Plausibly Exogenous [1566] - Agglomeration Effects (05/17/2024)
LHS Variable
GDP
RHS Variable
Economic density
Source of Exogenous Variation
German high-speed rail (HSR) connecting Cologne and Frankfurt which provides variation in access to surrounding economic mass
- Ahlfeldt and Feddersen (2018), “From periphery to core: measuring agglomeration effects using high-speed rail”