IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/b/zbw/esthes/342973.html

Imperialism, socialism and economic development: New economic history of institutional change in Yugoslavia

Author

Listed:
  • Neubert, Magnus

Abstract

This dissertation uses cliometric methods to examine how institutional change shaped economic development in Yugoslavia. Three chapters analyze distinct regimes: (1) Habsburg vs. Ottoman legacies; Habsburg state capacity and human capital explain most of the interwar industrialization gap; (2) railway construction in colonial Bosnia; effects were conditional on local absorptive capacity (human capital, enforcement); without it, railways could cause re-agriculturalisation; (3) labour-managed socialism in Friuli Venezia Giulia - this regime helped absorb partition shocks despite initial backwardness, challenging conventional critiques. Overall, institutional effects are persistent but interactive: neither imperialism nor socialism was uniformly harmful. Catch-up growth arose from combinations of positive imperial legacies (e.g., Habsburg state capacity) with decentralized frameworks like labour-managed socialism.

Suggested Citation

  • Neubert, Magnus, 2026. "Imperialism, socialism and economic development: New economic history of institutional change in Yugoslavia," EconStor Theses, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, number 342973.
    • Handle: RePEc:zbw:esthes:342973
    DOI: 10.25673/124564
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.econstor.eu/bitstream/10419/342973/1/Neubert_2026_Imperialism_socialism.pdf
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.25673/124564?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    References listed on IDEAS

