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Printing and Protestants: reforming the economics of the Reformation
Rubin, Jared - 2011
The causes of the Protestant Reformation have long been debated. This paper attempts to revive and econometrically test … the theory that the spread of the Reformation is linked to the spread of the printing press. The proposed causal pathway … is that the printing press permitted the ideas of the Reformation to reach a broader audience. I test this hypothesis by …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015227089
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Printing and protestants: an empirical test of the role of printing in the Reformation
Rubin, Jared - 2011
The causes of the Protestant Reformation have long been debated. This paper attempts to revive and econometrically test … the theory that the spread of the Reformation is linked to the spread of the printing press. I test this theory by … analyzing data on the spread of the press and the Reformation at the city level. An econometric analysis which instruments for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015229039
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Rethinking “Distance From”: Lessons from Wittenberg and Mainz
Zhao, Qiyi C. - 2023
Protestantism and printing technology, have historical and econometric drawbacks that engender misleading conclusions. Historical … data challenge the assumption that distance determined access to ideas or technology. Placebo tests and simulations reveal …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015270615
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Dulling the Cutting Edge: How Patent-Related Policies and Practices Hamper Innovation in China
Prud'homme, Dan - 2012
This study’s statistical analysis shows that patent quality and innovation in China deserve improvement, and an in-depth legal, management science, and economic analysis in the study shows that various patent-related policies and practices actually hamper patent quality and innovation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015235057
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Dulling the Cutting Edge: How Patent-Related Policies and Practices Hamper Innovation in China
Prud'homme, Dan - 2012
This study’s statistical analysis shows that patent quality and innovation in China deserve improvement, and an in-depth legal, management science, and economic analysis in the study shows that various patent-related policies and practices actually hamper patent quality and innovation in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015237441
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Nine protestants are to be esteemed worth ten catholics. Representing religion, labour and economic performance in pre-Industrial Europe, c.1650 - c.1800.
Lambrecht, Thijs A. - 2001
economic effects of the Reformation on the economic perfomance of European countries. Nearly all authors argued that …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015229016
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From the Persecuting to the Protective State? Jewish Expulsions and Weather Shocks from 1100 to 1800
Anderson, R. Warren; Johnson, Noel D; Koyama, Mark - 2013
What factors caused the persecution of minorities in medieval and early modern Europe? We build a model that predicts that minority communities were more likely to be expropriated in the wake of negative income shocks. We then use panel data consisting of 785 city-level expulsions of Jews from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015235628
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Did Protestantism promote economic prosperity via higher human capital?
Edwards, Jeremy - 2017
This paper investigates the Becker-Woessmann (2009) argument that Protestants were more prosperous in nineteenth-century Prussia because they were more literate, a version of the Weber thesis, and shows that it cannot be sustained. The econometric analysis on which Becker and Woessman based...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015258094
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Negative Shocks and Mass Persecutions: Evidence from the Black Death
Jebwab, Remi; Johnson, Noel D; Koyama, Mark - 2017
In this paper we study the Black Death persecutions (1347-1352) against Jews in order to shed light on the factors determining when a minority group will face persecution. We develop a theoretical framework which predicts that negative shocks increase the likelihood that minorities are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015255315
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Negative Shocks and Mass Persecutions: Evidence from the Black Death
Jebwab, Remi; Johnson, Noel D; Koyama, Mark - 2017
In this paper we study the Black Death persecutions (1347-1352) against Jews in order to shed light on the factors determining when a minority group will face persecution. We develop a theoretical framework which predicts that negative shocks increase the likelihood that minorities are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015255842