Economic geography aspects of the Panama Canal

This paper studies how the opening of the Panama Canal in 1914 changed market access and influenced the economic geography of the United States. We compute shipment distances with and without the canal from each US county to each other US county and to key international ports and compute the resulti...

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Main Authors: Rauch, F, Maurer, S
Format: Working paper
Published: University of Oxford 2019
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