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Pre-Industrial and Post-War Economic Development: Is There a Link?
Burkett, John; Humblet, Catherine; Putterman, Louis - 1997
-industrial economic conditions. We hypothesize that if these countries are arrayed on a continuum of pre-industrial development such as …
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Evolution of Living Standards and Human Capital in China in 18-20th Century: Evidences from Real Wage and Anthropometrics
Baten, Jörg; Ma, Debin; Morgan, Stephen L.; Wang, Qing - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009
This article mobilizes and integrates both existing and new time series data on real wages, physical heights and age-heaping to examine the long-term trend of living standards and human capital for China during the eighteenth to twentieth centuries. Our findings confirm the existence of a...
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The Jesuits as Knowledge Brokers Between Europe and China (1582-1773): Shaping European Views of the Middle Kingdom
Millar, Ashley E. - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007
perception of the Middle Kingdom and contributed to the evolution of Orientalism. It examines the evolution of the Jesuit mission …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870547
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Is Social Capital Persistent? Comparative Measurement in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Rota, Marta Felis - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007
allows us to study the evolution of social capital between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. We can make observations …
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Evolutionary Choice of Markets
Gerber, Anke; Bettzüge, Marc Oliver - Institut für Schweizerisches Bankwesen <Zürich>; … - 2004
We consider an economy where a finite set of agents can trade on one of two asset markets. Due to endogenous participation the markets may differ in the liquidity they provide. Moreover, traders have idiosyncratic preferences for the markets, e.g. due to differential time preferences for...
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Evolution of Portfolio Rules in Incomplete Markets
Hens, Thorsten; Schenk-Hoppé, Klaus Reiner - 2001
This paper deals with the the evolution of portfolio rules in markets withstationary returns and endogenous prices. …
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Cancelled Acquisitions, Market Information, and Corporate Governance
Gao, Ning; Dasgupta, Sudipto - Manchester Business School - 2006
We find that the decision by a potential acquirer to complete or cancel an announced acquisitionproposal is sensitive to new information generated after the announcement of the acquisition.Both the acquirer and target’s cumulative abnormal returns (CAR) over different windows afterthe...
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Corporate Social Responsibility in India : Law, Regulation and Politics
Bharti, Shuchi - 2022
Social Responsibility in India: International Arena and Social Development -- Chapter 4: Politics of Corporate Social … international governance framework pertaining to CSR, that is primarily based on soft law attributes. Such international soft law … research work on assessing the Regulatory and Governance aspects of the Indian case of Corporate Social Responsibility. She has …
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Human genealogy reveals a selective advantage to moderate fecundity
Galor, Oded; Klemp, Marc P. B. - 2019
contributed to the onset of the demographic transition and thus to the evolution of societies to an era of sustained economic …
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Evolution and depression
Wittman, Donald; Singh, Nirvikar - 2012
The standard evolutionary explanation for depression is that being emotionally depressed is adaptive. We argue that being depressed is not adaptive (indeed, quite the opposite), but that the threat of depression for bad outcomes and the promise of pleasure for good outcomes are adaptive because...
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