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railways, newly-constructed spatially-disaggregated data for London from 1801-1921, and a quantitative urban model to provide … buildings in Greater London by 20 percent or more, and brings down commuting into the City of London from more than 370,000 to …
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This paper uses an original data set of more than 3000 cases from 1918 to 1926 in the Central Criminal Courts of London …
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synchronized with the London Interbank Offered Rate (LIBOR) denominated in the US dollar and the Japanese yen. Regardless of the …
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We find that price momentum in stocks was a pervasive phenomenon during the Victorian age (1866-1907) as well. Momentum strategy profits have little systematic risk even at business cycle frequencies; disappear periodically only to reappear later; exhibit long run reversal; and are higher...
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London the new center of the advanced art world. As Hirst reaches the age of 40, this paper uses auction results to measure … American artist under 40 has achieved. Whether London can continue its success will depend in part on whether it can match New …
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This study provides new evidence on the impact of air pollution in London over the century from 1866-1965. To identify … weeks with elevated pollution levels I use new data tracking the timing of London's famous fog events, which trapped … exposure due to fog events accounted for at least one out of every 200 deaths in London during this century. I provide evidence …
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This paper examines the consequences of the 2015 reform on the London fixing in the interbank forex market, which …
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We use the German bombing of London during the Second World War as an exogenous source of variation to provide evidence … destruction, property values, and socioeconomic composition in London before and after the Second World War. We develop a …
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We provide new evidence on how monetary policy affects investment and firm finance in the United States and the United Kingdom. Younger firms paying no dividends exhibit the largest and most significant change in capital expenditure - even after conditioning on size, asset growth, Tobin's Q,...
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Business support policies designed to raise productivity and employment are common worldwide, but rigorous micro-econometric evaluation of their causal effects is rare. We exploit multiple changes in the area-specific eligibility criteria for a major program to support manufacturing jobs...
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