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World War I and the Restructuring of International Business

Fertik, Ted - 2020

This paper considers the effect of the First World War on large-scale businesses in Second-Industrial-Revolution industries like steel, electricity, and chemicals. For firms in the nations of the Entente, we argue, the war mainly interrupted long-term trends that resumed in the aftermath of the...

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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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A Note on the Global Distribution of Authorship in Economics Journals

Greenspon, Jacob; Rodrik, Dani - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

economics journals, disaggregating by country/region, quality of journal, and fields of specialization. We document striking …

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A Citation-Based Test for Discrimination at Economics and Finance Journals

Smart, Scott - 1996

Discrimination is notoriously difficult to document. Convincing tests for discrimination require good measures of the legitimate determinants of the outcome of interest, for example wages and productivity. While few contexts provide data adequate to the task of measuring discrimination, copious...

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Co-authorship in Economic History and Economics : Are We Any Different?

Seltzer, Andrew - 2017

-authored than articles published in leading general economics journals. However, in both economic history and general economics …-authored papers. Economics and economic history differ in the nature of collaboration, in that co-authorships in economic history are … more likely to be formed of individuals of different seniority as compared to economics generally …

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Open Access as a Crude Solution to a Hold-up Problem in the Two-Sided Market for Academic Journals

McCabe, Mark J. - 2016

The move from traditional to open-access journals--which charge no subscription fees, only submission fees--is gaining support in academia. We analyze a two-sided-market model in which journals cannot commit to subscription fees when authors (who prefer low subscription fees because this boosts...

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Neophilia Ranking of Scientific Journals

Packalen, Mikko - 2015

The ranking of scientific journals is important because of the signal it sends to scientists about what is considered most vital for scientific progress. Existing ranking systems focus on measuring the influence of a scientific paper (citations)--these rankings do not reward journals for...

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Nine Facts about Top Journals in Economics

Card, David - 2013

How has publishing in top economics journals changed since 1970? Using a data set that combines information on all … has remained relatively stable, with the notable exception of the Quarterly Journal of Economics, which climbed from …

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