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Interest groups and government spending in Italy, 1876 - 1913

Fiorino, Nadia; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2009

In the last two decades of the XIX century Italy became an industrial country. Historians maintain that this process … role of the interest groups in public expenditure decisions in Italy from 1876 to 1913. We argue that a proper indicator of …

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Did caselaw foster England's economic development during the industrial revolution? : data and evidence

Grajzl, Peter; Murrell, Peter - 2022

We generate and analyze data pertinent to the role of caselaw in England's economic development during the Industrial Revolution. Applying topic modeling to a corpus of 67,455 reports on English court cases, we construct annual time series of caselaw developments between 1765 and 1865. We then...

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The impact of industrialization on secondary schooling during the industrial revolution : evidence from 19th century France

Franck, Raphaël - 2023

This study explores the impact of industrialization on secondary schooling in 19th century France. As a source of … exogenous variation in industrialization across the French territory, it takes advantage of the openings and closures of mines … that industrialization had a negative but mostly insignificant effect on high-school enrollment. However, industrialization …

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Innovation networks in the industrial revolution

Rosenberger, Lukas; Hanlon, W. Walker; Hallmann, Carl - 2024

How did Britain sustain faster rates of economic growth than comparable European countries, such as France, during the Industrial Revolution? We argue that Britain possessed an important but underappreciated innovation advantage: British inventors worked in technologies that were more central...

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Multi-Factor Gegenbauer processes and European inflation rates

Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A. - 2009

, Italy and the UK). The empirical results suggest that inflation in France and Italy is nonstationary. However, while for the … former country this applies both to the zero and the seasonal frequencies, in the case of Italy the nonstationarity comes …

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Credibility and transparency of Central Banks : new results based on Ifo s world economicy survey

Hamella, Sandra; Haan, Jakob de - 2004

This paper reports the results of a survey among private sector economists about credibility and transparency of central banks. In line with the survey of Alan Blinder among central bankers, we asked participants in Ifo s World Economic Survey to answer questions on the importance and...

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A re-examination of the link between real exchange rates and real interest rate differentials

Hoffmann, Mathias; MacDonald, Ronald - 2003

The real exchange rate - real interest rate (RERI) relationship is central to most open economy macroeconomic models. However, empirical support for the relationship, especially when cointegrationbased methods are used, is rather weak. In this paper we reinvestigate the RERI relationship using...

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