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The Costs of Remoteness: Evidence from German Division and Reunification
Redding, Stephen J.; Sturm, Daniel M - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
This paper exploits the division of Germany after the Second World War and the reunification of East and West Germany in 1990 as a natural experiment to provide evidence of the importance of market access for economic development. In line with a standard new economic geography model, we find...
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History and Industry Location: Evidence from German Airports
Redding, Stephen J.; Sturm, Daniel M; Wolf, Nikolaus - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
A central prediction of a large class of theoretical models is that industry location is not necessarily uniquely determined by fundamentals. In these models, historical accident or expectations determine which of several steady-state locations is selected. Despite the theoretical prominence of...
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The Economics of Density: Evidence from the Berlin Wall
Ahlfeldt, Gabriel; Redding, Stephen J.; Sturm, Daniel M; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014
This paper develops a quantitative model of internal city structure that features agglomeration and dispersion forces … estimate agglomeration and dispersion forces, we use data on thousands of city blocks in Berlin for 1936, 1986 and 2006 and … residential externalities. We show that the model with the estimated agglomeration parameters can account both qualitatively and …
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