Overview
Henry G. Overman is an economist (London School of Economics, Department of Geography and Environment; director of the What Works Centre for Local Economic Growth and formerly the Spatial Economics Research Centre), working on urban and regional economics, agglomeration, and place-based policy.
Key Contributions / Features
- Identification critique of spatial econometrics (Gibbons-Overman 2012): with Gibbons, the argument for identification-first, experimentalist spatial economics.
- Research on trade and economic geography, cities and agglomeration, and the evaluation of regional/local economic policy.
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