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Franke, Richard:
The cost of remoteness revisited.
Kiel
:
Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW)
,
2017
. - 36 p.
- (Kiel Working Paper
; 2070
)
Project information
| Project title: |
Project's official title Project's id Die volkswirtschaftlichen Effekte der Vertriebenen und ihre Integration in Westdeutschland, 1945-70 BR 4979/1-1 |
|---|---|
| Project financing: |
Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft |
Abstract in another language
Redding and Sturm (2008) use the German division as a natural experiment to study the importance of market access for regional development. They show empirically that cities close to the East-West German border experienced a significant decline in population growth due to division. I argue that their results are driven by the internal migration of refugees in the 1950s rather than the loss of market access. In fact, the treatment effect estimated by Redding and Sturm (2008) disappears completely once the refugee share in 1950 and boundary changes of sample cities are taken into account.
Further data
| Item Type: | Working paper, discussion paper |
|---|---|
| Keywords: | Market Access; Regional Growth; Internal Migration |
| Subject classification: | JEL: F15; N94; R12; R23 |
| Institutions of the University: | Faculties > Faculty of Law, Business and Economics > Department of Economics > Chair Economics VII: Quantitative Economic History Faculties Faculties > Faculty of Law, Business and Economics Faculties > Faculty of Law, Business and Economics > Department of Economics |
| Result of work at the UBT: | No |
| DDC Subjects: | 300 Social sciences > 330 Economics 900 History and geography > 940 History of Europe |
| Date Deposited: | 01 Oct 2018 08:35 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Apr 2019 05:40 |
| URI: | https://eref.uni-bayreuth.de/id/eprint/45925 |