From ivica.sute at zg.htnet.hr Fri Apr 1 10:05:31 2005 From: ivica.sute at zg.htnet.hr (Ivica Sute) Date: Wed Feb 27 22:58:57 2008 Subject: AEH: EUR.INST: Zagreb Fair and the Participation of Banovina Croatia at International Fairs (1939-1941) Message-ID: ABSTRACTS IN ECONOMIC HISTORY (c) 2005 EH.Net ----------------------------------------------------------- Name: Ivica Sute Email: ivica.sute@zg.htnet.hr Institution: Faculty of Philosophy/History Department in Zagreb, Croatia Co-author: none Title: Zagreb Fair and the participation of Banovina Croatia at the international fairs (1939-1941) Internet Address of abstracted work: not available By mail: Nasicka 61K, 10 000 Zagreb, Croatia Language: Croatian Abstract: It were 1295 fairs organised on certain days on the year, 268 fairs on certain days on the month, and 5227 fairs on certain days of every week in Banovina Croatia. The most important fair in prewar Croatia was the Zagreb fair (Zagrebaski Zbor). The Third Reich and Kingdom of Italy had the dominant role in Zagrebaski Zbor between 1939 and 1941. In spite of the war in Europe Zagrebaski Zbor was highly visited. During the last prewar year, 1370 exhibitors participated in Zagrebaski Zbor. Banovina Croatia participated in some European fairs at Budapest, Leipzig and Vienna with its own pavilion, as part of the bigger Yugoslav pavilion. It was a great opportunity for Banska Vlast (the government in Zagreb) to present the economical, cultural and touristic potentials of Banovina Croatia, as well as to inform international visitors about the new borders of the autonomous Croatian territory within the Kingdom of Yugoslavia. Bibliography: Sute, Ivica. "Zagreb Fair and the participation of Banovina Croatia at the international fairs (1939-1941)." Zbornik Mire Kolar-Dimitrijevic, FFpress, Zagreb 2003, 379-394. Subject: W Geographical Area: 4 Country/Region: Croatia Time Period: 8 ------------------------------------------------------- Visit the library of Abstracts in Economic History or submit your abstract at: http://www.eh.net/abstracts From morgan.kelly at ucd.ie Tue Apr 5 06:01:21 2005 From: morgan.kelly at ucd.ie (Morgan Kelly) Date: Wed Feb 27 22:58:57 2008 Subject: AEH: EUR.GROWTH: Living Standards and Population Growth: Malthus was Right Message-ID: ABSTRACTS IN ECONOMIC HISTORY (c) 2005 EH.Net ----------------------------------------------------------- Name: Morgan Kelly Email: morgan.kelly@ucd.ie Institution: University College Dublin Co-author: none Title: Living Standards and Population Growth: Malthus was Right Internet Address of abstracted work: http://www.ucd.ie/economic/staff/mkelly/papers/popn.pdf By mail: Department of Economics, University College Dublin, Dublin 4, Ireland Language: English Abstract: The consensus that population growth before the industrial revolution is poorly described by the Malthusian model rests on the weak performance of regressions of population growth on real wages. These regressions, however, suffer from an endogenous explanatory variable. This paper shows that long run temperature estimates from the global warming debate provide a good instrument for real wages before the industrial revolution. Instrumenting for real wages, we find that English population growth before the eighteenth century is markedly Malthusian, with both marriage rates and death rates responding strongly to living standards. JEL: J1, N3. Bibliography: Kelly, Morgan. "Living Standards and Population Growth: Malthus was Right." University College Dublin, Working Paper, 2005. Subject: Q Geographical Area: 4 Country/Region: England Time Period: 6 ------------------------------------------------------- Visit the library of Abstracts in Economic History or submit your abstract at: http://www.eh.net/abstracts From william.hutchinson at vanderbilt.edu Wed Apr 6 10:05:01 2005 From: william.hutchinson at vanderbilt.edu (William K. Hutchinson) Date: Wed Feb 27 22:58:57 2008 Subject: AEH: AMER.REGION:The Impact of the Civil War on Capital Intensity and Labor Productivity in Southern Manufacturing Message-ID: ABSTRACTS IN ECONOMIC HISTORY (c) 2005 EH.Net ----------------------------------------------------------- Name: William K. Hutchinson Email: william.hutchinson@vanderbilt.edu Institution: Vanderbilt University Co-author: Robert A. Margo Vanderbilt University and NBER Title: The Impact of the Civil War on Capital Intensity and Labor Productivity in Southern Manufacturing Internet Address of abstracted work: http://www.nber.org By mail: William K. Hutchinson Department of Economics Station B #351819 Nashville, TN 37235-1819 Language: