Replication data for: The Costs of Remoteness: Evidence from German Division and Reunification

Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Stephen J. Redding; Daniel M. Sturm

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Project Description

Summary: This paper exploits the division of Germany after the Second World War and the reunification of East and West Germany in 1990 as a natural experiment to provide evidence for the importance of market access for economic development. In line with a standard new economic geography model, we find that, following division, cities in West Germany close to the East-West German border experienced a substantial decline in population growth relative to other West German cities. We show that the model can account for the quantitative magnitude of our findings and provide additional evidence against alternative possible explanations. (JEL F15, N94, R12, R23)

Scope of Project

JEL Classification:
      N94 Regional and Urban History: Europe: 1913-
      R12 Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity
      R23 Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics: Regional Migration; Regional Labor Markets; Population; Neighborhood Characteristics

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V1 [2019-10-12]

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