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The Evolution of Suffrage Institutions in the New World

Engerman, Stanley L. - 2001

timing of the extensions of this right from elite groups to a broad population generally later, than in areas where there was …

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Equilibrium Impotence : Why the States and Not the American National Government Financed Economic Development in the Antebellum Era

Wallis, John Joseph - 2005

Why did states dominate investments in economic development in early America? Between 1787 and 1860, the national government's $54 million on promoting transportation infrastructure while the states spent $450 million. Using models of legislative choice, we show that Congress could not finance...

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Business Groups and the Big Push : Meiji Japan's Mass Privatization and Subsequent Growth

Morck, Randall - 2007

feudal elite; withdrew its hand with a propitious mass privatization that rallied the private sector; marginalized an …

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The Imbalances of the Bretton Woods System 1965 to 1973 : U.S. Inflation, The Elephant in the Room

Bordo, Michael D. - 2018

This paper argues that the key deep underlying fundamental for the growing international imbalances leading to the collapse of the Bretton Woods system between 1971 and 1973 was rising U.S. inflation since 1965. It was driven in turn by expansionary fiscal and monetary policies--the elephant in...

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Shotgun Wedding : Fiscal and Monetary Policy

Bassetto, Marco - 2020

This paper describes interactions between monetary and fiscal policies that affect equilibrium price levels and interest rates by critically surveying theories about (a) optimal anticipated inflation, (b) optimal unanticipated inflation, and (c) conditions that secure a "nominal anchor'' in the...

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U.S. Monetary and Fiscal Policy in the 1930s

Fishback, Price V. - 2010

The paper provides a survey of fiscal and monetary policies during the 1930s under the Hoover and Roosevelt Administrations and how they influenced the policies during the recent Great Recession. The discussion of the causal impacts of monetary policy focuses on papers written in the last decade...

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Fiscal and Financial Crises

Bordo, Michael D. - 2016

Interconnections between banking crises and fiscal crises have a long history. We document the long-run evolution from classic banking panics towards modern banking crises where financial guarantees are associated with crisis resolution. Recent crises feature a feedback loop between bank...

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Debt and Deficits : Fiscal Analysis with Stationary Ratios

Campbell, John Y.; Gao, Can; Martin, Ian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023

We study cointegrating relationships among fiscal variables and output and use them to introduce a new measure of the government's fiscal position. In the US since World War II, we find that the primary surplus-GDP ratio and the government debt-GDP ratio are nonstationary, which invalidates...

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Who Should Govern Congress? Access to Power and the Salary Grab of 1873

Alston, Lee J. - 2005

and patronage-based civil service appointments, as part of reform effort to reshape "who should govern Congress." Our … analyses of congressional voting confirm the existence of this non-party elite coalition. While these elites lost many … legislative battles in the short-run, their efforts kept reform on the legislative agenda throughout the late-nineteenth century …

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Nužno li zanovo issledovatʹ ėkonomičeskuju istoriju SSSR?

Olʹsevič, Julij Jakovlevič - In: Voprosy ėkonomiki : ordena trudovogo krasnogo znameni … (2000) 11, pp. 79-90

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