    as
    1. Magnus Neubert, 2023. "Leviathan's Shadow: The Imperial Legacy of State Capacity and Economic Development in the Kingdom of Yugoslavia," Working Papers 0231, European Historical Economics Society (EHES).
    2. Dincecco, Mark, 2015. "The Rise of Effective States in Europe," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 75(3), pages 901-918, September.
    3. Ogilvie, Sheilagh, 2022. "State Capacity And Economic Growth: Cautionary Tales From History," National Institute Economic Review, National Institute of Economic and Social Research, vol. 262, pages 28-50, November.
    4. Daron Acemoglu & Pascual Restrepo, 2018. "The Race between Man and Machine: Implications of Technology for Growth, Factor Shares, and Employment," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 108(6), pages 1488-1542, June.
    5. Okoye, Dozie & Pongou, Roland & Yokossi, Tite, 2019. "New technology, better economy? The heterogeneous impact of colonial railroads in Nigeria," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 140(C), pages 320-354.
    6. Braun, Sebastian Till & Franke, Richard, 2022. "Railways, Growth, and Industrialization in a Developing German Economy, 1829–1910," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 82(4), pages 1183-1221, December.
    7. Robert E. Hall & Charles I. Jones, 1999. "Why do Some Countries Produce So Much More Output Per Worker than Others?," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 114(1), pages 83-116.
    8. de Baldini Rocha, Maúna Soares & Ponczek, Vladimir, 2011. "The effects of adult literacy on earnings and employment," Economics of Education Review, Elsevier, vol. 30(4), pages 755-764, August.
    9. Dave Donaldson, 2018. "Railroads of the Raj: Estimating the Impact of Transportation Infrastructure," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 108(4-5), pages 899-934, April.
    10. Bergh, Andreas & Bjørnskov, Christian & Kouba, Luděk, 2025. "The growth consequences of socialism," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 53(2), pages 609-626.
    11. Fabian Wahl, 2017. "Does European development have Roman roots? Evidence from the German Limes," Journal of Economic Growth, Springer, vol. 22(3), pages 313-349, September.
    12. Tang, John P., 2014. "Railroad Expansion and Industrialization: Evidence from Meiji Japan," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 74(3), pages 863-886, September.
    13. John Komlos, 1989. "Nutrition and Economic Development in the Eighteenth-Century Habsburg Monarchy: An Anthropometric History," Books by John Komlos, Department of Economics, University of Munich, number 2, June.
    14. Vonyó, Tamás, 2008. "Post-war reconstruction and the Golden Age of economic growth," European Review of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 12(2), pages 221-241, August.
    15. Geloso, Vincent J. & Salter, Alexander W., 2020. "State capacity and economic development: Causal mechanism or correlative filter?," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 170(C), pages 372-385.
    16. Jutta Bolt & Jan Luiten van Zanden, 2025. "Maddison‐style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update," Journal of Economic Surveys, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 39(2), pages 631-671, April.
    17. Robert C. Allen, 2003. "Progress and poverty in early modern Europe," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 56(3), pages 403-443, August.
    18. Carlin, Wendy & Schaffer, Mark & Seabright, Paul, 2013. "Soviet power plus electrification: What is the long-run legacy of communism?," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 50(1), pages 116-147.
    19. Mark Dincecco & Mauricio Prado, 2012. "Warfare, fiscal capacity, and performance," Journal of Economic Growth, Springer, vol. 17(3), pages 171-203, September.
    20. Òscar Jordà & Moritz Schularick & Alan M. Taylor, 2017. "Macrofinancial History and the New Business Cycle Facts," NBER Macroeconomics Annual, University of Chicago Press, vol. 31(1), pages 213-263.
    21. Timothy Besley & Torsten Persson, 2011. "Pillars of Prosperity: The Political Economics of Development Clusters," Economics Books, Princeton University Press, edition 1, number 9624, December.
    22. Timothy Besley & Torsten Persson, 2009. "The Origins of State Capacity: Property Rights, Taxation, and Politics," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 99(4), pages 1218-1244, September.
    23. Timothy Besley & Torsten Persson, 2008. "Wars and State Capacity," Journal of the European Economic Association, MIT Press, vol. 6(2-3), pages 522-530, 04-05.
    24. Johnson, Noel D. & Koyama, Mark, 2017. "States and economic growth: Capacity and constraints," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 64(C), pages 1-20.
    25. Milanovic, Branko, 1987. "Patterns of regional growth in Yugoslavia, 1952-83," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 25(1), pages 1-19, February.
    26. Lee, Alexander & Schultz, Kenneth A., 2012. "Comparing British and French Colonial Legacies: A Discontinuity Analysis of Cameroon," Quarterly Journal of Political Science, now publishers, vol. 7(4), pages 365-410, October.
