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'Whatever is, is right? : Economic institutions in pre-industrial Europe (Tawney lecture 2006)
Ogilvie, Sheilagh C. (contributor) - 2007
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003597971
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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 Austria traded on the Swiss bourse during WWII. Some war events that are generally considered crucial are clearly reflected in government bond prices. This holds, in particular, for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009781716
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003888097
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Long memory in US real output per capita
Caporale, Guglielmo Maria; Gil-Alaña, Luis A. - 2009
This paper analyses the long memory properties of quarterly real output per capita in the US (1948Q1 - 2008Q3) using non-parametric, semi-parametric and parametric techniques. The results vary substantially depending on the methodology employed. Evidence of mean reversion is obtained in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003850276
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Turkey and the EU : politics and economics of accession
Flam, Harry - 2003
This paper discusses political and economic aspects of Turkish accession. Under present rules, Turkey would have the greatest number of council votes within twenty years, and receive the largest budget transfer. Free migration may increase the Turkish immigrant population in Germany from 2 to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506471
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Shedding light on the shadow economy : a global database and the interaction with the official one
Medina, Leandro; Schneider, Friedrich - 2019 - 2nd version
estimating the size of the shadow economy for 157 countries over 1991 to 2017. The results suggest that the OECD countries are by … far the lowest with values below 20% of off official GDP and the shadow economy is larger in Latin America and Sub ….9 %. What is really remarkable, that the average decline of the shadow economy from 1991 to 2017 is 6.8 percentage points. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012138830
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Transparency, specialization and FDI
Razin, Asaf; Tsadḳah, Efrayim - 2004
We develop a simple information-based model of FDI flows. On the one hand, the relative abundance of intangible capital in specialized industries in the source countries, which presumably generates expertise in screening investment projects in the host countries, enhances FDI flows. On the other...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402538
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Learning from the past : trends in executive compensation over the twentieth century
Frydman, Carola (contributor) - 2008
In recent years, a large academic debate has tried to explain the rapid rise in CEO pay experienced over the past three decades. In this article, I review the main proposed theories, which span views of compensation as the result of a competitive labor market for executives to theories based on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003790763
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The trend of BMI values by centiles of US adults, birth cohorts 1882 - 1986
Komlos, John; Brabec, Marek - 2010
Trends in BMI values are estimated by centiles of the US adult population by birth cohorts 1886-1986 stratified by ethnicity. The highest centile increased by some 18 to 22 units in the course of the century while the lowest ones increased by merely 1 to 3 units. Hence, the BMI distribution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003994174
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A quantile approach to the relationship between body mass, wealth, and inequality
Carson, Scott Alan - 2010
Little research exists on the historical relationship between BMI variation, wealth, and inequality. This study finds that 19th century US black and white BMIs were distributed symmetrically; neither wasting nor obesity was common. Nineteenth century BMI values were also greater for blacks than...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008806677