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Sectoral trade freeness and agglomeration in the EU : an empirical test strategy

Cafiso, Gianluca - 2012

This paper studies the evolution of trade freeness and of the agglomeration of production, as well as their relationship, at the sectoral level in a group of EU countries. Our main objective is to test at the sectoral level the conclusions of previous aggregate analyses which find that an...

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Uncertainty and hyperinflation : European inflation dynamics after World War I

López, José A.; Mitchener, Kris - 2018

Fiscal deficits, elevated debt-to-GDP ratios, and high inflation rates suggest hyperinflation could have potentially emerged in many European countries after World War I. We demonstrate that economic policy uncertainty was instrumental in pushing a subset of European countries into...

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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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The empire is dead, long live the empire! : long-run persistence of trust and corruption in the bureaucracy

Becker, Sascha O.; Boeckh, Katrin; Hainz, Christa; … - 2011

Do empires affect attitudes towards the state long after their demise? We hypothesize that the Habsburg Empire with its localized and well-respected administration increased citizens' trust in local public services. In several Eastern European countries, communities on both sides of the...

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Devotion and development : religiosity, education, and economic progress in 19th-century France

Squicciarini, Mara P. - 2019 - This version: 14th July 2019

This paper uses a historical setting to study when religion can be a barrier to the diffusion of knowledge and economic development, and through which mechanism. I focus on 19th-century Catholicism and analyze a crucial phase of modern economic growth, the Second Industrial Revolution...

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Capital-skill complementarity and the emergence of labor emancipation

Ashraf, Quamrul H.; Cinnirella, Francesco; Galor, Oded; … - 2017

plausibly exogenous source of variation in early industrialization across regions of nineteenth-century Prussia, capital …

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Is industrialization conducive to long-run prosperity?

Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded - 2015 - This version: April 30th, 2015

This research explores the long-run effect of industrialization on the process of development. In contrast to … subsequent decades. Nevertheless, early industrialization had an adverse effect on income per capita, employment and equality by … that the characteristics that permitted the onset of industrialization, rather than the adoption of industrial technology …

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The complementary between technology and human capital in the early phase of industrialization

Franck, Raphaël; Galor, Oded - 2015 - This Version: July 21st, 2015

The research explores the effect of industrialization on human capital formation. Exploiting exogenous regional … views early industrialization as a predominantly deskilling process, the industrial revolution was conducive for human …

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Black and white Body Mass Index values in developing 19th century Nebraska

Carson, Scott Alan - 2013

Little is known about late 19th and early 20th century BMIs on the US Central Plains. Using data from the Nebraska state prison, this study demonstrates that the BMIs of dark complexioned blacks were greater than for fairer complexioned mulattos and whites. Although modern BMIs have increased,...

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Industrial policy and the great divergence

Juhász, Réka; Steinwender, Claudia - 2023

, primarily, but not exclusively, fostering industrialization. We discuss the thin, but growing literature that evaluates the …

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