    27. Remi Jedwab & Edward Kerby & Alexander Moradi, 2017. "History, Path Dependence and Development: Evidence from Colonial Railways, Settlers and Cities in Kenya," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 127(603), pages 1467-1494, August.
    28. Neubert, Magnus & Nikolić, Stefan, 2026. "Why railways fail: Colonial railways and economic development in Habsburg Bosnia–Herzegovina," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 181(C).
    29. Pablo Martinelli, 2014. "Editor's choice Von Thünen south of the Alps: access to markets and interwar Italian agriculture," European Review of Economic History, European Historical Economics Society, vol. 18(2), pages 107-143.
    30. Bogart, Dan & You, Xuesheng & Alvarez-Palau, Eduard J. & Satchell, Max & Shaw-Taylor, Leigh, 2022. "Railways, divergence, and structural change in 19th century England and Wales," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 128(C).
    31. Schulze, Max-Stephan, 2000. "Patterns of growth and stagnation in the late nineteenth century Habsburg economy," European Review of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 4(3), pages 311-340, December.
    32. Timothy Besley & Torsten Persson, 2010. "State Capacity, Conflict, and Development," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 78(1), pages 1-34, January.
    33. Bockstette, Valerie & Chanda, Areendam & Putterman, Louis, 2002. "States and Markets: The Advantage of an Early Start," Journal of Economic Growth, Springer, vol. 7(4), pages 347-369, December.
    34. Leonard Kukić & Yasin Arslantas, 2026. "Peasants into Muslims: Poverty and conversions to Islam in Ottoman Bosnia," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 79(2), pages 600-633, May.
    35. Nataša Kump & Filip Novokmet, 2018. "Top incomes in Croatia and Slovenia, from 1960s until today," PSE Working Papers hal-02878175, HAL.
    36. Andrés Forero & Francisco A. Gallego & Felipe González & Matías Tapia, 2021. "Railroads, specialization, and population growth: evidence from the first globalization," Journal of Population Economics, Springer;European Society for Population Economics, vol. 34(3), pages 1027-1072, July.
    37. Krugman, Paul, 1991. "Increasing Returns and Economic Geography," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 99(3), pages 483-499, June.
    38. Kornai, Janos, 1992. "The Socialist System: The Political Economy of Communism," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780198287766.
    39. Daron Acemoglu & Pascual Restrepo, 2019. "Automation and New Tasks: How Technology Displaces and Reinstates Labor," Journal of Economic Perspectives, American Economic Association, vol. 33(2), pages 3-30, Spring.
    40. Jeremy Atack & Michael R. Haines & Robert A. Margo, 2008. "Railroads and the Rise of the Factory: Evidence for the United States, 1850-70," NBER Working Papers 14410, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
    41. David S. Lee & Thomas Lemieux, 2010. "Regression Discontinuity Designs in Economics," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 48(2), pages 281-355, June.
    42. Nicola Gennaioli & Ilia Rainer, 2007. "The modern impact of precolonial centralization in Africa," Journal of Economic Growth, Springer, vol. 12(3), pages 185-234, September.
    43. Palairet, Michael, 1979. "Fiscal Pressure and Peasant Impoverishment in Serbia before World War I," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 39(3), pages 719-740, September.
    44. Sam Asher & Paul Novosad, 2020. "Rural Roads and Local Economic Development," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 110(3), pages 797-823, March.
    45. Coşgel, Metin M. & Miceli, Thomas J. & Rubin, Jared, 2012. "The political economy of mass printing: Legitimacy and technological change in the Ottoman Empire," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 40(3), pages 357-371.
    46. Remi Jedwab & Alexander Moradi, 2016. "The Permanent Effects of Transportation Revolutions in Poor Countries: Evidence from Africa," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 98(2), pages 268-284, May.
    47. Jeremiah E. Dittmar, 2011. "Information Technology and Economic Change: The Impact of The Printing Press," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 126(3), pages 1133-1172.
    48. Max-Stephan Schulze & Nikolaus Wolf, 2009. "On the origins of border effects: insights from the Habsburg Empire," Journal of Economic Geography, Oxford University Press, vol. 9(1), pages 117-136, January.
    49. Mattia C Bertazzini, 2022. "The long-term impact of Italian colonial roads in the Horn of Africa, 1935–2015," Journal of Economic Geography, Oxford University Press, vol. 22(1), pages 181-214.
    50. Karaman, K. Kivanç & Pamuk, Şevket, 2013. "Different Paths to the Modern State in Europe: The Interaction Between Warfare, Economic Structure, and Political Regime," American Political Science Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 107(3), pages 603-626, August.
    51. Kopsidis, Michael & Wolf, Nikolaus, 2012. "Agricultural Productivity Across Prussia During the Industrial Revolution: A Thünen Perspective," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 72(3), pages 634-670, August.
