全球智库信息集成服务系统(G2TT): Portage: Path Dependence and Increasing Returns in U.S. History

G2TT

来源类型	Working Paper
规范类型	报告
DOI	10.3386/w16314
来源ID	Working Paper 16314
	Portage: Path Dependence and Increasing Returns in U.S. History
	Hoyt Bleakley; Jeffrey Lin
发表日期	2010-08-27
出版年	2010
语种	英语
摘要	We examine portage sites in the U.S. South, Mid-Atlantic, and Midwest, including those on the fall line, a geomorphologic feature in the southeastern U.S. marking the final rapids on rivers before the ocean. Historically, waterborne transport of goods required portage around the falls at these points, while some falls provided water power during early industrialization. These factors attracted commerce and manufacturing. Although these original advantages have long since been made obsolete, we document the continuing--and even increasing--importance of these portage sites over time. We interpret this finding in a model with path dependence arising from local increasing returns to scale.
主题	International Economics ; Trade ; Labor Economics ; Demography and Aging ; History ; Other History ; Regional and Urban Economics ; Regional Economics
URL	https://www.nber.org/papers/w16314
来源智库	National Bureau of Economic Research (United States)
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资源类型	智库出版物
条目标识符	http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/573988
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Hoyt Bleakley,Jeffrey Lin. Portage: Path Dependence and Increasing Returns in U.S. History. 2010.