Ploeckl, Florian - Economic Growth Center, Economics Department - 2008
development. The Zollverein, the 1834 customs union between German states, erased borders in much of central Europe. This paper … investigates the Zollverein's economic impact through a study of urban population and its growth in the German state of Saxony. A … patterns, roads, and rivers. The results show that Zollverein membership led to significantly higher growth for towns close to …