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This paper examines the consequences of the 2015 reform on the London fixing in the interbank forex market, which …
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Using newly-constructed spatially-disaggregated data for London from 1801-1921, we show that the invention of the steam … find that removing the entire railway network reduces the population and the value of land and buildings in London by up to … 51.5 and 53.3 percent respectively, and decreases net commuting into the historical center of London by more than 300 …
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West Germany's external debt and create a series of favourable debt repayment conditions. The London Debt Agreement (LDA …
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This study provides new evidence on the impact of air pollution in a high-pollution high-mortality setting: London over … London's famous fog events, which trapped emissions in the city. My results show that acute pollution exposure due to fog … events accounted for at least one out of every 200 deaths in London during this century. I also provide the first well …
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This paper uses an original data set of more than 3000 cases from 1918 to 1926 in the Central Criminal Courts of London …
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We present a continuous time series on first cabin passenger fares for ocean travel from New York to the British Isles covering nearly a century of time. We discuss the conceptual and empirical difficulties of constructing such a time series, and examine the reasons for differences between the...
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We study the determinants and consequences of cross-listings on the New York and London stock exchanges from 1990 to … 2005. This investigation enables us to evaluate the relative benefits of New York and London exchange listings and to … in London. This decline in cross-listings is explained by changes in firm characteristics rather than by changes in the …
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Generating electricity from renewable sources is more expensive than conventional approaches, but reduces pollution externalities. Analyzing the tradeoff is much more challenging than often presumed, because the value of electricity is extremely dependent on the time and location at which it is...
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We track US imports of advanced technology wind and solar power-generation equipment from a panel of countries during 1989-2010, and examine the determining factors including sector-specific US FDI outflow, country size, and domestic wind and solar power generation. Differentiating between the...
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Greater use of renewable energy is seen as a key component of any move to combat climate change, and is being aggressively promoted as such by the new U.S. administration and by other governments. Yet there is little economic analysis of renewable energy. This paper surveys what is written and...
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