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The effects of land redistribution : evidence from the French Revolution

Finley, Theresa; Franck, Raphaël; Johnson, Noel D. - 2020

This study exploits the confiscation and auctioning off of Church property that occurred during the French Revolution to assess the role played by transaction costs in delaying the reallocation of property rights in the aftermath of fundamental institutional reform. French districts with a...

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The diffusion of new institutions : evidence from Renaissance Venice's patent system

Comino, Stefano; Galasso, Alberto; Graziano, Clara - 2017

that are more effective at preventing outsider's entry and at mitigating price competition lead to less patenting. We test … restrict entry and price competition. We show that guilds which originated from medieval religious confraternities were more … likely to regulate entry and competition, and that the effect on patenting is robust to instrumenting guild statutes with …

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Fiscal competition, convergence and agglomeration

Fenge, Robert (contributor); … - 2007

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Nation building : the role of central spending in education

Cinnirella, Francesco; Schüler, Ruth M. - 2016

It is generally argued that, in the context of Imperial Germany, public primary education was used to form "loyal citizens" and to build a nation. In this paper we analyze to what extent central spending on primary education affected participation at general elections and votes for...

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Malthus meets Luther : the economics behind the German Reformation

Curuk, Malik; Smulders, Sjak - 2016

The Reformation provided a powerful source of legitimacy for secularization of governance and enabled the regional authorities to change the institutional structure to eliminate the inefficiencies under the prevailing (Catholic) regime. We investigate this idea in a simple model of regime change...

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The political economy of the Prussian three-class franchise

Becker, Sascha O.; Hornung, Erik - 2019

Did the Prussian three-class franchise, which politically over-represented the economic elite, affect policy-making? Combining MP-level political orientation, derived from all roll call votes in the Prussian parliament (1867-1903), with constituency characteristics, we analyze how local vote...

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Institutional transplant and cultural proximity : evidence from nineteenth-century Prussia

Lecce, Giampaolo; Ogliari, Laura - 2015 - This version: November 2015

The economic impact of an institutional transplant depends on the underlying cultural envi-ronment of the receiving country. This paper provides the first evidence that the positive effect of importing good institutions cancels out when the receiving territories are characterized by cultural...

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Interest groups and government spending in Italy, 1876 - 1913

Fiorino, Nadia; Ricciuti, Roberto - 2009

was affected by the action of some interest groups that pursued both state protection from competition and specific public …

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What lessons for economic development can we draw from the Champagne fairs?

Edwards, Jeremy S. S.; Ogilvie, Sheilagh C. - 2011

The medieval Champagne fairs are widely used to draw lessons about the institutional basis for long-distance impersonal exchange. This paper re-examines the causes of the outstanding success of the Champagne fairs in mediating international trade, the timing and causes of the fairs' decline, and...

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Foreshadowing mars : religiosity and pre-enlightenment warfare

Barber, Luke; Jetter, Michael; Krieger, Tim - 2023

Can religiosity sway a society's propensity for violence against outgroups? We first introduce two state-year-level religiosity measures for several pre-Enlightenment European states with the frequencies of (i) religious language in book publications and (ii) Christian names of newborns. To...

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