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How integrated are labor markets within a country? Labor mobility is key to the integration of local labor markets and therefore to understanding the efficacy of policies to reduce regional inequality. We present a comprehensive framework for understanding migration decisions, focusing on the...
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Motivated by a novel stylized fact - countries with isolated capital cities display worse quality of governance - we provide a framework of endogenous institutional choice based on the idea that elites are constrained by the threat of rebellion, and that this threat is rendered less effective by...
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We show that isolated capital cities are robustly associated with greater levels of corruption across US states, in line with the view that this isolation reduces accountability, and in contrast with the alternative hypothesis that it might forestall political capture. We then provide direct...
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railways, newly-constructed spatially-disaggregated data for London from 1801-1921, and a quantitative urban model to provide … buildings in Greater London by 20 percent or more, and brings down commuting into the City of London from more than 370,000 to …
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This study provides new evidence on the impact of air pollution in London over the century from 1866-1965. To identify … weeks with elevated pollution levels I use new data tracking the timing of London's famous fog events, which trapped … exposure due to fog events accounted for at least one out of every 200 deaths in London during this century. I provide evidence …
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This paper examines the consequences of the 2015 reform on the London fixing in the interbank forex market, which …
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West Germany's external debt and create a series of favourable debt repayment conditions. The London Debt Agreement (LDA …
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This paper uses an original data set of more than 3000 cases from 1918 to 1926 in the Central Criminal Courts of London …
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We use the German bombing of London during the Second World War as an exogenous source of variation to provide evidence … destruction, property values, and socioeconomic composition in London before and after the Second World War. We develop a …
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This paper conducts counterfactual historical analysis of several monetary policy rules by contrasting actual settings of instrument variables with values that would have been specified by the rules in response to prevailing conditions. Of particular interest is whether major policy mistakes,...
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