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Mercantilist Institutions for the Pursuit Of Power with Profit. The Management Of Britain’s National Debt, 1756-1815
O’Brien, Patrick Karl - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2006
satisfactory historical narrative) the reasons why the United Kingdom evolved between the Glorious Revolution of 1688 and the … inaugurated the modern debate with the publication of The Financial Revolution in England some four decades ago.That seminal book …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870565
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Reconstructing the Industrial Revolution: Analyses, Perceptions and Conceptions Of Britain’s Precocious Transition to Europe’s First Industrial Society
Riello, Giorgio; O’Brien, Patrick Karl - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2004
The Industrial Revolution continues to be analysed by economic historians deploying the conceptual vocabularies of … their aspirations to recover the meanings of the Revolution for those who lived through its turmoil and for ‘witnesses’ from … reconstructions of the Revolution are only apparently in conflict and above all that a contextualised analysis of observations of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870578
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Fiscal Exceptionalism: Great Britain and its European Rivals From Civil War to Triumph at Trafalgar and Waterloo
O’Brien, Patrick Karl - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2001
Historical narratives which place the Glorious Revolution at the beginning and Parliament near the centre of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870702
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How Child Costs and Survival Shaped the IndustrialRevolution and the Demographic Transition:A Theoretical Inquiry
Strulik, Holger; Weisdorf, Jacob - Universität <Hannover> / Wirtschaftswissenschaftliche … - 2010
This study provides a unied growth theory to correctly predictthe initially negative and subsequently positive relationship between child mortalityand net reproduction observed in industrialized countries over the courseof their demographic transitions. The model captures the intricate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005870762
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Fathers Under Fire: The Revolution in Child SupportEnforcement in the USA
Garfinkel, Irwin; McLanahan, Sara; Meyer, Daniel; … - London School of Economics and Political Science - 1998
In the shadow of rising divorce and non-marital birth rates, nearly twothirdsof all American children today will live apart from at least one oftheir parents, usually the father. Clearly this astonishing proportion ofnon-resident fathers has serious implications for the economic,employment, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008756558
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Funding Systems for Doctors, Schools and Social Landlords
Glennerster, Howard; Hills, John; Travers, Tony - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2000
In the past decade there has been a minor revolution in how local services are funded.Those delivering the services now …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008766038
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Infinite Dimensional VARs and Factor Models
Chudik, Alexander; Pesaran, Mohammad Hashem - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007
This paper introduces a novel approach for dealing with the curse of dimensionality in thecase of large linear dynamic systems. Restrictions on the coefficients of an unrestricted VARare proposed that are binding only in a limit as the number of endogenous variables tends toinfinity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008939752
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Steady-State Growth and the Elasticity of Substitution
Irmen, Andreas - Alfred-Weber-Institut für Sozial- und … - 2010
In a neoclassical economy with endogenous capital- and labor-augmentingtechnical change the steady-state growth rate of output per worker is shown to increasein the elasticity of substitution between capital and labor. This conrms theassessment of Klump and de La Grandville (2000) that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009249010
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Population Aging and the Direction of Technical Change
Irmen, Andreas - Alfred-Weber-Institut für Sozial- und … - 2009
An analytical framework is developed to study the repercussions betweenendogenous capital- and labor-saving technical change and population aging.Following an intuition often attributed to Hicks (1932), I ask whether and howpopulation aging aects the relative scarcity of factors of production,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009249013
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Shifting Sentiments in Firm Investment: An Application to the Oil Industry
Mohn, Klaus; Misund, Bård - Universitetet <Stavanger> / School of Business … - 2008
Recent developments in the oil and gas industry suggest that investment behaviour is not necessarilychangeless over time. We propose a micro-econometric procedure to investigate the stability ofinvestment behaviour. Applying system GMM methods on a panel data set for 253 oil and gas...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009305225