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"In this rich transnational history, Cornelia Aust traces Jewish Ashkenazi families as they moved across Europe and … established new commercial and entrepreneurial networks as they went. Aust balances economic history with elaborate discussions of …
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"A groundbreaking new history of the shared legacy of expulsion among Jews and Christian moneylenders in late medieval …Introduction -- Expulsion, Jews, and Usury: Trajectories of Christian Thought and Practice -- Inventing Expulsion in …: Episcopal Evasion and Papal Inaction, 1274-1400 -- Expanding (and Impeding) Expulsion: Jews, Usury, and Canon Law, 1300 …
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This paper shows that railroad building in Russia, as in Europe and the US in the nineteenth century, improved the value of land, a classic benefit of transportation investment in largely agrarian countries. From a database constructed for this paper, we use cross-sectional data for the fifty...
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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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