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Research on the quantitative impact of interwar protection on trade flows remains scarce, and much of it has concluded that the impact was surprisingly small. In this paper we ask: Did Indian interwar protection hurt UK manufacturers, by raising tariffs on manufactured imports? Or did it favour...
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We explore the impact of British colonial institutions on the economic development of India. In some regions, the …
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India was a major player in the world export market for textiles in the early 18th century, but by the middle of the 19 …th century it had lost all of its export market and much of its domestic market. India underwent secular … deindustrialization as a consequence. While India produced about 25 percent of world industrial output in 1750, this figure had fallen to …
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, Germany, Japan, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Together, the studies …
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India was a major player in the world export market for textiles in the early 18th century, but by the middle of the 19 … some decline, and India underwent secular de-industrialization as a consequence. While India produced about 25 percent of … organize our thinking about the relative role played by domestic and foreign forces in India's de-industrialization. The …
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We measure the behavior of 1,114 CEOs in six countries parsing granular CEO diary data through an unsupervised machine learning algorithm. The algorithm uncovers two distinct behavioral types: "leaders" and "managers". Leaders focus on multi-function, high-level meetings, while managers focus on...
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Italy, Brazil and then finally India. We also show that autonomous government schools (i.e. government funded but with …
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Indian market. The East India Company had a legal monopoly over all trade between England and modern day India and China, but …
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"A long-standing question in social science is to what extent differences in management cause differences in firm performance. To investigate this we ran a management field experiment on large Indian textile firms. We provided free consulting on modern management practices to a randomly chosen...
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school and household inputs, and test its predictions in two very different low-income country settings - Zambia and India …
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