The Zollverein, a customs union, of 1834 was the outcome of sequential accession negotiations between Prussia and other German states. This paper applies a bargaining model to analyse the choices of negotiation structure and institutional form of a customs union. The existence of negative...

The Zollverein was the first international customs union, essentially defining these particular trade agreements. This paper utilizes the predictions of a game theoretic model to analyse the observed sequence of accessions into this union. Coalition externalities, the effects the accession of...

Information exchange is a necessary prerequisite for economic exchange over space. This relationship implies that information exchange data corresponds to the location of economic activity and therefore also of population. Building on this relationship we use postal data to analyse the spatial...