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Wars and markets : how bond values reflect World War II

Frey, Bruno S.; Kucher, Marcel - 1999

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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Cliometrics and the evolution of human capital

Diebolt, Claude; Fouquet, Roger; Hippe, Ralph - In: Wissensökonomie und Digitalisierung : Geschichte und …, (pp. 11-32). 2020

, although this evolution may be a new trend, similar developments have occurred in history before. In line with this reasoning …

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The geography of stock exchanges in Imperial Germany

Burhop, Carsten; Lehmann-Hasemeyer, Sibylle H. - 2014

23 Stock Exchanges were in operation in Germany in 1913. We provide new data about the number of listed firms, their market value, and the number of IPOs between 1897 and 1913 for all exchanges. We assess reasons why a firm opts to be listed at a certain exchange. Large firms tend to be listed...

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The cliometrics of international migration : a survey

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2010

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The cliometrics of international migration : a survey

Hatton, Timothy J. - 2010

This is a survey of some of the key studies in the literature on international migration in history that may be … migrations. Here I focus on the period 1850 to 1940 and chiefly on migration from Europe to the New World. The survey is … many of the issues that concern migration today. -- International migration ; economic history …