Geography and Environment Discussion Paper Series

Governance and the implementation of the EU Cohesion Policy

Viviana Celli, Riccardo Crescenzi, Guido de Blasio, Mara Giua

Paper No. 50, February 2025

Can investor coalitions drive corporate climate action?

Nikolaus Hastreiter

Paper No. 49, October 2024

Climate impacts on material wealth inequality: global evidence from a subnational dataset

Martina Pardy, Capucine Riom, and Roman Hoffmann

Paper No. 48, September 2024 

More Than Just Carbon: The Socioeconomic Co-Benefits of Large-Scale Tree Planting

Jeffrey Pagel and Lorenzo Sileci

Paper No. 47, August 2024 

Startup stations: the impact of rail accesson entrepreneurship (self-employment)in England and Wales

Rosa Sanchis-Guarner, Nikodem Szumilo and Antoine Vernet

Paper No. 46, August 2024

Heterogeneous effects of weather shocks on firm economic performance

Romano Tarsia 

Paper No. 45, July 2024

Urban land markets and city development: Sub-Saharan Africa

J. Vernon Henderson and Vivian Liu

Paper No. 44, June 2023

The local impact of closing undersized schools

Marco Di Cataldo and Giulia Romani

Paper No. 43, June 2023

The effect of weather on the willingness to pay for residential energy-efficiency

Rodolfo Sejas-Portillo

Paper No. 42, June 2023

Economic complexity, exports and natural resources in the Gulf Cooperation Council

Margarida Bandeira Morais, Simona Iammarino and Neil Lee

Paper No. 41, May 2023

Secondary housing supply

Andreas Mense

Paper No. 40, April 2023

The effect of air pollution on US aggregate production

Antonio Avila-Uribe

Paper No. 39, March 2023

High-speed broadband, school closures and educational achievements

Filippo Boeri

Paper No. 38, February 2023

How many jobs can be done at home? Not as many as you think!

Riccardo Crescenzi, Mara Giua and Davide Rigo

Paper No. 37, December 2022

When the rain comes, don’t stay at home! Regional innovation and trans-local investment in the aftermath of the Great Recession

Riccardo Crescenzi and Roberto Ganau

Paper No. 36, October 2022

Localised effects of re-allocated real estate mafia assets

Filippo Boeri, Marco Di Cataldo and Elisabetta Pietrostefani

Paper No. 35, September 2022 

Biodiversity-food trade-offs when agricultural land is spared from production

Charles Palmer, Ben Groom and Steve Langton

Paper No. 34, September 2022

The geography of acquisitions and greenfield investments: firm heterogeneity and regional institutional conditions

Vito Amendolagine, Riccardo Crescenzi and Roberta Rabellotti

Paper No. 33, July 2022

What works best in promoting climate citizenship? A randomised, systematic evaluation of nudge, think, boost and nudge+

Sanchayan Banerjee, Matteo M Galizzi, Peter John and Susana Mourato

Paper No. 32, April 2022

The Councilwoman’s Tale. Countering Intimate Partner Homicides by electing women in local councils.

Daria Denti and Alessandra Faggian,

Paper No. 31, April 2022

Why have house prices risen so much more than rents in superstar cities?

Christian Hilber and Andreas Mense

Paper No. 30, November 2021

Technology, resources and geography in a paradigm shift: the case of Critical & Conflict Materials in ICTs

Andreas Diemer, Simona Iammarino, Richard Perkins, Axel Gros

Paper No. 29, September 2021

Gathering round Big Tech: how the market for acquisitions reinforces regional inequalities in the US

Maryann Feldman, Frederick Guy, Simona Iammarino and Carolin Ioramashvili

Paper No. 28, May 2021

Barriers to humanitarian migration, victimisation and integration outcomes: evidence from Germany

Teresa Freitas-Monteiro and Lars Ludolph

Paper No. 27, May 2021

Temperature variability and long-run economic development

Manuel Linsenmeier

Paper No. 26, May 2021

Judge Dread: court severity, repossession risk and demand in mortgage and housing markets

