Bickenbach, Frank; Bode, Eckhardt - In: Spatial Economic Analysis 8 (2013) 2, pp. 120-153
<title>Abstract</title>We qualitatively match new economic geography (NEG) to stylized facts on German economic integration after 1989. We find that NEG may explain German integration reasonably well. Germany may currently be close to the peak of the bell curve, which describes the long-run relationship...