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The Empire Effect: Country Risk in the First Age of Globalization, 1880-1913
Ferguson, Niall; Schularick, Moritz - EconWPA - 2005
Would the movement of capital from to poor countries greatly increase, if the commitment to protecting property and allowing capital to move freely were more credible? This paper asks whether the British Empire provided global public goods that supported large-scale development finance before...
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French banks in Hong Kong (1860s-1950s): Challengers to British banks?
BONIN, Hubert - Groupe de Recherche en Économie Théorique et … - 2007
French banking expansion in China and South-East Asia had to respect the powerful influence of British banks there … colony and China favoured further integration of banking and currency exchanges with Hong Kong, through the Banque de l … for Banque de l’Indochine into southern China (Canton, etc.) from the1890s up to the 1930s and, in parallel with the …
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French banks in Hong Kong (1860s-1950s): Challengers to British banks?
BONIN, Hubert - Groupement de Recherches Économiques et Sociales (GRES) - 2007
French banking expansion in China and South-East Asia had to respect the powerful influence of British banks there … colony and China favoured further integration of banking and currency exchanges with Hong Kong, through the Banque de l … for Banque de l’Indochine into southern China (Canton, etc.) from the1890s up to the 1930s and, in parallel with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005395079
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Auf der Suche nach der nationalen Innovationskultur Deutschlands - die Etablierung der Verfahrenstechnik in der BRD, DDR seit 1950
Pieper, Christine; Handel, Kai Christian - Fakultät Wirtschaftswissenschaften, Technische … - 2003
Die Rolle der Hochschulen im Innovationssystem sowohl der BRD als auch der DDR hat sich in den letzten fünfzig Jahren zum Teil dramatisch geändert. Der Veränderungsprozess in der Bundesrepublik lässt sich grob in drei Phasen einteilen, die sich zwar überlappen, dennoch im wesentlichen eine...
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Size and dynastic decline: The principal-agent problem in late imperial China, 1700–1850
Sng, Tuan-Hwee - In: Explorations in Economic History 54 (2014) C, pp. 107-127
This paper argues that China's size was one reason behind its relative decline in the nineteenth century. A ruler …
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Visible and invisible walls
Bergeijk, Peter A.G. van - Institute of Social Studies (ISS) - 2012
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From Monasteries to Multinationals (and Back): A Historical Review of the Beer Economy
Poelmans, Eline; Swinnen, Johan F.M. - eSocialSciences - 2011
This article reviews beer production, consumption and the industrial organization of breweries throughout history. Monasteries were the centers of the beer economy in the early Middle Ages. Innovation and increased demand later induced the growth of commercial breweries. Globalization and...
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Global economic crisis 2007–2010: Is it really so recent? Implications for the future from the lessons of economic history
Salavrakos, Ioannis-Dionysios - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 3 (2011) 6, pp. 655-683
international competition from EU, Japan, and later from China and the other emerging economies had played a pivotal role in the …
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Asian Mediterranean
Gipouloux, François - HAL - 2009
, Indian, Portuguese and Chinese) the South China sea was at the core of European and Asian economic exchanges. This paper … economic corridor of East Asia, hinged onto several interconnected maritime basins: The Sea of Japan, Yellow Sea, South China …
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Why the West got Rich Before Other Countries and Why China is Catching Up With the West Today? New Answer to the Old Question
Popov, V. - In: Journal of the New Economic Association 15 (2012) 3, pp. 35-64
The goal of this paper is to offer a non-technical interpretation of the "Great Divergence" and "Great Convergence" stories. After reviewing existing explanations in the literature, I propose a different interpretation. Western countries exited the Malthusian trap by destroying traditional...
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