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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
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Abstract This paper sheds light on regional recovery prospects from the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) crisis by examining the link between gross rates of establishment openings and closures and local economic growth spanning the 2001 recession and the 2007–2009 global financial crisis (GFC).
Nicholas Kacher, Stephan Weiler
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Asymmetric adjustment of retail gasoline prices in turkey to world crude oil price changes: the role of taxes [PDF]
We empirically investigate the impact of shocks to world crude oil prices on retail gasoline prices in Turkey during the 1991-2007 period. Using a Structural-VAR methodology and monthly frequency data, we report that Turkish retail gasoline prices ...
C. emre Alper, Orhan Torul
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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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Resilience in a noisy urban system
Abstract The ability of cities to recuperate from disturbances and return to their evolutionary pathways depends, first and foremost, on the type of damage that the shock created. But in addition, it depends on how information is transmitted in the urban system and on how noise filters distort the information that reaches economic agents.
Dani Broitman, Daniel Czamanski
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Revenue Elasticity of the Main federal Taxes in Mexico [PDF]
An inelastic tax system increases the uncertainty associated with tax revenue collection. This results in continuous short-term adjustments to maintain the stability of tax collection.
Daniel Ventosa-Santaulària +1 more
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Life‐cycle living standards of male‐headed households: Evidence from Stockholm, 1800–80
Abstract Recent research in economic history argues for using a household life cycle standard‐of‐living approach that includes the income and expenses of all household members and considers fluctuations in the household over the life course. This study builds on that approach by empirically examining the development of living standards in male‐headed ...
Anton Svensson
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Abstract This study examines the impact of the adoption of nonmarket strategies in domestic markets that drive the internationalization of emerging multinationals (EMNCs) from the MENA and sub‐Saharan African regions. In this study, we consider corporate political activity (CPA) and corporate social responsibility (CSR) of EMNCs and examine their role ...
Nouhaila Ettalibi +4 more
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Does public indebtedness matter in the effect of public health expenditure on human longevity in Sub-Saharan Africa countries? Evidence from dynamic panel threshold regression. [PDF]
Boundioa J.
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ABSTRACT We examine how financial openness (FO) affects financial development in EU countries, distinguishing its size and quality. Gross financial openness, measured by foreign assets and liabilities, reflects international integration and shows an inverted U‐shaped link with development: intermediate levels of openness enhances efficiency, but ...
Hyun‐Jung Nam, Doojin Ryu
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