Showing 1 - 10 of 568
During the French Revolution, more than 100,000 individuals, predominantly supporters of the Old Regime, fled France …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012453778
The French Revolution of 1789 had a momentous impact on neighboring countries. The French Revolutionary armies during the 1790s and later under Napoleon invaded and controlled large parts of Europe. Together with invasion came various radical institutional changes. French invasion removed the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463816
This paper presents a synopsis of recent NBER studies of the history of corporate governance in Canada, China, France …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467625
This paper reexamines the process by which a market for a new product modern painting emerged in Paris in the nineteenth century. Contrary to the accepted account, in which the monopoly of the official Salon was replaced by a competitive market operated by private dealers, we find that the Salon...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012469588
We assemble new data on the British and French concessions in Shanghai between 1845 and 1936 to assess the legal origins view of financial development. During this period, two regime changes altered the degree to which the British common and French civil law traditions held jurisdiction over the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012533343
industrialization. The empirical evidence indicates that middle-class women in France were extensively engaged in entrepreneurship and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012457812
Under the classical gold standard (1880-1914), the Bank of France maintained a stable discount rate while the Bank of …, differ so much? How did the Bank of France manage to keep a stable rate and continuously violate the "rules of the game …"? This paper tackles these questions and shows that the domestic asset portfolio of the Bank of France played a crucial role …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458111
in industrial fairs and prize-granting institutions in Britain, France and the United States, compared to parallel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455595
evidence from France in the 1930s. In 1936, France departed from the gold standard and implemented mandatory wage increases and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012456535
November 1930, the Banque de France (BdF) lent selectively rather than broadly, providing substantially more liquidity to … to connected banks. Connected lending of last resort fueled the worst banking crisis in French history, caused an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013537763