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. The analysis includes a set of multivariate time series models that relate measures of banking and equity market activity …
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The "Federalist financial revolution" may have jump-started the U.S. economy into modern growth, but the Free Banking … System (1837-1862) did not play a direct role in sustaining it. Despite lowering entry barriers and extending banking into …
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evidence from the 1883 Pendleton Act, a landmark reform in American history which introduced competitive exams to select …
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We combine full-count Census data (1850-1940) with Census/ACS samples (1950-2020) to provide the first nationally representative long-run series (1850-2020) of incarceration rates for immigrants and the US-born. As a group, immigrants had higher incarceration rates than US-born white men before...
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" banking outcomes. Although railroads improved economic conditions along their routes, we offer evidence of another channel …
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Recent cross-country investigations of the role of institutional fundamentals such as the protection of property rights in promoting financial development have extended a literature that has for decades maintained that financial factors can affect real outcomes. In this paper we pursue this new...
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