The bombing of Germany: the economic geography of war-induced dislocation in West German industry

Vonyó, Tamás

doi:10.1093/ereh/her006

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“…Total turnover is defined as domestic deliveries and other services of a business for money and own consumption of the business. Notwithstanding potential caveats, such as exemptions for businesses with low turnover, total turnover is the most viable proxy for local production that is available over time and also disaggregated by sector (Vonyó, 2012). Although generated turnover is not a direct measure of the production value, it correlates strongly with national income.…”

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Immigration and structural change: Evidence from post-war Germany

Braun

Kvasnicka

2014

Journal of International Economics

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Immigration and structural change: Evidence from post-war Germany

Braun

Kvasnicka

2014

Journal of International Economics

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“…Broadberry () analyses productivity and technology more broadly and highlights the role of the German service sector that enabled the German economy to overtake British productivity levels. As for the post‐war period, discussion regarding German growth ‘miracle’ after WW2 include the role of the ‘Marshall Plan’ (Berger and Ritschl, ), and whether post‐war German growth should be interpreted as catch‐up growth or convergence (Eichengreen and Ritschl, ; Vonyó, , ). Factors that have been found to be helpful in explaining growth during this period include technological progress, including spillover effects through foreign direct investment, previous saving rates and physical capital accumulation, institutions, but also the undervalued German mark (see Bittner, for a thorough discussion).…”

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“…Fremdling and Stäglin, ). We are aware of the shortcomings of these data and try to address them in the spirit of Scherner () and Vonyó (). Given the lack of adequate alternative data, we follow the examples of Broadberry () and Metz () and use Hoffmann's series.…”

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Accounting for Sustainable Development over the Long-Run: Lessons from Germany

Blum

McLaughlin

Hanley

2019

German Economic Review

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We construct long‐run sustainability indicators based on changes in Comprehensive Wealth – which we refer to as Genuine Savings (GS) – for Germany over the period 1850–2000. We find that German sustainability indicators are positive for the most part, although they are negative during and after the two World Wars and also the Great Depression. We also test the relationship between these wealth changes and a number of measures of well‐being over the long‐run: changes in consumption as well as changes in average height and infant mortality rates. We find a positive relationship between GS and our well‐being indicators over different time horizons, however, the relationship breaks down during WWII. We also test if the GS/Comprehensive Wealth framework is able to cope with massive disinvestment at the end of the Second World War due to war‐related destructions and dismantlement. We find that negative rates of GS were by and large avoided due to the accumulation of technology and growth‐friendly institutions. We demonstrate the importance of broader measures of capital, including measures of technological progress, and its role in the process of economic development; and the limits of conventional measures of investment to understand why future German consumption did not collapse.

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“…Among others, see Ambrosius, ‘Der Beitrag’; Vonyó, ‘Bombing’; Braun and Mahmoud, ‘Employment effects’.…”

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War and socialism: why eastern Europe fell behind between 1950 and 1989†

Vonyó

2016

The Economic History Review

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This article reconsiders the relative growth performance of centrally planned economies in the broader context of postwar growth in Europe. It reports a new dataset of revised estimates for investment rates in eastern European countries between 1950 and 1989. Complemented with data on other growth determinants, this evidence is used to re-evaluate the socialist growth record in a conditional convergence framework with a panel of 24 European countries. After controlling for relative backwardness, investment rates, and improvements in human capital, the findings show that centrally planned economies underperformed due to their relative inefficiency only after the postwar golden age. In the 1950s and 1960s, eastern Europe was falling behind mainly due to relatively low levels of investment and weak reconstruction dynamics. Both are explained, in part, by the lack of labour-supply flexibility that, in turn, resulted from the comparatively much larger negative impact of the war on population growth in eastern Europe.

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The bombing of Germany: the economic geography of war-induced dislocation in West German industry

Cited by 25 publications

References 9 publications

Immigration and structural change: Evidence from post-war Germany

Immigration and structural change: Evidence from post-war Germany

Accounting for Sustainable Development over the Long-Run: Lessons from Germany

War and socialism: why eastern Europe fell behind between 1950 and 1989†

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