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The long shadow of history : Roman legacy and economic development; evidence from the German limes
Wahl, Fabian - 2015
Roman parts of Germany. The study identifies the persistence of the Roman road network until the present as an important … ancient times, the area of contemporary Germany was divided into a Roman and non-Roman part. The study uses this division to … test whether the formerly Roman part of Germany show a higher nightlight luminosity than the non-Roman part. This is done …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012822384
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The long shadow of history: Roman legacy and economic development - evidence from the German limes
Wahl, Fabian - 2015
Roman parts of Germany. The study identifies the persistence of the Roman road network until the present as an important … ancient times, the area of contemporary Germany was divided into a Roman and non-Roman part. The study uses this division to … test whether the formerly Roman part of Germany show a higher nightlight luminosity than the non-Roman part. This is done …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011319141
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Roman Transport Network Connectivity and Economic Integration
Flückiger, Matthias; Hornung, Erik; Larch, Mario; … - 2019 - This version: July 2019
cultural integration due to bilateral convergence in preferences and values. Both plausibly arise from network-induced history …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012033121
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Does European development have Roman roots? : evidence from the German Limes
Wahl, Fabian - In: Journal of economic growth 22 (2017) 3, pp. 313-349
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011937926
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Roman Transport Network Connectivity and Economic Integration
Flueckiger, Matthias - 2019
cultural integration due to bilateral convergence in preferences and values. Both plausibly arise from network-induced history …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012866077
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Did Long-distance Trade Trigger Smithian Growth in the Roman World? : An Investigation on the Endogenous Nature of the Roman Economic Performance
Oddo, Luigi - 2022
Did long-distance trade in the Roman world operate on a sufficiently big scale to increase the overall size of markets, enabling specialization of labor and thus Smithian growth? Although the Malthusian model represents the dominant view to describe the economic performance of the ancient world,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014244446
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Land prices and railroad building in European Russia, 1860s to the early 1900s
Leonard, Carol Scott; Nazarov, Zafar; Borodkin, Leonid I.; … - In: Russian journal of economics 7 (2021) 2, pp. 93-104
This paper shows that railroad building in Russia, as in Europe and the US in the nineteenth century, improved the value of land, a classic benefit of transportation investment in largely agrarian countries. From a database constructed for this paper, we use cross-sectional data for the fifty...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012599646
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Chinese Roads in India : The Effect of Transport Infrastructure on Economic Development
Alder, Simon - 2019
This paper uses a general equilibrium trade framework to estimate the contribution of transport infrastructure to regional development. I apply the analysis to India, a country with a notoriously weak and congested transportation infrastructure. I first analyze the development effects of a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012902762
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Does Medieval Trade Still Matter? Historical Trade Centers, Agglomeration and Contemporary Economic Development
Wahl, Fabian - 2016
This study establishes a link between medieval trade, agglomeration and contemporary regional development in ten European countries. It documents a statistically and economically significant positive relationship between prominent involvement in medieval trade and regional economic development...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013005916
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Does medieval trade still matter? : Historical trade centers, agglomeration and contemporary economic development
Wahl, Fabian - 2013
This study empirically establishes a link between medieval trade, agglomeration and contemporary regional development in ten European countries. It documents a statistically and economically significant positive relationship between prominent involvement in medieval trade and commercial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010201723