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Accounting for the international Great Depression : efficiency, distortions and factor utilization during the interwar period
Klein, Alexander; Otsu, Keisuke - In: The B.E. journal of macroeconomics 22 (2022) 2, pp. 643-697
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013332962
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Geography and Intra-National Home Bias: U.S. Domestic Trade in 1949 and 2007
Crafts, Nicholas; Klein, Alexander - 2013
This paper examines home bias in U.S. domestic trade in 1949 and 2007. We use a unique data set of 1949 carload waybill statistics produced by the Interstate Commerce Commission, and 2007 Commodity Flow Survey data. The results show that home bias was considerably smaller in 1949 than in 2007...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010443360
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Agglomeration economies and productivity growth : US cities,1880 - 1930
Klein, Alexander; Crafts, Nicholas - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011375712
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Robustness optimization of global production networks
Berendonk, Christian; Klein, Alexander; Struck, Alexander - In: Digital manufacturing : prospects and challenges, (pp. 155-175). 2016
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011454451
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The rise and fall of us manufacturing : re-examination of long-run spatial trends
Crafts, Nicholas; Klein, Alexander - 2019
We re-examine the long-run geographical development of U.S. manufacturing industries using recent advances in spatial … concentration measures. We construct spatially-weighted indices of the geographical concentration of U.S. manufacturing industries …-century and that this was the outcome of a continuing reduction over time. Second, spatial concentration of industries did not …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012131871
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Geography and intra-national home bias : U.S. domestic trade in 1949 and 2007
Crafts, Nicholas; Klein, Alexander - In: Journal of economic geography 15 (2015) 3, pp. 477-497
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010519596
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Agglomeration economies and productivity growth : US cities, 1880 - 1930
Klein, Alexander; Crafts, Nicholas - 2015
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011300999
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Agglomeration economies and productivity growth : US cities, 1880 - 1930
Klein, Alexander; Crafts, Nicholas - 2015
We investigate the role of industrial structure in labor productivity growth in U.S. cities between 1880 and 1930 using a new dataset constructed from the Census of Manufactures. We find that increases in specialization were associated with faster productivity growth but that diversity only had...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011296752
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Making sense of the manufacturing belt : determinants of US industrial location, 1880 - 1920
Klein, Alexander; Crafts, Nicholas - 2010
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008840383
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Geography and intra-national home bias : US domestic trade in 1949 and 2007
Crafts, Nicholas; Klein, Alexander - 2013
This paper examines home bias in U.S. domestic trade in 1949 and 2007. We use a unique data set of 1949 carload waybill statistics produced by the Interstate Commerce Commission, and 2007 Commodity Flow Survey data. The results show that home bias was considerably smaller in 1949 than in 2007...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009711207