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Financial Systems, Economic Growth, and Globalization
Rousseau, Peter L.; Sylla, Richard - 2021
capital market integration -- and explores key issues surrounding each strand through both institutional/country histories and … formal quantitative analysis. We begin with studies of the Dutch Republic, England, the U.S., France, Germany and Japan that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013210573
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International Comparisons of Pricing-to-Market Behavior
Knetter, Michael M. - 2010
This paper measures the degree of price discrimination across export destinations that is associated with exchange rate changes using U.S., U.K., German and Japanese industry-level data. Given the industries sampled more price discrimination across destinations is observed in the U.K., German...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763503
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Exchange Rates and Casualties During the First World War
Hall, George J. - 2002
belligerents: Britain, France, Italy, Germany, and Austria-Hungary. At the outbreak of the war, these nations suspended …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012787085
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Were Trade and Factor Mobility Substitutes in History?
Collins, William J.; O'Rourke, Kevin H.; Williamson, … - 2021
Trade theorists have come to understand that their theory is ambiguous on the question: Are trade and factor flows substitutes? While this sounds like an open invitation for empirical research, hardly any serious econometric work has appeared in the literature. This paper uses history to fill...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013218517
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The Great Reversals : The Politics of Financial Development in the 20th Century
Rajan, Raghuram G. - 2010
We show that the development of the financial sector does not change monotonically over time. In particular, we find that by most measures, countries were more financially developed in 1913 than in 1980 and only recently have they surpassed their 1913 levels. This pattern is inconsistent with...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012763181
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The Origins of Financial Development : How the African Slave Trade Continues to Influence Modern Finance
Levine, Ross - 2017
We assess how the African slave trade—which had enduring effects on social cohesion—continues to influence financial systems. After showing that the intensity with which people were enslaved and exported from Africa during the 1400 – 1900 period helps account for overall financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948060
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Government, Openness and Finance : Past and Present
Demetriadis, Panicos - 2010
We explore the role of government in the nexus of finance and trade starting from the earliest days of organised finance in England and then broadening the analysis to 84 countries from 1960 to 2004. For 18th century England, we find that the government expenditures and international trade did...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013137020
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Data Gaps and the Policy Response to the Novel Coronavirus
Stock, James H. - 2020
This note lays out the basic Susceptible-Infected-Recovered (SIR) epidemiological model of contagion, with a target audience of economists who want a framework for understanding the effects of social distancing and containment policies on the evolution of contagion and interactions with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012838354
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New Evidence on the First Financial Bubble
Frehen, Rik - 2015
of two large firms: the South Sea Company in Great Britain and the Mississippi Company in France. In this paper we …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013039339
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Productivity Growth and Levels in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States in the Twentieth Century
Cette, Gilbert - 2010
This study compares labor and total factor productivity (TFP) in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United … extent also to France and Japan, a relative decline that was interrupted by the second world war (WW2); (iii) the remarkable … catching-up to the United States by France and Japan after WW2, that stopped in the case of Japan during the 1990s. Capital …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013149831