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The economic effects of the protestant reformation : testing the Weber hypothesis in the German lands
Cantoni, Davide - 2013
Following Max Weber, many theories have hypothesized that Protestantism should have favored economic development. With its religious heterogeneity, the Holy Roman Empire presents an ideal testing ground for this hypothesis. Using population figures of 272 cities in the years 1300-1900, I find no...
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Religious tolerance as engine of innovation
Cinnirella, Francesco; Streb, Jochen - 2017
We argue that, for a given level of scientific knowledge, tolerance and diversity are conducive to technological creativity and innovation. In particular, we show that variations in innovation within Prussia during the second industrial revolution can be ascribed to differences in religious...
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State ownership and nationalization in energy sector : the case of Kazakhstan's oil industry
Orazgaliyev, Serik - 2019
some instances, energy-exporting countries conducted nationalization of their resources, while in other cases they … nationalization policies in Kazakhstan's oil and gas industry in the post-Soviet period. Although the full nationalization of the …
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Land reform in Moldova : how viable are emerging peasant farms? ; an assessment referring to a recent World Bank study
Petrick, Martin - 2000
Based on a case study of two Moldovan regions, the paper challenges the favourable assessment of recently established peasant farms in a World Bank study by LERMAN et al. (1998). The main arguments in favour of a more critical view of the results of land privatisation and farm restructuring are...
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Landownership concentration and the expansion of education
Cinnirella, Francesco; Hornung, Erik - 2011
This paper studies the effect of landownership concentration on school enrollment for nineteenth-century Prussia. Prussia is an interesting laboratory given its decentralized educational system and the presence of heterogeneous agricultural institutions. We find that landownership concentration,...
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Human capital transfer of German-speaking migrants in Eastern Europe, 1780s-1820s
Blum, Matthias; Krauss, Karl-Peter; Myeshkov, Dmytro - 2021
Prior to the Age of Mass Migration, Germans left central Europe to settle primarily in modernday Hungary, Serbia …
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A 2010 - 14 közötti államosítások történelmi elõzményei Magyarországon, 1722 - 1962
Mihályi, Péter - 2015
One of the intriguing questions of our times is the importance of the centralization and nationalization campaigns of … - although the main trend of policies was privatization. However, in my earlier work a logical question was ignored, namely why … Hungary aimed at accelerating the country's economic development and catching up with the more advanced economies …
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Terrorism and the media
Jetter, Michael - 2014
This paper systematically analyzes media attention devoted to terrorist attacks worldwide between 1998 and 2012. Several aspects are related to predicting media attention. First, suicide missions receive significantly more coverage, which could explain their increased popularity among terrorist...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010409821
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Vanishing borders : ethnicity and trade costs at the origin of the Yugoslav market
Chilosi, David; Nikolić, Stefan - 2021
observable trade costs, we find that crossing the border between Serbia and Austria-Hungary significantly increased price gaps …
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Institutional transplant and cultural proximity : evidence from nineteenth-century Prussia
Lecce, Giampaolo; Ogliari, Laura - 2015 - This version: November 2015
The economic impact of an institutional transplant depends on the underlying cultural envi-ronment of the receiving country. This paper provides the first evidence that the positive effect of importing good institutions cancels out when the receiving territories are characterized by cultural...
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