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Ottoman Conquests and European Ecclesiastical Pluralism
Iyigun, Murat - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2006
This paper emphasizes that the evolution of religious institutions in Europe was influenced by the expansionary threat … rivals of a different affiliation. The overall patterns of conflict in continental Europe as well as those between the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762252
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Monotheism (From a Sociopolitical and Economic Perspective)
Iyigun, Murat F. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2007
sociopolitical institutions because they (a) involve a strong degree of increasing returns to scale and the natural monopoly powers …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005762170
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Nine protestants are to be esteemed worth ten catholics. Representing religion, labour and economic performance in pre-Industrial Europe, c.1650 - c.1800.
Lambrecht, Thijs A. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2001
Religion was one of the factors that was frequently identified by seventeenth- and eighteenth-century economists as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009325674
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THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF BUKOVINA (I) THE FIRST PERIOD OF AUSTRIAN RULE: 1774 - 1849
MAHA, Liviu-George; DONICI, Gabriel; MAHA, Sorin-Ştefan - In: Review of Economic and Business Studies (2010) 6, pp. 223-241
The annexation of Bukovina by the Habsburg Empire was a decisive moment for its economic and social evolution. The measures taken by the new administration, right after 1775, created the basis for a rapid economic development, which had positive effects on the standard of living and the quality...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009322705
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THE ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT OF BUKOVINA (II) BUKOVINA AS AN AUTONOMOUS DUCHY: 1849-1918
MAHA, Liviu-George; DONICI, Gabriel-Andrei; MAHA, … - In: Review of Economic and Business Studies (2011) 7, pp. 265-293
enough to surpass other provinces. The great conflict at the beginning of the XX th century changed everything as the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010592807
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Habemus Papam ?Polarization and Conflict in the Papal States
Pino, Francisco; Vidal-Robert, Jordi - European Centre for Advanced Research in Economics and … - 2014
, which we exploit to analyze the causal effect of a divided conclaveon conflict. We find that an increase of one standard … deviation in our measure ofpolarization raised the likelihood of internal conflict by between 2 and 3 percentin a given year and … the largest and oldest organizations from violent conflict to religiousmatters. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010764951
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History Matters: The Origins of Cultural Supply in Italy
BOROWIECKI, Karol Jan - Department of Economics, Trinity College Dublin - 2012
I investigate the consequences of long-run persistence of a societies’ preference towards cultural goods. Historical cultural activity is approximated with the frequency of births of classical composers during the Renaissance and is linked with contemporary supply of cultural activities in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010842945
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History matters: The origins of cultural supply in Italy
Borowiecki, Karol Jan - Institut for Virksomhedsledelse og Økonomi, Syddansk … - 2012
I investigate the consequences of long-run persistence of a societies’ preference towards cultural goods. Historical cultural activity is approximated with the frequency of births of classical composers during the Renaissance and is linked with contemporary supply of cultural activities in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010818955
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Historical origins of cultural supply in Italy
Borowiecki, Karol Jan - Institut for Virksomhedsledelse og Økonomi, Syddansk … - 2015
I investigate the consequences of long-run persistency of a society’s preferences for cultural goods. Historical cultural activity is approximated with the frequency of births of music composers during the Renaissance and is linked with contemporary measures of cultural activity in Italian...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011185414
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Law and Social Capital: Evidence from the Code Napoleon in Germany
Buggle, Johannes C. - Forschungsbasierte Infrastruktureinrichtung … - 2013
Do legal institutions affect norms of cooperation? Using the introduction of the Code Napoleon during the Napoleonic … Wars in Germany as a historical experiment, I show that a positive shock to the quality of legal institutions can increase … be a potential mechanism for the relationship between legal institutions and social capital. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010896247