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Ebell, Monique; Ritschl, Albrecht - Sonderforschungsbereich Ökonomisches Risiko <Berlin> - 2007

Most treatments of the Great Depression have focused on its onset and its aftermath. In contrast, we take a unified view of the interwar period. We look at the slide into and the emergence from the 1920-21 recession and the roaring 1920s boom, as well as the slide into the Great Depression after...

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Informational Efficiency of Loans versus Bonds: Evidence from Secondary Market Prices

Altman, Edward; Gande, Amar; Saunders, Anthony - 2003

This paper examines the informational efficiency of loans relative to bonds surrounding loan default dates and bond default dates. We examine this issue using a unique dataset of daily secondary market prices of loans over the11/1999-06/2002 period.(...)

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Compulsory Licensing - Evidence from the Trading with the Enemy Act

Moser, Petra; Voena, Alessandra - National Bureau of Economic Research <Cambridge, Mass.> - 2009

Compulsory licensing allows firms in developing countries to produce foreign-owned inventions withoutthe consent of foreign patent owners. This paper uses an exogenous event of compulsory licensingafter World War I under the Trading with the Enemy Act to examine the long run effects of...

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How Important Is the Stock Market Effect on Consumption?

Ludvigson, Sydney C.; Steindel, Charles - Federal Reserve Bank <New York, NY>; London School of … - 1999

The second half of the 1990s has seen substantialchanges in the wealth of Americanhouseholds, primarily owing to …

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War and Wealth: Economic Opportunity Before and After the Civil War, 1850-1870

Jaworski, Taylor - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2009

This study uses two samples of linked adult males to examine wealth accumulation by region and occupation between 1850 … and 1870. Consistent with past research, the findings here show that wealth accumulation was substantial in the South in … the 1850s and stagnant in the 1860s. The findings also suggest improvement in the wealth position of white …

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The Triumph and Denouement of the British Fiscal State: Taxation For the Wars against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, 1793-1815

O’Brien, Patrick Karl - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

from import duties and direct taxes upon their incomes and wealth. Since total tax revenues depended on rates of tax levied …

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Wohlstand der Nationen und handlungsrechtlicheStruktur eines Gesellschaftssystems

Walterscheid, Heike; Wegehenkel, Lothar - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre <Ilmenau> - 2008

Wohlstand wird in der Regel als der Grad der Versorgung von Personen, privatenHaushalten oder der gesamten Gesellschaft mit Gütern und Dienstleistungen verstandenund fasst das Ausmaß materieller aber auch immaterieller Lebensqualität.Die Messung erfolgt vor allem mit unterschiedlichen...

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annual report 2007

London School of Economics and Political Science - 2008

This report covers CASE’s activities duringthe calendar year 2007 (with financialand related information for the 2006-07academic year). This year marked thecompletion of the Centre’s ten years withcore funding from the Economic andSocial Research Council (ESRC). Havingcompleted that research...

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Sheffield City Report

Winkler, Astrid - London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

Europe is a continent of cities with a remarkable history of cultural inspiration, wealth creation, social andpolitical …

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annual report 2006

London School of Economics and Political Science - 2007

This report covers CASE’s activities duringthe calendar year 2 006 (with financialand related information for the 2 005-06academic year). This is the ninth yearof the Centre’s core funding from theCouncil, which will end in December2007. The Centre is currently exploringalternative ways of...

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