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We study the emergence of urban self-governance during the Commercial Revolution in the 12th- 13th century and show that municipal autonomy shaped national institutions over the subsequent centuries. We focus on England after the Norman Conquest of 1066 and build a novel comprehensive dataset of...
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This paper develops an analytical framework for studying colonial investment from the perspective of neoclassical political economy. The distinguishing feature of colonial investment in this model is that the metropolitan government restricts the amount of investment in the colony in order to...
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hedge. We also explore valuation. The real price of gold is currently high compared to history. In the past, when the real … price of gold was above average, subsequent real gold returns have been below average consistent with mean reversion. On the … holdings to average per capita or per GDP holdings of developed countries, the real price of gold may rise even further from …
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price index reduced fertility by around 8 percent both immediately and in the years following the boom. We further document … female opportunity costs which dominated any household income effects resulting from the price boom …
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Two opposing views of the antebellum economy are tested. One is that aggregate economic activity was severely diminished and that unemployment was substantial and prolonged during several downturns. The alternative interpretation is that antebellum fluctuations were more apparent than real;...
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/15. In real terms, however, there was essentially no change in slave prices deflated either by a general consumer price index …, or the price of rice. Low Country slave prices were well above those in the West Indies and Maryland prior to the 1740s …
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dead authors – to examine the influence of longer copyrights on price. Difference-in-differences analyses, which compare … changes in the price of books by dead and living authors, indicate a substantial increase in price in response to an extension … indicate no differential increase. Historical evidence suggests that longer copyrights increase price by improving publishers …
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We study the link between fiscal austerity and Nazi electoral success. Voting data from a thousand districts and a hundred cities for four elections between 1930 and 1933 shows that areas more affected by austerity (spending cuts and tax increases) had relatively higher vote shares for the Nazi...
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Scholars have attempted to explain geographic clustering in inventive activity by arguing that it is connected with clustering in production or new investment. They have offered three possible reasons for this link: because invention occurs as a result of learning by doing; because new...
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. Capital flows in both regimes fueled asset price booms via the banking system ending in major crises in the peripheral …
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