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How does the public perceive alliances? : the Central and Allied Powers in World War I

Jopp, Tobias Alexander - 2017

World War I was fought by numerous countries siding together as the Central Powers and, respectively, the Allied Powers. The former established around the German Empire and Austria-Hungary and grew to four allies when the Ottoman Empire in late 1914 and Bulgaria in late 1915 entered the scene;...

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Bis repetita non placent : griechische Finanzkontrolle im 19. Jahrhundert und in der Gegenwart

Schönhärl, Korinna - 2017

In June 2017, in the negotiations between Greece, the European Union and its Member States, the European Central Bank, and the International Monetary Fund, it was decided that the highly-indebted country in Europe's southern periphery should receive an additional disbursement of 8.5 billion...

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Is Art Really a Safe Haven? Evidence from the French Art Market During WWI

David, Geraldine - Centre Emile Bernheim, Solvay Brussels School of … - 2014

During crisis art is often considered as a safe haven both by the scientific literature and the financial advisors. For example, during WWII art markets encountered a massive boom in occupied countries This paper questions this vision of art as a safe investment providing evidence that art has...

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Financial mobilisation in Germany 1914-1918

Hardach, Gerd - European Association for Banking and Financial History … - 2014

to organise production and distribution. In this context, financial mobilisation played an important role. In Germany …

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The international contagion of short-run interest rates during the Great Depression

Samuel, MAVEYRAUD - Groupe de Recherche en Économie Théorique et … - 2015

The aim of this article is to clearly identify the mechanisms of the money market spillovers between the United States, the United Kingdom and France during the interwar period. To describe these mechanisms in detail, a BEKK model, in which we introduce a structural break, is adopted. Our...

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Monetary and Financial Thinking in Europe - Evidence from Four Decades of SUERF

Abraham, Jean-Paul - SUERF - The European Money and Finance Forum

2003 marks the 40th anniversary of the founding of SUERF. To mark this milestone, some time ago the Council of Management commissioned Professor Jean-Paul Abraham to write a commemorative report. His mandate was not to write a history of SUERF itself (that would be too self-indulgent) but to...

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Did Economics Cause World War II?

Gordon, Robert J. - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2008

German Aryan farmers. Germany's agricultural weakness is summarized by its low land-labor ratio, but Poland and the Ukraine … had even less land per person. Thus simply acquiring the land to the east could not solve Germany's problem of low … the solution to Germany's agricultural problem was not acquiring more land for the existing German farm population, but …

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When the Music Stopped: Transatlantic Contagion During the Financial Crisis of 1931

Richardson, Gary; Horn, Patrick Van - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2011

In 1931, a financial crisis began in Austria, struck numerous European nations, forced Britain to abandon the gold standard, and spread across the Atlantic. This article describes how banks in New York City, the central money market of the United States, reacted to events in Europe. An array of...

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Credit Crunch Chronology: April 2007–September 2009

The Statesman'syearbook team - Palgrave Macmillan

The global financial crisis that began in mid-2007 and exploded in the fall of 2008 shocked most economists. Some had raised concerns about the rapid growth in the housing market in developed countries, especially to “sub-prime,” high-risk borrowers. Others had been concerned about large...

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Economic growth in the post-socialist Russian Federation after 1991: The role of Institutions

Dobler, Constanze; Hagemann, Harald - Institut für Volkswirtschaftslehre, Fakultät … - 2011

The paper emphasizes the transition in Russia and the role institutions played before and during the process. In Russia, a big bang approach was applied. That is to say, transition was conducted all of a sudden, omitting important underlying reforms. This practice should function as a shock...

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