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The Dynamics of Firm Lobbying
Kerr, William R.; Lincoln, William F.; Mishra, Prachi - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
We study the determinants of the dynamics of firm lobbying behavior using a panel data set covering 1998-2006. Our data exhibit three striking facts: (i) few firms lobby, (ii) lobbying status is strongly associated with firm size, and (iii) lobbying status is highly persistent over time....
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School, what is it good for? Useful Human Capital and the History of Public Education in Central Europe
Cvrcek, Tomas; Zajicek, Miroslav - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2013
The rise of education has featured prominently in the debate on the sources of modern long-term economic growth. Existing accounts stress the positive role of public education and the importance of political support for its provision. We argue that such an explanation for the spread of schooling...
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Contractual Freedom and the Evolution of Corporate Control in Britain, 1862 to 1929
Guinnane, Timothy; Harris, Ron; Lamoreaux, Naomi R. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
British general incorporation law granted companies an extraordinary degree of contractual freedom to craft their own governance rules. In this paper we study the uses to which this flexibility was put by examining the articles of association written by three samples of companies from the late...
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Institutional Adaptability and Economic Development: The Property Rights Revolution in Britain, 1700 to 1830
Richardson, Gary; Bogart, Dan - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
Adaptable property-rights institutions, we argue, foster economic development. The British example illustrates this point. Around 1700, Parliament established a forum where rights to land and resources could be reorganized. This venue enabled landholders and communities to take advantage of...
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Making Property Productive: Reorganizing Rights to Real and Equitable Estates in Britain, 1660 to 1830
Bogart, Dan; Richardson, Gary - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
Between 1660 and 1830, Parliament passed thousands of acts restructuring rights to real and equitable estates. These estate acts enabled individuals and families to sell, mortgage, lease, exchange, and improve land previously bound by inheritance rules and other legal legacies. The loosening of...
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Property Rights and Parliament in Industrializing Britain
Bogart, Daniel; Richardson, Gary - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
During Britain's industrialization, Parliament operated a forum where rights to land and resources could be reorganized. This venue enabled landholders and communities to exploit economic opportunities that could not be accommodated by the inflexible rights regime inherited from the past. In...
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What Really Happened During the Glorious Revolution?
Robinson, James Alan; Pincus, Steven C.A. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
The English Glorious Revolution of 1688-89 is one of the most famous instances of 'institutional' change in world history which has fascinated scholars because of the role it may have played in creating an environment conducive to making England the first industrial nation. This claim was most...
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Coercive Contract Enforcement: Law and the Labor Market in 19th Century Industrial Britain
Naidu, Suresh; Yuchtman, Noam - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011
British Master and Servant law made employee contract breach a criminal offense until 1875. We develop a contracting model generating equilibrium contract breach and prosecutions, then exploit exogenous changes in output prices to examine the effects of labor demand shocks on prosecutions....
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Estate Acts, 1600 to 1830: A New Source for British History
Bogart, Dan; Richardson, Gary - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008
A new database demonstrates that between 1600 and 1830, Parliament passed thousands of acts restructuring rights to real and equitable estates. These estate acts enabled individuals and families to sell, mortgage, lease, exchange, and improve land previously bound by landholding and inheritance...
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Does Medical Malpractice Law Improve Health Care Quality?
Jena, Anupam B.; Frakes, Michael - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2014
evidence has been put forth to date bearing on the relationship between medical liability forces on the one hand and medical …--e.g., damage caps--we estimate that the current liability system plays at most a modest role in inducing higher levels of health … care quality. We contend that this limited independent role for medical liability may be a reflection upon the structural …
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