This paper shows that amid aggregate gains, market integration generates withinsector reallocation. To measure this effect, we collected new data on personal bankruptcies during the rail expansion in 19th century Britain. Our estimators leverage within geography-time and within sector-time...

This paper revisits the external economic relations in the former command economies of Central, East and Southeast Europe (CESEE) by exploring historical trade data. It provides a descriptive analysis of foreign trade statistics, drawing on the newly introduced wiiw COMECON Dataset, which...