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Mit dem Fall der Berliner Mauer verschwanden auch sämtliche administrativen Barrieren. Aus zwei zuvor getrennten Gebieten wurde quasi über Nacht ein Wirtschaftsraum. Die Ökonomen hatten dabei die nahezu einzigartige Möglichkeit, die Reaktion von Wirtschaftssystemen auf umfangreiche und...
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Why do borders still matter for economic activity? The reunification of Germany in 1990 provides a unique natural experiment for examining the effect of political borders on trade both in the cross-section and over time. With the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rapid formation of a political and...
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This paper examines data on trade flows between West German Bundesländer (federal states) and East Germany to explore the effect of national borders on trade. Although the data cover only a small fraction of intra-German trade flows, I find a home bias of about factor 2.2; West German shipments...
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This paper indicates that East Germany's unemployment originates primarily in the labor market, caused by the fast wage adjustment after German reunification. We model the resulting labor market traps in a search and matching framework, show that they are difficult to overcome, and provide...
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Mit dem Fall der Berliner Mauer verschwanden auch sämtliche administrativen Barrieren. Aus zwei zuvor getrennten Gebieten wurde quasi über Nacht ein Wirtschaftsraum. Die Ökonomen hatten dabei die nahezu einzigartige Möglichkeit, die Reaktion von Wirtschaftssystemen auf umfangreiche und...
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Why do borders still matter for economic activity? The reunification of Germany in 1990 provides a unique natural experiment for examining the effect of political borders on trade both in the cross-section and over time. With the fall of the Berlin Wall and the rapid formation of a political and...
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