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Corn Market Integration in Porfirian Mexico

Dobado González, Rafael; Marrero, Gustavo A. - Facultad de Ciencias Económicas y Empresariales, … - 2004

up further than estimated by Kuntz (1995a, 1995b, 1996, 1999a and 1999b). Railroads were not only indispensable to the …

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Welfare Trade-Offs in US Rail Mergers

Ivaldi, Marc; McCullough, Gerard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

Since the publication by Williamson (1968) of his seminal paper on antitrust there has been a growing recognition by regulators of the need to assess trade-offs between merger-related efficiency gains and merger-induced increases in market power. This paper addresses that need by presenting a...

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The Railroad’s Impact on Land Values in the Upper Great Plains at the Closing of the Frontier

Decker, Christopher S.; Flynn, David T. - EconWPA - 2004

independent variables in a regression on price per acre. This estimation gives us the expected positive impact of railroads on …

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Technological Revolutions and Stock Prices

Pástor, Luboš; Veronesi, Pietro - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

stock prices in the early days of American railroads, and find evidence consistent with a large-scale adoption of the …

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Subadditivity Tests for Network Separation with an Application to US Railroads

Ivaldi, Marc; McCullough, Gerard - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

and competition policy. We illustrate them with an analysis of US freight railroads for the period 1978-2001 and find both …

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Railroads and economic growth: A trade policy approach

Pérez-Cervantes, Fernando - 2014

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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Railroads, technology adoption, and modern economic development: Evidence from Japan

Yamasaki, Junichi - 2017

Railroad access can accelerate the technological progress in the industrial sector and therefore induce structural change and urbanization, the two common features of modern economic growth. I examine this particular mechanism in the context of Japanese railroad network expansion and modern...

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Locomotives of Local Growth: The Short- and Long-Term Impact of Railroads in Sweden

Berger, Thor; Enflo, Kerstin - 2013

and 1870, from the 19th century until today. We estimate that railroads accounted for 50% of urban growth, 1855-1870. In … hypothesize that railroads set in motion a path dependent process that shapes the economic geography of Sweden today. …

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Little Divergence in America — Market Access and Demographic Transition in the United States

Guldi, Melanie; Rahman, Ahmed S. - 2022

This paper assesses the causal impact of greater market access on demographic transition during the latter half of the 19th century in the United States. We construct new measures of fertility changes and measures of railroad access at the county level from 1850 – 1890. We are able to document...

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The Shellpot Bridge: A Public/Private Partnership That Worked

Resor, Randolph R.; Blaze, James R.; Campbell, David W. - In: Review of Network Economics 7 (2008) 1, pp. 95-110

The Shellpot Bridge is a 536-foot swing bridge located on a rail freight bypass route around Wilmington, Delaware. When the bridge failed in 1994, Conrail, then the bridge's owner, elected not to repair it due to declining freight volume. The State of Delaware reached agreement with the new rail...

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