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作者:Harvard University
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作者:University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要:Although recent studies on African colonial tax systems have deepened our understanding of early fiscal capacity building efforts in the region, they have largely ignored the contributions from a widely used but invisible source of state revenue: that of labor contributions. Exploiting data on corvee systems in French Africa, this is the first article to make these in-kind taxes visible by estimating a lower bound of how much they augmented governments' revenue base. Revealing that labor taxes...
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作者:Australian National University
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作者:Rutgers University System; Rutgers University New Brunswick
摘要:This article surveys the co-evolution of monetary policy and financial stability for a number of countries from 1880 to the present. Historical evidence on the incidence, costs, and determinants of financial crises (the most extreme form of financial instability), combined with narratives on some famous financial crises, suggests that financial crises have many causes, including credit-driven asset price booms, which have become more prevalent in recent decades, but in general financial crises...
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作者:University of California System; University of California Merced
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作者:Harvard University
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作者:University of Konstanz
摘要:This article analyzes whether the German National Socialists used economic policies to reward their voters after coming to power in 1933. Using newly-collected data on public employment from the German censuses in 1925, 1933, and 1939 and addressing the potential endogeneity of the NSDAP vote share in 1933 by way of an instrumental variables strategy based on a similar party in Imperial Germany, I find that cities with higher NSDAP vote shares experienced a relative increase in public employme...
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作者:Oregon State University; University of New South Wales Sydney; University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison; Jagiellonian University
摘要:This article examines the impact of the 1850 Austro-Hungarian customs union on production land-use outcomes. Using newly digitized data from the Second Military Survey of the Habsburg Monarchy, we apply a spatial discontinuity design to estimate the impact of trade liberalization on land use. We find that the customs union increased cropland area by 8 percent per year in Hungary between 1850 and 1855, while forestland area decreased by 6 percent. We provide suggestive evidence that this result...
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作者:United States Department of the Treasury
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作者:State University of New York (SUNY) System; Binghamton University, SUNY