    52. Erik Hornung, 2015. "Railroads And Growth In Prussia," Journal of the European Economic Association, European Economic Association, vol. 13(4), pages 699-736, August.
    53. vom Hau, Matthias & Peres-Cajías, José Alejandro & Soifer, Hillel David, 2023. "No taxation without informational foundation: on the role of legibility in tax state development," Journal of Institutional Economics, Cambridge University Press, vol. 19(3), pages 426-443, June.
    54. Nathaniel Baum-Snow, 2007. "Did Highways Cause Suburbanization?," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 122(2), pages 775-805.
    55. Ajay Agrawal & Alberto Galasso & Alexander Oettl, 2017. "Roads and Innovation," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 99(3), pages 417-434, July.
    56. Nataša Kump & Filip Novokmet, 2018. "Top incomes in Croatia and Slovenia, from 1960s until today," Working Papers hal-02878175, HAL.
    57. Hugo Jales & Thomas H. Kang & Guilherme Stein & Felipe Garcia Ribeiro, 2018. "Measuring the role of the 1959 revolution on Cuba's economic performance," The World Economy, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 41(8), pages 2243-2274, August.
    58. Crafts, Nicholas & Wolf, Nikolaus, 2014. "The Location of the UK Cotton Textiles Industry in 1838: A Quantitative Analysis," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 74(4), pages 1103-1139, December.
    59. Kraft, Evan & Vodopivec, Milan, 1992. "How soft is the budget constraint for Yugoslav firms?," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 16(3), pages 432-455, September.
    60. Anjali Adukia & Sam Asher & Paul Novosad, 2020. "Educational Investment Responses to Economic Opportunity: Evidence from Indian Road Construction," American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, American Economic Association, vol. 12(1), pages 348-376, January.
    61. Baum-Snow, Nathaniel & Henderson, J. Vernon & Turner, Matthew A. & Zhang, Qinghua & Brandt, Loren, 2020. "Does investment in national highways help or hurt hinterland city growth?," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 115(C).
    62. Leonard Kukić, 2024. "Technical change and the postwar slowdown in Soviet economic growth in a long run perspective, 1885–2019," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 77(2), pages 644-674, May.
    63. Schulze, Max-Stephan, 2007. "Regional income dispersion and market potential in the late nineteenth century Hapsburg Empire," Economic History Working Papers 22311, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
    64. Antoni Estevadeordal & Brian Frantz & Alan M. Taylor, 2003. "The Rise and Fall of World Trade, 1870–1939," The Quarterly Journal of Economics, President and Fellows of Harvard College, vol. 118(2), pages 359-407.
    65. Hanlon, W.Walker & Heblich, Stephan, 2022. "History and urban economics," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 94(C).
    66. Acemoglu, Daron, 2005. "Politics and economics in weak and strong states," Journal of Monetary Economics, Elsevier, vol. 52(7), pages 1199-1226, October.
    67. Konstantin Büchel & Stephan Kyburz, 2020. "Fast track to growth? Railway access, population growth and local displacement in 19th century Switzerland," Journal of Economic Geography, Oxford University Press, vol. 20(1), pages 155-195.
    68. Kukić, Leonard, 2023. "The last Yugoslavs: Ethnic diversity and national identity," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 88(C).
    69. Aggarwal, Shilpa, 2018. "Do rural roads create pathways out of poverty? Evidence from India," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 133(C), pages 375-395.
    70. Allen, Robert C., 1992. "Enclosure and the Yeoman: The Agricultural Development of the South Midlands 1450-1850," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780198282969.
    71. Vanek, Jaroslav, 1969. "Decentralization Under Worker's Management: A Theoretical Appraisal," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 59(5), pages 1006-1014, December.
    72. Pablo Fajgelbaum & Stephen J. Redding, 2022. "Trade, Structural Transformation, and Development: Evidence from Argentina 1869–1914," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 130(5), pages 1249-1318.
    73. repec:ehl:lserod:22311 is not listed on IDEAS
    74. Marina Tkalec, 2020. "History matters: development and institutional persistence of the Habsburg Military Frontier in Croatia," Public Sector Economics, Institute of Public Finance, vol. 44(1), pages 117-145.
    75. Dincecco,Mark, 2017. "State Capacity and Economic Development," Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press, number 9781108439541.
    76. Marein, Brian, 2022. "Colonial Roads and Regional Inequality," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 131(C).
    77. Boško Mijatović & Milan Zavadjil, 2023. "Serbia on the path to modern economic growth," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 76(1), pages 199-220, February.
    78. Joshua D. Angrist & Jörn-Steffen Pischke, 2009. "Mostly Harmless Econometrics: An Empiricist's Companion," Economics Books, Princeton University Press, edition 1, number 8769, December.
