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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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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 …-collected and assembled from more than 50 sources. The data reflect 150 years of regional development and disparities in Germany …. For example, East and West Germany are heavily diverging in population since 1945; and the divide was not reversed but …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013287977
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Wars and markets : how bond values reflect World War II
Frey, Bruno S.; Kucher, Marcel - 1999
Historical events are reflected in asset prices. In this paper, we analyse government bond prices of Germany and … is Germany's capitulation in 1945. The analysis of financial markets provides a fruitful method to evaluate the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781716
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Historical roots of political extremism : the effects of Nazi occupation of Italy
Fontana, Nicola; Nannicini, Tommaso; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2017
The Italian civil war and the Nazi occupation of Italy occurred at a critical juncture, just before the birth of a new democracy. We study the impact of these traumatic events by exploiting geographic heterogeneity in the duration and intensity of civil war, and the persistence of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011782087
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Medieval anti-semitism, Weimar social capital, and the rise of the nazi party : a reconsideration
Guinnane, Timothy; Hoffman, Philip - 2022
formal theory), and, most important, scrupulous attention to history and to the limitations of historical data. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013453958
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Response to Guinnane and Hoffman : medieval anti-semitism, Weimar social capital, and the rise of the Nazi Party : a reconsideration
Voigtländer, Nico; Voth, Hans-Joachim - 2022
the role of institutional actors, and that we 'misinterpret' history. This brief response addresses these allegations and … critique is misguided and based on a misrepresentation of Weimar history, especially when it comes to the case of Bavaria. In …
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From the death of god to the rise of Hitler
Becker, Sascha O.; Voth, Hans-Joachim - 2023
Can weakened religiosity lead to the rise of totalitarianism? The Nazi Party set itself up as a political religion, emphasizing redemption, sacrifice, rituals, and communal spirit. This had a major impact on its success: Where the Christian Church only had shallow roots, the Nazis received...
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Education promoted secularization
Becker, Sascha O.; Nagler, Markus; Woessmann, Ludger - 2014
Why did substantial parts of Europe abandon the institutionalized churches around 1900? Empirical studies using modern data mostly contradict the traditional view that education was a leading source of the seismic social phenomenon of secularization. We construct a unique panel dataset of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010256208
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Autarchy, market disintegration, and health : the mortality and nutritional crisis in Nazi Germany, 1933-1937
Baten, Jörg; Wagner, Andrea - 2002
years of the Nazi period. We find that Germany experienced a substantial increase in mortality rates in most age groups in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011511113
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Delegated monitors, large and small : the development of Germany s banking system, 1800 - 1914
Guinnane, Timothy - 2001
Banks play a greater role in the German financial system than in the UnitedStates or Britain. Germany s large universal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011400344