Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/195057 
Year of Publication: 
2019
Series/Report no.: 
Hohenheim Discussion Papers in Business, Economics and Social Sciences No. 02-2019
Publisher: 
Universität Hohenheim, Fakultät Wirtschafts- und Sozialwissenschaften, Stuttgart
Abstract: 
This paper addresses the question whether or not large-scale infrastructure investments have a causal effect of local economic development. By using a novel instrumental variable approach based on historical trade and travel routes across the Russian East, I am able to identify a causal and negative effect of remoteness to the Transsiberian Railway on local economic activity as measured by nocturnal lights emission.
Subjects: 
Transport Costs
Railway
Russia
Nightlights
Regional Economics
Development
JEL: 
O11
O18
R11
R40
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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