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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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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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The Political Economy of the Prussian Three-Class Franchise

Becker, Sascha O.; Hornung, Erik - 2019

Did the Prussian three-class franchise, which politically over-represented the economic elite, affect policy-making? Combining MP-level political orientation, derived from all roll call votes in the Prussian parliament (1867–1903), with constituency characteristics, we analyze how local vote...

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Activated History - The Case of the Turkish Sieges of Vienna

Ochsner, Christian; Rösel, Felix - 2017

We study whether long-gone but activated history can shape social attitudes and behavior even after centuries. We exploit the case of the sieges of Vienna in 1529 and 1683, when Turkish troops pillaged individual municipalities across East Austria. In 2005, Austrian right-wing populists started...

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Persistent States: Lessons for Scottish Devolution and Independence

Muscatelli, Anton; Roy, Graeme; Trew, Alex - 2022

The equilibrium size of a nation state is, in part, the result of a trade-off between the gains from scale economies in the provision of public services and the costs of applying uniform policy to heterogeneous cultural, institutional, and geographical fundamentals. Changes in such fundamentals...

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Did Caselaw Foster England's Economic Development during the Industrial Revolution? Data and Evidence

Grajzl, Peter; Murrell, Peter - 2022

We generate and analyze data pertinent to the role of caselaw in England's economic development during the Industrial Revolution. Applying topic modeling to a corpus of 67,455 reports on English court cases, we construct annual time series of caselaw developments between 1765 and 1865. We then...

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