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Emerging Financial Markets and Early U.S. Growth

Rousseau, Peter L. - 1999

. The analysis includes a set of multivariate time series models that relate measures of banking and equity market activity …

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Banks, Free Banks, and U.S. Economic Growth

Jaremski, Matthew - 2012

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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American Banking and the Transportation Revolution Before the Civil War

Atack, Jeremy - 2014

database linked to a census of banking. These data indicate that those counties that already had a bank were more likely to see … railroad. The initial banking system thus helped establish the rail system, while the rapid expansion of railroads helped fill … in the banking map of the American Midwest …

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Did Railroads Make Antebellum U.S. Banks More Sound?

Atack, Jeremy - 2014

" banking outcomes. Although railroads improved economic conditions along their routes, we offer evidence of another channel …

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Government, Openness and Finance : Past and Present

Demetriades, Panicos O. - 2010

We explore the role of government in the nexus of finance and trade starting from the earliest days of organised finance in England and then broadening the analysis to 84 countries from 1960 to 2004. For 18th century England, we find that the government expenditures and international trade did...

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Legal-Political Factors and the Historical Evolution of the Finance-Growth Link

Bordo, Michael D. - 2006

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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Historical Perspectives on Financial Development and Economic Growth

Rousseau, Peter L. - 2002

traditional and more descriptive analyses of these events in the economic history literature, and with results obtained for the …

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Historical Evidence on the Finance-Trade-Growth Nexus

Bordo, Michael D. - 2011

We study linkages between financial development, international trade, and long-run growth using data since 1880 for seventeen now-developed "Atlantic" economies and a set of cross-country and dynamic panel data models. We find that finance and trade reinforced each other before 1930, but that...

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