English Abstract: The Civil War resulted in a substantial divergence in the regional structure of factor prices. In particular, wages fell in the South relative to the non-South, but interest rates and other measures of the costs of capital increased. Using archival data for manufacturing establishments, we show that capital-output and capital-labor ratios in southern manufacturing declined relative to non-southern manufacturing after the War, precisely in the direction implied by the regional shifts in factor prices. Labor productivity in southern manufacturing also declined, but this decline is explained by the reduction in capital intensity. Bibliography: Hutchinson, William K. and Robert A. Margo "The Impact of the Civil War on Capital Intensity and Labor Productivity in Southern Manufacturing" NBER Working Paper #10886. 2004. Subject: Q Geographical Area: 7 Country/Region: United States Time Period: 7 ------------------------------------------------------- Visit the library of Abstracts in Economic History or submit your abstract at: http://www.eh.net/abstracts From deryuan at ccms.nkfust.edu.tw Wed Apr 6 10:06:18 2005 From: deryuan at ccms.nkfust.edu.tw (Der-yuan Yang) Date: Wed Feb 27 22:58:57 2008 Subject: AEH: WORLD.INST: Monitoring the Monitor Message-ID: ABSTRACTS IN ECONOMIC HISTORY (c) 2005 EH.Net ----------------------------------------------------------- Name: Der-yuan Yang Email: deryuan@ccms.nkfust.edu.tw Institution: National Kaohsiung 1st University of Science and Technology Co-author: Horace Chueh Title: Monitoring the Monitor Internet Address of abstracted work: not available By mail: Department of Financial Operations National Kaohsiung 1st University of Science and Technology 2 chuo-yueh rd Kaohsiung, Taiwan Language: English Abstract: Selfishness seems to be a character incompatible with integrity. However, the pursuit of one's own interests may be effective in inducing virtues. Distaste for punishments and passions for rewards appear to be part of human nature. Properly applying carrot and stick could make dishonesty or dereliction fruitless as well as enhance the operation of a regime. Some previous monitoring networks had been successful in deterring frauds. Two monitoring networks, one used by the Former Han Dynasty and the other by the British Navy, were renowned for their remarkable administration and victories, respectively. Analyzing these networks may shed light on the elements and practices of effective monitoring. Bibliography: Yang, Der-yuan and Horace Chueh. "Monitoring the Monitor." National Kaohsiung 1st University of Science and Technology, Working Paper, 2004. Subject: I Geographical Area: 0 Country/Region: China, UK Time Period: 0 ------------------------------------------------------- Visit the library of Abstracts in Economic History or submit your abstract at: http://www.eh.net/abstracts From nikolaus.wolf at wiwiss.fu-berlin.de Wed Apr 6 10:07:37 2005 From: nikolaus.wolf at wiwiss.fu-berlin.de (Nikolaus Wolf) Date: Wed Feb 27 22:58:57 2008 Subject: AEH: EUR.IO: Multiple Equilibria in Industrial Location: Evidence From Airports in Inter-War and Re-Unified Germany Message-ID: ABSTRACTS IN ECONOMIC HISTORY (c) 2005 EH.Net ----------------------------------------------------------- Name: Nikolaus Wolf Email: nikolaus.wolf@wiwiss.fu-berlin.de Institution: Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany Co-authors: Stephen J. Redding Department of Economics London School of Economics Houghton Street London, WC2A 2AE, United Kingdom Email: s.j.redding@lse.ac.uk Daniel Sturm Department of Economics University of Munich Ludwigstr. 28 (Vgb) 80539 Munich, Germany Email: daniel.sturm@lmu.de Title: Multiple Equilibria in Industrial Location: Evidence From Airports in Inter-War and Re-Unified Germany Internet Address of abstracted work: not available By mail: Department of Economics Freie Universitat Berlin, Germany Boltzmannstrasse 20 14195 Berlin, Germany Language: English Abstract: The potential for multiple equilibria is a central feature of a wide range of economic models in fields as diverse as industrial, development and international economics. This paper provides empirical evidence of multiple equilibria in the location of airport hubs, exploiting one of the most dramatic natural experiments to influence the spatial distribution of economic activity in modern times: German division and re-unification. Both the industry and natural experiment chosen have precisely the features where one might expect a temporary shock to shift the location of economic activity between multiple equilibria and this