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monetary unions intact. Our main lesson from the history of monetary unions is that political factors will be the central …
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the reasons why these two forces moved largely in parallel in the decades leading up to World War I, collapsed during the …
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Within-country ethnic diversity in high-wage immigrant nations is driven by long distance migration. This paper documents the migration-diversity connection for the first global century before 1914 and the second global century after 1950. It distinguishes between ethnic diversity among the...
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live longer. We review the determinants of these patterns: over history, over countries, and across groups within countries …
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until the First World War. News events and macroeconomic variables cannot account for this extended period of reduced …
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the past, present, and future of human health. Fogel's work places great emphasis on nutrition, not only for the history …
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What is the role of foreign currency debt in precipitating financial crises? In this paper we assemble data for nearly 30 countries between 1880 and 1913 and examine debt crises, currency crises, banking crises and twin crises. We pay special attention to the role of foreign currency and gold...
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World War I to the quotas and bans introduced afterwards was the result of a combination of factors: public hostility …
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We distinguish between good and bad deflations. In the former case, falling prices may be caused by aggregate supply (possibly driven by technology advances) increasing more rapidly than aggregate demand. In the latter case, declines in aggregate demand outpace any expansion in aggregate supply....
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The world has seen two globalization booms over the past two centuries, and one bust. The first global century ended … with World War I and the second started at the end of World War II, while the years in between were ones of anti … concludes with four lessons of history and an agenda for international economists, including more attention to the impact of …
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