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Openness and Urban Concentration in Europe, 1870-1990

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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. Dieses Papier untersucht den Zusammenhang zwischen dem Offenheitsgrad einer Volkswirtschaft und dem Ausmaß urbaner Konzentration. Im Unterschied zu früheren Studien, die oftmals auf umfangreichen Querschnittsdatensätzen basieren, beschränkt sich die Analyse in dieser Arbeit auf einige europäische Länder, für die dann allerdings verlässliche historische Daten verfügbar sind. Die Ergebnisse bestätigen frühere Resultate eines negativen Zusammenhangs zwischen dem Offenheitsgrad eines Landes und der Einwohnerzahl der größten Stadt für den Zeitraum von 1970 bis 1990. Für andere Zeiträume und Konzentrationsmaße verliert der Zusammenhang jedoch an Signifikanz, so dass es offenbar keine robuste Verbindung zwischen dem Grad der Außenhandelsverflechtung und dem Ausmaß urbaner Konzentration gibt.

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  • Nitsch, Volker, 2001. "Openness and Urban Concentration in Europe, 1870-1990," Discussion Paper Series 26266, Hamburg Institute of International Economics.
  • Handle: RePEc:ags:hwwadp:26266
    DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.26266
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    1. Michael Roos, 2003. "Internationale Integration und die Neue Ökonomische Geographie," Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, Verein für Socialpolitik, vol. 4(1), pages 107-121, February.
    2. Balogun, Emmanuel Dele, 2007. "Exchange rate policy and export performance of WAMZ countries," MPRA Paper 6233, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    3. Maria Tsiapa, 2016. "Spatial Heterogeneity and Economic Dualism in European Neighbourhood Policy Countries," Europe-Asia Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 68(7), pages 1197-1219, August.
    4. CRESPO, Nuno & FONTOURA, Maria Paula, 2013. "Regional Integration And Internal Economic Geography - An Empirical Evaluation With Portuguese Data," Regional and Sectoral Economic Studies, Euro-American Association of Economic Development, vol. 13(2), pages 99-116.
    5. Nuno Crespo & Maria Paula Fontoura, 2008. "Regional Integration and International Economic Geography in the Portuguese Case - an update," Working Papers Department of Economics 2008/51, ISEG - Lisbon School of Economics and Management, Department of Economics, Universidade de Lisboa.

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    Community/Rural/Urban Development;

    JEL classification:

    • R12 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)
    • R11 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Regional Economic Activity: Growth, Development, Environmental Issues, and Changes

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