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The Consequences of Radical Reform: The French Revolution

Acemoglu, Daron; Cantoni, Davide; Johnson, Simon; … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009

, guilds, and urban oligarchies and established the principle of equality before the law. The evidence suggests that areas that …

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Resistance to Technology Adoption: The Rise and Decline of Guilds

Desmet, Klaus; Parente, Stephen - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013

This paper analyzes the decision of a group of specialized workers to form a guild and block the adoption of a new … technology that does not require their specialized input. The theory predicts an inverted-U relation between guilds and market …, specialized workers have no reason to form guilds; for intermediate sized markets, firm profits are large enough to cover the …

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The Impact of Turkey's Membership on EU Voting

Baldwin, Richard; Widgrén, Mika - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005

In this paper, we evaluate the impact of Turkey's membership on EU voting. The aspects that we discuss are decision …

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Protocol Design and (De-)Centralization

Grüner, Hans Peter - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007

Should privately informed agents with diverging interests act independently or should they commit to a mechanism? This paper analyzes different communication and decision protocols when communication involves delay. It studies under which conditions agents should (i) choose their actions...

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Premature Liberalization, Incomplete Stabilization: The Ozal Decade in Turkey

Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1990

In late 1979 Turkey found itself in the throes of a foreign exchange crisis, with widespread shortages, negative growth … and three-digit inflation. A decade later, Turkey has a comfortable balance-of-payments situation, and holds considerable …

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Electoral politics and regional development: assessing the geographical allocation of public investment in Turkey

Luca, Davide; Rodriguez-Pose, Andres - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2014

distribution of public investment in the 81 provinces of Turkey between 2004 and 2012. Our results show that, although electoral …

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The Union Wage Effect in Late Nineteenth Century Britain

Bailey, Roy E; Boyer, George; Hatton, Timothy J. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1992

This paper gives a historical dimension to the impact of trade unions on earnings by estimating the union wage effect in Britain between 1889-90 using data from the US Commissioner of Labour survey conducted at that time. The determinants of union status are also investigated in terms of profit...

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The Era of Migration: Lessons for Today

O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2004

The late 19th century, and more precisely the period between the Irish Famine of 1845-49 and the First World War, was an era of largely free migration. As such, it constitutes a unique policy experiment, in which migration flows reflected underlying economic forces, rather than government...

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The Structure of Protection and Growth in the Late 19th Century

Lehmann, Sibylle H.; O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008

Many papers have explored the relationship between average tariff rates and economic growth, when theory suggests that the structure of protection is what should matter. We therefore explore the relationship between economic growth and agricultural tariffs, industrial tariffs, and revenue...

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Commodity Market Integration 1500-2000

Findlay, Ronald; O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002

This Paper provides a summary of what is known about trends in international commodity market integration during the second half of the second millennium. The range of goods that have been traded between continents since the Voyages of Discovery has steadily increased over time, and there has...

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