    79. Banerjee, Abhijit & Duflo, Esther & Qian, Nancy, 2020. "On the road: Access to transportation infrastructure and economic growth in China," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 145(C).
    80. Eduardo Montero, 2022. "Cooperative Property Rights and Development: Evidence from Land Reform in El Salvador," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 130(1), pages 48-93.
    81. Tomas Cvrcek & Miroslav Zajicek, 2019. "The rise of public schooling in nineteenth-century Imperial Austria: Who gained and who paid?," Cliometrica, Springer;Cliometric Society (Association Francaise de Cliométrie), vol. 13(3), pages 367-403, September.
    82. Davide Cantoni & Cathrin Mohr & Matthias Weigand, 2024. "The Rise of Fiscal Capacity: Administration and State Consolidation in the Holy Roman Empire," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 92(5), pages 1439-1472, September.
    83. Chandra, Amitabh & Thompson, Eric, 2000. "Does public infrastructure affect economic activity?: Evidence from the rural interstate highway system," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 30(4), pages 457-490, July.
    84. Good, David F. & Ma, Tongshu, 1999. "The economic growth of Central and Eastern Europe in comparative perspective, 1870–1989," European Review of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 3(2), pages 103-137, August.
    85. Asta, Federico & Mélon, Lela & Spruk, Rok, 2021. "Bono Malum Superate: long-run effects of radical institutional change," Journal of Government and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 2(C).
    86. Spinnewyn, Frans & Svejnar, Jan, 1990. "Optimal Membership, Employment, and Income Distribution in Unionized and Labor-Managed Firms," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 8(3), pages 317-340, July.
    87. repec:cup:jechis:v:32:y:1972:i:01:p:241-261_07 is not listed on IDEAS
    88. Pammer, Michael, 1997. "Proxy Data and Income Estimates: The Economic Lag of Central and Eastern Europe," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 57(02), pages 448-455, June.
    89. Koopmans, Carl & Rietveld, Piet & Huijg, Aart, 2012. "An accessibility approach to railways and municipal population growth, 1840–1930," Journal of Transport Geography, Elsevier, vol. 25(C), pages 98-104.
    90. Valentina Dimitrova‐Grajzl, 2007. "The Great Divide Revisited: Ottoman and Habsburg Legacies on Transition," Kyklos, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 60(4), pages 539-558, November.
    91. Karaman, K. Kivanç & Pamuk, Şevket, 2010. "Ottoman State Finances in European Perspective, 1500–1914," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 70(3), pages 593-629, September.
    92. Melissa Dell, 2010. "The Persistent Effects of Peru's Mining Mita," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 78(6), pages 1863-1903, November.
    93. Leonard Kukić, 2020. "Origins of regional divergence: economic growth in socialist Yugoslavia," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 73(4), pages 1097-1127, November.
    94. Milanovic, Branko, 1982. "The Austrian theory of the cooperative firm," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 6(4), pages 379-395, December.
    95. Berger, Thor, 2019. "Railroads and Rural Industrialization: evidence from a Historical Policy Experiment," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 74(C).
    96. Furubotn, Eirik G & Pejovich, Svetozar, 1972. "Property Rights and Economic Theory: A Survey of Recent Literature," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 10(4), pages 1137-1162, December.
    97. Alfonso Herranz-Loncán & Johan Fourie, 2018. "“For the public benefit”? Railways in the British Cape Colony," European Review of Economic History, European Historical Economics Society, vol. 22(1), pages 73-100.
    98. Nataša Kump & Filip Novokmet, 2018. "Top incomes in Croatia and Slovenia, from 1960s until today," World Inequality Lab Working Papers hal-02878175, HAL.
    99. Easterly, William, 2001. "The Lost Decades: Developing Countries' Stagnation in Spite of Policy Reform 1980-1998," Journal of Economic Growth, Springer, vol. 6(2), pages 135-157, June.
    100. Conley, T. G., 1999. "GMM estimation with cross sectional dependence," Journal of Econometrics, Elsevier, vol. 92(1), pages 1-45, September.
    101. Douglass C. North, 2005. "Introduction to Understanding the Process of Economic Change," Introductory Chapters, in: Understanding the Process of Economic Change, Princeton University Press.
    102. Brus, Wlodzimierz & Laski, Kazimierz, 1991. "From Marx to the Market: Socialism in Search of an Economic System," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780198283997.
    103. Ejaz Ghani & Arti Grover Goswami & William R. Kerr, 2016. "Highway to Success: The Impact of the Golden Quadrilateral Project for the Location and Performance of Indian Manufacturing," Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 126(591), pages 317-357, March.
