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Re-reading Carl Menger's Grundsätze : another book that "cries out to be surpassed"

Kurz, Heinz D. - In: The European journal of the history of economic thought 29 (2022) 5, pp. 877-919

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Reversing fortunes of German regions, 1926-2019 : boon and bane of early industrialization?

Berbée, Paul; Braun, Sebastian; Franke, Richard - 2022

This paper shows that 19th-century industrialization is an important determinant of the significant changes in Germany …, economic ascent in the South. Exploiting plausibly exogenous variation in access to coal, we show that early industrialization … industrialization explains most of the decline in regional inequality observed in the 1960s and 1970s and about half of the current …

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The French Revolution and German industrialization : the new institutional economics rewrites history

Kopsidis, Michael; Bromley, Daniel W. - 2014

Our purpose here is to challenge the "big-bang" approach to economic history in which some alleged institutional imposition - a deus machine - is claimed to launch a series of new economic behaviors. This so-called prime mover is then carried forward by the inexorable forces of path dependency...

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Heterogeneous savers and their inflation expectation during German industrialization : social class, wealth, and gender

Lehmann-Hasemeyer, Sibylle H.; Neumayer, Andreas; … - 2022

Using microeconomic data on 2,500 savers of the savings bank Ludwigsburg, we study individual savings behavior in 19th century-Germany. We show that wealthy savers responded to an increase in the expected inflation rate (and falling real interest rate) by increasing their savings, suggesting...

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Deutschland im Außenhandel mit forschungsintensiven Waren gut aufgestellt

Clemens, Marius; Schumacher, Dieter - In: DIW Wochenbericht 77 (2010) 9, pp. 11-17

Deutschland ist größter Brutto- und Nettoexporteur von forschungsintensiven Waren, noch vor den USA und Japan. Auch pro Kopf weist Deutschland mit rund 3 900 US-Dollar den größten Exportüberschuss bei forschungsintensiven Waren auf. Zudem profitiert Deutschland als Importeur und somit als...

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Long-run sectoral development time series evidence for the German economy

Dietrich, Andreas; Krüger, Jens J. - 2008

In economic development, long-run structural change among the three main sectors of an economy follows a typical pattern with the primary sector (agriculture, mining) first dominating, followed by the secondary sector (manufacturing) and finally by the tertiary sector (services) in terms of...

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