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. …

away from centres of economic activity, we investigate the existence of a spatial wage structure for post-unificate Germany … 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 limited …