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Grain Prices in Pre-industrial Germany, Fifteenth to Nineteenth Centuries
Albers, Hakon; Pfister, Ulrich - In: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und … 111 (2024) 1, pp. 66-90
We present the largest homogenous dataset of grain prices for four major types of grain for pre-industrial Germany covering 70 cities with a total of 259 time series. This article describes the sources and the methodology followed to create calendar-year-based price series in grams of silver per...
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Between rack rents and paternalism : economic behaviour and the lease market in Westphalia, with a particular focus on the 19th century
Bracht, Johannes; Scholten-Buschhoff, Friederike - In: Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte 63 (2022) 1, pp. 17-53
and are therefore useful indicators to measure agricultural productivity, a more anthropological perspective emphasises … significant implications for research on agricultural productivity based on rents and leases. Our results indicate that the … important assumptions of the established price approach, which uses leases as proxies for productivity, are not met and the …
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Grain prices in pre-industrial Germany, fifteenth to nineteenth centuries
Albers, Hakon; Pfister, Ulrich - In: VSWG: Vierteljahrschrift für Sozial- und … 111 (2024) 1, pp. 66-90
We present the largest homogenous dataset of grain prices for four major types of grain for pre-industrial Germany covering 70 cities with a total of 259 time series. This article describes the sources and the methodology followed to create calendar-year-based price series in grams of silver per...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014517197
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Cartels, Managerial Incentives, and Productive Efficiency in German Coal Mining, 1881-1913
Burhop, Carsten; Luebbers, Thorsten - 2008
In this paper, we evaluate the impact of cartelisation and managerial incentives on the productive efficiency of German coal mining corporations. We focus on coal mining in the Ruhr district, Germany's main mining area. We use stochastic frontier analysis and an unbalanced dynamic panel data set...
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The Research University, Invention, and Industry : Evidence from German History
Dittmar, Jeremiah; Meisenzahl, Ralf - 2022
microdata. We find that invention and manufacturing developed similarly in cities closer to and farther from universities in the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014082118
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Forecasting location tendencies : an application to the European case
Mur, Jésus; Trívez Bielsa, Francisco J. - In: Papers in regional science : the journal of the … 77 (1998) 3, pp. 277-299
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Einflussfaktoren betrieblichen Weiterbildungshandelns im internationalen Vergleich : Analysen der Mikrodaten der zweiten Europäischen Weiterbildungserhebung (CVTS2)
Mytzek-Zühlke, Ralf - In: Wirtschafts- und sozialstatistisches Archiv : ASTA ; … 1 (2007) 3/4, pp. 217-232
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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 to...
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"Cholera Forcing" and the Urban Water Infrastructure: Lessons from Historical Berlin
Kappner, Kalle - 2019
Did cholera function as a potent catalyst for the reform of urban water infrastructure in 19th century Europe's disease-ridden cities, serving as "our old ally" in the struggle for urban sanitation (Robert Koch)? Based on a detailed case study of Berlin's hydrological reconfiguration, this paper...
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Malthus meets Luther : the economics behind the German Reformation
Curuk, Malik; Smulders, Sjak - 2016
The Reformation provided a powerful source of legitimacy for secularization of governance and enabled the regional authorities to change the institutional structure to eliminate the inefficiencies under the prevailing (Catholic) regime. We investigate this idea in a simple model of regime change...
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