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Is the Global Economy Deglobalizing? And if so, why? And what is next?
Goldberg, Pinelopi K.; Reed, Tristan - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
Data on global trade as well as capital and labor flows indicate a slowdown, but not reversal, of globalization post the 2008-09 financial crisis. Yet profound changes in the policy environment and public sentiment in the largest economies over the past five years suggest the beginning of a new...
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Industrial Clusters in the Long Run : Evidence from Million-Rouble Plants in China
Heblich, Stephan; Seror, Marlon; Xu, Hao; Zylberberg, Yanos - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2022
We identify negative spillovers exerted by large, successful manufacturing plants on other local production facilities in China. A short-lived alliance between the U.S.S.R. and China led to the construction of 150 "Million-Rouble plants" in the 1950s. Our identification strategy exploits the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013477236
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Commercial Imperialism? Political Influence and Trade During the Cold War
Berger, Daniel - 2010
We exploit the recent declassification of CIA documents and examine whether there is evidence of US power being used to influence countries' decisions regarding international trade. We measure US influence using a newly constructed annual panel of CIA interventions aimed at installing and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462672
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Institutional Drift, Property Rights, and Economic Development : Evidence from Historical Treaties
Feir, Donna; Gillezeau, Rob; Jones, Maggie - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
For nearly three centuries, Indigenous peoples within the borders of present-day Canada engaged in treaty-making with the British Crown and other European powers. These treaties regularly formed the colonial legal basis for access to Indigenous lands. However, treaties were not negotiated...
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The Profitabality of Colonialism
Grossman, Herschel I. - 1993
but not others became colonies and why many colonies that were initially profitable subsequently become unprofitable and … productive and appropriative activities, and the distribution of income in colonies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474530
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Long-run Impacts of Forced Labor Migration on Fertility Behaviors : Evidence from Colonial West Africa
Dupas, Pascaline; Falezan, Camille; Mabeu, Marie Christelle - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
authorities. Hundreds of thousands of young men were forcibly recruited and sent to work in neighboring colonies for multiple …
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Why Not Taxation and Representation? A Note on the American Revolution
Galiani, Sebastian - 2016
Why did the most prosperous colonies in the British Empire mount a rebellion? Even more puzzling, why didn't the … exchange for more political autonomy and/or formal representation for the colonies. (At least, this was the view of men of the … Britain, controlled by the landed gentry, feared that giving political concessions to the colonies would undermine the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455956
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Commodity Exports, Invisible Exports and Terms of Trade for the Middle Colonies, 1720 to 1775
Mancall, Peter - 2008
Economic historians of the eighteenth-century British mainland North American colonies have given considerable weight … present new comprehensive export measures for the middle colonies. We find that aggregate exports in constant prices grew very …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464314
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Law, Endowment, and Finance
Beck, Thorsten - 2002
influence financial development. Using a sample of former colonies, we explore whether the legal system brought by colonizers … empirical results indicate that both the legal systems brought by colonizers and the initial endowments in the colonies are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469624
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The Determinants of Food Aid Provisions to Africa and the Developing World
Nunn, Nathan - 2010
We examine the supply-side and demand-side determinants of global bilateral food aid shipments between 1971 and 2008. First, we find that domestic food production in developing countries is negatively correlated with subsequent food aid receipts, suggesting that food aid receipt is partly driven...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012462047