Bereits in den ersten Jahren dieses Jahrzehnts hat sich der Tiefbau gut entwickelt. Nach den Prognosen der Euroconstruct-Institute sind die Aussichten für die Jahre 2006 bis 2008 sogar noch besser: Der gesamte europäische Tiefbaumarkt wuchs 2005 um 1,7%. In diesem Jahr gehen die Schätzungen...

This volume was prepared by Erik Hornung while he was working in the Department Human Capital and Innovation of the Ifo Institute. It was completed in December 2012 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Economics Department of the University of Munich (LMU). The thesis consists of four core...

We study the effect of railroad access on urban population growth. Using GIS techniques, we match triennial population data for roughly 1,000 cities in nineteenth-century Prussia to georeferenced maps of the German railroad network. We find positive short- and long-term effects of having a...