Two topics to pick from three this week. At least two articles should be discussed for each.
* Articles marked with an asterisk were presented in seminar.

Topic 1. Transport, cities, and industrial location in America

Bleakley, Hoyt, and Jeffrey Lin, "Portage and Path Dependence," Quarterly Journal of Economics, vol. 127 no. 2 (2012), pp. 587-644.

Klein, Alexander and Nicholas Crafts, "Making sense of the manufacturing belt: determinants of U.S. industrial location, 1880-1920," Journal of Economic Geography, vol. 12 (2012), pp. 775-807.

Donaldson, David, and Richard Hornbeck, "Railroads and American Economic Growth: A Market Access Approach," unpublished ms (2015).

Topic 2. Recent work on German economic geography

Redding, Stephen, and Daniel Sturm, "The Costs of Remoteness: Evidence from German Division and Reunification," American Economic Review, vol. 98 no. 5 (2008), pp. 1766-97.

Redding, Stephen, Daniel Sturm, and Nikolaus Wolf, "History and Industry Location: Evidence from German Airports," Review of Economics and Statistics, vol. 93 no. 3 (2011), pp. 814-31.

Gutberlet, Teresa, "Mechanization and the spatial distribution of industries in the German Empire, 1875 to 1907," Economic History Review, vol. 67 no. 2 (2014), pp. 463-91.

Hornung, Erik,”Railroads and Growth in Prussia,” Journal of the European Economic Association, vol. 13 no. 4 (2015), pp. 699-736.