Quantitative Economic Geography Meets History: Questions, Answers and Challenges

  • Authors: Dávid Nagy.
  • BSE Working Paper: 1249 | April 21
  • Keywords: Regional Economics , economic geography , urban economics , economic history
  • JEL codes: N9, R10, R13
  • Regional Economics
  • economic geography
  • urban economics
  • economic history
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Abstract

A rapidly growing literature uses quantitative general equilibrium models of economic geography to study the economic impact of historical events such as the railroad revolution, industrial take-off, structural transformation and wars. I identify three key challenges facing this literature: the tractability of model structure, the availability of historical data, and issues related to identification. I review the literature by discussing how it has been addressing each of these challenges. While doing so, I point out the rich set of questions that this literature can address, as well as the methodological innovations it has conducted to answer these questions.

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