Piero Montebruno, Olmo Silva and Nikodem Szumilo

Paper No. 25, May 2021

Mind the clock: an evidence-based approach to the implementation of Next Generation EU

Riccardo Crescenzi, Mara Giua and Giulia Valeria Sonzogno 

Paper No. 24, March 2021

Urban futures, past and present

Austin Zeiderman and Katherine Dawson

Paper No. 23, February 2021

The impact of Chinese FDI in Africa: evidence from Ethiopia

Riccardo Crescenzi and Nicola Limodio

Paper No. 22, January 2021

The micropolitics of speculative green urbanism at Forest City, Iskandar Malaysia

Sin Yee Koh, Yimin Zhao and Hyun Bang Shin

Paper No. 21, January 2021

Coming out of the woods. Do local support services influence the propensity to report sexual violence?

Daria Denti and Simona Iammarino

Paper No. 20, January 2021

Eliciting demand for title deeds: lab-in-the-field evidence from urban Tanzania

Martina Manara and Tanner Regan

Paper No. 19, November 2020

How ‘smart’ are Smart Specialisation strategies?

Marco Di Cataldo, Vassilis Monastiriotis and Andrés Rodríguez-Pose

Paper No. 18, November 2020

Credit Constraints, Labor Productivity and the Role of Regional Institutions: Evidence for Manufacturing Firms in Europe

Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Roberto Ganau, Kristina Maslauskaiteand Monica Brezzi

Paper No. 17, November 2020

Institutions and the uneven geography of the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic

Andrés Rodríguez-Pose and Chiara Burlina

Paper No. 16, November 2020

The materiality and measurement of physical climate risk: evidence from Form 8-K

Glen Gostlow

Paper No. 15, October 2020

Golfing with Trump: social capital, decline, inequality, and the rise of populism in the US

Andrés Rodríguez-Pose, Neil Lee and Cornelius Lipp

Paper No. 14, September 2020

Spatial diffusion of local economic shocks in social networks: evidence from the US fracking boom

Andreas Diemer

Paper No. 13, August 2020

The right to the city centre: political struggles of street vendors in Belo Horizonte, Brazil

Mara Nogueira and Hyun Bang Shin

Paper No. 12, August 2020

Urban Violence in War and Peace: Lebanon's reconstruction

Deen Sharp

Paper No. 11, August 2020

Sanxian: re-/un-thinking Chinese urban hierarchy with a medium-sized city

Yi Jin and Yimin Zhao

Paper No. 10, July 2020

Isolated and Poor: 
the cost of remoteness from the capital city

Sandro Provenzano

Paper No. 9, July 2020

The unintended impact of Colombia's covid-19 lockdown on forest fires

Mónica Amador-Jiménez, Naomi Millner, Charles Palmer, R. Toby Pennington and Lorenzo Sileci

Paper No. 8, July 2020

Innovation catalysts: 
how multinationals reshape the global geography of innovation

Riccardo Crescenzi, Arnaud Dyevre and Frank Neffke

Paper No. 7, July 2020

On the Economic Impacts of Constraining Second Home Investments

Christian A. L. Hilber and Olivier Schöni

Paper No. 6, June 2020

Clashing Power-Geometries: 
geographic thought and the transformation of centrality in Caracas

Ryan Centner

Paper No. 5, June 2020

The Geography of Innovation and Development: 
global spread and local hotspots

Riccardo Crescenzi, Simona Iammarino, Carolin Ioramashvili, Andrés Rodríguez-Pose and Michael Storper

Paper No. 4, June 2020

Voter choice and issue salience:
environmental preferences and the 2016 Presidential election

Charles Palmer and Diana Weinhold

Paper No. 3, June 2020

Building the city: 
from slums to a modern metropolis

J. Vernon Henderson, Tanner Regan, and Anthony J. Venables

Paper No. 2, June 2020

‘Missing Girls’ in Urban Slums of the Global South? Exploring the Intersections Between Puberty, Poverty and Gender Inequality

Jordana Ramalho and Sylvia Chant

Paper No. 1, June 2020