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When Unions "Mattered" : Assessing the Impact of Strikes on Financial Markets
DiNardo, John - 2000
Combining information from labor historians and using techniques from finance we analyze the strikes that labor historians have agreed are pivotal in American history' during the period 1925-1937. Using information we collected on strike dates and historical financial market stock price data we...
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Union Organizing Decisions in a Deteriorating Environment : The Composition of Representation Elections and the Decline in Turnout
Farber, Henry S. - 2014
It is well known that the organizing environment for labor unions in the U.S. has deteriorated dramatically over a long period of time, contributing to the sharp decline in the private sector union membership rate and resulting in many fewer representation elections being held. What is less well...
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The Global History of Corporate Governance : An Introduction
Morck, Randall K. - 2005
This paper presents a synopsis of recent NBER studies of the history of corporate governance in Canada, China, France …
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Careers and Canvases : The Rise of the Market for Modern Art in the Nineteenth Century
Galenson, David W. - 2002
This paper reexamines the process by which a market for a new product modern painting emerged in Paris in the nineteenth century. Contrary to the accepted account, in which the monopoly of the official Salon was replaced by a competitive market operated by private dealers, we find that the Salon...
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The Legal Origins of Financial Development : Evidence from the Shanghai Concessions
Levine, Ross; Chen, Lin; Ma, Chicheng; Xu, Yuchen - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We assemble new data on the British and French concessions in Shanghai between 1845 and 1936 to assess the legal origins view of financial development. During this period, two regime changes altered the degree to which the British common and French civil law traditions held jurisdiction over the...
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Emigration during the French Revolution : Consequences in the Short and Longue Durée
Franck, Raphaël - 2017
During the French Revolution, more than 100,000 individuals, predominantly supporters of the Old Regime, fled France …
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Designing Women : Consumer Goods Innovations in Britain, France and the United States, 1750-1900
Khan, B. Zorina - 2017
in industrial fairs and prize-granting institutions in Britain, France and the United States, compared to parallel …
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Supply-Side Policies in the Depression : Evidence from France
Cohen-Setton, Jérémie - 2016
evidence from France in the 1930s. In 1936, France departed from the gold standard and implemented mandatory wage increases and …
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Invisible Women : Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Family Firms in France during Early Industrialization
Khan, B. Zorina - 2015
industrialization. The empirical evidence indicates that middle-class women in France were extensively engaged in entrepreneurship and …
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The Price of Stability : The balance sheet policy of the Banque de France and the Gold Standard (1880-1914)
Bazot, Guillaume - 2014
Under the classical gold standard (1880-1914), the Bank of France maintained a stable discount rate while the Bank of …, differ so much? How did the Bank of France manage to keep a stable rate and continuously violate the "rules of the game …"? This paper tackles these questions and shows that the domestic asset portfolio of the Bank of France played a crucial role …
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