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作者:Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve System Board of Governors; Claremont Colleges; Claremont McKenna College; Claremont Graduate University
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作者:University of Munich; University of Oxford
摘要:We study trade in Europe after the fall of the Iron Curtain, and show that the countries of the former Austro-Hungarian monarchy trade significantly more with one another after 1989 than predicted by a standard gravity model. Cultural trading capital, established under Habsburg rule and maintained in the period of the Iron Curtain, seems to have survived over four decades of separation and gives an initial boost to trade. This surplus trade disappeared rapidly after 1990 as countries rearrange...
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作者:Universita Ca Foscari Venezia
摘要:I analyzed the market of paintings in Florence and Italy (1285-1550). Hedonic regressions on real prices allowed me to advance evidence that the market was competitive and that an important determinant of artistic innovation was driven by economic incentives. Price differentials reflected quality differentials between painters as perceived at the time (whose proxy is the length of the biography of Vasari) and did not depend on regional destinations, as expected under monopolistic competition w...
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作者:University of London
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作者:Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve System Board of Governors
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作者:Federal Reserve System - USA; Federal Reserve System Board of Governors
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作者:Norwegian University of Science & Technology (NTNU); University of Valencia
摘要:Using district population in Spain between 1860 and 1991, recorded approximately every decade, this article examines whether initial population affects subsequent population growth. While such a relationship between these two variables hardly existed during the second half of the nineteenth century, this link increased significantly between 1910 and 1970, although this trend was abruptly interrupted by the Civil War and the autarkic period that followed. The intensity of this relationship decr...
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作者:Universidad de los Andes (Colombia)
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作者:University of Colorado System; University of Colorado Boulder
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作者:University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Charlotte; American University