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The Global History of Corporate Governance : An Introduction
Morck, Randall K. - 2005
This paper presents a synopsis of recent NBER studies of the history of corporate governance in Canada, China, France …, Germany, Japan, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Together, the studies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467625
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Geographic Barriers to Commodity Price Integration : Evidence from US Cities and Swedish Towns, 1732-1860
Crucini, Mario J. - 2014
We study the role of distance and time in statistically explaining price dispersion for 14 commodities from 1732 to 1860. The prices are reported for US cities and Swedish market towns, so we can compare international and intranational dispersion. Distance and commodity-specific fixed effects...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458419
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Emerging Financial Markets and Early U.S. Growth
Rousseau, Peter L. - 1999
. The analysis includes a set of multivariate time series models that relate measures of banking and equity market activity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012471335
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The Service Industries and U.S. Economic Growth Since World War II
Fuchs, Victor R. - 1977
During the past 15 years employment and current dollar gross product continued to shift to the Service sector at about the same rate as in the early post-World War II period, while the Service sector's share of gross product in constant dollars remained relatively constant. Productivity (as...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012478924
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The Great Escape : A Review Essay on Fogel's 'The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100'
Deaton, Angus - 2005
the past, present, and future of human health. Fogel's work places great emphasis on nutrition, not only for the history …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467376
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Sample-Selection Bias and Height Trends in the Nineteenth-Century United States
Zimran, Ariell - 2018
After adjusting for sample-selection bias, I find a net decline in average stature of 0.64 inches in the birth cohorts of 1832--1860 in the US. This result supports the veracity of the Antebellum Puzzle--a deterioration of health during early modern economic growth in the US. However, this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012452906
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Emigration during the French Revolution : Consequences in the Short and Longue Durée
Franck, Raphaël - 2017
During the French Revolution, more than 100,000 individuals, predominantly supporters of the Old Regime, fled France. As a result, some areas experienced a significant change in the composition of the local elites whereas in others the pre-revolutionary social structure remained virtually...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453778
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012460529
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The Rise and Decline of General Laws of Capitalism
Acemoglu, Daron; Robinson, James A. - 2014
Africa and Sweden to illustrate that inequality dynamics cannot be understood without embedding economic factors in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457900
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Does the Structure of Banking Markets Affect Economic Growth? Evidence from U.S. State Banking Markets
Mitchener, Kris James - 2010
This paper examines the relationship between the structure of banking markets and economic growth using a new dataset … on manufacturing industry-level growth rates and banking market concentration for U.S. states during 1899-1929--a period … when the manufacturing sector was expanding rapidly and restrictive branching laws segmented the U.S. banking system …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462942