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作者：Okazaki, Tetsuji; Okubo, Toshihiro; Strobl, Eric
作者单位：Keio University; University of Bern; University of Birmingham
摘要：We explore the role that large fires played in the early development of the Japanese fire insurance industry. Using a prefecture-level data set spanning 30 years, our econometric analysis shows that large fires led to an increase in new policies and policy renewals, consistent with historical narratives that insurance companies used these events to advertise their business. We also show that this subsequent surge in policies led to more small fires due to arson. Anecdotal evidence suggests tha...
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作者：Cainelli, Giulio; Ciccarelli, Carlo; Ganau, Roberto
作者单位：University of Padua; University of Rome Tor Vergata; University of Warwick; London School Economics & Political Science; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
摘要：We study how changes in a country's administrative hierarchy affect development at the city level. We exploit the 1806 Napoleonic administrative reform implemented in the Kingdom of Naples as a historical experiment to assess whether district capitals endowed with supra-municipal administrative functions gained an urban development premium compared with non-capital cities. We find that district capitals recorded a population growth premium throughout the nineteenth century (1828-1911) and expe...
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作者：[Anonymous]
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作者：Lampe, Markus
作者单位：Vienna University of Economics & Business
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作者：Dal Bo, Ernesto; Hutkova, Karolina; Leucht, Lukas; Yuchtman, Noam
作者单位：University of California System; University of California Berkeley; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Oxford; University of Oxford; University of London; London School Economics & Political Science; Centre for Economic Policy Research - UK; Leibniz Association; Ifo Institut
摘要：We evaluate the role of taxes on overseas trade in the development of imperial Britain's fiscal-military state. Influential work, for example, Brewer's Sinews of Power, attributed increased fiscal capacity to the taxation of domestic, rather than traded, goods: excise revenues, coarsely associated with domestic goods, grew faster than customs revenues. We construct new historical revenue series disaggregating excise revenues from traded and domestic goods. We find substantial growth in revenue...
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作者：Irwin, Douglas A.
作者单位：Dartmouth College
摘要：The decision by developing countries to open up their economies to foreign trade and investment in the 1980s and 1990s was a momentous event in world history. How and why did this trade policy revolution take place? Most accounts of trade politics stress domestic interest groups or trade agreements as driving policy changes, but these explanations fail in this period. This paper notes that many import restrictions were imposed for balance of payments purposes, as a way of avoiding a devaluatio...
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作者：Wang, Tianyi
作者单位：University of Toronto; National Bureau of Economic Research
摘要：This paper uses newly digitized data on the growth of the telegraph network in America during 1840-1852 to study the impacts of the electric telegraph on national elections. Exploiting the expansion of the telegraph network in a difference-in-difference approach, I find that access to telegraphed news from Washington significantly increased voter turnout in national elections. Newspapers facilitated the dissemination of national news to local areas. Text analysis on historical newspapers shows...
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作者：Eli, Shari; Hausman, Joshua K.; Rhode, Paul W.
作者单位：University of Toronto; University of Toronto; National Bureau of Economic Research; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
摘要：We ask (1) why the United States adopted the car more quickly than other countries before 1929, and (2) why in the United States the car changed from a luxury to a mass-market good between 1909 and 1919. The answer is in part the success of the Model T in the United States. Mass production of the Model T began in 1913; by 1917, more than 40 percent of U.S. cars were Model Ts. Tariffs and difficulties producing outside Detroit made the U.S. success of the Model T difficult to replicate abroad.
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作者：Rose, Jonathan D.
作者单位：Federal Reserve System - USA
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作者：Severnini, Edson
作者单位：Boston College
