an improved current account). France%u2019s decision to suspend the free coinage of silver in 1876 played a paramount … that France%u2019s decision to end bimetallism was exogenous from the viewpoint of countries on the silver standard. To …

of two large firms: the South Sea Company in Great Britain and the Mississippi Company in France. In this paper we …

, France, and the U.K., during the period of 1859–1913. The identification is based on the following historical facts: First … exported to Germany, France, and the U.K. by the Empire. Using the export-bundle-weighted regional rainfall as an instrument …

This study compares labor and total factor productivity (TFP) in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United … extent also to France and Japan, a relative decline that was interrupted by the second world war (WW2); (iii) the remarkable … catching-up to the United States by France and Japan after WW2, that stopped in the case of Japan during the 1990s. Capital …