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Martijn J. Burger, BA MSc

PhD Researcher, Department of Applied Economics, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam

University Education and Academic Degrees

Current: PhD in Urban and Regional Economics, Erasmus School of Economics, Erasmus University Rotterdam

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. Economics of Agglomeration

2. Urban Networks and City Development

3. Gravity Models, FDI and Trade

4. Proximity, Social Networks and Strategic Alliances

5. Bubbles

Publications and Work in Preparation

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

Articles in Refereed International Journals

Ronald S. Wall, Martijn J. Burger & Bert van der Knaap (2010), ‘The geography of global corporate networks: the poor, the rich and the happy few’. Accepted and forthcoming in Environment and Planning A. Working paper: GaWC Research Bulletin 348.

Bastiaan de Goei, Martijn J. Burger, Frank G. van Oort & Michael Kitson (in press, 2010), ‘Functional polycentrism and urban network development in the Greater South East UK: Evidence from commuting patterns, 1981-2001’. Accepted and forthcoming in Regional Studies. 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, 2010), ‘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.

Martijn J. Burger, Frank G. van Oort, Ronald S. Wall & Mark J.P.M. Thissen (in press, 2010), ‘Market overlap between cities in the Dutch Randstad’. 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.

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.

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.

Dutch Books and Contributions to Edited Volumes

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, 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.

Professional Publications

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.

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

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.

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, 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.

Working Papers / Work in Progress

Martijn J. Burger, Bastiaan de Goei, Lambert van der Laan & Fieke M.J. Huisman (2010), ‘Heterogeneous development of metropolitan spatial structure: evidence from commuting patterns in English and Welsh city-regions’.

Martijn J. Burger, Bas Karreman, Frank G. van Oort & Matthias Brienen (2010), Location decisions of Chinese MNEs in European regions: the role of overseas communities’.

Martijn J. Burger & Evert J. Meijers (2010), ‘Form follows function? Linking morphological and functional polycentricity’. Working Paper: GaWC Research Bulletin 344.

Martijn J. Burger, Evert J. Meijers & W. Zonneveld (2010), ‘An unique natural experiment of Christallerian thought 75 years onwards: the contemporary spatial organization of the Dutch Noordoostpolder’.

Martijn J. Burger & Frank G. van Oort (2010). ‘Agglomeration externalities and spatial bewilderment: a field experiment on the Modifiable Areal Unit Problem’.

Martijn J. Burger & Sandra M.W. Phlippen (2010), ‘Proximity and alliances in the biopharmaceutical industry’.

Martijn J. Burger, Mark J.P.M. Thissen, Frank G. van Oort & Dario Diodato (2010), ‘The magnitude and distance decay of trade in goods and services’.

Martijn J. Burger, Ronald S. Wall & Bert van der Knaap (2009), ‘Revealed market overlap between world cities’. Working Paper: GaWC Research Bulletin 273.

Martijn J. Burger (2010), ‘Regional spatial structure and sectoral growth patterns’.

Mark J.P.M. Thissen, Martijn J. Burger & Frank G. van Oort (2010), ‘House prices, bubbles and city size’.

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

Editorial Activities and Edited Volumes

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

Tijdschrift voor Economische en Sociale Geografie

Urban Studies

Visiting Positions:

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

Upcoming Conferences

European Regional Science Association, Linkoping, Sweden.

Workshop Urban Systems, Delft, The Netherlands.

Research Network and Workshop Organization:

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

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

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

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

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

- 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)

At the University College Utrecht