Ferdinand Rauch is Associate Professor at the Department of Economics, University of Oxford, and a CEPR Research Affiliate. He is also Fellow of Brasenose College Oxford and Visiting Research Associate at the Centre for Economic Performance (CEP) at the LSE in London. He received a PhD from the University of Vienna in 2010.
The effects of free trade inspire a lot of public debate these days, and policies to restrict trade are gaining in prominence. Economists since Adam Smith and David Ricardo have typically...
The world is urbanising rapidly (World Urbanization Prospects, the 2011 Revision). Some of its rapidly growing cities, however, seem to be misplaced. They are located in places hampered b...
