Can cities be trapped in bad locations?

Guy Michaels and Ferdinand Rauch

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Abstract: After the fall of the Roman Empire, urban life in France became a shadow of its former self, but in Britain it completely disappeared. Guy Michaels and Ferdinand Rauch use these contrasting experiences as a natural experiment to explore the impact of history on economic geography - and what leads cities to get stuck in undesirable locations.

Keywords: Economic Geography; Economic History; Path Dependence; Transportation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N93 O18 R11 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014-02
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