Market Access and the Arrow of Time

Marius Klein and Ferdinand Rauch

No 10279, CESifo Working Paper Series from CESifo

Abstract: 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.

Keywords: market access; iron curtain (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F15 J61 N94 R12 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2023
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