title: Identifying Agglomeration Shadows: Long-run Evidence from Ancient Ports
creator: Hornbeck, Richard
creator: Michaels, Guy
creator: Rauch, Ferdinand
subject: ddc-330
subject: 330 Economics
description: We examine "agglomeration shadows" that emerge around large cities, which discourage some economic activities in nearby areas. Identifying agglomeration shadows is complicated, however, by endogenous city formation and "wave interference" that we show in simulations. We use the locations of ancient ports near the Mediterranean, which seeded modern cities, to estimate agglomeration shadows cast on nearby areas. We find that empirically, as in the simulations, detectable agglomeration shadows emerge for large cities around ancient ports. These patterns extend to modern city locations more generally, and illustrate how encouraging growth in particular places can discourage growth of nearby areas.
publisher: Universität
date: 2024-06
type: Working paper
type: info:eu-repo/semantics/workingPaper
type: NonPeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
identifier: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserverhttps://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/35217/7/Hornbeck_Michaels_Rauch_dp752_2024.pdf
identifier: DOI:10.11588/heidok.00035217
identifier: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-352179
identifier:   Hornbeck, Richard ; Michaels, Guy ; Rauch, Ferdinand  (2024) Identifying Agglomeration Shadows: Long-run Evidence from Ancient Ports.  [Working paper]     
relation: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/35217/
rights: info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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language: eng