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Economic History and Economic Development : New Economic History in Retrospect and Prospect

Temin, Peter - 2014

I argue in this paper for more interaction between economic history and economic development. Both subfields study economic development; the difference is that economic history focuses on high-wage countries while economic development focuses on low-wage economies. My argument is based on recent...

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The Founding of the Federal Reserve, the Great Depression and the Evolution of the U.S. Interbank Network

Jaremski, Matthew S. - 2019

Financial network structure is an important determinant of systemic risk. This paper examines how the U.S. interbank … network evolved over a long and important period that included two key events: the founding of the Federal Reserve and the …, initially reducing overall network concentration. The network became even more focused on Fed cities during the Depression, as …

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The European Crisis in the Context of the History of Previous Financial Crises

Bordo, Michael D. - 2013

There are some striking similarities between the pre 1914 gold standard and EMU today. Both arrangements are based on fixed exchange rates, monetary and fiscal orthodoxy. Each regime gave easy access by financially underdeveloped peripheral countries to capital from the core countries. But the...

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Populism and the Economics of Globalization

Rodrik, Dani - 2017

Populism may seem like it has come out of nowhere, but it has been on the rise for a while. I argue that economic history and economic theory both provide ample grounds for anticipating that advanced stages of economic globalization would produce a political backlash. While the backlash may have...

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Australian Growth : A California Perspective

McLean, Ian W. - 2001

Examination of special cases assists understanding of the mechanics of long-run economic growth more generally. Australia and California are two economies having the rare distinction of achieving 150 years of sustained high and rising living standards for rapidly expanding populations. They are...

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Historical Macroeconomics and American Macroeconomic History

Calomiris, Charles W. - 1994

What can macroeconomic history offer macroeconomic theorists and macroeconometricians? Macroeconomic history offers more than longer time series or special `controlled experiments.' It suggests an historical definition of the economy, which has implications for macroeconometric methods. The...

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What - or Who - Started the Great Depression?

Ohanian, Lee E. - 2009

Herbert Hoover. I develop a theory of labor market failure for the Depression based on Hoover's industrial labor program that provided industry with protection from unions in return for keeping nominal wages fixed. I find that the theory accounts for much of the depth of the Depression and for...

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The History and Politics of Corporate Ownership in Sweden

Hogfeldt, Peter - 2004

Not despite but because of persistent Social Democratic political influence since the Great Reversal in 1932 have a few families and banks controlled the largest listed firms in Sweden. The Social Democrats have de facto been the guarantor rather than the terminator of private capitalism since...

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International Policy Coordination : The Long View

Eichengreen, Barry - 2011

This paper places current efforts at international economic policy coordination in historical perspective. It argues that successful cooperation is most likely in four sets of circumstances. First, when it centers on technical issues. Second, when cooperation is institutionalized - when...

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Gender-Targeted Job Ads in the Recruitment Process : Evidence from China

Kuhn, Peter - 2018

We document how explicit employer requests for applicants of a particular gender enter the recruitment process on a Chinese job board. Overall, we find that 19 out of 20 callbacks to jobs requesting a particular gender are of the requested gender. Mostly, this is because application pools to...

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