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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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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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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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economics. We found that women in economics were 15% less likely to be promoted to associate professor after controlling for …
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economics journals, disaggregating by country/region, quality of journal, and fields of specialization. We document striking …
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Publishing in economics proceeds much more slowly on average than in the natural sciences, and more slowly than in … round of re-submission at the top economics journals is productive of additional subsequent citations; but conditional on re …
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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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in academic economics departments. Analyzing the job histories of tenure-track economists hired by the top 35 U ….S. economics departments, we find that T5 publications have a powerful influence on tenure decisions and rates of transition to …
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We study how citation patterns differ between journal tiers in economics. Concretely, we analyze citations patterns of … more than 6,000 economics research articles published in top five, second tier, and top field economics journals between … field of economics research (e.g. this ratio is the lowest for econometric methods papers) and with articles' impact (e …
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knowledge generated by original research. Yet, replication is the exception rather than the rule in economics. In this paper, we …
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