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Nine protestants are to be esteemed worth ten catholics. Representing religion, labour and economic performance in pre-Industrial Europe, c.1650 - c.1800.
Lambrecht, Thijs A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
Religion was one of the factors that was frequently identified by seventeenth- and eighteenth-century economists as exerting an important influence on the pre-industrial European economies. These writers were especially interested in the economic effects of the Reformation on the economic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325674
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From the Persecuting to the Protective State? Jewish Expulsions and Weather Shocks from 1100 to 1800
Anderson, R. Warren; Johnson, Noel D; Koyama, Mark - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
What factors caused the persecution of minorities in medieval and early modern Europe? We build a model that predicts that minority communities were more likely to be expropriated in the wake of negative income shocks. We then use panel data consisting of 785 city-level expulsions of Jews from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112726
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Religious Diversity and Economic Development in Sub-Saharan Africa: So Far So Good
Kodila-Tedika, Oasis; Agbor, Julius - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
regroup these outcomes into three broad categories, namely, development process outcomes (growth, investment, conflict, and … gender protection). Using two new measures of religion – religious fractionalization (RELFRAC) and religious polarization … and increasing religious polarization of African societies. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011258326
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Conflict and Conflict Managment with Asymmetric Stakes (The Bad-Cop and the Good Cop part II)
Caruso, Raul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
This paper considers a partial equilibrium model of conflict where two asymmetric, rational and risk-neutral opponents … instrument to affect the outcome of the conflict. The second instrument is assumed to capture positive investments in ‘conflict … for the measurement and evaluation of conflict and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835709
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Conflict and Conflict Management with Interdependent Instruments and Asymmetric Stakes,(The Good-Cop and the Bad-Cop Game)
Caruso, Raul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
This paper considers a partial equilibrium model of conflict where two asymmetric, rational and risk-neutral opponents … option of choosing a second instrument to affect the outcome of the conflict. The second instrument is assumed to capture a … complex bundle of Conflict Management Procedures (CMPs). Through comparative statics, different scenarios are studied. A …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005835785
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Socially-Tolerable Discrimination
Amegashie, J. Atsu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
such as race, gender, or ethnicity is much less acceptable. Why? I develop a simple model of conflict which is driven by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005790266
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Builders’ wages in southern England and the southern Low Countries, 1346 -1500: a comparative study of trends in and levels of real incomes
Munro, John H. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2004
The traditional and almost universal method of expressing real wages is by index numbers, according to the formula: RWI = NWI/CPI: i.e., the real wage is the quotient of the nominal (money) wage index divided by the consumer price index, all employing a common base period (here: 1451-75 = 100)....
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Legal Centralization and the Birth of the Secular State
Johnson, Noel D; Koyama, Mark - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper investigates the relationship between the historical process of legal centralization and increased religious toleration by the state. We develop a model in which legal centralization leads to the criminalization of the religious beliefs of a large proportion of the population. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011112801
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Printing and Protestants: reforming the economics of the Reformation
Rubin, Jared - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
The causes of the Protestant Reformation have long been debated. This paper attempts to revive and econometrically test the theory that the spread of the Reformation is linked to the spread of the printing press. The proposed causal pathway is that the printing press permitted the ideas of the...
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How asymmetric funding of parties can lead to political polarization
Köppl Turyna, Monika - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2015
This work analyzes the impact of asymmetric financial constraints on the platforms of parties using a formal model of elections. Main results show that when a party faces a tight financial constraint the platform chosen in equilibrium is further away from its ideal point compared to the case...
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