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The Global History of Corporate Governance : An Introduction

Morck, Randall K. - 2005

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 …

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Geographic Barriers to Commodity Price Integration : Evidence from US Cities and Swedish Towns, 1732-1860

Crucini, Mario J. - 2014

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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Emerging Financial Markets and Early U.S. Growth

Rousseau, Peter L. - 1999

. The analysis includes a set of multivariate time series models that relate measures of banking and equity market activity …

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The Service Industries and U.S. Economic Growth Since World War II

Fuchs, Victor R. - 1977

During the past 15 years employment and current dollar gross product continued to shift to the Service sector at about the same rate as in the early post-World War II period, while the Service sector's share of gross product in constant dollars remained relatively constant. Productivity (as...

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Sample-Selection Bias and Height Trends in the Nineteenth-Century United States

Zimran, Ariell - 2018

After adjusting for sample-selection bias, I find a net decline in average stature of 0.64 inches in the birth cohorts of 1832--1860 in the US. This result supports the veracity of the Antebellum Puzzle--a deterioration of health during early modern economic growth in the US. However, this...

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Stock markets, banks, and economic growth : evidence from Latin American countries

Al Nasser, Omar M. - In: International journal of economics and finance 7 (2015) 2, pp. 100-112

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Does the Structure of Banking Markets Affect Economic Growth? Evidence from U.S. State Banking Markets

Mitchener, Kris James - 2010

This paper examines the relationship between the structure of banking markets and economic growth using a new dataset … on manufacturing industry-level growth rates and banking market concentration for U.S. states during 1899-1929--a period … when the manufacturing sector was expanding rapidly and restrictive branching laws segmented the U.S. banking system …

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Stock Markets, Banks, and Growth : Panel Evidence

Beck, Thorsten - 2002

This paper investigates the impact of stock markets and banks on economic growth using a panel data set for the period 1976-98 and applying recent GMM techniques developed for dynamic panels. On balance, we find that stock markets and banks positively influence economic growth and these findings...

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Banks, Free Banks, and U.S. Economic Growth

Jaremski, Matthew - 2012

The "Federalist financial revolution" may have jump-started the U.S. economy into modern growth, but the Free Banking … System (1837-1862) did not play a direct role in sustaining it. Despite lowering entry barriers and extending banking into …

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The insurance value of trade credit

Eboli, Mario; Toto, Andrea - In: International journal of economics and finance 11 (2019) 7, pp. 87-96

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