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Hans Koster is Full Professor of Urban Economics and Real Estate at the Department of Spatial Economics, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam. Hans is also a Research Fellow with the Tinbergen Institute, and a Research Associate with the Centre for Economic Policy Research (CEPR).
Hans’s research concerns the economic analysis of cities, regions and the environment. His interests lie in understanding the functioning of housing and land markets, the agglomeration of firms and people within cities, the consequences of place-based policies, income inequality and segregation within cities, as well as the functioning of retail and commercial property markets within cities. Hans’s research relies on big data and the use of advanced econometric techniques.
Hans was ranked 10th in the ESB Dutch Economist Rankings in 2023, 14th in 2022, 21st in 2021 and 24th in 2020.
Hans is associate editor at Regional Science and Urban Economics and has reviewed articles submitted to the Quarterly Journal of Economics, Journal of the European Economic Association, American Economics Journal: Applied Economics, American Economics Journal: Economic Policy, American Political Science Review, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Urban Economics, Journal of Economic Geography, European Economic Review, Journal of the Association of Environmental and Resource Economists, Transportation Research Part B, and so on.

This paper investigates the role of Marshallian agglomeration forces --- input-output sharing, labour market pooling, and knowledge spillovers --- in shaping industry agglomeration in China from 1989 to 2020. We find that these forces strongly affect privately-owned manufacturing firms in ways similar to Western economies, whereas their impact on state-owned enterprises is negligible. The importance of labour market pooling declines, whereas the importance of knowledge spillovers increases over time. Labour market pooling influences the co-agglomeration of services firms. The impact of agglomeration forces on the location of primary-sector firms is minimal.