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The aftermath of the global economic breakdown in 2008–9 underscores the risks facing Southeast Asia’s growth prospects. Although the region has demonstrated exceptional resilience to external shocks emanating from economic powerhouses around the globe, Southeast Asia is in dire need of an...
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Large-scale comparative economic history of westernmost and easternmost Eurasia is of importance for the understanding … of global history. The book provides a description of material life in North-western Europe and East Asia, for the period … to the emergence of modern economic growth in Western Europe. 00Peer Vries was professor for Global Economic History at …
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5: Poland : Economic History Debate Across the Iron Curtain -- Chapter 6: Yugoslavia : Economic Historiography Between … National and International Context -- Chapter 7: Romania : Approaches and Limits of Economic History. … Cold War from the Eastern European perspective using the example of economic history. Introducing famous as well as almost …
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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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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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