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Title: Quantitative economic geography meets history: Questions, answers and challenges

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Publication Year: 2020

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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 takeoff , structural transformation and wars. I identify three key challenges facing this literature: the availability of historical data, the tractability of model structure, 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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Authors: Nagy, Dávid Krisztián

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