is exactly what we find. Bibliography: Wolf, Nikolaus, Stephen J. Redding and Daniel Sturm. "Multiple Equilibria in Industrial Location: Evidence From Airports in Inter-War and Re-Unified Germany." Freie Universitat Berlin, London School of Economics, and University of Munich, Working Paper, 2004. Subject: Y Geographical Area: 4 Country/Region: Germany Time Period: 8,9 ------------------------------------------------------- Visit the library of Abstracts in Economic History or submit your abstract at: http://www.eh.net/abstracts From reed at sfu.ca Thu Apr 7 10:04:55 2005 From: reed at sfu.ca (Clyde Reed) Date: Wed Feb 27 22:58:57 2008 Subject: AEH: ASIA.AGRIC: The Transition to Agriculture: Climate Reversals, Population Density, and Technical Change Message-ID: ABSTRACTS IN ECONOMIC HISTORY (c) 2005 EH.Net ----------------------------------------------------------- Name: Clyde Reed Email: reed@sfu.ca Institution: Simon Fraser University Co-authors: Greg Dow Simon Fraser University Department of Economics Burnaby, B.C. Canada V5A 1S6 Email: gdow@sfu.ca Phone: 604-291-5502 Fax: 604-291-5944 Nancy Olewiler Simon Fraser University Department of Economics Burnaby, B.C. Canada V5A 1S6 Email: olewiler@sfu.ca Phone: 604-291-3442 Fax: 604-291-5944 Title: The Transition to Agriculture: Climate Reversals, Population Density, and Technical Change Internet Address of abstracted work: not available By mail: Simon Fraser University Department of Economics Burnaby, B.C. Canada V5A 1S6 Language: English Abstract: Until about 13,000 years ago all humans obtained their food through hunting and gathering, but thereafter people in some parts of the world began a transition to agriculture. Recent data strongly implicate climate change as the driving force behind the agricultural transition in southwest Asia. We propose a model of this process in which population and technology respond endogenously to climate. The key idea is that after a lengthy period of favorable environmental conditions during which regional population levels increased significantly, an abrupt climate reversal forced people to take refuge at a few ecologically favored sites. The resulting spike in local population density reduced the marginal product of labor in foraging and made agriculture attractive. Once agriculture was initiated, rapid technological progress through artificial selection on plant characteristics led to domesticated varieties. Farming became a permanent part of the regional economy when this productivity growth was combined with climate recovery. Bibliography: Reed, Clyde. "The Transition to Agriculture: Climate Reversals, Population Density, and Technical Change." Simon Fraser University, Working Paper, 2004. Subject: A Geographical Area: 2 Country/Region: Southwest Asia Time Period: 1 ------------------------------------------------------- Visit the library of Abstracts in Economic History or submit your abstract at: http://www.eh.net/abstracts From a.nadan-alumni at lse.ac.uk Thu Apr 7 10:06:39 2005 From: a.nadan-alumni at lse.ac.uk (Amos Nadan) Date: Wed Feb 27 22:58:57 2008 Subject: AEH: MIDEAST.MONEY: The Competitive Advantage of Moneylenders over Banks in Rural Palestine Message-ID: ABSTRACTS IN ECONOMIC HISTORY (c) 2005 EH.Net ----------------------------------------------------------- Name: Amos Nadan Email: a.nadan-alumni@lse.ac.uk Institution: Truman Institute, Hebrew University Co-author: none Title: The Competitive Advantage of Moneylenders over Banks in Rural Palestine Internet Address of abstracted work: http://titania.ingentaselect.com/vl=5535572/cl=120/nw=1/rpsv/cw/brill/00224995/v48n1/s1/p1 By mail: The Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Mt. Scopus, Jerusalem 91905, Israel Language: English Abstract: According to the British Government in Mandate Palestine, the tendency of the fallahin (Arab peasants) to "strategic default" and the monopolistic power of local moneylenders led to high interest lending in rural areas. The government sought to remedy this by assisting banks in collecting bad debts, by guaranteeing some bank loans and by imposing the maximum legal interest rate. However, the colonial perception was incorrect. Defaults were usually "involuntary" as a result of natural and occasionally man-made hazards (thus creating a high interest rate environment), and the money lending market was "contestable." In such an environment, despite government assistance, moneylenders had a comparative advantage over banks. They were usually merchants who could easily utilise collateral on loans (crops and lands); they ignored the law of maximum