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The Dual Crises of the Late-Medieval Florentine Cloth Industry, c. 1320 - c. 1420

Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2013

During the hundred-year period from about 1320 to about 1420, the Florentine woollen cloth industry underwent two closely connected crises. The first crisis was the consequence, direct and indirect, of the ravages of warfare and falling population, afflicting the entire Mediterranean basin and...

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The Rise, Expansion, and Decline of the Italian Wool-Based Textile Industries, 1100-1730: a study in international competition, transaction costs, and comparative advantage

Munro, John H. - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2011

This (revised) study seeks to examine the rise, expansion, and ultimate decline of the Italian wool-based textile industries over a period of six centuries (from ca. 1100 to ca. 1730). An international trade model combining transaction costs and comparative advantage is employed to explain the...

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The Impact of ISO 9000 Diffusion on Trade and FDI: A New Institutional Analysis

Clougherty, Joseph A.; Grajek, Michal - 2006

The effects of ISO 9000 diffusion on trade and FDI have gone understudied. We employ panel data reported by OECD nations over the 1995-2002 period to estimate the impact of ISO adoptions on country-pair economic relations. We find ISO diffusion to have no effect in developed nations, but to...

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Networks and markets: The dynamic impacts of information, matching and transaction costs on trade

Kumagai, Yuki - 2010

The purpose of this paper is to explore strategic incentives to use trade networks rather than markets and shed light on the dynamic relation between the two distinct trading systems: a formal system of markets and a issues in the infinitely repeated multi-player prisoner's dilemma...

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Creating Institutions for Survival Games Against Nature in Premodern Iceland

Eggertsson, Thráinn - 1994

"We are concerned here with the creation of non-market institutions for reducing the cost of risk in poor agrarian … Institutions, the formal and informal rules that order and constrain human relations, affect three critical aspects of economic … individual and communal income and consumption. Here we examine primarily the role of agrarian institutions in containing risk or …

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Essays on Intitutional Governance

Hu, Bingjie - 2011

whether the choice of institutions depends on the historical experience and the stock of knowledge of economic agents. We …

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Transaction costs on the Ethiopian formal seed market and innovations for encouraging private sector investments

Husmann, Christine - In: Quarterly journal of international agriculture 54 (2015) 1, pp. 59-76

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Transaction costs and institutions : investments in exchange

Nolan, Charles; Trew, Alex - 2015

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A culture theory commentary on Meyer and Peng’s theoretical probe into Central and Eastern Europe

Peterson, Mark F. - In: Journal of international business studies : JIBS ; an … 47 (2016) 1, pp. 33-43

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Transaction costs and institutions : investments in exchange

Nolan, Charles; Trew, Alex - In: The B.E. journal of theoretical economics 15 (2015) 2, pp. 391-432

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