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The cost of the consumer revolution: Prices, material living standards, and real inequality in Amsterdam (1630‒1805)

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article measures the cost of the early modern consumer revolution through a quantitative analysis of product and process innovations in Amsterdam and examines their variegated social impact in two distinct datasets of probate inventories.
Bas Spliet, Anne E. C. McCants
wiley   +1 more source

Competition and payments to African chiefs on the Gold Coast during the slave trade, 1679‒1704

open access: yesThe 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
wiley   +1 more source

The slow emergence of the rational investor: Grain markets and grain storage of rural estates in western Germany, eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries

open access: yesThe Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract We develop new datasets of monthly grain prices in 14 urban markets and of the storage and marketing of grain by 5 rural estates located in western Germany between the late seventeenth century and c. 1860. We explore whether observed patterns of monthly prices, sales, and storage of grain are consistent with the rational competitive storage ...
Matthias Hartermann   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Effects of Trial Number and Individual Differences in Exploration on Fish Performance in an Object Location Recognition Task

open access: yesEthology, EarlyView.
This study investigated the behavioral response of common minnows (Phoxinus phoxinus) to repeated exposures of the sample phase of an object location task, and the influence of individual behavioral type on cognitive performance. The group exposed to the most sample trials were the only group that learned the task showing significant discrimination ...
Cairsty DePasquale   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Features and regulation of the use of distributed ledger technology

open access: yesВестник университета
As a result of the conducted research, it has been revealed that the scientific and practical literature lacks sufficient studying of the functioning and systematisation of existing data on new financial technologies, on the basis of which modern ...
I. A. Rizvanova, M. T. Belova
doaj   +1 more source

Can Central Bank Digital Currencies Promote the Internationalization of Currencies?

open access: yesEuropean Financial Management, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Using multinational data (2000–2023), this study employed system GMM and fixed‐effects models to examine CBDC's impact on currency internationalization through a framework measuring ‘market acceptance’ and ‘policy drive.’ The results indicated that CBDC advancement significantly promotes currency internationalization.
Haodong Gu
wiley   +1 more source

Towards red listing understudied tropical insects: A case study of the dung beetles of Sabah, Malaysian Borneo

open access: yesInsect Conservation and Diversity, EarlyView.
We performed an IUCN Red List assessment for 159 dung beetle species from Sabah, Malaysian Borneo. Due to the lack of population demographic data, only Criterion B (i.e. geographic range) could be applied. Our findings show that the IUCN Red List Criteria can be applied to insect species based solely on occurrence data but highlight the importance of ...
Xin Rui Ong   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Economic Analysis of Difficulty Adjustment Algorithms in Proof‐of‐Work Blockchain Systems

open access: yesInternational Economic Review, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We study the stability of cryptocurrency systems through difficulty adjustment. Bitcoin's difficulty adjustment algorithm (DAA) exhibits instability when the reward elasticity of the hash rate is high, implying that a sharp price reduction could disrupt the current Bitcoin system.
Shunya Noda   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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