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Financial returns to collecting rare political economy books

Ursprung, Heinrich W. - 2021

Rare books of political economy are eminently collectable. Using historical prices, I employ hedonic regressions to estimate financial returns to collecting the works of ten eminent political economists and develop a price index for this corpus of collectables. For the observation period...

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What determines the capital share over the long run of history?

Bengtsson, Erik; Rubolino, Enrico; Waldenström, Daniel - 2020

This paper analyzes the determinants of the labor-capital split in national income for 20 countries since the late 1800s. Our main identification strategy focuses on unique historical quasi-experimental events: i) the introduction of universal suffrage, ii) close election wins of left-wing...

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The effects of systemic banking crises in the inter-war period

Rocha, Bruno T. da; Solomou, Solomos - 2015

This paper examines the time-profile of the impact of systemic banking crises on GDP and industrial production using a panel of 24 countries over the inter-war period and compares this to the post-war experience of these countries. We show that banking crises have effects that induce medium-term...

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Wealth and history : an update

Waldenström, Daniel - 2021

countries. The new findings suggest that wealth-income ratios were lower before World War I than previously claimed, that wealth …

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Have macroeconomic models lost their connection with economic reality?

Veen, Tom van - 2020

Macroeconomic theory has developed into increasingly sophisticated mathematical models. In the words of Mankiw … the development of macroeconomic theory over the past 40 years. The focus is on the main lines of thinking and the story … changes in macroeconomic theory and that the current debates after the GFC will be the start of a more plural approach to …

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Standing on the shoulders of giants or science? : lessons from ordoliberalism

Feld, Lars P.; Köhler, Ekkehard A. - 2023

James Buchanan would have celebrated his 100th birthday in 2019. This serves as an inspiration to look at the future of public choice and the question of how much normativity public choice can bear. In our analysis we draw parallels between public choice and German ordoliberalism (and its source...

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Industrial policy and the great divergence

Juhász, Réka; Steinwender, Claudia - 2023

We discuss recent work evaluating the role of the government in shaping the economy during the long 19th century, a practice we refer to as industrial policy. We show that states deployed a vast variety of different policies aimed at, primarily, but not exclusively, fostering industrialization....

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Brain drain in the age of mass migration : does relative inequality explain migrant selectivity?

Stolz, Yvonne; Baten, Jörg - 2012

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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Does financial integration spur economic growth? : New evidence from the first era of financial globalization

Schularick, Moritz (contributor); … - 2006

Does international financial integration boost economic growth? The question has been discussed controversially for a long time. As of yet, robust evidence for a positive impact is lacking (Edison et al., 2002). However, there is substantial narrative evidence from economic history that...

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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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