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The Spatial Distribution of Spanish Transport Infrastructure between 1860 and 1930
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The origin of Spanish regional economic divergence can be traced back at least until the seventeenth century, although its full definition took place during industrialisation. Historians have often included uneven regional infrastructure endowments among the factors that explain divergence among Spanish regions, although no systematic analysis of the spatial distribution of Spanish infrastructure and its determinants has been carried out so far. This paper aims at filling that gap, by offering a description of the regional distribution of the main Spanish transport infrastructure between the middle of the nineteenth century and the Civil War. In addition, it estimates a panel data model to search into the main reasons that explain the differences among the Spanish regional endowments of railways and roads during that period. The outcomes of that analysis indicate that both institutional factors and the physical characteristics of each area had a strong influence on the distribution of transport infrastructure among the Spanish regions.
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HERRANZ LONCÁN, Alfonso. The Spatial Distribution of Spanish Transport Infrastructure between 1860 and 1930. Annals of Regional Science. 2007. Vol. 41, num. 1, pags. 189-208. ISSN 0570-1864. [consulted: 6 of June of 2026]. Available at: https://hdl.handle.net/2445/40995