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How Deep are the Roots of Economic Development?

Spolaore, Enrico - 2012

analysis of ever deeper, more fundamental factors, rooted in long-term history. A growing body of new empirical work focuses on …

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The International Monetary Fund : 70 Years of Reinvention

Reinhart, Carmen - 2016

A sketch of the International Monetary Fund's 70-year history reveals an institution that has reinvented itself over … time along multiple dimensions. This history is primarily consistent with a “demand driven” theory of institutional change … decades, banking crises and sovereign defaults became they key focus since the 1980s. Around this time, the IMF shifted from …

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Historical Roots of Political Extremism : The Effects of Nazi Occupation of Italy

Fontana, Nicola - 2018

The Italian civil war and the Nazi occupation of Italy occurred at a critical juncture, just before the birth of a new democracy. We study the impact of these traumatic events by exploiting geographic heterogeneity in the duration and intensity of civil war, and the persistence of the...

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Earthquakes, Religion, and Transition to Self-Government in Italian Cities

Belloc, Marianna - 2016

This paper presents a unique historical experiment to explore the dynamics of institutional change in the Middle Ages. We have assembled a novel dataset, where information on political institutions for northern-central Italian cities between 1000 and 1300 is matched with detailed information on...

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The Cost of Decentralization : Linguistic Polarization and the Provision of Education

Cinnirella, Francesco - 2016

In this paper we argue that different preferences in a decentralized system lead to under provision of public goods. We analyze the provision of public primary education in nineteenth-century Prussia which was characterized by a linguistically polarized society and a decentralized education...

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The Great Mortgaging : Housing Finance, Crises, and Business Cycles

Jordà, Òscar - 2015

This paper unveils a new resource for macroeconomic research: a long-run dataset covering disaggregated bank credit for 17 advanced economies since 1870. The new data show that the share of mortgages on banks' balance sheets doubled in the course of the 20th century, driven by a sharp rise of...

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What is European Integration Really About? A Political Guide for Economists

Spolaore, Enrico - 2013

Europe's monetary union is part of a broader process of integration that started in the aftermath of World War II. In this “political guide for economists” we look at the creation of the euro within the bigger picture of European integration. How and why were European institutions...

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Education Promoted Secularization

Becker, Sascha O.; Nagler, Markus; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021

Why did substantial parts of Europe abandon the institutionalized churches around 1900? Empirical studies using modern data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of secularization. We construct a unique panel dataset of...

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Wars of Conquest and Independence

Hodler, Roland; Yektas, Hadi - 2021

Wars of conquest and wars of independence are characterized by an asymmetric payoff structure: one party gets aggregate production if it wins, and its own production if it loses, while the other party gets only its own production if it wins, and nothing if it loses. We study a model of war with...

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The Trend of BMI Values by Centiles of US Adults, Birth Cohorts 1882-1986

Komlos, John; Brabec, Marek - 2021

Trends in BMI values are estimated by centiles of the US adult population by birth cohorts 1886-1986 stratified by ethnicity. The highest centile increased by some 18 to 22 units in the course of the century while the lowest ones increased by merely 1 to 3 units. Hence, the BMI distribution...

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