This article reviews recent literature using insights from history to answer central questions
in urban economics. This area of research has seen rapid growth in the past decade, thanks …

How persistent is public goods provision in a comparative perspective? We explore the link
between infrastructure investments made during antiquity and the presence of infrastructure …

We review and discuss research on the development of regional entrepreneurship over
time. A particular focus is on the long-term persistence of regional levels of …

Economic societies emerged during the late eighteenth-century. We argue that these
institutions reduced the costs of accessing useful knowledge by adopting, producing, and …

We investigate whether the development of regional disparities in entrepreneurship and
innovation in Germany can be traced back to Roman rule 2000 years ago. We find a lasting …

This paper aims at investigating the role of road infrastructure in implementing the “dual
circulation” strategy recently launched by China, where increasing domestic consumption is …

High-speed rail (HSR) has completely revolutionized intercity travel, significantly impacting
economic activities. Recent studies have increasingly focused on how HSR affects …

In this paper, we explore the link between public transport infrastructure investments made
during antiquity and the presence of infrastructure today; as well as the link between early …

ABSTRACT Launched in 2017 the Green Belt and Road policy acts as an important upgrade
to China's recent core foreign strategy (ie, the Belt and Road Initiative) and aims to balance …

We examine an extraordinarily consequential case of ideational diffusion: how cultural
nationalism spread across Europe from the French Revolution to the First World …