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Radio and the rise of the Nazis in prewar Germany

Adena, Maja; Enikolopov, Ruben; Petrova, Maria; … - 2015

on the listeners' predispositions toward the message. Nazi radio was most effective in places where anti-Semitism was … historically high and had a negative effect in places with historically low anti-Semitism. …

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Discrimination, managers, and firm performance : evidence from "aryanizations" in Nazi Germany

Huber, Kilian; Lindenthal, Volker; Waldinger, Fabian - 2020

Large-scale increases in discrimination can lead to dismissals of highly qualified managers. We investigate how expulsions of senior Jewish managers, due to rising discrimination in Nazi Germany, affected large corporations. Firms that lost Jewish managers experienced persistent reductions in...

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Medieval anti-semitism, Weimar social capital, and the rise of the nazi party : a reconsideration

Guinnane, Timothy; Hoffman, Philip - 2022

The persistence literature in economics and related disciplines connects recent outcomes to events long ago. This influential literature marks a promising development but has drawn criticism. We discuss two prominent examples that ground the rise of the Nazi Party in distant historical roots....

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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

Guinnane and Hoffman (subsequently GH) comment on two of our papers: Voigtländer and Voth: "Persecution Perpetuated" (2012, subsequently PP) and Satyanath, Voigtländer and Voth: Bowling for Fascism (2017, subsequently BF). They allege that our econometric results are fragile and depend on...

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Beyond Balassa and Samuelson : real convergence, capital flows, and competitiveness in Greece

Belke, Ansgar; Haskamp, Ulrich; Schnabl, Gunther; … - 2015

convergence and crisis with a specific focus on Greece. The paper extends the seminal Balassa-Samuelson model to include … productivity increases in Greece. …

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Indirect taxation in Greece : evaluation and possible reform

Kaplanoglou, Georgia; Newbery, David M. G. - 2002

The paper assesses the distributional and efficiency/disincentive aspects of the Greek indirect tax system, which provides 60% of total tax revenue. The marginal welfare costs of broad commodity groups were computed to identify welfare-improving directions of reform. The disincentive effects...

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How to handle the crisis in Greece? : empirical evidence based on a survey of economics experts

Potrafke, Niklas; Reischmann, Markus Josef - 2016

crisis in Greece. 61.9% of the experts surveyed were not in favour of Greece exiting the Eurozone in the course of the … Republic, Denmark, and Slovakia were in favour of Greece exiting the Eurozone. The share of experts who were in favour of … Greece staying in the Eurozone increased to 69.8% in October 2015. 72.4% of experts surveyed believed that the IMF should …

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How to handle the fiscal crisis in Greece? : empirical evidence based on a survey of economic experts

Mosler, Martin; Potrafke, Niklas; Reischmann, Markus Josef - 2019

We asked economic experts polled by the CESifo World Economic Survey how to handle the fiscal crisis in Greece in the …-level characteristics, especially credit default swaps as a measure of fiscal stability, predict views on whether Greece should exit the …

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Minorities, human capital and long-rund development : persistence of Armenian and Greek influence in Turkey

Arbatli, Cemal Eren; Gokmen, Gunes - 2016

We study the long-term economic legacy of highly-skilled minorities a century after their wholesale expulsion. Using mass expulsions of Armenian and Greek communities of the Ottoman Empire in the early 20th century as a unique natural experiment of history, we show that districts with greater...

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The subminimum wage reform in Greece and the labour-labour substitution hypothesis

Kakoulidou, Theano; Konstantinou, Panagiotis; Moutos, Thomas - 2018

The paper examines the effects of the age-differentiated decreases in the minimum wage which Greece implemented in 2012 …

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