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Voigtlaender, Nico - 2014

Democracy is not an absorbing state; transitions to autocratic rule have been frequent throughout history and often followed periods of instability under democratic rule. In this paper, we ask whether autocrats can win support among voters by showcasing their ability to restore order and to "get...

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Bowling for Fascism : Social Capital and the Rise of the Nazi Party

Satyanath, Shanker - 2013

Social capital is often associated with desirable political and economic outcomes. This paper contributes to the literature exploring the "dark side" of social capital, examining the downfall of democracy in interwar Germany. We collect new data on the density of associations in 229 German towns...

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Persecution Perpetuated : The Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany

Voigtlaender, Nico - 2011

How persistent are cultural traits? This paper uses data on anti-Semitism in Germany and finds continuity at the local level over more than half a millennium. When the Black Death hit Europe in 1348-50, killing between one third and one half of the population, its cause was unknown. Many...

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Discrimination, Managers, and Firm Performance : Evidence from "Aryanizations" in Nazi Germany

Huber, Kilian; Lindenthal, Volker; Waldinger, Fabian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021

Large-scale increases in discrimination can lead to dismissals of highly qualified managers. We investigate how expulsions of senior Jewish managers, due to rising discrimination in Nazi Germany, affected large corporations. Firms that lost Jewish managers experienced persistent reductions in...

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War, Socialism and the Rise of Fascism : An Empirical Exploration

Acemoglu, Daron - 2020

support for the Socialist Party after World War I (WWI) and the subsequent emergence of Fascism in Italy. We first develop a … of the rise of Fascism in inter-war years. In this paper, we argue that there was a strong link between the surge of … elites played an important role in the rise of Fascism. Finally, we find greater likelihood of Jewish deportations in 1943 …

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Were Trade and Factor Mobility Substitutes in History?

Collins, William J. - 1997

Trade theorists have come to understand that their theory is ambiguous on the question: Are trade and factor flows substitutes? While this sounds like an open invitation for empirical research, hardly any serious econometric work has appeared in the literature. This paper uses history to fill...

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Weak States : Causes and Consequences of the Sicilian Mafia

Acemoglu, Daron - 2017

We document that the spread of the Mafia in Sicily at the end of the 19th century was in part shaped by the rise of socialist Peasant Fasci organizations. In an environment with weak state presence, this socialist threat triggered landholders, estate managers and local politicians to turn to the...

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Labor Productivity in Britain and America During the Nineteenth Century

Broadberry, Stephen N. - 2004

A number of writers have recently questioned whether labor productivity or per capita incomes were ever higher in the United Kingdom than in the United States. We show that although the United States already had a substantial labor productivity lead in industry as early as 1840, especially in...

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Does Compulsory Licensing Discourage Invention? Evidence From German Patents After WWI

Baten, Joerg - 2015

This paper investigates whether compulsory licensing - which allows governments to license patents without the consent of patent-owners - discourages invention. Our analysis exploits new historical data on German patents to examine the effects of compulsory licensing under the US...

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German-Jewish Emigres and U.S. Invention

Moser, Petra - 2014

Historical accounts suggest that Jewish émigrés from Nazi Germany revolutionized U.S. science. To analyze the émigrés' effects on chemical innovation in the U.S. we compare changes in patenting by U.S. inventors in research fields of émigrés with fields of other German chemists. Patenting...

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