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来源类型 | Discussion paper |
规范类型 | 论文 |
来源ID | DP6368 |
DP6368 Zeros, Quality and Space: Trade Theory and Trade Evidence | |
Richard Baldwin; James Harrigan | |
发表日期 | 2007-06-29 |
出版年 | 2007 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | This paper examines the emergence and dynamics of border effects over time. We exploit the unique historical setting of the multinational Habsburg Empire prior to the Great War to explore the hypothesis that border effects emerged as a result of persistent trade effects of ethno-linguistic networks within an overall integrating economy. While markets tended to integrate, the process was strongly asymmetric and shaped by a simultaneous rise in national consciousness and organisation among Austria-Hungary?s different ?nationalities?. We find that the political borders which separated the empire?s successor states after the First World War became visible in the price dynamics of grain markets already 25-30 years before the First World War. This effect of a ?border before a border? cannot be explained by factors such as physical geography, changes in infrastructure or patterns of asymmetric integration with neighbouring regions outside of the Habsburg customs and monetary union. However, controlling for the changing ethno-linguistic composition of the population across the regional capital cities of the empire does explain most of the estimated border effects. |
主题 | International Trade and Regional Economics |
关键词 | Border effects market integration Networks Habsburg empire Pre-1914 europe |
URL | https://cepr.org/publications/dp6368 |
来源智库 | Centre for Economic Policy Research (United Kingdom) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/535207 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Richard Baldwin,James Harrigan. DP6368 Zeros, Quality and Space: Trade Theory and Trade Evidence. 2007. |
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