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We study the impact of transportation infrastructure on agriculture and development in colonial Ghana. Two railway lines were built between 1901 and 1923 to connect the coast to mining areas and the large hinterland city of Kumasi. This unintendedly opened vast expanses of tropical forest to...
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What was the impact of railroads in the output of the United States during the 19th century and how can a New Trade …. Third, I estimate ounterfactuals with the railroads built up to a certain year. My estimates suggest that there was a lot of … the railroads were made suddenly unavailable in 1890 there would have been a 9.6% reduction in output, but in 1900, after …
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The notion of private highways, which must have seemed fantastic to Americans just a few years ago, was commonplace to our great-great-grandparents. Built in the 1790s in the growing Republic, the first toll roads stimulated commerce, settlement, and population. Fiscal constraints and...
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This paper surveys the theoretical and empirical literature on the relationship between the spatial distribution of economic activity and transportation costs. We develop a multi-region model of economic geography that we use to understand the general equilibrium implications of transportation...
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In the nineteenth century, the emergence of railroads in France resulted in new analytical issues, as they are natural … communication, I attempt to restore the consistency of Dupuit's positions on the railroads. In the first section, I distinguish … Dupuit's work, but it helps us to grasp that, in his opinion, unlimited competition is not possible in the railroads and that …
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century. One of the main theoretical and applied debates which is still an issue today concerns natural monopolies. Railroads … provision of railroads and transportation.Walras´s point of view was developed with twofold argument of theoretical and a moral … economy. The case made in favor of the State intervention on Railroads industry considers altruistic motivations of human …
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