eprintid: 35217
rev_number: 17
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userid: 3114
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datestamp: 2024-08-01 13:11:57
lastmod: 2024-08-01 18:14:00
status_changed: 2024-08-01 13:11:57
type: workingPaper
metadata_visibility: show
creators_name: Hornbeck, Richard
creators_name: Michaels, Guy
creators_name: Rauch, Ferdinand
title: Identifying Agglomeration Shadows: Long-run Evidence from Ancient Ports
subjects: ddc-330
divisions: i-181000
keywords: agglomeration shadow, urban hierarchy, new economic geography
abstract: 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.
date: 2024-06
publisher: Universität
id_scheme: DOI
id_number: 10.11588/heidok.00035217
schriftenreihe_cluster_id: sr-3
schriftenreihe_order: 0752
own_urn: urn:nbn:de:bsz:16-heidok-352179
language: eng
bibsort: HORNBECKRIIDENTIFYIN20240625
full_text_status: public
series: AWI Discussion Paper Series
volume: 0752
place_of_pub: Heidelberg
pages: 68
citation:   Hornbeck, Richard ; Michaels, Guy ; Rauch, Ferdinand  (2024) Identifying Agglomeration Shadows: Long-run Evidence from Ancient Ports.  [Working paper]     
document_url: https://archiv.ub.uni-heidelberg.de/volltextserver/35217/7/Hornbeck_Michaels_Rauch_dp752_2024.pdf