert van der Knaap (2009), ‘Networks and economic agglomerations’, Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie - Journal of Economic and Social Geography, 100(2), 139-144.

Martijn J. Burger & Vincent Buskens (2009), ‘Social context and network formation: an experimental study’, Social Networks, 31(1), 63-75. Working paper: ISCORE paper 234.

Bastiaan de Goei, Martijn J. Burger, Frank G. van Oort & Michael Kitson (2008), ‘Testing the super-region’, Town and Country Planning, 77(11), 458-464. Working paper: GaWC Research Bulletin 296.

Gert-Jan M. Linders, Martijn J. Burger & Frank G. van Oort (2008), ‘A rather empty world: the many faces of distance and the persistent resistance to international trade’, Cambridge Journal of Regions, Economy and Society, 1(3), 439-458.

International Books and Contributions to Edited Volumes

Martijn J. Burger, Frank G. van Oort & Otto Raspe (in press, 2011), ‘Agglomeration and new establishment survival: a mixed hierarchical and cross-classified model’. Forthcoming in Karima Kourtit, Peter Nijkamp and Roger Stough (eds), Drivers of Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Regional Dynamics, Berlin: Springer. Working paper: ERIM Research Report 2010-018-ORG

Martijn J. Burger, Frank G. van Oort, Ronald S. Wall & Mark J.P.M. Thissen (in press, 2011), “Analysing competitive advantage of cities in the Dutch Randstad by urban market overlap”. Forthcoming in Johan Klaesson, Börje Johansson, Charlie Karlsson and Roger Stough (eds), Metropolitan Regions: Preconditions and Strategies for Growth and Development in the Global Economy, Berlin: Springer. Working Paper: GaWC Research Bulletin 273.

Frank G. van Oort, Martijn J. Burger & Otto Raspe (2008), ‘Inter-firm relations and economic clustering in the Dutch Randstad region’, in Uwe Blien & Gunther Maier (eds), The Economics of Regional Clusters: Networks, Technology and Policy, Cheltenham, UK: Edward Elgar, Chapter 9, pp. 145-165.

Book Reviews

Martijn J. Burger & Bas Karreman (2010), Book Review on “Peter Buckley (2010), China, Foreign Direct Investment and the World Economy”, Regional Studies, 44(9), 1302-1304.

Martijn J. Burger & Frank van Oort, Book Review on “Peter van Bergeijk & Steven Brakman (2010), The Gravity Model in International Trade: Advances and Applications”, Economisch Statistische Berichten, 4599, 766 (in Dutch).

Articles in Refereed Dutch Journals

Mark Thissen, Martijn Burger & Frank van Oort (2010), Huizenprijzen, luchtbellen en stedelijke groei, Tijdschrift voor Politieke Ekonomie - Digitaal, 4(2), 73-92.

Frank van Oort, Martijn Burger, Mark Thissen & Evert-Jan Visser (2009), De ontwikkeling van economische specialisaties en complementariteit in de Randstad in de periode 1963-2004, Holland Historisch Tijdschrift, 41(3), 240-252.

Frank G. van Oort, Martijn J. Burger & Gert-Jan M. Linders (2008), ‘De vele gezichten van afstand in internationale handelsrelaties‘, Tijdschrift voor Politieke Ekonomie - Digitaal, 2(4), 106-124.

Frank G. van Oort, Otto Raspe & Martijn J. Burger (2007), ‘Economische netwerken en stedelijke complementariteit in de Randstad’, Kwartaalschrift Economie, 4(1), 11-25.

Professional Publications

Martijn Burger (2011), Fusie Randstadprovincies niet zonder meer effectief, Reformatorisch Dagblad, 26 September 2011.

Martijn Burger & Frank Neffke (2011), Economische waarde van kunst en cultuur, EconomieOpinie.nl, January 2011.

Matthias Brienen, Martijn Burger & Bas Karreman (2011), Chinese investeringen in Europa en Nederland, Economisch Statistische Berichten, 4602, 74-76.

Evert Meijers & Martijn J. Burger (2009), Randstad, Groot-Amsterdam of de Vleugels?, Rooilijn, 41(6), 428-433.

Martijn J. Burger, Gert-Jan M. Linders, Frank G. van Oort & Sandra M.W. Phlippen (2009), ‘Afstand en internationale handel’, in L. van der Laan & M. Versantvoort, Netwerken en Regionale Analyse, Delft: Eburon, pp. 115-126.

Frank G. van Oort, Martijn J. Burger & Ronald S. Wall (2008), Metropool aan de macht: lessen uit de grote wereld, FD Outlook, November 2008, 53-59.

Frank G. van Oort, Martijn J. Burger, Otto Raspe & Jan Ritsema van Eck (2007), ‘De Randstad hangt als los zand aaneen’, Economisch Statistische Berichten, 4510, 292-295.

Martijn J. Burger, Frank G. van Oort, Otto Raspe & Bert van der Knaap (2007), ‘Steden in de netwerkeconomie’, Geografie, 16(4), 34-36.

Martijn J. Burger (2003), ‘The forgotten gold? The importance of the Dutch opium trade in the seventeenth century’, Eidos 2, 16-21.

