After World War II, town twinning became popular, notably in Germany. This was mainly a reaction to the war experience …

unique annual data set that covers most of the 20th century for 62 of West-Germany's largest cities, we look at the evolution …

-unification Germany. We find support for a spatial wage structure for German city-district wages, and hence indirectly for the relevance … of a new economic geography model for Germany. We also find that demand linkages in Germany are strongly localised and … that the “old” border still matters to the extent that economic interactions between western and eastern Germany are still …