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Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, Volume 65, Issue 1, Page 131-159, March 2025.Abstract This study examines the adaptive market hypothesis in the prewar and wartime Japanese stock market using a new market capitalization‐weighted price index. First, we find that the degree of market efficiency varies over time and with major historical events. This implies that the hypothesis is supported in this market.
Kenichi Hirayama, Akihiko Noda
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A New Heroine: Transforming the Public Image of the Army Nurse During World War II [PDF]
, 2014 In the wake of the Great Depression, the United States found itself propelled into a world war of unimaginable proportions. Apart from its major political and economic consequences, the Second World War also considerably altered the role of American ...
Vishwanath, Vivek
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The choice argument for proportional representation
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract What electoral system should a democracy choose? I argue for proportional representation (PR). My main empirical premise is Duverger's law: Under PR there are more viable candidates in district‐level elections than there are under single‐member plurality (SMP) systems.
Adam Lovett
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Electoral responses to economic crises
American Journal of Political Science, EarlyView.Abstract How do voters respond to economic crises: Do they turn against the incumbent, reward a certain political camp, polarize to the extremes, or perhaps continue to vote much like before? Analyzing extensive data on electorates, parties, and individuals in 24 countries for over half a century, we document a systematic pattern whereby economic ...
Yotam Margalit, Omer Solodoch
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A welfare comparison of pre- and post-WWII business cycles: some implications for the role of postwar macroeconomic policies [PDF]
The authors compute the potential economic benefits that would accrue to a typical pre-WWII era U.S. worker from the post-WWII macroeconomic policy regime.
Dean Corbae, Satyajit Chatterjee
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British Journal of Industrial Relations, EarlyView.ABSTRACT The debate on whether national industrial relations (IR) are experiencing convergence is a long‐standing one. Recently, scholars argue that we are witnessing a neoliberal convergence of national IR, understood as an increase in employers’ discretion.
Vincenzo Maccarrone
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On the Welfare Costs of Business-Cycle Fluctuations and Economic-Growth Variation in the 20th Century [PDF]
Lucas (1987) has shown a surprising result in business-cycle research: the welfare cost ofbusiness cycles are very small. Our paper has several original contributions.
Franco-Neto, Afonso Arinos de Mello +2 more
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Jefferson Institute's Military Archives Project in Serbia: From Ruins of War, a Nation's History Preserved [PDF]
, 2011 Analyzes the impact and challenges of a project supported by Knight to digitize Serbia's military documents and make them publicly available in a searchable archive, including evidence for prosecuting war criminals and locating secret mass ...
Djordje Padejski, Joan McQueeney Mitric
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Regional impacts of international tourism boycott: A China—Japan conflict
Economic Inquiry, EarlyView.Abstract We examine the regional impacts of the Sino–Japan dispute over the Diaoyu/Senkaku Islands that sparked a Chinese consumer boycott of travel to Japan from August 2012. This boycott caused significant and varied regional impacts across Japan.
Theresa M. Greaney, Kozo Kiyota
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Crossroads: Life Changing Stories from the Second World War
VIEW Journal of European Television History and Culture, 2016 Crossroads is the name of the concept that narratively connects several WWII-related cultural institutions in Brabant. We were initially looking for ways to connect 4 otherwise very diverse World War II-related institutions (in fact, 3 museums and a ...
Calvi, Licia, Hover, Moniek
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