Bitte verwenden Sie diesen Link, um diese Publikation zu zitieren, oder auf sie als Internetquelle zu verweisen: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/142586 
Erscheinungsjahr: 
2010
Schriftenreihe/Nr.: 
EERI Research Paper Series No. 24/2010
Verlag: 
Economics and Econometrics Research Institute (EERI), Brussels
Zusammenfassung: 
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.
Schlagwörter: 
Transport Innovations
Land Values
Location Productivity
Agglomeration Economies
Economic History
Berlin
JEL: 
N7
N9
R33
O12
Dokumentart: 
Working Paper

Datei(en):
Datei
Größe
322.05 kB





Publikationen in EconStor sind urheberrechtlich geschützt.