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Geographic Barriers to Commodity Price Integration : Evidence from Us Cities and Swedish Towns, 1732-1860
Crucini, Mario J. - 2015
We study the role of distance and time in statistically explaining price dispersion for 14 commodities from 1732 to 1860. The prices are reported for US cities and Swedish market towns, so we can compare international and intranational dispersion. Distance and commodity-specific fixed effects...
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The Global History of Corporate Governance : An Introduction
Steier, Lloyd - 2013
This paper presents a synopsis of recent NBER studies of the history of corporate governance in Canada, China, France …, Germany, Japan, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Together, the studies …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012754560
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Is bancassurance a viable model for financial firms?
Fields, L. Paige; Fraser, Donald R.; Kolari, James W. - In: The journal of risk and insurance : the journal of the … 74 (2007) 4, pp. 777-794
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Cross-industry product diversification and contagion in risk and return : the case of bank-insurance and insurance-bank takeovers
Elyasiani, Elyas; Staikouras, Sotiris K.; … - In: The journal of risk and insurance : the journal of the … 83 (2016) 3, pp. 681-718
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An extreme value approach for modeling operational risk losses depending on covariates
Chavez-Demoulin, Valérie; Embrechts, Paul; Hofert, Marius - In: The journal of risk and insurance : the journal of the … 83 (2016) 3, pp. 735-776
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The wealth effects of allowing bank entry into the insurance industry
Carow, Kenneth A. - In: The journal of risk and insurance : the journal of the … 68 (2001) 1, pp. 129-150
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001601119
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Large Block Shareholders, Institutional Investors, Boards of Directors and Bank Value in the Nineteenth Century
Bodenhorn, Howard - 2013
Share prices of modern corporations are influenced by the size and structure of boards of directors, large individual and institutional investors, and shareholder voting rights, among other governance features. It is not clear whether the same features mattered historically, given recent...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013083396
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Short-Term Loans and Long-Term Relationships : Relationship Lending in Early America
Bodenhorn, Howard - 2001
Recent banking theory holds that durable firm-bank relationships are valuable to both parties. Using contract …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012787535
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How Deep are the Roots of Economic Development?
Spolaore, Enrico - 2012
analysis of ever deeper, more fundamental factors, rooted in long-term history. A growing body of new empirical work focuses on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013105459
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Emigration During the French Revolution : Consequences in the Short and Longue Durée
Franck, Raphael - 2017
During the French Revolution, more than 100,000 individuals, predominantly supporters of the Old Regime, fled France. As a result, some areas experienced a significant change in the composition of the local elites whereas in others the pre-revolutionary social structure remained virtually...
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