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Strobel, Thomas; Sauer, Stefan; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2013

In this paper we present the Ifo Investment Database, which provides annual investment data for 12 investment assets in … allows allocating investments by asset type to each industry, using an investment flow matrix. The database enables … investments. We describe the structure and methodology of the database and illustrate its variety and strengths by looking at some …

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The German Local Population Database (GPOP), 1871 to 2019

Rösel, Felix - 2022

I present the first database of historical local population figures for all Germany. The German Local Population … Database (GPOP) includes total population in 1871, 1910, 1939, 1946, 1961, 1987, 1996, 2011, and 2019 for the universe of all … German municipalities, counties, and states at consistent contemporary boundaries (31 December 2019). The database was hand …

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FamData: database for family business companies in Germany covering company key figures and survey data

Garnitz, Johanna; Maltzan, Annette von; Wohlrabe, Klaus - 2023

FamData is a database covering family businesses and non-family businesses across various size classes and branches …,000 companies. In addition to the "hard" business data like turnover and number of employees, the database also includes "soft …

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Was Germany ever united? : evidence from intra- and international trade 1885 - 1933

Wolf, Nikolaus (contributor) - 2008

When did Germany become economically integrated? Within the framework of a gravity model, based on a new data set of about 40,000 observations on trade flows within and across the borders of Germany over the period 1885-1933, I explore the geography of trade costs across Central Europe. There...

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Bohemians, human capital, and regional economic growth

Falck, Oliver; Fritsch, Michael; Heblich, Stephan - 2009

An emerging literature on the geography of bohemians argues that a region's lifestyle and cultural amenities explain, at least partly, the unequal distribution of highly qualified people across space, which in turn, explains geographic disparities in economic growth. However, to date, there has...

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The economic effects of federalism and decentralization : a cross-country assessment

Voigt, Stefan; Blume, Lorenz - 2009

This paper explores the idea that institutional details matter and that attempts to estimate the economic effects of federalism by employing a simple dummy variable neglect potentially important institutional details. Based on a principal component analysis, seven aspects of both federalism and...

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Economic nationalism and economic integration : the Austro-Hungarian Empire in the late nineteenth century

Schulze, Max-Stephan; Wolf, Nikolaus - 2009

This paper seeks to reconcile two seemingly contradictory strands in the literature on economic development in the late nineteenth century Habsburg Empire - one emphasizing the centrifugal impact of rising intra-empire of nationalism, the other stressing significant improvements in market...

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Catch me iIf you can : education and catch-up in the industrial revolution

Becker, Sascha O.; Hornung, Erik; Woessmann, Ludger - 2009

-employment database links 334 counties from pre-industrial 1816 to two industrial phases in 1849 and 1882. Controlling extensively for pre …

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Europe's great depression : coordination failure after the first World War

Wolf, Nikolaus - 2010

In this paper I survey and reinterpret the extensive literature on Europe's Great Depression. I argue that Europe could not exploit her vast economic potential after 1918, because the war had not yet come to an end - indeed it did not end before 1945. Both, domestic and international...

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Scylla and Charybdis : explaining Europe's exit from gold, January 1928 - December 1936

Wolf, Nikolaus (contributor) - 2008

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