• Regional and Sectoral Structural Change
• European Integration
• Innovation and Higher Education in China
• Institutional Change in China

• Industrial Organization and Regulatory Economics
• Institutional Economics
• Economic Federalism

Studies of economics at the Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms Universität Bonn and at the London School of Economics and Political Sciences

• Firm-level Evidence of Knowledge-spillovers in Industrialized Countries
• Knowledge Creation and Growth in Emerging Economies
• Trade & Adjustment

• Bickenbach, F., Bode, E. (Forthcoming). New Economic Geography and Reunified Germany at Twenty: A Fruitful Match?. Spatial Economic Analysis
• Bickenbach, F., Bode, E., Krieger-Boden, C. (Forthcoming). Closing the Gap between Absolute and Relative Measures of Localization, Concentration or Specialization. Papers in Regional Science
• Bickenbach, F., Liu, W. (Forthcoming). Regional Inequality of Higher Education in China and the Role of Unequal Economic Development. Frontiers of Education in China
• Bickenbach, F., Liu, W. (2012). Firm Characteristics and Informal Governance of Business Operations in the Pearl River Delta, China. Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsgeographie (The German Journal of Economic Geography), 56 (1-2), 25-42.
• Bickenbach, F., Liu, W. (2010). On the Role of Personal Relationships for Doing Business in the Greater Pearl River Delta, China. China Economic Journal, 3(3), 281-306.
• Bickenbach, F., Bode, E., Krieger-Boden, C. (2010). Structural Cohesion in Europe: Stylized Facts. Kiel Working Paper, 1669, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Kiel, 43 pp.
• Bickenbach, F., Bode, E. (2008). Disproportionality Measures of Concentration, Specialization, and Localization. International Regional Science Review, 31(4), 359-388.
• Bickenbach, F., Soltwedel, R., Wolf, H. (2007). Institutionelle Reformen für eine rationale Flughafeninfrastrukturpolitik. Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftspolitik, 56, 108-134.
• Bickenbach, F., Kumkar, L., Sichelschmidt, H., Soltwedel, R., Wolf, H. (2005). Ausbau der Flughafeninfrastruktur: Konflikte und institutionelle Lösungsansätze.. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg.
• Bickenbach, F., Bode, E. (2003). Evaluating the Markov Property in Studies of Economic Convergence. International Regional Science Review, 26, 363–392.
• Bickenbach, F., Kumkar, L., Soltwedel, R. (2002). Wettbewerbspolitik und Regulierung - Die Sichtweise der Neuen Institutionenökonomik. Klaus F. Zimmermann (eds), Neue Entwicklungen in der Wirtschaftswissenschaft. Physica-Verlag, Heidelberg.
• Bickenbach, F., Kumkar, L., Soltwedel, R. (2002). Antitrust and Regulation - The View of New Institutional Economics. Klaus F. Zimmermann (eds), Frontiers in Economics. Springer-Verlag, Berlin Heidelberg.