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In 1871-73, newly unified Germany adopted the gold standard, replacing the silver-based currencies that had been prevalent in most German states until then. The reform sparked a series of steps in other countries that ultimately ended global bimetallism, i.e., a near-universal fixed exchange...
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Social scientists are producing an ever growing stream of research findings, which is ever more difficult to oversee. As a result, capitalization on earlier investment declines and accumulation of knowledge stagnates. This situation calls for more research synthesis and interest in synthetic...
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Social scientists are producing an ever growing stream of research findings, which is ever more difficult to oversee. As a result, capitalization on earlier investment declines and accumulation of knowledge stagnates. This situation calls for more research synthesis and interest in synthetic...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008841153
predicting unobserved true income). In particular, we find that the PWT 7.1 chain-based GDP series substantially outperforms the … of their price survey. We conclude that GDP series based on unadjusted domestic growth rates alone predict growth rates …
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.S. quarterly data on GDP and GDI, obtaining an improved aggregate output measure. …
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Ireland on the eve of the Great Famine was a poor and backward economy. The Great Irish Famine of the 1840s is … famines, the Great Famine was not the product of a harvest shortfall, but of a major ecological disaster. Because there could … be no return to the status quo ante, textbook famine relief in the form of public works or food aid was not enough …
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on productivity. On this evidence basis, it provides a conceptual framework to analyse Ireland's performance in this area … sizeable and has increased over time in many advanced economies, including Ireland. At the country, sectoral and firm level … further investment in knowledge-based capital in Ireland. …
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Ireland on the eve of the Great Famine was a poor and backward economy. The Great Irish Famine of the 1840s is … famines, the Great Famine was not the product of a harvest shortfall, but of a major ecological disaster. Because there could … be no return to the status quo ante, textbook famine relief in the form of public works or food aid was not enough …
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This paper uses a historical setting to study when religion can be a barrier to the diffusion of knowledge and economic development, and through which mechanism. I focus on 19th-century Catholicism and analyze a crucial phase of modern economic growth, the Second Industrial Revolution...
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