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Share Liquidity and Industrial Growth in an Emerging Market : The Case of New England, 1854-1897

Rousseau, Peter L. - 1999

of finance-led industrialization …

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Eckert, Fabian; Peters, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022

shifting away from their sector of specialization, rural labor markets saw faster wage growth and industrialization than non …

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Enterprising America : businesses, banks, and credit markets in historical perspective

Collins, William J. (contributor); … - 2015

Introduction / William J. Collins and Robert A. Margo -- Business organization and internal governance. Revisiting American exceptionalism: democracy and the regulation of corporate governance: the case of nineteenth-century Pennsylvania in comparative context / Naomi R. Lamoreaux -- Corporate...

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Labor Productivity Growth and Industrialization in Africa

McMillan, Margaret Stokes; Zeufack, Albert G. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Manufacturing has made an important contribution to raising living standards in many parts of the world. Concerns about premature deindustrialization have made some observers skeptical about the potential for manufacturing to play this role in Africa. But employment in African manufacturing has...

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Intellectual Property Rights, Foreign Direct Investment, and Industrial Development

Branstetter, Lee - 2009

This paper develops a North-South product model in which Southern imitation and the North-South flow of foreign direct investment (FDI) are endogenously determined. In the model, a strengthening of IPR protection in the South reduces the rate of imitation, which, in turn, increases the flow of...

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Financial Development and the Composition of Industrial Growth

Fisman, Raymond - 2003

We re-examine the role of financial market development in the intersectoral allocation of resources. Specifically, we propose the use of a new methodology that looks at the co-movement in growth rates across pairs of countries to examine the role of financial development in allowing firms to...

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Flowers of Evil? Industrial Development and Long-Run Prosperity

Franck, Raphaël - 2017

This research explores the effect of industrialization on the process of development. In contrast to conventional … steam engines across French departments during the early phases of industrialization, the research establishes that … intensive industrialization in the middle of the 19th century increased income per capita in the subsequent decades but …

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Clans, Guilds, and Markets : Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy

de la Croix, David - 2016

In the centuries leading up to the Industrial Revolution, Western Europe gradually pulled ahead of other world regions in terms of technological creativity, population growth, and income per capita. We argue that superior institutions for the creation and dissemination of productive knowledge...

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Economic History and Economic Development : New Economic History in Retrospect and Prospect

Temin, Peter - 2014

technology of industrialization was adapted to these factor prices and is not profitable in low-wage economies. The cross-over to …

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Industrial Catching Up in the Poor Periphery 1870-1975

Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2011

This paper documents industrial output and labor productivity growth around the poor periphery 1870-1975 (Latin America, the European periphery, the Middle East, South Asia, Southeast Asia and East Asia). Intensive and extensive industrial growth accelerated there over this critical century. The...

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