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Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Oumer, Abdella - 2014

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

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The strategic bombing of German cities during World War II and its impact on city growth

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Schramm, Marc - 2002

process. Our main finding is that city growth in western Germany did not follow a random walk, while city growth in eastern … Germany did follow a random walk. Different post-war economic systems are most likely responsible for this outcome. …

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A century of shocks : the evolution of the German city size distribution 1925 - 1999

Bosker, E. Maarten; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; … - 2006

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What's in a name? : initial geography and German urban development

Nguyen, Duc A.; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; … - 2023

Place names, or toponyms, provide insight into the initial geographical characteristics of settlements. We present a unique dataset of 3,705 German toponyms that includes the date of the first historical record mentioning the settlement and the date it was granted city rights. We show that the...

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The empirical relevance of the new economic geography : testing for a spatial wage structure in Germany

Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; Schramm, Marc - 2000

-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 …

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Mean reversion of the German city system after the WWII bombing of cities : what is the mean?

Nguyen, Duc A.; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; … - 2024

We study the post-war effects of the bombing of German cities during WWII on urban growth and use the synthetic control method (SCM) to construct comparison units for affected West-German cities. The reason to use SCM is that cities might experience structural changes that have nothing to do...

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