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Shoreline and deglaciation chronology in southeast Norway

open access: yesBoreas, EarlyView.
The postglacial relative sea level history is reconstructed in four areas of mid‐ and inner Oslofjorden in southeast Norway. The reconstructions are based on radiocarbon‐dated raised shoreline levels from 42 sites, mainly isolation basins, and limiting ages from four lakes above the marine limit.
Anders Romundset   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Identifying potentially suitable and accessible refugia to mitigate impacts of an emerging disease on a rare tree

open access: yesConservation Biology, EarlyView.
Abstract Identifying refugia from emerging threats is vital to ensure the persistence of rare and threatened species, but modeling habitat distribution for these species is challenging and the role of people in refuge management is rarely considered. Myrtle rust is an emerging infectious disease that represents a grave threat to the rare wetland tree ...
Sarah M. Herbert   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Late payments, higher prices? An experimental investigation of competitive procurement

open access: yesDecision Sciences, EarlyView.
Abstract The decision to pay one's supplier late is commonplace across global supply chains and, arguably, a key challenge for many businesses. In a multiple‐methods study, we contribute to the literature by documenting important empirical and anecdotal features about the likelihood and severity of late payments, formulating and solving a theoretical ...
Matthew J. Walker, Kyle Hyndman
wiley   +1 more source

Institutions and Growth Dynamics in Latin America, 1801–2015

open access: yesEconomics of Transition and Institutional Change, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Institutions are regularly blamed for poor economic performance, and Latin America is often used as the prime example of the potentially damaging effects of inadequate institutions on economic development. In this paper, annual data is constructed over the past two centuries for seven Latin American countries and for few advanced settler ...
Miethy Zaman
wiley   +1 more source

Mismanagement amid resource abundance: Sovereign risk, private sector credit rationing, and economic stagnation in Colombia, 1861‒98

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article examines the relationship between national politics, sovereign default, credit rationing, and their effects on fiscal revenues and exports in nineteenth‐century Colombia. Using quantitative and qualitative analysis, it challenges existing narratives on Colombia's lack of sustained nineteenth‐century export‐led development, showing
Andrew Primmer
wiley   +1 more source

A century of art dealing in New York. The rise of American art

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract We study art trade in New York between 1870 and 1970, analysing returns on investment by the renowned Knoedler gallery to shed light on the evolution of the American art market. A generalist art gallery should allocate investments to equalize expected returns, with differences in effective returns depending on purchase prices, number of traded
Federico Etro, Elena Stepanova
wiley   +1 more source

China inside out: Explaining silver flows in the triangular trade, c. 1820s‒70s

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This paper analyses a new large dataset of silver prices, as well as silver and merchandise trade flows in and out of China in the crucial decades of the mid‐nineteenth century when the Empire was opened to world trade. Silver flows were associated with the interaction between heterogeneous monetary preferences and availability of specific ...
Alejandra Irigoin   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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