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Whatever is, is right?: Economic institutions in pre-industrial Europe (Tawney lecture 2006)
Ogilvie, Sheilagh - 2007
Institutions - the structures of rules and norms governing economic transactions - are widely assigned a central role in economic development. Yet economic history is still dominated by the belief that institutions arise and survive because they are economically efficient. This paper shows that...
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The Effects of Land Redistribution: Evidence from the French Revolution
Finley, Theresa; Franck, Raphaël; Johnson, Noel D. - 2020
This study exploits the confiscation and auctioning off of Church property that occurred during the French Revolution to assess the role played by transaction costs in delaying the reallocation of property rights in the aftermath of fundamental institutional reform. French districts with a...
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Legal institutions, innovation and growth
Anderlini, Luca; Felli, Leonardo; Immordino, Giovanni; … - 2011
change is needed. The rigid system is preferable at early stages of technological development, when (lack of) commitment …
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The Diffusion of New Institutions: Evidence from Renaissance Venice's Patent System
Comino, Stefano; Galasso, Alberto; Graziano, Clara - 2017
that are more effective at preventing outsider’s entry and at mitigating price competition lead to less patenting. We test … restrict entry and price competition. We show that guilds which originated from medieval religious confraternities were more … likely to regulate entry and competition, and that the effect on patenting is robust to instrumenting guild statutes with …
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Inflexible repositioning : commitment in competition and uncertainty
Cong, Jiajia; Zhou, Wen - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 66 (2020) 9, pp. 4207-4225
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When does competition foster commitment?
Ferreira, Daniel Bernardo Soares; Kittsteiner, Thomas - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 62 (2016) 11, pp. 3199-3212
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Sourcing for supplier effort and competition : design of the supply base and pricing mechanism
Li, Cuihong - In: Management science : journal of the Institute for … 59 (2013) 6, pp. 1389-1406
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Nation Building: The Role of Central Spending in Education
Cinnirella, Francesco; Schueler, Ruth Maria - 2016
It is generally argued that, in the context of Imperial Germany, public primary education was used to form “loyal citizens” and to build a nation. In this paper we analyze to what extent central spending on primary education affected participation at general elections and votes for...
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Interest groups and government spending in Italy, 1876 - 1913
Fiorino, Nadia; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2009
was affected by the action of some interest groups that pursued both state protection from competition and specific public …
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What lessons for economic development can we draw from the Champagne fairs?
Edwards, Jeremy; Ogilvie, Sheilagh - 2011
The medieval Champagne fairs are widely used to draw lessons about the institutional basis for long-distance impersonal exchange. This paper re-examines the causes of the outstanding success of the Champagne fairs in mediating international trade, the timing and causes of the fairs' decline, and...
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