Research impact and related publications
An Impact Case Study on the impact of Bakker's completed research programmes is available here.
Onwards and upwards: American productivity growth during the Great Depression Gerben Bakker, Nicholas Crafts and Pieter Woltjer, CEPR/Voxeu, January 2016.
The underlying research is published in: A Vision of the Growth Process in a Technologically Progressive Economy: the United States, 1899-1941 Gerben Bakker, Nicholas Crafts and Pieter Woltjer, Centre for Economic Policy Research Discussion Papers, DP10995 (December 2015)
The Evolution of the British Entertainment Business: Film, Music and Videogames Gerben Bakker, in: Learning from Some of Britain’s Successful Sectors: An Historical Analysis of the Role of Government (London, Department of Business, Innovation and Skills, 2010), BIS Economics Paper No. 6 (2010), 28-98.
3D-cinema: the billion pound bonanza. How the film industry is weathering the recession Gerben Bakker, in Britain in 2011, (the annual magazine of the Economic and Social Research Council, 2010), 114-115.
Dr Bakker acted as Specialist Advisor for the following inquiry: House of Lords Communications Committee, The British film and television industries: Decline or opportunity? (London, House of Lords/Stationery Office Ltd., 2010).