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Living apart together : the economic value of ethnic diversity in cities
Bakens, Jessie; Florax, Raymond J. G. M.; Groot, Henri … - 2018
In consumer cities, the presence and location of immigrants impacts house prices through two channels, which both can be valued positively as well as negatively: (i) their presence and contribution to population diversity and (ii) the creation of immigrant-induced consumer amenities like those...
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The Great Divergence : A Network Approach
Lindner, Ines - 2016
We present a multi-country theory of economic growth in which countries are connected by a network of mutual knowledge exchange. Knowledge in any country depends on the human capital of the countries it exchanges knowledge with. The diffusion of knowledge throughout the world explains a period...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013001168
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Land prices and railroad building in European Russia, 1860s to the early 1900s
Leonard, Carol Scott; Nazarov, Zafar; Borodkin, Leonid I.; … - In: Russian journal of economics 7 (2021) 2, pp. 93-104
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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American Capitalism at a Crossroads
Scott, Troy Joseph - 2022
This essay uncovers an important piece of an enduring puzzle: Why, beginning in the mid-1960s, did American managers turn away from long-term competitiveness and become fixated on measures of short-term performance? The legacy of this pivot can be seen half a century later in slower productivity...
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The Great Divergence : A Network Approach
Lindner, Ines - 2014
We present a multi-country theory of economic growth in which countries are connected by a network of mutual knowledge exchange. Growth is generated through human capital accumulation and knowledge externalities. The available knowledge in any country depends on its connections to the rest of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057264
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The Great Divergence : A Network Approach
Lindner, Ines - 2014
We present a multi-country theory of economic growth in which countries are connected by a network of mutual knowledge exchange. Growth is generated through human capital accumulation and knowledge externalities. The available knowledge in any country depends on its connections to the rest of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013057390
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"New Deal" means being prepared for conflict : what we can learn from the New Deal of the 1930s
Lehndorff, Steffen - 2020
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Welche Zukunft hat die Soziale Marktwirtschaft?
Hüther, Michael - 2022
Ist unser Wirtschaftsmodell noch konkurrenzfähig? Die soziale Marktwirtschaft ist grundlegend für Deutschlands Gesellschaftsordnung IBM freier Wettbewerb, Preisstabilität und sozialer Ausgleich haben dieses Modell so erfolgreich gemacht. Jedoch wurde spätestens mit der Finanzmarktkrise 2008...
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The Moneylenders of Late Medieval Kyoto
Gay, Suzanne - 2001
The Moneylenders of Late Medieval Kyoto examines the large community of sake brewer-moneylenders in Japan's capital …. Demand for credit was strong in medieval Kyoto, and brewers profitably recirculated capital for loans. As the medieval period … into close contact with every segment of Kyoto's population. The more socially prominent brewers served as tax agents for …
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