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Economic Cycles in Ancient China
Zhang, Yaguang - 2015
We discuss business cycles in ancient China. Data on Ancient China business cycles are sparse and incomplete and so our … years for OECD countries and with major focus on the 1990's. Here we also probe material on Ancient China to see what is …
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East Asian Financial and Economic Development
Morck, Randall - 2017
over a single generation. China now seems poised to follow a similar trajectory. All three cases highlight the importance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012947025
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Gender-Targeted Job Ads in the Recruitment Process : Evidence from China
Kuhn, Peter - 2018
We document how explicit employer requests for applicants of a particular gender enter the recruitment process on a Chinese job board. Overall, we find that 19 out of 20 callbacks to jobs requesting a particular gender are of the requested gender. Mostly, this is because application pools to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012906448
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The Economics of China : Successes and Challenges
Fan, Shenggen - 2013
This paper is the first chapter in the Oxford Companion to the Economics of China (Oxford University Press, forthcoming …). Rather than trying to summarize other contributors' views, we provide our own perspectives on the Economics of China …--the past experience and the future prospects. Our reading of China's economic development over the past 35 years raises two …
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Productivity Growth in the Automobile Industry, 1970-1980 : a Comparisonof Canada, Japan and the United States
Fuss, Melvyn - 2012
In this paper we calculate and analyze the automobile industries cost and productivity experience during the 1970 's in Canada, the U.S.and Japan. Utilizing an econometric cost function methodology, we are able to isolate the major source of short-run disequilibrium in this industry-variations'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012755399
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Wall Street's First Corporate Governance Crisis : The Panic of 1826
Hilt, Eric - 2010
In July of 1826, several prominent Wall Street firms abruptly went bankrupt, amid scandalous revelations of fraudulent financial practices by their management. Although mostly forgotten today, these events represented a watershed in the early development of the corporation laws and investor...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012757536
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The Myth of the Frontier
Garcia-Jimeno, Camilo - 2010
One of the most salient explanations for the distinctive path of economic and political development of the United States is captured by the 'Frontier (or Turner) thesis'. Turner argued that it was the presence of the open frontier which explained why the United States became democratic and, at...
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Harvests and Business Cycles in Nineteenth-Century America
Davis, Joseph H. - 2010
Most major American industrial business cycles from around 1880 to the First World War were caused by fluctuations in the size of the cotton harvest due to economically exogenous factors such as weather. Wheat and corn harvests did not affect industrial production; nor did the cotton harvest...
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Did Railroads Induce or Follow Economic Growth? Urbanization and Population Growth in the American Midwest, 1850-60
Atack, Jeremy - 2010
For generations of scholars and observers, the quot;transportation revolution,quot; especially the railroad, has loomed large as a dominant factor in the settlement and development of the United States in the nineteenth century. There has, however, been considerable debate as to whether...
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Luddites and the Demographic Transition
O'Rourke, Kevin H. - 2010
Technological change was unskilled-labor-biased during the early Industrial Revolution, but is skill-biased today. This is not embedded in extant unified growth models. We develop a model which can endogenously account for these facts, where factor bias reflects profit-maximizing decisions by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012758155