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2016-09-14Buch DOI: 10.18452/4643
Blooming Landscapes in the West? - German reunification and the price of land.
Schoettler, Raphael
Wolf, Nikolaus
German reunification was a positive market access shock for both East and West Germany. Regions that for 45 years had experienced a decline in population due to their loss in market access following the division of Germany after WWII were most strongly affected by this positive shock. We use an entirely new data set to analyse the effects of German reunification on the value of land in West Germany. We find that regions in the immediate border area experienced a relative rise in land prices compared to regions outside a 100km radius from the border. At the same time we confirm the absence of a population effect (Redding and Sturm, 2008) even including rural boroughs. We find that land values have adjusted more quickly than population and in some cases even overshot predicted long-run levels within the first decade of reunification. We attribute this finding to the information and expectation component of land prices. Land values incorporate expectations about long-run equilibrium adjustments following reunification more swiftly, but firms and households are slower to react due to the costs of relocating. The results are consistent with empirical work on the positive effects of infrastructure projects on land values (Yiu and Wong, 2005; Lai et al., 2007; Duncan, 2011).
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