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The world has seen two globalization booms over the past two centuries, and one bust. The first global century ended … globalization on commodity price structure, the causes of protection, the impact of world migration on poverty eradication, and the … with World War I and the second started at the end of World War II, while the years in between were ones of anti …
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and globalization. To reflect context, as defined by space (geography) and time (history), we control for the distance to …This paper addresses the interactions between globalization, the quality of democracy, and economic convergence using … and globalization put forward by Eichengreen and Leblang (2008) for the period 1870-2000. Focusing on the more recent wave …
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history analysis, we find that trade was also a pathway of diffusion. Market access served as an important instrument to … labor regulation of partners because intraindustry trade was important. The New World exported less differentiated products …
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W. Arthur Lewis argued that a new international economic order emerged between 1870 and 1913, and that global terms of trade forces produced rising primary product specialization and de-industrialization in the poor periphery. More recently, modern economists argue that volatility reduces growth...
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never been constant. Globalization increased poor country specialization in commodities when the world went open after the … of life deep into the 18th century. Does world market integration breed more or less commodity price volatility? The … answer is less. Three centuries of history shows unambiguously that economic isolation caused by war or autarkic policy has …
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Recent research in international economic history has opened up new lines of enquiry on the origins of globalization …
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world commodity and factor markets, history offers an unambiguous positive correlation between globalization and convergence … years were also ones of economic autarky and 'de-globalization', while the rest were ones of increasing globalization in …. But is the correlation spurious? When the pre-World War I years are examined in detail, the correlation turns out to be …
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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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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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