Campos, Rodolfo G.; Heid, Benedikt; Timini, Jacopo - 2024
West across the Iron Curtain (a symbolical and physical barrier dividing Europe into two distinct areas) was restricted …, but the severity of these restrictions varied over time. We quantify the trade and welfare effects of the Iron Curtain and … show how the difficulty of trading across the Iron Curtain fluctuated throughout the Cold War. Using a novel dataset on …