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The American origin of the French Revolution

Ottinger, Sebastian; Rosenberger, Lukas - 2023

France sent five thousand men to fight alongside George Washington's army in the American Revolutionary War. We show that the French combatants' exposure to the United States of America increased support for the French Revolution a decade later. French regions (départements) from which more...

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Historical roots of political extremism : the effects of Nazi occupation of Italy

Fontana, Nicola; Nannicini, Tommaso; Tabellini, Guido Enrico - 2017

The Italian civil war and the Nazi occupation of Italy occurred at a critical juncture, just before the birth of a new democracy and when, for the first time in a generation, Italians were choosing political affiliations and forming political identities. In this paper we study how these...

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Two to tangle : financial development, political instability and economic growth in Argentina (1896 - 2000)

Campos, Nauro (contributor); Karanasos, Menelaos (contributor) - 2008

This paper investigates the effects of financial development and political instability on economic growth in a power-ARCH framework with data for Argentina from 1896 to 2000. Our findings suggest that (i) informal or unanticipated political instability (e.g., guerrilla warfare) has a direct...

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Three revolutions of the modern era

Easterlin, Richard A. - 2019

The emergence and evolution of modern science since the 17th century has led to three major breakthroughs in the human condition. The first, the Industrial Revolution, started in the late 18th century and is based chiefly on developments associated with the rise of the natural sciences. The...

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Echoes of the past : the enduring impact of communism on contemporary freedom of speech values

Nikolova, Milena; Popova, Olga - 2023

This paper studies the long-term consequences of communism on present-day freedom of expression values in two settings - East Germany and the states linked to the sphere of influence of the former USSR. Exploiting the natural experiment of German separation and later reunification, we show that...

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Skill-biased transition: the role of markets, institutions, and technological change

Sabirianova Peter, Klara (contributor) - 2003 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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The changing demand for skills : evidence from the transition

Commander, Simon (contributor); Köllő, János (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Regional unemployment and its persistence in transition countries

Bornhorst, Fabian (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Economic reforms and productivity-enhancing reallocation in the post-Soviet transition

Brown, J. David (contributor); Earle, John S. (contributor) - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

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Returns to schooling in Russia and Ukraine : a semiparametric approach to cross-country comparative analysis

Gorodnichenko, Yuriy (contributor); … - 2004 - [Elektronische Ressource]

This study provides the first set of estimates of the returns to schooling over an extended period in Russia and … Russia than in Ukraine. The intriguing question is why returns to schooling in Russia and Ukraine diverged so much over the …"This study provides the first set of estimates of the returns to schooling over an extended period in Russia and …

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