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Die Historizität fiktionaler Erwartungen
Beckert, Jens - 2017
Capitalist dynamics is energized in part by imaginaries of future states of the world (Beckert 2016). The paper deals …Kapitalistische Dynamik wird auch von Vorstellungen zukünftiger Zustände der Welt vorangetrieben (Beckert 2016). Der …
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Wissenschaftler auf Zeit: Die Durchsetzung der Personalpolitik der Befristung in der Max-Planck-Gesellschaft seit den 1970er-Jahren
Leendertz, Ariane - 2020
aus der ganzen Welt so viele freie Wissenschaftlerstellen wie möglich anzubieten. … new ones in their place, and offer the newly appointed directors from around the world as many vacant positions as …
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Beer Drinking Nations. The Determinants of Global Beer Consumption.
Colen, Liesbeth; Swinnen, Johan F. M. - 2010
been major changes in beer consumption in the world. In recent times, per capita consumption has decreased in traditional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010313419
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The development and implementation of IMF and World Bank conditionality
Dreher, Axel - 2002
The paper presents a detailed description of IMF and World Bank conditionality and tries to explain changes in this … conditions seem to be influenced by contemporaneous World Bank activity. Moreover, the paper tries to explain compliance with … World Bank conditionality as well as interruptions of IMF programs in the recipient countries. Compliance with World Bank …
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History matters in microfinance
Seibel, Hans Dieter - 2003
institutions (MFIs). Every now developed country has its own history of microfinance. It is important to recognize this because it …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010297106
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International Migration in the Long-Run : Positive Selection, Negative Selection and Policy
Hatton, Timothy J.; Williamson, Jeffrey G. - 2004
World War I to the quotas and bans introduced afterwards was the result of a combination of factors: public hostility …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262050
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In-Group Cooperation in a Hostile Environment: An Economic Perspective on Some Aspects of Jewish Life in (Pre-Modern) Diaspora
Rapoport, Hillel; Weiss, Avi - 2002
The demographic history of the Jews in the Middle Ages may be characterized by two main phenomena: i) a sharp drop in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262769
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War and endogenous democracy
Ticchi, Davide; Vindigni, Andrea - 2008
Many episodes of extension of franchise in the 19th and especially in the 20th century occurred during or in the aftermath of major wars. Motivated by this fact, we offer a theory of political transitions which focuses on the impact of international conflicts on domestic political institutions....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010268686
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The International Monetary Fund: 70 years of reinvention
Reinhart, Carmen M.; Trebesch, Christoph - 2015
A sketch of the International Monetary Fund's 70-year history reveals an institution that has reinvented itself over … time along multiple dimensions. This history is primarily consistent with a "demand driven" theory of institutional change …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011498368
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The sustainability of empire in global perspective: The role of international trade patterns
Bonfatti, Roberto - 2012
European empires had two key economic aspects: the extraction of colonial wealth by colonizers, and the relevance of trade for the colonial economies. I build a simple model of decolonization that puts these two elements at centre stage. By controlling policy in the colony, the mother country...
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