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The Expulsion of the Jews from France in 1306: a Modern Fiscal Analysis

Mechoulan, Stéphane F - University of Toronto, Department of Economics - 2006

In 1306, at the peak of a severe financial and monetary crisis, Philippe the Fair expelled the Jews from his kingdom, declared himself creditor of their debts, seized their property and auctioned it off. Was this a clever move, financially speaking? Did Philippe gain more, by killing the goose...

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The growth of business integration in the Western European mining regions of France, the Netherlands, Belgium, Luxembourg and Germany, 1890-1914

Banken, Ralf - Seminar für Wirtschafts- und Sozialgeschichte, … - 2010

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Resistance to Technology Adoption: The Rise and Decline of Guilds

Desmet, Klaus; Parente, Stephen - In: Review of Economic Dynamics 17 (2014) 3, pp. 437-458

This paper analyzes the decision of a group of specialized workers to form a guild and block the adoption of a new technology that does not require their specialized input. The theory predicts an inverted-U relation between guilds and market size: for small markets, firm profits are insufficient...

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The migration response to increasing temperatures

Cattaneo, Cristina; Peri, Giovanni - 2015

Climate change, especially the warming trend experienced by several countries, could affect agricultural productivity. As a consequence, rural incomes will change, and with them the incentives for people to remain in rural areas. Using data from 116 countries between 1960 and 2000, we analyze...

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Urbanization and agricultural productivity : some lessons from European cities

Oueslati, Walid; Salanié, Julien; Wu, JunJie - In: Journal of economic geography 19 (2019) 1, pp. 225-249

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Agricultural Productivity, Openness, and Urbanization: A Smooth Coefficient Regression Analysis

Li, Xiaofei; Florax, Raymond; Waldorf, Brigitte - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2014

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History and urban primacy : the effect of the Spanish reconquista on Muslim cities

Cuberes, David; González-Val, Rafael - 2013 - This version: February 2013

This paper aims to study the effect of a major historical event on the Spanish city size distribution, the Spanish Reconquista. This was a long military campaign that aimed to expel Muslims from the Iberian Peninsula. The process started in the early 1200s and ended around 1500, when the entire...

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Identifying Agglomeration Shadows : Long-run Evidence from Ancient Ports

Hornbeck, Richard; Michaels, Guy; Rauch, Ferdinand - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

We examine "agglomeration shadows" that emerge around large cities, which discourage some economic activities in nearby areas. Identifying agglomeration shadows is complicated, however, by endogenous city formation and "wave interference" that we show in simulations. We use the locations of...

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Habitatul semiurban şi urban în comitatul Arad în secolul al XVIII-lea

Ghita, Eugen - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008

Transylvania and Hungary, I have pursued to dignify and quantify different aspects of the urbanization degree in the Arad County … urbanization was evident along the eighteenth century both in terms of population growth and a great social mobility and also in … eighteenth century were the basement of the future process of urbanization of Arad County in the century that has followed. …

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Unacknowledged Urbanisation: The New Census Towns of India

Pradhan, Kanhu Charan - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

The unexpected increase in the number of census towns (CTs) in the last census has thrust them into the spotlight. Using a hitherto unexploited dataset, it is found that many of the new CTs satisfied the requisite criteria in 2001 itself; mitigating concerns of inflated urbanisation. The new CTs...

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