Competition and payments to African chiefs on the Gold Coast during the slave trade, 1679‒1704
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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The future of digital innovation in transforming food safety systems in the developing world. [PDF]
Molnar G.
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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
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Efficient ring signature for cross-chain data sharing in blockchain-enabled cold-chain logistics system. [PDF]
Zhang Y, Tang Y, Li C, Zhang H, Ahmad H.
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Comparative evaluation and simulation of blockchain consensus mechanisms for secure and scalable peer to peer energy trading in microgrids. [PDF]
Bhavana GB +5 more
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The health data utility and the resurgence of health information exchanges as a national resource. [PDF]
Khurshid A, Sarkar IN.
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A Biomimetic Framework for Collective Sensing and Immune-Inspired Verification in Complex Risk Analysis. [PDF]
Meng W.
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Secure and intelligent SDN-IoV framework with blockchain-based authentication and optimization-based QoS routing. [PDF]
M HJC, Thanarajan T.
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