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Financial Systems, Economic Growth, and Globalization

Rousseau, Peter L. - 2001

This paper brings together two strands of the economic literature -- that on the finance-growth nexus and that on capital market integration -- and explores key issues surrounding each strand through both institutional/country histories and formal quantitative analysis. We begin with studies of...

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Were Trade and Factor Mobility Substitutes in History?

Collins, William J. - 1997

Trade theorists have come to understand that their theory is ambiguous on the question: Are trade and factor flows substitutes? While this sounds like an open invitation for empirical research, hardly any serious econometric work has appeared in the literature. This paper uses history to fill...

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Corporate-Finance Benefits from Universal Banking : Germany and the United States, 1870-1914

Calomiris, Charles W. - 1993

Limitations on bank consolidation and branching in the United States at an early date effectively limited the scope of commercial banks and their involvement in financing large-scale industry, and increased information and transaction costs of issuing securities. In contrast, German industry was...

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Historical Natural Experiments : Bridging Economics and Economic History

Cantoni, Davide - 2020

The analysis of historical natural experiments has profoundly impacted economics research across fields. We trace the …

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A New Mechanism to Alleviate the Crises of Confidence in Science-With An Application to the Public Goods Game

Butera, Luigi - 2020

Creation of empirical knowledge in economics has taken a dramatic turn in the past few decades. One feature of the new …

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Program Evaluation and Research Designs

DiNardo, John - 2010

This chapter provides a selective review of some contemporary approaches to program evaluation. One motivation for our review is the recent emergence and increasing use of a particular kind of "program" in applied microeconomic research, the so-called Regression Discontinuity (RD) Design of...

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Cognitive Economics

Kimball, Miles S. - 2015

Cognitive Economics is the economics of what is in people's minds. It is a vibrant area of research (much of it within … Behavioral Economics, Labor Economics and the Economics of Education) that brings into play novel types of data--especially novel … Welfare Economics. A key theme of Cognitive Economics is finite cognition (often misleadingly called "bounded rationality …

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