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Upstart Industrialization and Exports, Japan 1880-1910
Meissner, Christopher M. - 2017
Japanese exports between 1880 and 1910 increased massively in volume, changed composition, and shifted away from leading industrialized countries toward poorer Asian neighbors. The product mix also varied with the level of development of the destination, with new products and specializations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012455200
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Institutional and Non-Institutional Explanations of Economic Differences
Engerman, Stanley L. - 2003
Although we cannot conceive of processes of economic growth that do not involve institutional change, in this essay we outline some reasons why one should be cautious about grounding a theory of growth on institutions. We emphasize how very different institutional structures have often been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468703
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A Century of Missing Trade?
Estevadeordal, Antoni - 2001
In contemporary data, the measured factor content of trade is far smaller than its predicted magnitude in the pure Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek framework, the so-called 'missing trade' mystery. We wonder if this problem has been there from the beginning: that is, we ask if the Heckscher-Ohlin theory...
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Continental Trading Blocs : Are They Natural, or Super-Natural?
Frankel, Jeffrey A. - 1993
Using the gravity model, we find evidence of three continental trading blocs: the Americas, Europe and Pacific Asia …
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The determinants of corporate venture capital success : organizational structure, incentives, and complementarities
Gompers, Paul A.; Lerner, Joshua - 1998
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A Note on Long-Run Persistence of Public Health Outcomes in Pandemics
Lin, Peter Zhixian - 2020
Covid-19 is the single largest threat to global public health since the Spanish Influenza pandemic of 1918-20. Was the world better prepared in 2020 than it was in 1918? After a century of public health and basic science research, pandemic response and mortality outcomes should be better than in...
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Global Pricing of Carbon-Transition Risk
Bolton, Patrick; Kacperczyk, Marcin - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
levels of carbon emissions (and higher annual changes)--in all sectors over three continents, Asia, Europe, and North America …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012482725
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Liquidity Management and Corporate Investment During a Financial Crisis
Campello, Murillo - 2010
This paper uses a unique dataset to study how firms managed liquidity during the financial crisis. Our analysis provides new insights on the interactions between internal liquidity, external funds, and real corporate decisions, such as investment and employment. We first describe how companies...
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Did Vasco da Gama Matter for European Markets? Testing Frederick Lane's Hypotheses Fifty Years Later
O'Rourke, Kevin H. - 2005
spice markets were already well integrated with those in Iberia and northern Europe, implying that Portugal could not have … relative spice prices, that is, accounting for inflation. It also draws on evidence from Iberia and northern Europe. In …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466787
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Two Tales of Adjustment : East Asian Lessons for European Growth
Chari, Anusha - 2014
be more different. Common wisdom has it that on impact Asia endured fiscal austerity imposed by the IMF whereas the IMF … different policies to begin with, the fiscal adjustment in Asia was far more modest than is commonly known and the switch from … stimulus to austerity in Europe was quite abrupt. The difference in fiscal stance helps explain the difference in the post …
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