Nagy, David Krisztián2021-04-142021-04-142022Nagy DK. Quantitative economic geography meets history: questions, answers and challenges. Reg Sci Urban Econ. 2022 May;94:103675. DOI: 10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2021.1036750166-0462http://hdl.handle.net/10230/47113A rapidly growing literature uses quantitative general equilibrium models of economic geography to study the economic impact of historical events such as the railroad revolution, industrial take-off, structural transformation and wars. I identify three key challenges facing this literature: the tractability of model structure, the availability of historical data, and issues related to identification. I review the literature by discussing how it has been addressing each of these challenges. While doing so, I point out the rich set of questions that this literature can address, as well as the methodological innovations it has conducted to answer these questions.application/pdfeng© 2021 The Author(s). Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).info:eu-repo/semantics/articlehttp://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.regsciurbeco.2021.103675Economic geographyRegional economicsUrban economicsEconomic historyinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess