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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 study the local effects of a federal program that helped cities clear areas for redevelopment, rehabilitate structures, complete city plans, and enforce building codes. We use an instrumental variable strategy to estimate the program's effects on city-level measures of income, property...
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In Beijing, the metropolitan government has made enormous place based investments to increase green space and to improve public transit. We examine the gentrification consequences of such public investments. Using unique geocoded real estate and restaurant data, we document that the construction...
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We study the urban structure of the City of Detroit. Following several decades of decline, the city's current urban structure is clearly not optimal for its size, with a business district immediately surrounded by a ring of largely vacant neighborhoods. We propose a model with residential...
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We exploit regional variation in suitability for cultivating potatoes, together with time variation arising from their introduction to the Old World from the Americas, to estimate the impact of potatoes on Old World population and urbanization. Our results show that the introduction of the...
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Buenos Aires and Chicago grew during the nineteenth century for remarkably similar reasons. Both cities were conduits for moving meat and grain from fertile hinterlands to eastern markets. However, despite their initial similarities, Chicago was vastly more prosperous for most of the 20th...
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