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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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Pandemics, places, and populations : evidence from the Black Death
Jedwab, Remi; Johnson, Noel D.; Koyama, Mark - 2019
The Black Death killed 40% of Europe's population between 1347-1352, making it one of the largest shocks in the history of mankind. Despite its historical importance, little is known about its spatial effects and the effects of pandemics more generally. Using a novel dataset that provides...
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Relaxing Hukou : increased labor mobility and China's economic geography
Bosker, Maarten; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; … - 2010
China's Hukou system poses severe restrictions on labor mobility. This paper assesses the consequences of relaxing these restrictions for China's internal economic geography. We base our analysis on a new economic geography model. First, we obtain estimates of the important model parameters on...
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The size distribution across all "cities" : a unifying approach
Giesen, Kristian; Südekum, Jens - 2012
In this paper we show that the double Pareto lognormal (DPLN) parameterization provides an excellent fit to the overall US city size distribution, regardless of whether "cities" are administratively defined Census places or economically defined area clusters. We then consider an economic model...
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The pan-European population distribution across consistently defined functional urban areas
Schmidheiny, Kurt; Südekum, Jens - 2015
We analyze the first data set on consistently defined functional urban areas in Europe and compare the European to the US urban system. City sizes in Europe do not follow a power law: the largest cities are "too small" to follow Zipf's law.
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TransNIEMO : economic impact analysis using a model of consistent interregional economic and network equilibria
Cho, JoongKoo; Gordon, Peter; Moore, James Elliott; … - 2014
Columbia) with the national highway network. Interstate commodity shipments are placed on a congestible highway network … in higher prices which help to determine a new input-output equilibrium. We find economic and network equilibria that are … consistent. The simulations show only moderate economic impacts. We ascribe this to the resilience of highway network. The model …
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The crisis and regional resilience in Europe : on the importance of urbanization and specialization
Steven, Brakman; Garretsen, Harry; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2014 - This version:, March 2014
Using a rich data set on the EU regions, we analyze the relevance of two possible determinants of a region's resilience to shocks, the degree of urbanization and specialization. We take the Great Recession, the economic and financial crisis that started in 2008, as our shock and then analyze how...
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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
We construct a unique data set to analyze whether or not a large temporary shock had an impact on German city growth and city size distribution. Following recent work by Davis and Weinstein (2001) on Japan, we take the strategic bombing of German cities during WWII as our example of such a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011514015
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Smart cities are big cities : comparative advantage in Chinese cities
Hu, Shiwei; Brakman, Steven; Marrewijk, Charles van - 2014
The literature on China indicates that the concentration of economic activities in China is less than in other industrialized countries. Institutional limits are largely held responsible for this finding (e.g. the Hukou system); firms and workers are not able to take full advantage of the...
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The political geography of cities
Bluhm, Richard; Lessmann, Christian; Schaudt, Paul - 2021
We study the link between subnational capital cities and urban development using a global data set of hundreds of first-order administrative and capital city reforms from 1987 until 2018. We show that gaining subnational capital status has a sizable effect on city growth in the medium run. We...
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