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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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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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. We cover the institution’s history, implementation, and the best available evidence on its economic impacts. We argue …
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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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the role of institutional actors, and that we ‘misinterpret’ history. This brief response addresses these allegations and … critique is misguided and based on a misrepresentation of Weimar history, especially when it comes to the case of Bavaria. In …
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formal theory), and, most important, scrupulous attention to history and to the limitations of historical data …
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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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The paper examines the timing of exit from the interwar gold-exchange standard for a panel of European countries, based on monthly data over the period January 1928 - December 1936. I show that exit from gold can be understood in terms of a trade-off between a limited set of factors commonly...
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In this paper I survey and reinterpret the extensive literature on Europe's Great Depression. I argue that Europe could …
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mortality reductions. Using data from 19 compulsory schooling reforms implemented in Europe during the twentieth century, we …
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