Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/278338 
Year of Publication: 
2023
Series/Report no.: 
AWI Discussion Paper Series No. 724
Publisher: 
University of Heidelberg, Department of Economics, Heidelberg
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.
Subjects: 
Market Access
Iron Curtain
JEL: 
F15
J61
N94
R12
Persistent Identifier of the first edition: 
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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