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The Indigenous Roots of Representative Democracy

Bentzen, Jeanet Sinding - 2015

Europe a positive impulse towards the development of representative democracy. It shows that contemporary regimes are shaped …

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A Long Term Perspective on the Euro

Bordo, Michael D. - 2008

This study grounds the establishment of EMU and the euro in the context of the history of international monetary cooperation and of monetary unions, above all in the U.S., Germany and Italy. The purpose of national monetary unions was to reduce transactions costs of multiple currencies and...

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The Rise of the Low Carbon Consumer City

Holian, Matthew John - 2013

Urban density both facilitates consumption opportunities and encourages individuals to drive less and walk and use public transit more. Using several data sets, we document that high quality of life consumer center cities are low carbon cities. We discuss possible causal channels for this...

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The Potato'S Contribution to Population and Urbanization : Evidence from an Historical Experiment

Nunn, Nathan - 2009

We exploit regional variation in suitability for cultivating potatoes, together with time variation arising from their introduction to the Old World from the Americas, to estimate the impact of potatoes on Old World population and urbanization. Our results show that the introduction of the...

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Institutional and Non-Institutional Explanations of Economic Differences

Engerman, Stanley L.; Sokoloff, Kenneth L. - 2022

Although we cannot conceive of processes of economic growth that do not involve institutional change, in this essay we outline some reasons why one should be cautious about grounding a theory of growth on institutions. We emphasize how very different institutional structures have often been...

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Cross-Country Inequality Trends

Acemoglu, Daron - 2021

much less, in (continental) Europe over the same time period. I review the two most popular explanations for these … differential trends: that relative supply of skills increased faster in Europe, and that European labor market institutions … where labor market institutions creating wage compression in Europe also encourage more investment in technologies …

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Happiness Adaptation to Income Beyond "Basic Needs"

Di Tella, Rafael; MacCulloch, Robert - 2021

We test for whether, once "basic needs" are satisfied, there is happiness adaptation to further gains in income using three data sets. Individual German Panel Data from 1985-2000, and data on the well-being of over 600,000 people in a panel of European countries from 1975-2002, shows different...

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The Gatt'S Contribution to Economic Recovery in Post-War Western Europe

Irwin, Douglas A. - 2021

(GATT) in promoting economic recovery and growth in Europe in the decade after World War II. The formation of the GATT does …

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How to Construct Nationally Representative Firm Level Data from the ORBIS Global Database : New Facts and Aggregate Implications

Kalemli-Ozcan, Sebnem - 2015

We construct representative firm-level longitudinal data for twenty-seven European countries using financial statements from the Orbis global database, providing a “how-to” guide on the construction. We validate our dataset by comparing its aggregate coverage to official statistics and...

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The Scots May Be Brave But They are Neither Healthy Nor Happy

Bell, David N.F; Blanchflower, David G. - 2021

worse than the rest of Europe. Deaths from chronic liver disease and lung cancer are particularly prevalent in Scotland. The …

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