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What's in a Name? Initial Geography and German Urban Development
Nguyen, Duc A.; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; … - 2023
Place names, or toponyms, provide insight into the initial geographical characteristics of settlements. We present a … unique dataset of 3,705 German toponyms that includes the date of the first historical record mentioning the settlement and … the date it was granted city rights. We show that the frequency of geographical toponyms as well as a novel proxy for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014377410
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What's in a Name? Initial Geography and German Urban Development
Nguyen, Duc A.; Brakman, Steven; Garretsen, Harry; … - 2023
Place names, or toponyms, provide insight into the initial geographical characteristics of settlements. We present a … unique dataset of 3,705 German toponyms that includes the date of the first historical record mentioning the settlement and … the date it was granted city rights. We show that the frequency of geographical toponyms as well as a novel proxy for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014356325
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Persistence and change of regional industrial activities : the impact of diversification in the German machine tool industry
Fornahl, Dirk; Guenther, Christina - 2008
selected the machine tool industry in West Germany for the years 1953 to 2002. We spot a strong variance in the activities …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003875574
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Where the dandelion meets the road - Location determinants of German bioeconomy patents
Jeddeloh, S. zu; Proff, Sidonia von; Brenner, Thomas - 2022
The paper at hand provides deep insights into the development of the German bioeconomy at the municipality level. The aim was to find out which determinants play a role in the location of bioeconomy patents at the municipality level and to analyze the respective stages of the bioeconomy in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013387801
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Resetting the Urban Network: 117-2012
Michaels, Guy; Rauch, Ferdinand - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
Do locational fundamentals such as coastlines and rivers determine town locations, or can historical events trap towns in unfavorable locations for centuries? We examine the effects on town locations of the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, which temporarily ended urbanization in Britain,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083231
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Can cities be trapped in bad locations?
Michaels, Guy; Rauch, Ferdinand - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2014
After the fall of the Roman Empire, urban life in France became a shadow of its former self, but in Britain it completely disappeared. Guy Michaels and Ferdinand Rauch use these contrasting experiences as a natural experiment to explore the impact of history on economic geography - and what...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010738418
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Resetting the Urban Network: 117-2012
Rauch, Ferdinand; Michaels, Guy - Department of Economics, Oxford University - 2013
Do locational fundamentals such as coastlines and rivers determine town locations, or can historical events trap towns in unfavorable locations for centuries?  We examine the effects on town locations of the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, which temporarily ended urbanization in Britain,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011004256
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Resetting the Urban Network: 117-2012
Michaels, Guy; Rauch, Ferdinand - Centre for Economic Performance, LSE - 2013
Do locational fundamentals such as coastlines and rivers determine town locations, or can historical events trap towns in unfavourable locations for centuries? We examine the effects on town locations of the collapse of the Western Roman Empire, which temporarily ended urbanization in Britain,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010717570
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The political geography of cities
Bluhm, Richard; Lessmann, Christian; Schaudt, Paul - 2021
We study the link between subnational capital cities and urban development using a global data set of hundreds of first-order administrative and capital city reforms from 1987 until 2018. We show that gaining subnational capital status has a sizable effect on city growth in the medium run. We...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012652841
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Pandemics, places, and populations : evidence from the Black Death
Jedwab, Remi; Johnson, Noel D.; Koyama, Mark - 2019
The Black Death killed 40% of Europe's population between 1347-1352, making it one of the largest shocks in the history of mankind. Despite its historical importance, little is known about its spatial effects and the effects of pandemics more generally. Using a novel dataset that provides...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011977143