Geography and Environment Discussion Paper Series
About the series
The Department of Geography and Environment launched a new discussion paper series in June 2020, publishing high quality research from scholars across LSE.
Discussion papers feature drafts of departmental research prior to publication as journal articles or book chapters, as well as timely contributions to ongoing policy debates.
In addition to contributions from LSE staff and research students in the department, the series hosts occasional invited contributions from distinguished scholars from around the world.
All discussion papers appear on LSE Research Onlineand are indexed by REPEC.
Papers are associated with one, or more, of our departmental research clusters and are themed accordingly:
- Papers in Economic Geography and Spatial Economics
- Papers in Urbanisation, Planning and Development
- Papers in Environmental Economics and Policy
How do I submit?
LSE staff and research students interested in submitting to the series should refer to the Style Guide.
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Professor Charles Palmer
Professor Hyun Bang Shin
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Are cities the real engines of growth in the EU?
Lewis Dijkstra, Mert Kompil and Paola Proietti
Paper No. 52, October 2025
Mobile internet connectivity and household wealth in the Philippines
Zhiwu Wei, Neil Lee and Yohan Iddawela
Paper No. 51, July 2025
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
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
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
Vito Amendolagine, Riccardo Crescenzi and Roberta Rabellotti
Paper No. 33, July 2022
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
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
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
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
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
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
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 citySandro 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 innovationRiccardo 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 CaracasRyan Centner
Paper No. 5, June 2020
The Geography of Innovation and Development:
global spread and local hotspotsRiccardo 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 electionCharles Palmer and Diana Weinhold
Paper No. 3, June 2020
Building the city:
from slums to a modern metropolisJ. Vernon Henderson, Tanner Regan, and Anthony J. Venables
Paper No. 2, June 2020
Jordana Ramalho and Sylvia Chant
Paper No. 1, June 2020