Journal
JOURNAL OF ECONOMIC GEOGRAPHY
Volume 4, Issue 2, Pages 201-218Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/jeg/4.2.201
Keywords
German city growth; World War II shock
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We construct a unique data set in order to analyse whether or not a large temporary shock has an impact on city growth. Following recent work by Davis and Weinstein on Japan, we take the strategic bombing of German cities during World War II as an example of such a shock, and analyse its impact on post-war German city growth. If the war shock has only a temporary impact, then there will be a tendency towards mean reversion. Our main finding is that the bombing had a significant but temporary impact on post-war city growth in Germany as a whole as well as in West Germany separately, but that this is not the case for city growth in East Germany.
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