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case study presents the largest-ever land privatization in Hungarian history, when the territories retaken by the Habsburgs … the present renationalization wave in Hungary, if we do not take into account the poisonous historical legacy of the … similar means, even if the general historical conditions are entirely different; and the same notions - like privatization or …
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Prior to the Age of Mass Migration, Germans left central Europe to settle primarily in modernday Hungary, Serbia …
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One of the intriguing questions of our times is the importance of the centralization and nationalization campaigns of … - although the main trend of policies was privatization. However, in my earlier work a logical question was ignored, namely why … Hungary aimed at accelerating the country's economic development and catching up with the more advanced economies …
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observable trade costs, we find that crossing the border between Serbia and Austria-Hungary significantly increased price gaps …
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This paper systematically analyzes media attention devoted to terrorist attacks worldwide between 1998 and 2012. Several aspects are related to predicting media attention. First, suicide missions receive significantly more coverage, which could explain their increased popularity among terrorist...
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Jews in Africa have a long history. Africans have encountered Jewish myths and traditions in different forms and situations, leading to the development of a new Jewish identity linked to that of the Diaspora. Different groups of black Jews from western, central, eastern and southern Africa used...
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Les Juifs d’Afrique ont une longue histoire. Les Africains ont rencontré les mythes et traditions juives sous différentes formes et situations, conduisant au développement d’une nouvelle identité juive liée à celle de la diaspora. Divers groupes de Juifs noirs d’Afrique occidentale,...
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This paper uses a historical setting to study when religion can be a barrier to the diffusion of knowledge and economic development, and through which mechanism. I focus on 19th-century Catholicism and analyze a crucial phase of modern economic growth, the Second Industrial Revolution...
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The economic impact of an institutional transplant depends on the underlying cultural envi-ronment of the receiving country. This paper provides the first evidence that the positive effect of importing good institutions cancels out when the receiving territories are characterized by cultural...
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We revisit Max Weber’s hypothesis on the role of Protestantism for economic development. We show that nationalism is crucial to both, the interpretation of Weber’s Protestant Ethic and empirical tests thereof. For late nineteenth-century Prussia we reject Weber’s suggestion that...
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