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This paper studies the sustainability of the Ottoman budget for the period from 1680 to 1747, during different sultanates and war eras. Moreover, we investigate whether the relationship between government revenues and expenditures changes in the period of culus. The empirical evidence gathered...
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Our purpose here is to challenge the big-bang approach to economic history in which some alleged institutional imposition - a deus machine - is claimed to launch a series of new economic behaviors. This so-called prime mover is then carried forward by the inexorable forces of path dependency to...
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In this paper, we explore the long-run effects of cultural and imperial legacies in the Baltic region. Drawing evidence from the 1897 population census in the Russian Empire, we find that localities with a higher share of German historical population are inclined to be more developed in...
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This paper studies the economic and political effects of a large trade shock in agriculture - the grain invasion from the Americas - in Prussia during the first globalization (1871-1913). We show that this shock accelerated the structural change in the Prussian economy through migration of...
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officials who permitted them. How voters responded to these in the 2002 parliamentary elections is investigated, using cross …
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before, during or after elections. Our estimates also show that government-owned banks underperform their domestic and …
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In an experiment designed to test for expressive voting, Tyran (JPubEc 2004) found a strong positive correlation … voting decisions in the social science literature. Redoing Tyran's experiment and adding new treatments, we provide evidence …
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the launch of the project. Examples are the Kyoto protocol, voting with different weights (shareholders, the UN with the …
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In an economic theory of voting, voters have positive or negative costs of voting in favor of a proposal and positive … or negative benefits from an accepted proposal. When votes have equal weight then simultaneous voting mostly has a unique … pure strategy Nash equilibrium which is independent of benefits. Voting with respect to (arbitrarily small) costs alone …
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impact on voting. The US and the EU introduced targeted measures against Russian entities and individuals related to Putin … the vote share in presidential elections between 2012 and 2018. Putin gained 1.54 percentage points at those polling … effect on voting can be explained as rally-around-the-flag in the face of sanctions, as long as voters did not endure …
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