Openness and urban concentration in Europe, 1870-1990

Arbeitspapier

This paper provides a new attempt to examine the relationship between an economy's exposure to foreign trade and its degree of urban concentration. In contrast to previous work, which is often based on rich cross-country data sets, the analysis is focused exclusively on European countries, allowing to explore reliable historical data. The results generally confirm earlier findings of a negative relationship between openness and city size for the period from 1970 to 1990, but are much weaker for other time periods and concentration measures. Therefore, it is argued that the linkage between trade policy and urban centralization is not robust.

Angaben zum Objekt

• Sprache: Englisch

Verweise und Beziehungen

• Erschienen in: Series: HWWA Discussion Paper ; No. 121

Klassifikation und Themen

• Klassifikation: Wirtschaft ; Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity ; Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes
• Thema: Urban Concentration ; Openness ; Urban Primacy ; City Size ; Politik der offenen Tür ; Außenhandelsgeschichte ; Urbanisierung ; Regionale Konzentration ; Schätzung ; Westeuropa

Beteiligte, Orts- und Zeitangaben

• Ereignis: Geistige Schöpfung
• (wer): Nitsch, Volker
• Ereignis: Veröffentlichung
• (wer): Hamburg Institute of International Economics (HWWA)
• (wo): Hamburg
• (wann): 2001

Weitere Informationen

• Handle: http://hdl.handle.net/10419/19430
• Letzte Aktualisierung: 10.03.2025, 11:41 MEZ