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Was the 18th century a time period of gradual market integration? Or did the wars, famines, and criminality drive central European markets away from each other? We perform cointegration tests between four German and three Polish cities for rye markets in the 18th century, plus selected tests...
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By the mid-19th century, following the Prussian mining reform, German miners‘ combined mutual health and pension funds …
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This paper contributes to the literature on the weakness of modern pay-as-you-go social security systems in financing pensions by taking a business and economic historical perspective on the issue. It focuses on Prussian Knappschaften (plural of Knappschaft), which provided miners with...
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-rock mining on public lands. This paper analyzes the issue of imposing such federal royalties from both a legal and economic … encouraging vertical disintegration on the part of mining firms to avoid much of the burden of the royalty. …
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As transnational mining firms have sought to position themselves as drivers of sustainable development, a key component … situates the expansion of corporate-led development in the mining sector as part of an ongoing reconfiguration of the …-out” neoliberalization. Based on an analysis of firm-led development at the Pierina gold mine in Andean Peru, I explore how the mining …
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The aim of this article is to analyse the strategies employed by the Rothschilds until 1940 to limit competition in the non ferrous international market. We will study how they opted for rigid demand products of highly concentrated supply which were favourable to market control (mercury, nickel,...
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mining activities, and shows for the case of South Africa how it can be implemented numerically. The CGE model belongs to the …
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Both services and mining industries gained relatively more importance in the structural changes occurring, particularly … in recent years, where the rate of structural change has increased. The study aims at defragmenting the mining and … activity is measured in terms of investment shows the mining industry to have relatively less Mean Absolute Errors forecasts …
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history of energy. After a period of declining coal prices and soaring consumption which fuelled the Second Industrial …
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rule out that our results are driven by increased public expenditure associated to the mining revenue windfall. Using a …
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