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traditionally overlooked. To do this, we exploit disaggregated data at the local level in Spain. We find that higher judicial …
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feature of this book is that it explains results using data from Spain, an ideal country to perform this exercise, as its … mortality data is not affected by the First World War. Spain was also developed enough to have reliable data, but it was very …, Spain. Jordi Domènech is Associate Professor in the Department of Social Sciences at University Carlos III of Madrid, Spain …
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This paper studies the spread of the Black Death as a proxy for the ow of medieval trade between 1346 and 1351. The Black Death struck most areas of Europe and the wider Mediterranean. Based on a modified version of the gravity model, we estimate the speed (in kilometers per day) of transmission...
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In this paper we present a new method for estimating market integration under a commodity money system such as that which existed in Europe until the demise of the gold standard. The approach is based on the analysis of deviations between exchange rates and parity, which under conditions of a...
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The paper presents a political economy model linking terror and governments' respect for human rights. Using panel data for 111 countries over the period 1973-2002, we then empirically analyze whether and to what extent terror affects human rights - measured by three indices covering a wide...
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