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Digital technologies and the nature and routine intensity of work: Evidence from Hungarian manufacturing subsidiaries
Szalavetz, Andrea - 2021
This paper explores the impact of digital technologies on the nature and routine intensity of shopfloor work, the ways in which digital technologies exert their effects and the factors moderating the outcomes of digitalisation in respect of work. The effect of technology cannot be limited to a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014565850
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Gresham on Horseback: The Monetary Roots of Spanish American Political Fragmentation in the Nineteenth Century
Irigoin, Maria Alejandra - College of New Jersey <Princeton, NJ> - 2006
The economics literature is full of studies of monetary or currency unions ranging from the sterling area before 1914, to the Bretton Woods system later and the euro zone within the European Monetary Union today. A quick search in Econ-Lit returned over 10,000 entries among abstracts and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870564
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Mitigating the COVID-19 effect: Emergency economic policy-making in Central Europe
Podvršič, Ana; Becker, Joachim; Piroska, Dóra; … - 2020
, Austria, Czechia, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia, whose economic structure is characterized by strong export orientation. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014565926
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The Dynamics of External Financing
Jansson, Joakim - 2000
A dynamic process underlying firms' discrete financial choices has previously been found, but without controlling for unobserved heterogeneity, this dependence can either be of a true nature or an effect of firm-specific characteristics that we cannot observe. This study extends previous...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010321743
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How Banks Construct and Manage Risk : A Sociological Study of Small Firm Lending in Britain and Germany
Quack, Sigrid - 2012
This paper analyses the role of banks in financing SMEs in Britain and Germany. It applies a sociological institutionalist approach to understand how banks construct and manage risk, relating to SME business. The empirical analysis is based on the results of a comparative survey of a sample of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013102832
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Monetary Policy Under the Gold Standard - Examining the Case of Norway, 1893-1914
Øksendal, Lars Fredrik - 2008
This essay examines Norwegian monetary policy under the final decades of the classical international gold standard regime prior to World War I. While the evidence clearly demonstrates that the commitment to gold convertibility was the overall objective, the character of monetary policy was...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012143694
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Money, banking, and old-school historical economics
Monnet, Eric; Velde, François R. - 2020
We review developments in the history of money, banking, and financial intermediation over the last twenty years. We focus on studies of financial development, including the role of regulation and the history of central banking. We also review the literature of banking and financial crises. This...
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Political profit and the invention of modern currency
Goldberg, Dror - 2008
The Massachusetts currency of 1690 was the first inconvertible paper money to be supported solely by a legal tender law. The circumstances that led to its creation exceed the typical story of wartime specie shortage. Due to temporary political constraints of that turbulent period, the currency...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010335969
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The big problem of large bills: The Bank of Amsterdam and the origins of central banking
Quinn, Stephen; Roberds, William - 2005
This paper outlines a model of the first true central bank, the Bank of Amsterdam, founded in 1609. Employing a variant of the Freeman (1996) model of money and payments, we first analyze the problematic monetary situation in the Netherlands prior to the founding of the Bank. We then use the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010397692
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Inflation and monetary regimes
Dwyer, Gerald P.; Fisher, Mark - 2009
Correlations of inflation with the growth rate of money increase when data are averaged over longer time periods …. Correlations of inflation with the growth of money also are higher when high-inflation as well as low-inflation countries are … included in the analysis. We show that serial correlation in the underlying inflation rate ties these two observations together …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010292328