Reports

Frank Neffke, Martijn Burger, Frank van Oort and Ron Boschma (2010), De evolutie van gerelateerde sectoren en steden: kansen en bedreigingen in de Noordvleugel van de Randstad. Den Haag: Ministerie van Economische Zaken.

Ernst & Young with Martijn Burger and Frank van Oort (2010), Internationale Positie Noordvleugel. Den Haag: Ministerie van Economische Zaken

Ronald S. Wall with Martijn Burger, De Positie van de Noordvleugel in Europese M&A Netwerken. Den Haag: Ministerie van Economische Zaken.

Frank van Oort, Irina van Aalst, Martijn Burger, Bart Lambregts & Evert Meijers (2010), Clusters en Netwerkeconomie in de Noordvleugel van de Randstad. Den Haag: Ministerie van Economische Zaken.

Ronald S. Wall and Martijn J. Burger (2008), ‘Netprint Almere: Almere’s city hierarchy and urban performance in a world city network’, Wall Research Design / Erasmus University Rotterdam, 38 pp.

Frank G. van Oort, Judith van Brussel, Otto Raspe, Martijn J. Burger, Jacques van Dinteren & Bert van der Knaap (2006), Economische Netwerken in de Regio, Den Haag/Rotterdam: Ruimtelijk Planbureau/NAI Uitgevers.

Working Papers / Work in Progress

Martijn J. Burger, Bas Karreman, Frank G. van Oort & Matthias Brienen (2011), Location decisions of Chinese MNEs in European regions: the role of overseas communities’.

Martijn J. Burger, Evert J. Meijers & W. Zonneveld (2011), ‘An unique natural experiment of Christallerian thought 75 years onwards: the contemporary spatial organization of the Dutch Noordoostpolder’.

Martijn J. Burger & Sandra M.W. Phlippen (2011), ‘Proximity and strategic alliances in the biopharmaceutical industry’.

Martijn J. Burger, Mark J.P.M. Thissen, Frank G. van Oort & Dario Diodato (2011), ‘The magnitude and distance decay of trade in goods and services’.

Martijn J. Burger & Evert J. Meijers (2011), ‘Spatial structure and retail amenities in Dutch cities and regions’.

Martijn J. Burger, Ronald S. Wall & Bert van der Knaap, ‘Revealed competition for greenfield investments in Europe’.

Mark J.P.M. Thissen, Martijn J. Burger & Frank G. van Oort (2010), ‘House prices, bubbles and city size’. Working paper: ERIM Research Report 2010-030-ORG

Frank G. van Oort, Martijn J. Burger, Jarno Hoekman & Koen Frenken (2010), Collaboration networks as carriers of knowledge spillovers in the biotechnology industry: evidence from EU-27 regions.

Other Formal Activities

Member of the Board of the Dutch Regional Science Association (from 2010)

Guest editor for special issue of Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie—Journal of Economic and Social Geography on ‘Networks and Economic Agglomerations’, 100(2), February 2009 (with Frank G. van Oort and Koen Frenken).

Reviewing Activities

Annals of Regional Science

Regional Studies

Small Business Economics

Sociology Quarterly

Springer

Spatial Economic Analysis

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie

Urban Studies

Visiting Positions:

Netherlands Environmental Assessment Agency (PBL), The Hague, February 2009-September 2009, guest researcher

Academic Medical Center Amsterdam (AMC), Amsterdam, February 2009 – present, guest researcher

Research Network and Workshop Organization:

Organizer of Regional Studies Association Research Network ‘Regional Urban Systems and Their Performance’, January 2010—December 2011 (with Evert Meijers and Frank van Oort).

Organizer of Workshop on Multinational Strategies, Networks and Regional Economic Development, Department of Applied Economics and ERIM, Erasmus University Rotterdam, December 2011 (with Evert Meijers, Frank van Oort and Enrico Pennings).

Organizer of Workshop on Urban Systems, OTB Research Institute for the Built Environment, Delft University of Technology, September 2010 (with Evert Meijers and Frank van Oort)

Organizer of Special Session on The Regional City, Annual Meeting of the Association of American Geographers, Washington, April 2010 (with Evert Meijers and Frank van Oort).

Organizer of Workshop on Networks and Economic Agglomeration, Department of Applied Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, March 2009 (with Lambert van der Laan)

Organizer of Workshop on Applications of Network Analysis, Department of Applied Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam, November 2006 (with Rik Wenting).

Organizer of Sociology and Social Research conference, Department of Sociology, Utrecht University, April 2005 (with Katrin Drasch and Joris van der Veer)

Teaching and Teaching-Assistantships:

Present

At the Erasmus School of Economics

- Multinationals and Business Networks (Master, 2010-present)

- Seminar Topics in Organization and Strategy (Master, 2010-present)

- Governance, Clusters and Networks (Master, 2006-2009)

- Methods, Statistics and Research Project (Bachelor-1, 2007-2008)

- Organization and Strategy (Bachelor-1, 2007-2008, guest lecturer)

Past

At the Utrecht School of Economics

- Introduction to Social Science (Bachelor-1, 2005-2007)

- Organizational Sociology (Bachelor-2, 2005-2006)