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Biography

Dr Jan David Bakker is Assistant Professor at Bocconi University and an Associate of the Institute for Fiscal Studies. Before this he was a Research Fellow at University College London. Jan received his PhD from the University of Oxford in 2019. He has worked for the European Central Bank (2015-2016) and as a consultant on the effects of Brexit on supply chains.

Current areas of research include:

The effects of globalization across metropolitan cities and smaller towns
(Global) value chains and how they shape the distribution of economic activity across firms and locations
The effects of regulation on the UK rental market

Publications

CEP Brexit analysis Papers

Brexit and consumer food prices: May 2023 update

Brexit continues to affect the UK economy. The results in this report are updates to the original study of Bakker et al. (2022), showing that higher non-tariff barriers due to Brexit are affecting food price inflation an... Read more...

Jan David Bakker, Nikhil Datta, Richard Davies and Josh De Lyon

24 May 2023

CEP discussion papers

Non-tariff barriers and consumer prices: evidence from Brexit

Non-Tariff Barriers (NTBs) are the main policy impediment to international trade, yet little is known about their pass-through to prices. This paper exploits the Brexit trade policy shock to quantify how NTBs affect cons... Read more...

Jan David Bakker, Nikhil Datta, Richard Davies and Josh De Lyon

01 December 2022

External publications

The Economics of Brexit: What Have We Learned?

This eBook, produced by VoxEU/CEPR and UK in a Changing Europe, brings together leading academic researchers on trade, immigration and political economy to assess what we have learned, 18 months on from its implementatio... Read more...

Jan David Bakker, Nikhil Datta, Josh De Lyon, Rebecca Freeman, Kalina Manova, Luisa Opitz, Thomas Prayer, Thomas Sampson and Dilan Yang

24 June 2022

Chapter

Post-Brexit imports, supply chains, and the effect on consumer prices

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance

How Brexit has raised UK food prices

Some products imported to the UK from the European Union have been more affected by the post-Brexit trading rules than others. Jan David Bakker, Nikhil Datta, Josh De Lyon, Luisa Opitz and Dilan Yang find that leaving th... Read more...

Jan David Bakker, Nikhil Datta, Josh De Lyon, Luisa Opitz and Dilan Yang

21 June 2022

External publications

Post-Brexit imports, supply chains, and the effect on consumer prices

This report documents the decrease in imports and shows how the patterns of imports vary across sectors following the UK's departure from the Single Market and Customs Union at the end of 2020. The authors, Jan David Bak... Read more...

Jan David Bakker, Nikhil Datta, Josh De Lyon, Luisa Opitz and Dilan Yang

27 April 2022

Journal article

Of Mice and Merchants: Connectedness and the Location of Economic Activity in the Iron Age

We study the causal relationship between geographic connectedness and development using one of the earliest massive trade expansions: the first systematic crossing of open seas in the Mediterranean during the time of the... Read more...

Jan David Bakker, Stephan E. Maurer, Jörn-Steffen Pischke and Ferdinand Rauch

01 October 2021

External publications

Vulnerabilities of Supply Chains Post-Brexit

Arla Foods UK has commissioned LSE Consulting's Trade Policy Hub to deliver a study on the vulnerabilities of supply chains in the United Kingdom and the European Union after Brexit. This study provides a follow up to th... Read more...

Jan David Bakker, Nikhil Datta, Josh De Lyon and Elitsa Garnizova

01 September 2020

Blog

Vulnerabilities of supply chains post-Brexit

Nikhil Datta, Jan Bakker, Elitsa Garnizova & Josh De-Lyon show how consumers in the UK are highly dependent on products originating in the EU, where 40 percent of all consumption of food products in the UK comes from EU ... Read more...

Jan David Bakker, Nikhil Datta, Josh De Lyon and Elitsa Garnizova

01 September 2020

Journal article

Migration and Urbanization in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Although Africa has experienced rapid urbanization in recent decades, little is known about the process of urbanization across the continent. This paper exploits a natural experiment, the abolition of South African pass ... Read more...

Jan David Bakker, Christopher Parsons and Ferdinand Rauch

01 June 2020

CentrePiece - The magazine of the Centre for Economic Performance

Trade and growth in the Iron Age

Stephan Maurer and colleagues investigate the growth effects of one of the first trade expansions in history: the crossing of the Mediterranean by the Phoenicians ... Read more...

Jan David Bakker, Stephan E. Maurer, Jörn-Steffen Pischke and Ferdinand Rauch

01 March 2019

CEP discussion papers

Of mice and merchants: trade and growth in the Iron Age

We study the causal connection between trade and development using one of the earliest massive trade expansions: the first systematic crossing of open seas in the Mediterranean during the time of the Phoenicians. We cons... Read more...

Jan David Bakker, Stephan E. Maurer, Jörn-Steffen Pischke and Ferdinand Rauch

12 July 2018

Journal article

Measuring technological novelty with patent-based indicators

This study provides a new, more comprehensive measurement of technological novelty. Integrating insights from the existing economics and management literature, we characterize inventions ex ante along two dimensions of t... Read more...

Jan David Bakker, Dennis Verhoeven and Reinhilde Veugelers

01 April 2016

Journal article

Patent citation indicators: One size fits all?

The number of citations that a patent receives is considered an important indicator of the quality and impact of the patent. However, a variety of methods and data sources can be used to calculate this measure. This pape... Read more...

Jan David Bakker, Bart Van Looy, Dennis Verhoeven and Lin Zhang

01 January 2016