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The Great Escape : A Review Essay on Fogel's 'The Escape from Hunger and Premature Death, 1700-2100'

Deaton, Angus - 2005

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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Financial Crises, 1880-1913 : The Role of Foreign Currency Debt

Bordo, Michael - 2005

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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The Globalization of Trade and Democracy, 1870-2000

Lopez-Cordova, J. Ernesto - 2005

We study whether international trade fosters democracy. The likely endogeneity between democracy and trade is addressed via the gravity model of trade, allowing us to obtain a measure of natural openness. This serves as our instrumental variable for actual trade openness à la Frankel and Romer...

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Water, Water, Everywhere : Municipal Finance and Water Supply in American Cities

Cutler, David - 2005

The construction of municipal water systems was a major event in the history of American cities -- bringing relief from …

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Politics, Relief, and Reform : The Transformation of America's Social Welfare System during the New Deal

Wallis, John Joseph - 2005

The American social welfare system was transformed during the 1930s. Prior to the New Deal public relief was administered almost exclusively by local governments. The administration of local public relief was widely thought to be corrupt. Beginning in 1933, federal, state, and local governments...

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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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The Concept of Systematic Corruption in American Political and Economic History

Wallis, John Joseph - 2004

which the United States eliminated corruption. This paper examines the concept of corruption in American history; tracing …

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Corruption and Reform : An Introduction

Glaeser, Edward L.; Goldin, Claudia - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2004

United States was once considerably more corrupt than it is today, then America's history should offer lessons about how to … from a series of essays for a conference volume, Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America's History, for which this … paper is the introduction that attempt to understand the remarkable evolution of corruption and reform in U.S. history …

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The Rise and Fall of the Widely Held Firm - A History of Corporate Ownership in Canada

Morck, Randall - 2004

A panel of corporate ownership data, stretching back to 1902, shows that the Canadian corporate sector began the century with a predominance of large pyramidal corporate groups controlled by wealthy families or individuals. By mid-century, widely held firms predominated. But, from the 1970s on,...

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The Rise of U.S. Antidumping Actions in Historical Perspective

Irwin, Douglas - 2004

Empirical studies of antidumping activity focus almost exclusively on the period since 1980. This paper puts recent U.S. antidumping experience in historical context by studying the determinants of annual case filings over the past half century. The conventional view that few antidumping cases...

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