Identifying agglomeration shadows: long-run evidence from ancient ports
We examine "agglomeration shadows" that emerge around large cities, which discourage some economic activities in nearby areas. Identifying agglomeration shadows is complicated, however, by endogenous city formation and "wave interference" that we show in simulations. We use the l...
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| Format: | Book/Monograph Working Paper |
| Language: | English |
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Heidelberg
Heidelberg University, Department of Economics
01 Aug. 2024
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| Series: | AWI discussion paper series
no. 752 (June 2024) |
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AWI discussion paper series (no. 752 (June 2024))
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| DOI: | 10.11588/heidok.00035217 |
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| Online Access: | Verlag, kostenfrei: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/35217/7/Hornbeck_Michaels_Rauch_dp752_2024.pdf Resolving-System, kostenfrei: https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-352179 Resolving-System, kostenfrei: https://doi.org/10.11588/heidok.00035217 Resolving-System, kostenfrei: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/301234 
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| Author Notes: | Richard Hornbeck, Guy Michaels, Ferdinand Rauch |
| Summary: | We examine "agglomeration shadows" that emerge around large cities, which discourage some economic activities in nearby areas. Identifying agglomeration shadows is complicated, however, by endogenous city formation and "wave interference" that we show in simulations. We use the locations of ancient ports near the Mediterranean, which seeded modern cities, to estimate agglomeration shadows cast on nearby areas. We find that empirically, as in the simulations, detectable agglomeration shadows emerge for large cities around ancient ports. These patterns extend to modern city locations more generally, and illustrate how encouraging growth in particular places can discourage growth of nearby areas. |
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| Physical Description: | Online Resource |
| DOI: | 10.11588/heidok.00035217 |