Journal of Economic History

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• To raise the golden anchor? Financial crises and uncertainty during the Great Depression AI翻译
  作者：Macalester College; Providence College
  摘要：This study examines the interplay between financial crises, uncertainty, and economic growth during the interwar period. Comparing the experiences often countries, we provide evidence that reductions in the credibility of a country's commitment to the gold standard generated capital flight and higher interest rate volatility. This volatility, in turn, was inversely correlated with economic growth. These results suggest that financial crises helped propagate the Great Depression, in part, by in...
• Oil, the state, and federalism: The Rise and demise of Petro-Canada as a statist impulse. AI翻译
  作者：University of Alberta
• A loveless economy? Intergenerational altruism and the marriage market in a Tuscan town, 1415-1436 AI翻译
  作者：Boston University
  摘要：This article examines the role of dowries and highlights the variables that affected the size of dowries in fifteenth-century Tuscany. The estimation, which matches the households found in the marriage contracts with the corresponding households in the Florentine Catasto of 1427, offers support for the present net value hypothesis and for the altruism model. Results indicate a positive correlation between a bride's dowry size and her age when used as proxy for her contribution to the marital h...
• Redefining the state: Privatization and welfare reform in industrial and transitional economies. AI翻译
  作者：Illinois State University
• Culture shock and direct investment in poor countries AI翻译
  作者：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University College Station
  摘要：The role of culture in economic development is experiencing renewed interest among scholars. This study proposes high intercultural transactions costs as a reason for the enduring scarcity of modem capital and technology in poor countries and conducts a statistical test based on the premise that cultural diffusion reduces these costs. The stock of direct investment in poor countries at the end of the colonial era is shown, as predicted, to be directly correlated with the diffusion of Western c...
• Why did prices rise in the 1930s? AI翻译
  作者：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
  摘要：Prices rose in most years between 1933 and 1941 even though output was substantially below trend. This inflation cannot be explained as simply the effect of devaluation and changes in expectations. Rather, because prewar price changes depended significantly on the growth rate of real output, the extraordinarily rapid growth after 1933 was an important force leading to inflation. At the same time, the NIRA, by encouraging minimum wages and collusive pricing arrangements, caused a crucial diminu...
• Steinway & Sons. AI翻译
  作者：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
• The Argentine economy in the long run - Essays on 19th-century and 20th-century economic history AI翻译
  作者：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
• Investigating a debt channel for the Smoot-Hawley tariffs: Evidence from the sovereign bond market AI翻译
  作者：American University
  摘要：I examine the change in prices of foreign foreign sovereign dollar bonds over several weeks in 1930 that marked major legislative progress for the Smoot-Hawley tariffs. If the market was preoccupied by anticipated debt-repayment problems arising from the tariffs, this should be visible in the cross country pattern of bond prices. The bond price data are compared to indicators of country sensitivity to the tariffs and debt service. A significant relationship is found for bond price changes in J...
• Regional identity and economic change: The Upper Rhine, 1450-1600. AI翻译
  作者：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Chapel Hill