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Contract enforcement and institutions among the Maghribi traders : refuting Edwards and Ogilvie
Greif, Avner (contributor) - 2008
Edwards and Ogilvie (2008) dispute the empirical basis for the view (Greif, e.g., 1989, 1994, 2006) that multilateral reputation mechanism mitigated agency problems among the eleventh-century Maghribi traders. They assert that the relations among merchants and agents were law-based. This paper...
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Contract enforcement, institutions and social capital : the Maghribi traders reappraised
Edwards, Jeremy S. S. (contributor);  … - 2008
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003662786
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The impact of the global financial crisis on business cycles in Asian emerging economies
Fidrmuc, Jarko; Korhonen, Iikka - 2009
We analyze the transmission of global financial crisis to business cycles in China and India. The pattern of business …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003861779
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Integrating India with Asian production networks : prospects and challenges
Nag, Biswajit; Bhattacharyay, Biswanath; De, Debdeep - 2015
Southeast Asia. In view of slowdown in growth and even recession in advanced economies as a result of the adverse impact of the … toward rising middle class of Asia. To successfully implement the new initiative of "Make in India", India needs to be … service networks will grow and contribute to the rapid growth in China, India, and Southeast Asian countries, especially from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011387468
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Firm-level human capital and innovation : evidence from China
Sun, Xiuli; Li, Haizheng; Ghosal, Vivek - 2017
manufacturing firms from China. We use two firm-level datasets from China: one from metropolitan cities, and one from provincial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011615502
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Trade booms, trade busts, and trade costs
Jacks, David S.; Meissner, Christopher M.; Novy, Dennis - 2009
trade flows. We construct a new balanced sample of bilateral trade flows for 130 country pairs across the Americas, Asia …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003882603
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A factor augmentation formulation of the value of international trade
Bernhofen, Daniel M.; Brown, John Christopher - 2012
We propose a normative assessment of the value of international trade that is rooted in production theory and embeds Ricardo's 1817 formulation of the gains from trade into a multi-factor general equilibrium framework. Without imposing strong assumptions on consumer rationality or data from the...
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Medieval universities, legal institutions, and the commercial revolution
Cantoni, Davide; Yuchtman, Noam - 2013
We present new data documenting medieval Europeś "Commercial Revolution" using information on the establishment of markets in Germany. We use these data to test whether medieval universities played a causal role in expanding economic activity, examining the foundation of Germanyś first...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010199411
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The impact of liberalisation and globalisation on income inequality in developing and transitional economies
Cornia, Giovanni Andrea - 2003
This paper reviews changes in global, between-country and within-country inequality over 1980-2000 against the background of the shifts that occurred in this area during the globalisation of 1870-1914. The paper finds that recent changes in global and between-country inequality are not marked...
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Endogenous borders? : the effects of new borders on trade in Central Europe 1885-1933
Heinemeyer, Hans-Christian (contributor);  … - 2008
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