Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/142586 
Year of Publication: 
2010
Series/Report no.: 
EERI Research Paper Series No. 24/2010
Publisher: 
Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI), Brussels
Abstract: 
Can the demise of the monocentric economy across cities during the 20th century be explained by decreasing transport costs to the city center or are other fundamental forces at work? Taking a hybrid perspec¬tive of classical bid-rent theory and a world where clustering of economic activity is driven by (knowledge) spillovers, Berlin, Germany, from 1890 to 1936 serves as a case in point. We assess the extent to which firms in an environment of decreasing transport costs and industrial transformation face a trade-off between distance to the CBD and land rents and how agglomeration economies come into play in shaping their location deci¬sions. Our results suggest that an observable flattening of the traditional distance to the CBD gradient may mask the emergence of significant agglomeration economies, especially within predominantly service-based inner city districts.
Subjects: 
Transport Innovations
Land Values
Location Productivity
Agglomeration Economies
Economic History
Berlin
JEL: 
N7
N9
R33
O12
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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