How far can media undermine democratic institutions and how persuasive can it be in assuring public support for dictator policies? We study this question in the context of Germany before World War II, between 1929 and 1939. First, we estimate the impact of radio signal on voting for the Nazi...

Not only in Sweden, but also in several international studies, it has been shown that a non-negligible proportion of the European population subscribes to classical anti-Semitic notions, and that anti-Semitism is a phenomenon that is still very much present in post-1945 Europe, more so in some...

"How persistent are cultural traits? This paper uses data on anti-Semitism in Germany and finds continuity at the local level over more than half a millennium. When the Black Death hit Europe in 1348-50, killing between one third and one half of the population, its cause was unknown. Many...

"This paper examines whether house demolitions are an effective counterterrorism tactic against suicide terrorism. We link original longitudinal micro-level data on houses demolished by the Israeli Defense Forces with data on the universe of suicide attacks against Israeli targets. By exploiting...

The demographic history of the Jews in the Middle Ages may be characterized by two main phenomena: i) a sharp drop in the number of Jews until the beginning of the modern period, due mainly to conversions; and, ii) early urbanization. Until now, these features have been analyzed as primarily...

Der Jurist Franz Böhm gründete zusammen mit dem Ökonomen Walter Eucken die ""Freiburger Schule"", die in Opposition zum NS-Staat an Entwürfen für eine freiheitliche Gesellschafts- und Wirtschaftsordnung arbeitete. Dieser Band enthält zum Teil unveröffentlichte Arbeiten Böhms, der seine...

This paper studies the expulsion of Jews from Spain in 1492. This forced migration process is addressed with a model that blends demographic, religious and macroeconomic features. The optimal migration path is derived. It is shown that a large portion of the Sephardim community fled the country...

Mit diesem Band legt der renommierte US-Historiker ("Deutsche Identität", BA 8/91) den 2. Bericht der von der Deutschen Bank zur Untersuchung aller Aspekte ihrer Geschäftstätigkeit während der NS-Zeit berufenen internationalen Historikerkommission vor. Untersuchte J. Steinberg (ID 25/99) die...