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Overcoming History through International Organizations – Historical Roots of EU Support and Euroscepticism
Gehring, Kai - 2019
There is little causal evidence about deep-rooted sources of support for shifting power from nation-states to international organizations. Focusing on the European Union, this paper develops the hypothesis that citizens appreciate the role of international organizations in constraining member...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012862881
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Assessing Market (Dis)Integration in Early Modern China and Europe
Bernhofen, Daniel M. - 2015
This paper challenges established claims of comparable degrees of market integration in Europe and China on the eve of industrialization. Our empirical strategy focuses on the dynamics of price convergence and accounts for general equilibrium effects arising from common shocks and network...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011330
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Engineering Growth : Innovative Capacity and Development in the Americas
Maloney, William F.; Valencia Caicedo, Felipe - 2021
This paper offers the first systematic historical evidence on the role of a central actor in modern growth theory - the engineer. It collects cross-country and state level data on the labor share of engineers for the Americas, and county level data on engineering and patenting for the US during...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315467
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The Gender Gap in Entrepreneurship : Not Just a Matter of Personality
Caliendo, Marco - 2014
Why do entrepreneurship rates differ so markedly by gender? Using data from a large, representative German household … panel, we investigate to what extent personality traits, human capital, and the employment history influence the start …-up decision and can explain the gender gap in entrepreneurship. Applying a decomposition analysis, we observe that the higher risk …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013052066
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How Deep are the Roots of Economic Development?
Spolaore, Enrico - 2012
analysis of ever deeper, more fundamental factors, rooted in long-term history. A growing body of new empirical work focuses on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013105134
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The International Monetary Fund : 70 Years of Reinvention
Reinhart, Carmen - 2016
A sketch of the International Monetary Fund's 70-year history reveals an institution that has reinvented itself over … time along multiple dimensions. This history is primarily consistent with a “demand driven” theory of institutional change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013000216
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Historical Roots of Political Extremism : The Effects of Nazi Occupation of Italy
Fontana, Nicola - 2018
The Italian civil war and the Nazi occupation of Italy occurred at a critical juncture, just before the birth of a new democracy. We study the impact of these traumatic events by exploiting geographic heterogeneity in the duration and intensity of civil war, and the persistence of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012926545
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Earthquakes, Religion, and Transition to Self-Government in Italian Cities
Belloc, Marianna - 2016
This paper presents a unique historical experiment to explore the dynamics of institutional change in the Middle Ages. We have assembled a novel dataset, where information on political institutions for northern-central Italian cities between 1000 and 1300 is matched with detailed information on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013002947
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The Cost of Decentralization : Linguistic Polarization and the Provision of Education
Cinnirella, Francesco - 2016
In this paper we argue that different preferences in a decentralized system lead to under provision of public goods. We analyze the provision of public primary education in nineteenth-century Prussia which was characterized by a linguistically polarized society and a decentralized education...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012989025
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The Great Mortgaging : Housing Finance, Crises, and Business Cycles
Jordà, Òscar - 2015
This paper unveils a new resource for macroeconomic research: a long-run dataset covering disaggregated bank credit for 17 advanced economies since 1870. The new data show that the share of mortgages on banks' balance sheets doubled in the course of the 20th century, driven by a sharp rise of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013032225