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Development and Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT One might think that renewable energies such as solar and wind are flow resources that are conducive to public ownership, but the vast majority of these renewables projects are privately owned. What explains this apparent paradox? This article focuses on the unique case of electricity in the United States to argue that renewable capital must ...
Matthew T. Huber
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Long‐Run Convergence Trends in the Association of Southeast Asian Nations
Economics of Transition and Institutional Change, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This paper examines income convergence among the ten‐member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) for the period 1970–2019, spanning the establishment of the ASEAN Economic Community (AEC) in 2015. We employ the novel log t test developed by Phillips and Sul which is robust to heterogeneity and nonlinearity in the data.
Chang Yee Kwan, Issam Malki
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Risk Management in Deadly Times: The U.S. Life Insurance Industry in the 1918–9 Influenza Pandemic
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Using a novel, hand‐collected dataset of U.S. life insurance companies during the influenza pandemic of 1918–9, we show that high‐exposure life insurers charged higher prices on new policies vis‐à‐vis less exposed firms. Although the disease surprisingly increased the mortality rates among younger adults, it also increased awareness of the ...
Gustavo S. Cortes, Gertjan Verdickt
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Enhanced Labeling to Promote Consumption of Nutrient Dense Foods and Healthier Diets. [PDF]
FoodsBenbrook C, Mesnage R.
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Living standards and forced labour: A comparative study of colonial Africa, 1918–74
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract Despite significant advances in the quantitative study of African history, the Portuguese colonial empire remains an underexplored topic. This paper provides the first quantitative assessment of worker living standards in Angola and Mozambique, contextualized within a broader comparison of colonial African empires.
Leo Dolan
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A century of art dealing in New York. The rise of American art
The 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
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Cross-species analysis of abiotic stress in hydroponic leafy crops reveals conserved regulatory networks and key divergences. [PDF]
Front Plant SciLee JM +4 more
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Competition and payments to African chiefs on the Gold Coast during the slave trade, 1679‒1704
The Economic History Review, EarlyView.Abstract The manuscript records of the Royal African Company show that the Company paid African chiefs for access to trade along the caravan routes on the Gold Coast in the seventeenth century. This paper documents and examines these payments. Using an event study, I establish that after the Glorious Revolution in 1688 when the Company's monopoly in ...
Jose Rowell Corpuz
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Role of institutions in shaping corporate governance system: evidence from emerging economy. [PDF]
Heliyon, 2020 Arslan M, Alqatan A.
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