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Participative Political Institutions in Pre-Modern Europe. Introducing a New Database
Wahl, Fabian - 2015
This paper introduces and describes a new city-level data set on political institutions in pre-modern Europe. To be … institutions between 800 AD and 1800 AD in 104 cities in central Europe (Alsace-Lorrain, Austria, Belgium, Germany, the Netherlands … burgher representation) represent the universe of existing political institutions in cities in this era. This new data set is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013032425
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Atlantic Trade and the Decline of Conflict in Europe
Ahsan, Reshad - 2020
We use over 250 years of conflict and market integration data to provide the first quantitative evidence that Atlantic trade contributed to Europe's pacification between 1640 and 1896. While the decline in conflict in Europe during this period has been well documented, the role of Atlantic trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012846086
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Financial and institutional reforms for an entrepreneurial society
Economidou, Claire; Grilli, Luca; Henrekson, Magnus; … - 2018
ventures. That is followed by three papers that focus on the institutions that (fail to) channel financial resources to such … ventures and two papers that analyze the relevance of labor market institutions. The special issue concludes with two papers … investigating how the interplay of institutions and productive entrepreneurship results in economic growth. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011806230
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Polycentric governance in collusive agreements
Schmal, Wolfgang Benedikt - 2024
Collusive agreements in the form of cartels among firms are complex structures. The involved firms need to agree on prices and sales quotas that are legally not enforceable. Market characteristics that foster cartels’ failure or success are widely examined. However, the interplay between the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014481223
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Institutional trust in the time of corona : evidence from countermeasures in Germany
Stojetz, Wolfgang; Ferguson, Neil T. N.; Baliki, Ghassan; … - 2024
institutions. Drawing on micro-level panel data from Germany spanning an 18-month period from the onset of the pandemic, we show … trust in institutions. We present empirical evidence to argue that the underlying mechanism is a perceived illegitimate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014495832
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FDI, trade integration and the border effect : evidence from the European Union
Martínez-San Román, Valeriano; Bengoa, Marta; … - 2014
This paper intends to combine two fields in the economic literature by examining empirically the FDI pattern - horizontal versus vertica l- within the European Union and the relevance of trade integration as a potential determinant of investment flows over the period 1995-2009. We capture trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010371905
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The impact of global value chains onthe euro area economy
Dorrucci, Ettore (contributor);  … - Europäische Zentralbank / Working Group on Global … - 2019
The studies summarised in this paper focus on the economic implications of euro area firms’ participation in global value chains (GVCs). They show how, and to what extent, a large set of economic variables and inter-linkages have been affected by international production sharing. The core...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012014067
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Oil trade and climate policy : presented at CESifo Area Conference on Energy and Climate Economics, October 2014
Curuk, Malik; Sen, Suphi - 2015
It has been argued that a depletable resource owner might optimally increase near-term supply in response to environmental policies promoting the development of alternative resources, which might render climate policy ineffective or even counterproductive. This paper empirically confirms this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010498602
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Mechanisms of Non-Tariff Bariers in Agri-Food Trade Between Poland and the Czech Republic on the Intra-EU Market
Ambroziak, Adam A. - 2018
The paper aimed identification of mechanisms of non-tariff barriers used by the EU Member States that affect the intra-EU exchange of agri-food products on the example of the trade between Poland and the Czech Republic. In the beginning the paper presents, the main theoretical assumptions of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012910458
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Augmented Gravity Model of International Trade : An Empirical Application to ASEAN Intra- and Extra-Regional Trade of Textiles and Clothing
Macanas, Raymund - 2015
This paper empirically tests an augmented gravity model of international trade, using four digits disaggregated data under the Harmonized System, in order to investigate the impact of AFTA to the volume and direction of intra and extra ASEAN trade of textiles and clothing. Several model...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013011222