Heblich, Stephan; Marlon, Seror; Xu, Hao; Zylberberg, Yanos - 2019
This paper exploits a short-lived cooperation program between the U.S.S.R. and China, which led to the construction of 156 "Million-Rouble plants" in the 1950s. We isolate exogenous variation in location decisions due to the relative position of allied and enemy airbases and study the long-run...
