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An economic theory of foreign interventions and regime change

Bonfatti, Roberto - 2011

I construct a theory of foreign interventions in which the preferences of the foreign country over alternative local groups are determined by each group's international economic ties. In equilibrium, the foreign country supports the group with which it has the strongest ties, since this is most...

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Refugee resettlement, redistribution and growth

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2018

This paper studies the effect of refugee resettlement on human capital accumulation. The analysis is performed in a … growth model with endogenous fertility. I show how refugee resettlement from a more advanced and wealthier economy to a less … countries. I also derive conditions for the proposed resettlement policy to stimulate human capital accumulation and hence …

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Forced displacement in history : some recent research

Becker, Sascha O. - 2022

Forced displacement as a consequence of wars, civil conflicts, or natural disasters does not only have contemporaneous consequences but also long-run repercussions. This eclectic overview summarizes some recent research on forced displacement in economic history. While many of the episodes...

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Do political parties matter for local land use policies?

Solé-Ollé, Albert; Viladecans Marsal, Elisabet - 2013

Despite interest in the impact of land use regulations on housing construction and housing prices, little is known about the drivers of these policies. The conventional wisdom holds that homeowners have an influence on restrictive local zoning. In this paper, we contend that the party...

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Do land use policies follow road construction

Garcia-López, Miquel-Àngel; Solé-Ollé, Albert; … - 2014

We study whether local land use policies are modified in response to enhanced demand for building generated by a new highway, and examine the extent to which this effect of land use regulations affects building activity. We focus on the case of Spain during the last housing boom (1995-2007). We...

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Optimal commodity taxation when land and structures must be taxed at the same rate

Aura, Saku (contributor); Davidoff, Thomas (contributor) - 2005

We show that the optimal property tax rate rises with the ratio of land rents to structure and land development costs. California’s high ratio of income to property tax revenue and the distribution of Federal housing subsidies thus appear geographically misplaced. Proportional taxation of...

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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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Financial development and sectoral output growth in 19th century Germany

Diekmann, Katharina; Westermann, Frank - 2010

In this paper we re-evaluate the hypothesis that the development of the financial sector was an essential factor behind economic growth in 19th century Germany. We apply a structural VAR framework to a new annual data set from 1870 to 1912 that was initially recorded by Walther Hoffmann (1965)....

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Was Weber wrong? : a human capital theory of protestant economic history

Becker, Sascha O. (contributor); … - 2007

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