    104. Ciccarelli, Carlo & Magazzino, Cosimo & Marcucci, Edoardo, 2021. "Early development of Italian railways and industrial growth: A regional analysis," Research in Transportation Economics, Elsevier, vol. 88(C).
    105. Ofer, Gur, 1987. "Soviet Economic Growth: 1928-1985," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 25(4), pages 1767-1833, December.
    106. Fenske, James & Kala, Namrata & Wei, Jinlin, 2023. "Railways and cities in India," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 161(C).
    107. Lakshmi Iyer, 2010. "Direct versus Indirect Colonial Rule in India: Long-Term Consequences," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 92(4), pages 693-713, November.
    108. William Easterly & Ross Levine, 2016. "The European origins of economic development," Journal of Economic Growth, Springer, vol. 21(3), pages 225-257, September.
    109. Benjamin Faber, 2014. "Trade Integration, Market Size, and Industrialization: Evidence from China's National Trunk Highway System," The Review of Economic Studies, Review of Economic Studies Ltd, vol. 81(3), pages 1046-1070.
    110. Janez Prasnikar, 1994. "Behavior of Participatory Firms in Yugoslavia: Lessons for Transforming Economies," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 76(4), pages 728-741, November.
    111. Good, David F., 1994. "The Economic Lag of Central and Eastern Europe: Income Estimates for the Habsburg Successor States, 1870–1910," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 54(4), pages 869-891, December.
    112. Stefan Nikolić, 2018. "Determinants of industrial location: Kingdom of Yugoslavia in the interwar period," European Review of Economic History, European Historical Economics Society, vol. 22(1), pages 101-133.
    113. L. Picci, 1995. "Lo Stock di capitale nelle Regioni Italiane," Working Papers 229, Dipartimento Scienze Economiche, Universita' di Bologna.
    114. Pauline Grosjean, 2011. "The Weight of History on European Cultural Integration: A Gravity Approach," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 101(3), pages 504-508, May.
    115. Alix-Garcia, Jennifer & Walker, Sarah & Radeloff, Volker & Kozak, Jacek, 2018. "Tariffs and Trees: The Effects of the Austro-Hungarian Customs Union on Specialization and Land-Use Change," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 78(4), pages 1142-1178, December.
    116. Besley, Timothy, 1995. "Property Rights and Investment Incentives: Theory and Evidence from Ghana," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 103(5), pages 903-937, October.
    117. Tamás Vonyó & Alexander Klein, 2019. "Why did socialist economies fail? The role of factor inputs reconsidered," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 72(1), pages 317-345, February.
    118. Tamás Vonyó, 2017. "War and socialism: why eastern Europe fell behind between 1950 and 1989," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 70(1), pages 248-274, February.
    119. Emilio Carnevali & André Pedersen Ystehede, 2023. "Is socialism back? A review of contemporary economic literature," Journal of Economic Surveys, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 37(2), pages 239-270, April.
    120. Christian Dippel & Robert Gold & Stephan Heblich & Rodrigo Pinto, 2022. "The Effect of Trade on Workers and Voters," The Economic Journal, Royal Economic Society, vol. 132(641), pages 199-217.
    121. Furubotn, Eirik G., 1980. "The socialist labor-managed firm and bank-financed investment: Some theoretical issues," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 4(2), pages 184-191, June.
    122. Grosjean, Pauline, 2011. "The institutional legacy of the Ottoman Empire: Islamic rule and financial development in South Eastern Europe," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 39(1), pages 1-16, March.
    123. Bogdan G. Popescu, 2023. "The Developmental Legacies of Border Buffer Zones: The Case of Military Colonialism," Journal of Historical Political Economy, now publishers, vol. 3(1), pages 31-63, May.
    124. Lee, Jaymin, 1997. "The maturation and growth of infant industries: The case of Korea," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 25(8), pages 1271-1281, August.
    125. Andrew Gelman & Guido Imbens, 2019. "Why High-Order Polynomials Should Not Be Used in Regression Discontinuity Designs," Journal of Business & Economic Statistics, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 37(3), pages 447-456, July.
    126. Neubert, Magnus & Nikolić, Stefan, 2026. "Why railways fail: Colonial railways and economic development in Habsburg Bosnia–Herzegovina," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 181, pages 1-17.
    127. Bateman, Deborah A. & Nishimizu, Mieko & Page, John Jr., 1988. "Regional productivity differentials and development policy in Yugoslavia, 1965-1978," Journal of Comparative Economics, Elsevier, vol. 12(1), pages 24-42, March.
    128. Aleksandar Kešeljević & Stefan Nikolić & Rok Spruk, 2026. "Ethnic Conflicts, Civil War, and Economic Growth: Region‐Level Evidence From Former Yugoslavia," Journal of Regional Science, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 66(3), pages 950-977, June.
    Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)

