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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

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

Assessing market (dis)integration in early modern China and Europe

Bernhofen, Daniel M.; Eberhardt, Markus; Liang, Yusheng; … - 2015

This paper challenges established claims of comparable degrees of market integration in Europe and China on the eve of … arising from common shocks and network effects. Using monthly grain prices for 1740-1820 our analysis uncovers a secular … process of market disintegration in 221 prefectures of Qing China. Comparing our results with those for grain price panels …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011375678

Hours worked in Europe and the US : new data, new answers

Bick, Alexander; Brüggemann, Bettina; … - 2016

We use national labor force surveys from 1983 through 2011 to construct hours worked per person on the aggregate level and for different demographic groups for 18 European countries and the US. We find that Europeans work 19% fewer hours than US citizens. Differences in weeks worked and in the...

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Is Western European agriculture resilient to high temperatures?

Massetti, Emanuele; Van Passel, Steven; Apablaza, Camila - 2018

We estimate a Ricardian model of Western European agricultural land values using farm-level data. We model the effect of temperature on land values using a flexible specification of daily mean temperature to test if there are temperature threshold effects. Results indicate that there are no...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011922161

Institutions and economic growth in historical perspective : part 2

Ogilvie, Sheilagh C.; Carus, A. W. - 2014

This is Part 2 of a two-part paper which surveys the historical evidence on the role of institutions in economic growth. The paper provides a critical scrutiny of a number of stylized facts widely accepted in the growth literature. It shows that private-order institutions have not historically...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010371915

Institutions and economic growth in historical perspective : part 1

Ogilvie, Sheilagh C.; Carus, A. W. - 2014

This is Part 1 of a two-part paper which surveys the historical evidence on the role of institutions in economic growth. The paper provides a critical scrutiny of a number of stylized facts widely accepted in the growth literature. It shows that private-order institutions have not historically...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010371916

Europe's great depression : coordination failure after the first World War

Wolf, Nikolaus - 2010

In this paper I survey and reinterpret the extensive literature on Europe's Great Depression. I argue that Europe could not exploit her vast economic potential after 1918, because the war had not yet come to an end - indeed it did not end before 1945. Both, domestic and international...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008696770

Scylla and Charybdis : explaining Europe's exit from gold, January 1928 - December 1936

Wolf, Nikolaus (contributor) - 2008

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003674389

Commanding nature by obeying her : a review essay on Joel Mokyr's A Culture of Growth

Spolaore, Enrico - 2019

Why is modern society capable of cumulative innovation? In A Culture of Growth: The Origins of the Modern Economy, Joel Mokyr persuasively argues that sustained technological progress stemmed from a change in cultural beliefs. The change occurred gradually during the seventeenth and eighteenth...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012035061

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