Quantitative economic geography meets history: Questions, answers and challenges

David Krisztián Nagy

Economics Working Papers from Department of Economics and Business, Universitat Pompeu Fabra

Abstract: A rapidly growing literature uses quantitative general equilibrium models of economic geography to study the economic impact of historical events such as the railroad revolution, industrial take-off, structural transformation and wars. I identify three key challenges facing this literature: the tractability of model structure, the availability of historical data, and issues related to identification. I review the literature by discussing how it has been addressing each of these challenges. While doing so, I point out the rich set of questions that this literature can address, as well as the methodological innovations it has conducted to answer these questions.

Keywords: economic geography; regional economics; urban economics; economic history (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: N9 R10 R13 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020-11, Revised 2021-03
New Economics Papers: this item is included in nep-evo, nep-geo and nep-his
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