Regions & maps

Which European regions depend most on exports?

NUTS-2 regional accounts, mapped and comparable across borders.

When jobs appear in one place, who actually gets them?

Monte, Redding and Rossi-Hansberg show that how much local employment responds to a local labour demand shock depends on how...

Ferdinando Monte, Stephen J. Redding, Esteban Rossi-Hansberg (2018) · American Economic Review 108(12)

Being near other firms helps — but how near is near enough?

Rosenthal and Strange review the evidence on how agglomeration benefits attenuate with distance. The effects operate at...

Stuart S. Rosenthal, William C. Strange (2020) · Journal of Economic Perspectives 34(3)

Why have big cities pulled away from everywhere else since the 1990s?

Eeckhout, Hedtrich and Pinheiro identify differential information technology investment as a key driver of job and wage...

Jan Eeckhout, Christoph Hedtrich, Roberto Pinheiro (2025) · American Economic Journal: Macroeconomics

Can a government close a regional gap by directing land to poorer places?

Fang studies a major Chinese land policy that allocated more urban land quota to underdeveloped inland regions in order to...

Min Fang (2026) · Working paper

Do the best firms make cities productive, or do productive cities attract the best firms?

Gaubert builds a theory of where heterogeneous firms locate across cities and sectors. In equilibrium the distribution of city...

Cecile Gaubert (2018) · American Economic Review 108(11)

Business demography by region and size class (NUTS 3)

Enterprise births, deaths, survivals and populations for 1,250 European regions, by size class. The European counterpart to the Canadian business...

Commuting openness: does a region's workforce work in it?

Of the employed people living in a region, how many work in that same region, how many in another region of the same country, and how many in a...

Regional GDP at NUTS-2 level (Eurostat)

Regional accounts from nama_10r_2gdp, the meso layer for spatial analysis and choropleth maps.

Regional population: the denominator every regional ratio needs

Average annual population by NUTS region, the series Eurostat itself uses as the denominator for regional GDP per head, plus resident population...