Market access and the arrow of time
We revisit the natural experiments of division and unification of Germany now that more time has passed and more data have become available. We show that local market access shocks are not symmetric in time. The negative shock to local market access following the division of Germany lead to a fast a...
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| Format: | Book/Monograph Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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Heidelberg
Universitätsbibliothek Heidelberg
14 Feb. 2023
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| Series: | AWI discussion paper series
no. 724 (February 2023) |
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AWI discussion paper series (no. 724 (February 2023))
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| DOI: | 10.11588/heidok.00032871 |
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| Online Access: | Resolving-System, kostenfrei: https://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-328712 Resolving-System, kostenfrei: https://doi.org/10.11588/heidok.00032871 Verlag, kostenfrei, Volltext: http://www.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/archiv/32871 Verlag, kostenfrei: http://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/32871/7/Klein_Rauch_2023_dp724.pdf Resolving-System, kostenfrei: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-328712 Langzeitarchivierung Nationalbibliothek, kostenfrei: https://d-nb.info/1281009296/34 Resolving-System, kostenfrei: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/278338 
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| Author Notes: | Marius Klein and Ferdinand Rauch |
| Summary: | We revisit the natural experiments of division and unification of Germany now that more time has passed and more data have become available. We show that local market access shocks are not symmetric in time. The negative shock to local market access following the division of Germany lead to a fast and strong downward adjustment of the size of West-German cities near the new border. In contrast, the positive shock of reunification did not lead to any change in their relative size, even three decades after the German reunification. |
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| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| DOI: | 10.11588/heidok.00032871 |