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Technological Sovereignty as Ability, Not Autarky

March, Christoph; Schieferdecker, Ina - 2021

Aspirations towards technological sovereignty increasingly pervade the political debate. Yet, an ambiguous definition … globalization. We develop a competence-based definition of technological sovereignty, which puts innovation policy at the core of … fulfilling sovereignty aspirations. Moreover, we show how our definition realigns technological sovereignty with international …

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The Origins of Elite Persistence : Evidence from Political Purges in Post-World War II France

Aidt, Toke; Lacroix, Jean; Méon, Pierre-Guillaume - 2022

This paper studies a new mechanism that allows political elites from a non-democratic regime to survive a democratic transition: connections. We document this mechanism in the transition from the Vichy regime to democracy in post-World War II France. The parliamentarians who had supported the...

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Reaganomics : A Historical Watershed

Komlos, John - 2019

The socio-economic impact of Reaganomics and its long-run deleterious legacy is documented. The preponderance of data indicate that economic growth was not particularly impressive in the wake of the tax cuts of 1981 or 1986. GDP did snap back to potential but failed to accelerate beyond the...

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Years of Life Lost to Revolution and War in Iran

Farzanegan, Mohammad Reza - 2021

This study examines the causal joint effect of a new political regime and war against Iraq on life expectancy of Iranians for the period 1978–1988 during the revolution and war. I use a synthetic control approach to construct a synthetic Iran based on a weighted average of other Middle East...

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Medieval Anti-Semitism, Weimar Social Capital, and the Rise of the Nazi Party : A Reconsideration

Guinnane, Timothy; Hoffman, Philip - 2022

formal theory), and, most important, scrupulous attention to history and to the limitations of historical data …

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The Political Effects of the 1918 Influenza Pandemic in Weimar Germany

Bauernschuster, Stefan; Blum, Matthias; Koenig, Christoph; … - 2023

How do health crises affect election results? We combine a panel of election results from 1893–1933 with spatial heterogeneity in excess mortality due to the 1918 Influenza to assess the pandemic’s effect on voting behavior across German constituencies. Applying a dynamic...

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Roots of Inequality

Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B.; Crisóstomo Wainstock, … - 2023

Why does inequality vary across societies? We advance the hypothesis that in a market economy, where earning diﬀerentials reﬂect variations in productive traits among individuals, a signiﬁcant component of the diﬀerences in income inequality across societies can be attributed to...

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Wealth and History : An Update

Waldenström, Daniel - 2021

concentration fell over the past century and has remained low in Europe but increased in the United States, that wealth has changed …

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Industrial Clusters in the Long Run : Evidence from Million-Rouble Plants in China

Heblich, Stephan - 2019

This paper exploits a short-lived cooperation program between the U.S.S.R. and China, which led to the construction of 156 "Million-Rouble plants" in the 1950s. We isolate exogenous variation in location decisions due to the relative position of allied and enemy airbases and study the long-run...

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Does Electricity Drive Structural Transformation? Evidence from the United States

Gaggl, Paul - 2019

are currently making huge investments in electrification, with a view to achieving structural change. What does history …

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