Michiel N. Daams, Ph.D.
Assistant Professor
Department of Economic Geography
University of Groningen, the Netherlands
Theme Director
School for Sustainable Development
University of Groningen, the Netherlands
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.
- “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.