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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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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...

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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...

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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 …

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Stability and Dynamics in an Overlapping GenerationsEconomy with Flexible Wage Negotiations

Koskela, Erkki; Puhakka, Mikko - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

We analyze the stability and dynamics of an overlapping generations model with imperfectlycompetitive labour markets...

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Capital Accumulation and Unemployment:New Insights on the Nordic Experience

Karanassou, Marika; Sala, Hector; Salvador, Pablo F. - Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit <Bonn> - 2007

This paper takes a fresh look at the analysis of labour market dynamics and argues thatcapital accumulation plays a fundamental role in shaping unemployment movements. Thisrole has generally been examined by considering indirect transmission channels of thecapital stock effects, i.e. using...

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Estimating the Expected Cost of Equity Capital Using Consensus Forecasts

Daske, Holger; Gebhardt, Günther; Klein, Stefan - 2004

In this study, we develop a technique for estimating a firms expected cost of equity capital derivedfrom analyst consensus forecasts and stock prices. Building on the work of Gebhardt/Lee/-Swaminathan (2001) and Easton/Taylor/Shroff/Sougiannis (2002), our approach allows dailyestimation, using...

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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...

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