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The First Real Estate Bubble? Land Prices and Rents in Medieval England C. 1300-1500
Bell, Adrian R. - 2018
This paper tests for speculative bubbles in the medieval English property market based on a unique hand-collected dataset from the feet of fines spanning the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. We focus on asset types where there are sufficiently large numbers of transactions each year to make a...
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A Reappraisal of the Freehold Property Market in Late Medieval England
Bell, Adrian R. - 2018
This paper re-examines the late medieval market in freehold land, the extent to which it was governed by market forces as opposed to political or social constraints, and how this contributed to the commercialisation of the late medieval English economy. We employ a valuable new resource for...
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The Wheels of Change : Technology Adoption, Millwrights, and Persistence in Britain’s Industrialization
Mokyr, Joel; Sarid, Assaf; van der Beek, Karine - 2020
This paper examines the effect of the early adoption of technology on the evolution of human capital and on industrialization, in the context of Britain’s Industrial Revolution. It shows that wrights, a group of highly skilled mechanical craftsmen, who specialized in water-powered machinery in...
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Debt into growth : how sovereign debt accelerated the first Industrial Revolution
Ventura, Jaume; Voth, Hans-Joachim - 2015
Why did the country that borrowed the most industrialize first? Earlier research has viewed the explosion of debt in 18th century Britain as either detrimental, or as neutral for economic growth. In this paper, we argue instead that Britain's borrowing boom was beneficial. The massive issuance...
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Productivity Growth During the English Industrial Revolution : A Dual Approach
Voth, Hans-Joachim; Antras, Pol - 2000
This paper presents new estimates of total factor productivity growth in Britain for the period 1770-1860. We use a … sources, that productivity growth during the British Industrial Revolution was relatively slow. During the years 1770 …-1800, TFP growth was close to zero, according to our estimates. The period 1800-1830 experienced an acceleration of productivity …
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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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Globalization and Empire: Market integration and international trade between Canada, the United States and Britain, 1750-1870
Pedersen, Maja Uhre; Geloso, Vincent; Sharp, Paul - 2020
Previous work has demonstrated the potential for wheat market integration between the US and the UK before the 'first era of globalization' in the second half of the nineteenth century. It was however frequently interrupted by policy and 'exogenous' events such as war. This paper adds Canada to...
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The Downton Abbey Effect : 18th and 19th Century British Aristocratic Marriages and Agricultural Prices
Taylor, Mark P. - 2021
In the four decades leading up to World War I, a significant proportion of British aristocrats married daughters of newly rich American business magnates. I provide a quantitative economic analysis of this phenomenon in the deeper context of British aristocratic marriages during the 18th and...
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The Liverpool Cotton Brokers Association and the crowning of King Cotton, 1811-1900 : examining the role of a private order institution in global trade
Aldous, Michael; Coyle, Christopher - 2020
In the 19th century, the Liverpool Cotton Brokers Association (CBA) coordinated the dramatic growth of Liverpool's raw cotton market. This article shows how the CBA achieved this through the development of a private order institutional framework that improved information flows, introduced...
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