Economic geography (the study of the location of factors of production in space) plays a small role in economic modeling, but facts of economic modeling are an intuitively striking feature of real-world economies. The paper intends to show how models and techniques derived from theoretical...

In this paper, I examine the influence of natural geographic features on the location of production in Germany. In particular, I quantify how much of the geographic pattern of GDP can be attributed to natural features such as resource endowments and location ('geography'). At most, ~36% of GDP's...