    Most related items

    These are the items that most often cite the same works as this one and are cited by the same works as this one.
    1. Neubert, Magnus & Nikolić, Stefan, 2026. "Why railways fail: Colonial railways and economic development in Habsburg Bosnia–Herzegovina," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 181(C).
    2. Magnus Neubert & Stefan Nikolić, 2025. "Why railways fail: Colonial railways and economic development in Habsburg Bosnia-Herzegovina," Working Papers 0280, European Historical Economics Society (EHES).
    3. Neubert, Magnus & Nikolić, Stefan, 2026. "Why railways fail: Colonial railways and economic development in Habsburg Bosnia–Herzegovina," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 181, pages 1-17.
    4. Fenske, James & Kala, Namrata & Wei, Jinlin, 2023. "Railways and cities in India," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 161(C).
    5. Cucu, Florin, 2025. "Roads, internal migration and the spatial sorting of U.S. high-skill workers," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 146(C).
    6. Fenske, James & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Mukhopadhyay, Anwesh, 2025. "Colonial Persistence," CAGE Online Working Paper Series 752, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE).
    7. Colin O'Reilly & Ryan H. Murphy, 2022. "An Index Measuring State Capacity, 1789–2018," Economica, London School of Economics and Political Science, vol. 89(355), pages 713-745, July.
    8. Berger, Thor, 2019. "Railroads and Rural Industrialization: evidence from a Historical Policy Experiment," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 74(C).
    9. Hanlon, W.Walker & Heblich, Stephan, 2022. "History and urban economics," Regional Science and Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 94(C).
    10. Yit Wey Liew & Muhammad Habibur Rahman & Audrey Kim Lan Siah, 2026. "Colonial origins of agglomeration: Evidence from Malayan rail stations," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 79(1), pages 221-246, February.
    11. He, Guojun & Xie, Yang & Zhang, Bing, 2020. "Expressways, GDP, and the environment: The case of China," Journal of Development Economics, Elsevier, vol. 145(C).
    12. Bogart, Dan & You, Xuesheng & Alvarez-Palau, Eduard J. & Satchell, Max & Shaw-Taylor, Leigh, 2022. "Railways, divergence, and structural change in 19th century England and Wales," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 128(C).
    13. Das, Abhiman & Ghani, Ejaz & Grover, Arti & Kerr, William & Nanda, Ramana, 2024. "JUE insight: Infrastructure and Finance: Evidence from India’s GQ highway network," Journal of Urban Economics, Elsevier, vol. 142(C).
    14. Yoshifumi Konishi & Akari Ono, 2024. "Do Winners Win More from Transport Megaprojects? Evidence from the Great Seto Bridge in Japan," Keio-IES Discussion Paper Series 2024-018, Institute for Economics Studies, Keio University.
    15. Luke Heath Milsom, 2023. "Moving OpportunityLocal Connectivity and Spatial Inequality," CEPREMAP Working Papers (Docweb) 2303, CEPREMAP.
    16. Xingjian Ding & Yumin Hu & Shilei Liu & Cong Peng & Jintao Xu & Mingzhi (Jimmy) Xu & Qinghua Zhang, 2026. "Green gains from connectivity: highway expansion and forest quality," CEP Discussion Papers dp2162, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
    17. Roberto Ezcurra, 2024. "Sunlight, culture and state capacity," Kyklos, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 77(2), pages 285-315, May.
    18. Xie, Lin & Wang, Shaozhuang & Yan, Lingxiao, 2024. "Distributional effects of expressway access on rural entrepreneurial activities in China," Socio-Economic Planning Sciences, Elsevier, vol. 94(C).
    19. Konstantin Buechel, Stephan Kyburz, 2016. "Fast Track to Growth? The Impact of Railway Access on Regional Economic Development in 19th Century Switzerland," Diskussionsschriften credresearchpaper12, Universitaet Bern, Departement Volkswirtschaft - CRED.
    20. Garcia-López, Miquel-Àngel & Herranz-Loncán, Alfonso & Tassinari, Filippo & Viladecans-Marsal, Elisabet, 2023. "Paving the way to modern growth: The Spanish Bourbon roads," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 90(C).

    More about this item

    Keywords

    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;
    ;

    Statistics

    Access and download statistics

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:zbw:esthes:342973. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    If CitEc recognized a bibliographic reference but did not link an item in RePEc to it, you can help with this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/zbwkide.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.