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Was Weber Wrong? A Human Capital Theory of Protestant Economic History
Becker, Sascha O.; Woessmann, Ludger - 2021
Max Weber attributed the higher economic prosperity of Protestant regions to a Protestant work ethic. We provide an alternative theory, where Protestant economies prospered because instruction in reading the Bible generated the human capital crucial to economic prosperity. County-level data from...
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Market Integration As a Mechanism of Growth
Keller, Wolfgang - 2016
In what sense are institutions a deep determinant of growth? In this paper, we address this question by examining the relationship between city growth and institutional reform in 19th century Germany, when some cities experienced deep institutional reform as a result of French rule. Employing an...
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Brain Drain in the Age of Mass Migration : Does Relative Inequality Explain Migrant Selectivity?
Stolz, Yvonne; Baten, Joerg - 2021
Brain drain is a core economic policy problem for many developing countries today. Does relative inequality in source and destination countries influence the brain-drain phenomenon? We explore human capital selectivity during the period 1820-1909.We apply age heaping techniques to measure human...
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The Quantitative Importance of Openness in Development
Cai, Wenbiao - 2013
stagnation in a traditional technology to industrialization and prosperity with a modern technology – be accelerated? Lewis (1954 …) and Rostow (1956) argue that the pace of industrialization is limited by the rate of capital formation which in turn is … limited by the savings rate of workers close to subsistence. We argue that access to capital goods in the world market can be …
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The Great Divergence : A Network Approach
Lindner, Ines - 2016
knowledge throughout the world explains a period of increasing world inequality after the take-off of the forerunners of the … industrial revolution, followed by decreasing relative inequality. Knowledge diffusion through a Small World network explains the … individual countries in the course of world development …
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Developing Country Second-Mover Advantage in Competition Over Environmental Standards and Taxes
Groenert, Valeska - 2014
We show that, in competition between a developed country and a developing country over environmental standards and taxes, the developing country may have a ‘second-mover advantage.' In our model, firms do not unanimously prefer lower environmental-standard levels. We introduce this feature to...
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Medieval Universities, Legal Institutions, and the Commercial Revolution
Cantoni, Davide - 2013
We present new data documenting medieval Europe's “Commercial Revolution” using information on the establishment of markets in Germany. We use these data to test whether medieval universities played a causal role in expanding economic activity, examining the foundation of Germany's first...
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Was Germany ever United? Evidence from Intra- and International Trade 1885-1933
Wolf, Nikolaus - 2013
, while external integration worsened after World War I and again with the Great Depression, in part because of border changes …
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Taxing Intellectual Property in the Global Economy : A Plea for Regulated and Internationally Coordinated Profit Splitting
Richter, Wolfram F. - 2017
Inter-country equity in the taxation of IP is a contentious issue. With its BEPS initiative, the OECD aims at taxing in accordance with value creation even though there are admitted difficulties in determining the actual place of value creation. The European Commission promotes the introduction...
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Capital-Skill Complementarity and the Emergence of Labor Emancipation
Ashraf, Quamrul H. - 2017
plausibly exogenous source of variation in early industrialization across regions of nineteenth-century Prussia, capital …
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