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Catching-up and falling behind knowledge spillover from American to German machine tool makers
Richter, Ralf; Streb, Jochen - 2009
In our days, German machine tool makers accuse their Chinese competitors of violating patent rights and illegally imitating German technology. A century ago, however, German machine tool makers used exactly the same methods to imitate American technology. To understand the dynamics of this...
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The welfare state evolves : German Knappschaften, 1854 - 1923
Jopp, Tobias Alexander - 2010
This paper reviews the German miners’ model of mutual insurance from its introduction in 1854 to its basic reformation … and permanent invalidity or death of the bread-winner. The carriers of the insurance scheme, the Knappschaften, date back …-age insurance. This paper aims to establish the Knappschaft insurance’s main characteristics in the period under consideration …
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The geography of stock exchanges in Imperial Germany
Burhop, Carsten; Lehmann-Hasemeyer, Sibylle H. - 2014
23 Stock Exchanges were in operation in Germany in 1913. We provide new data about the number of listed firms, their market value, and the number of IPOs between 1897 and 1913 for all exchanges. We assess reasons why a firm opts to be listed at a certain exchange. Large firms tend to be listed...
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Why it matters what people think : beliefs, legal origins and the deep roots of trust
Wahl, Fabian - 2012
This paper analyses the connection between legal origins and generalized trust. Based on recent results of institutions and trust research it argues that legal origins and trust are connected via the beliefs of agents. Next, it develops hypotheses about a complex and self-reinforcing causal...
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Taking firms to the stock market : IPOs and the importance of large banks in imperial Germany 1896-1913
Lehmann-Hasemeyer, Sibylle H. - 2012
German stock market. -- Financial History ; Universal Banks ; IPOs …
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