Research

Publications

Fiscal transfers to local governments and the distribution of economic activity
with Teemu Lyytikäinen and Max Toikka, forthcoming at AEJ: Economic Policy. WP version.

Indecent proposals: Estimating the impact of regional state aid through EU guideline compliance
with Jo Reynaerts, Regional Science and Urban Economics (2020), vol. 82. WP version.

Regional Competitiveness and High-Growth Firms in the EU: the Creativity Premium
with Leo Sleuwaegen, Applied Economics (2020), 52(22), pages 2325-2338. WP version.

Work in Progress

  • The impact of mortgage regulation on home ownership and household leverage: evidence from Finland’s LTC reform (with Essi Eerola & Teemu Lyytikäinen)
  • The Impact of Local Property Taxation on Firm Growth and Location: Evidence from Flanders
  • The impact of tax sharing agreements on local public finance and cross-border commuting: Evidence from the Fonds des Frontaliers (with Tidiane Ly)
  • The fast track to technological change, railways, market access and industrialization in Belgium (with Geert Goeyvaerts, Jakob Vanschoonbeek & Vincent Delabastita)
  • Local Property Tax Incentives and Wind Farm Development (with Cristina Bratu, Teemu Lyytikäinen and Marita Laukkanen)
  • Local Effects of Income Tax Allowances (with Alessandro Sovera)
  • Renovation of Multi-Family Housing: Barriers, Distributional Effects, and Policy Solutions for a Just Green Transition (with Cristina Bratu, Selina Clarke and Anna Sahari)
  • Municipal Choices Over Land Value tax vs. Building Taxes (with Teemu Lyytikäinen & Reetta Varjonen-Ollus)
  • From Farms to Forests: Minimum-Cost Land Reallocation for Carbon Sinks (with Eljas Aalto and Eero Mäkynen)

General Audience

  • Gorrens, B., Konings, J., Ramboer, S., Reynaerts, J. and Vanschoonbeek, J. (2021). Een kwantitatieve evaluatie van de Compensatie Indirecte Emissiekosten [A quantitative analysis of carbon leakage mitigation support]. Policy report for the Flemish Government.
  • Ramboer, S. and Reynaerts, J. (2018). Onroerende voorheffing remt groei bedrijven af. VIVES Briefing 2018/03. Leuven: Research Centre for Regional Economics.
  • Ramboer, S. and Reynaerts, J. (2017). De invloed van de onroerende voorheffing op ondernemingsgroei. STORE 2017/12. Leuven: Policy Research Centre Economics and Entrepreneurship.
  • Ramboer, S. and Reynaerts, J. (2017).  Staatshervorming goed voor Vlaamse werkloosheid? VIVES Briefing 2017/02. Leuven: Research Centre for Regional Economics.
  • Ramboer, S. and Sleuwaegen, L. (2016). Regionale determinanten van hoge-groei-ondernemingen.  VIVES Briefing 2016/03. Leuven: Research Centre for Regional Economics.
  • Ramboer, S. and Sleuwaegen, L. (2015). Het belang van de strategische context voor de ontwikkeling van Hoge Groei Ondernemingen.  STORE 2015/12. Leuven: Policy Research Centre Economics and Entrepreneurship.
  • Ramboer, S. (2015). Fiscal interest in Flanders: The impact of tax autonomy on productive expenditure.  Documentatieblad, 75(1), pp. 75-122.