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1. Introduction -- 2. The Politics of Markets -- 3. Commodities and Prices -- 4. Money and Trade -- 5. Mercantile … nation-state in Europe. After the ‘commercial revolution’ of the thirteenth century, taxes on trade became increasingly …, large monetary flows and unstable financial markets, most notably in trade credit and equity partnerships. It shows how the …
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-- Part 4: Trade and Financial Markets -- 10. Information Landscapes and Economic Practice in the Roman World -- 11. Roman … Professional collegia and Economic Control. A Monopoly of Information? -- 12. A case of Arbitrage in a Worldwide Trade: Roman Coins …
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Marktmonopol, Handelsbesteuerung, internationalem Handel und Konsum niederschlägt. Das Buch richtet sich an Studenten und Forscher …, die sich für die Geschichte der Frühen Neuzeit, den östlichen Handel, die Ming-Kaufleute und zeitgenössische globale …
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Business cycles reflect changes over time in the amount of trade between individuals. In this paper we show that … incorporating explicitly intra-temporal gains from trade between individuals into a macroeconomic model can provide new insight into … "gains from trade" approach can easily explain why changes in perceptions about the future (including "news" about the future …
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wealth. We use a two factor general equilibrium model and assume credit markets are absent. We explore the effects of trade … that developed countries need to ensure access to education when liberalizing trade to ensure they reap the potential gains … from trade …
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execution and the risk is a result of price movements during a more gradual trading. The paper shows that the trade-off between …
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The paper derives a consistent accounting framework for the treatment of inventories when measuring the productivity of a distribution firm. The average purchase price of an inventory item during an accounting period must be distinguished from its average selling price and these two average...
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This study explores the interaction between trade and geography in shaping the Islamic economic doctrine. We build a … model where an unequal distribution of land quality in presence of trade opportunities conferred differential gains from … trade across regions, fostering predatory behavior by groups residing in the poorly endowed territories. We show that in …
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trader can walk away from a proposed trade when he learns the trading price. We show that when one trader's information is …
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This paper shows that how firms export (directly or indirectly via intermediaries) matters. We develop and estimate a dynamic discrete choice model that allows learning-by-exporting on the cost and demand side as well as sunk/fixed costs to differ by export mode. We find that demand and...
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