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Historische Ereignisse spiegeln sich in Preisveränderungen auf Finanzmärkten. Dieses Papier untersucht die deutsche Kriegsgeschichte während des zweiten Weltkriegs anhand der Preisentwicklung der in der Schweiz gehandelten deutschen Staatsanleihen. Die Resultate unserer empirischen Analyse...
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«Журнал институциональных исследований» начинает публикацию материалов из готовящейся к печати книги Р.М. Нуреева и Ю.В. Латова «Очерки по институциональной...
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В статье рассматриваются методические основы построения имитационной модели эволюции региональных социально-экономических систем, отражающей допустимые...
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In the paper the development of economic history will be placed within the evolution of Western thought and culture. Therefore an analysis of the connections between economic history and contemporary epistemology will be carried out. In this perspective an analogy with the traditional division...
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Historical events are reflected in asset prices. In this paper, we analyse government bond prices of Germany and Austria traded on the Swiss bourse during WWII. Some war events that are generally considered crucial are clearly reflected in government bond prices. This holds, in particular, for...
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The only reliable estimate of the number of ships that arrived in the Cape Colony was published by Beyers in 1929. Unfortunately, this data series has a number of restrictions. It only accounts for the number of ships arriving at the Cape during the period 1700–1793. It also does not...
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aims at understanding the evolution of cliometrics by showing how this approach to study the economic past has emerged …, diffused, evolved, and still continues doing so. I use an analogy from economics which is to consider cliometrics as firm … two develops this analogy while section three applies it to the first stage of cliometrics (1957-1975). Section four …
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How are political events reflected in financial asset prices? Break points in sovereign debt prices are analyzed for Denmark, Norway, Finland, Sweden, Germany and Belgium during 1930-1948, using unique data from the Stockholm Stock Exchange. Unlike in countries involved in WWII, this market was...
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Many historians now reject quantitative methods as inappropriate to understanding past societies. It is argued here, however, that no sharp distinction between qualitative and quantitative concepts can be drawn, as almost any concept used to describe a past society is implicitly quantitative....
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