Michiel N. Daams, Ph.D. Personal Website

Michiel N. Daams, Ph.D.

Board Member — European Commercial Real Estate Data Alliance

Productivity Research Fellow – The Productivity Institute

Landscape Governance Chair’s Team — UNESCO

Assistant Professor — Department of Economic Geography
Theme Director — School for Sustainable Development
University of Groningen, the Netherlands

Faculty Page | Full Curriculum Vitae (PDF)

Selected Recent Publications

“Regions, Cities, and Finance: The Role of Capital Shocks and Banking Reforms in Shaping the UK Geography of Prosperity,” 2025, Fiscal Studies (with Colin Mayer and Philip McCann). An earlier version was published as The Productivity Institute Insights Paper No. 041, and covered by Reuters and the Financial Times.

“Is the UK Sterling-Zone an Optimal Currency Area? Comparisons with the Euro Area and the Rest of Europe Using City and Regional Investment Data,” 2025, The Productivity Institute Working Paper No. 051, covered in The Times (with Philip McCann, Paolo Veneri, and Richard Barkham).

“Capital Shocks, the Great Recession, and UK Regional Divergence,” 2024, Regional Studies (with Philip McCann, Paolo Veneri, and Richard Barkham). An earlier version was published as The Productivity Institute Working Paper No. 35.

“Capital Shocks and the Great Urban Divide,” 2024, Journal of Economic Geography (with Philip McCann, Paolo Veneri, Richard Barkham, and Dennis Schoenmaker). Covered also in a blog article for the LSE Phelan United States Centre.

“Shrinking Cities in China: A Long-Term Metropolitan Perspective,” 2024, Cities (with Tiankun Li and Frans J. Sijtsma). Covered by the South China Morning Post.

“Consistent Metropolitan Boundaries for the Remote Sensing of Urban Land,” 2023, Remote Sensing of Environment (with Alexandre Banquet, Paul Delbouve, and Paolo Veneri). Paper in extension of OECD Regional Development Paper No. 18, Paris: OECD Publishing.