interest rate and they had good information about borrowers. For these reasons moneylenders remained the main source of credit for the fallahin. Bibliography: Nadan, Amos. "The Competitive Advantage of Moneylenders over Banks in Rural Palestine," Journal of the Economic and Social History of the Orient, vol. 48, no. 1, 2005, pp. 1-39. Subject: C Geographical Area: 6 Country/Region: Palestine Time Period: * ------------------------------------------------------- Visit the library of Abstracts in Economic History or submit your abstract at: http://www.eh.net/abstracts From leandro.prados.delaescosura at uc3m.es Wed Apr 13 21:44:28 2005 From: leandro.prados.delaescosura at uc3m.es (Leandro Prados de la Escosura) Date: Wed Feb 27 22:58:57 2008 Subject: AEH: AMER.GROWTH: Colonial Independence and Economic Backwardness in Latin America Message-ID: ABSTRACTS IN ECONOMIC HISTORY (c) 2005 EH.Net ----------------------------------------------------------- Name: Leandro Prados de la Escosura Email: leandro.prados.delaescosura@uc3m.es Institution: Universidad Carlos III Co-author: none Title: Colonial Independence and Economic Backwardness in Latin America Internet Address of abstracted work: http://www.uc3m.es/uc3m/dpto/HISEC/Doctrab/2004/wp04-65(03).pdf By mail: Universidad Carlos III 28903 Getafe (Madrid), Spain Language: English Abstract: This paper explores the connections between independence from Spain and Portugal and economic backwardness in Latin America. The release of the fiscal burden was offset by higher costs of self-government, while opening up to the international economy represented a handmaiden of growth. Independence had a very different impact across regions and widened regional disparities. The commitment to the colonial mercantilism conditioned the new republics' performance but, on the whole, GDP per head increased in the half a century after emancipation. It appears that inherited Iberian institutions cannot be blamed for Latin America's poor performance relative to the US, especially if the scope is widened to include the post-independence performance of former European colonies in Africa and Asia. It is suggested that before jumping to the usual negative assessment of nineteenth century Latin America, a comparison of post-independence performance in other world regions will be required. JEL classification: N16, N46, N66 Key words: Latin America, independence, colonial burden, backwardness. Bibliography: Prados de la Escosura, Leandro. "Colonial Independence and Economic Backwardness in Latin America." Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Working Paper 04-65, Economic History and Institutions Series 03, December 2004 Subject: D Geographical Area: 5 Country/Region: Time Period: 7 ------------------------------------------------------- Visit the library of Abstracts in Economic History or submit your abstract at: http://www.eh.net/abstracts From leandro.prados.delaescosura at uc3m.es Wed Apr 13 21:45:54 2005 From: leandro.prados.delaescosura at uc3m.es (Leandro Prados de la Escosura) Date: Wed Feb 27 22:58:57 2008 Subject: AEH: AMER.GROWTH: When Did Latin America Fall Behind? Evidence from Long-run International Inequality Message-ID: ABSTRACTS IN ECONOMIC HISTORY (c) 2005 EH.Net ----------------------------------------------------------- Name: Leandro Prados de la Escosura Email: leandro.prados.delaescosura@uc3m.es Institution: Universidad Carlos III Co-author: none Title: When Did Latin America Fall Behind? Evidence from Long-run International Inequality Internet Address of abstracted work: http://www.uc3m.es/uc3m/dpto/HISEC/Doctrab/2004/wp04-66(04).pdf By mail: Universidad Carlos III 28903 Getafe (Madrid), Spain Language: English Abstract: When did Latin America fall behind?. Has the gap between developed countries and Latin America widened over time?. This paper addresses these recurrent questions with the tools provided by the inequality literature. Long-run inter-country inequality is assessed in terms of real (purchasing power-adjusted) GDP per head and of an 'improved' human development index as an indicator of welfare for present-day OECD and Latin America. A long term rise in income inequality is observed for this sample of countries with the deepening gap between OECD and Latin America as its main determinant. Contrary to a widespread view, in terms of income, Latin America fell behind in the late twentieth century. Inequality in terms of human development declined over time, but the gap between OECD and Latin America remained largely unchanged. JEL classification: N30, N36, I31 Key words: Inequality, Retardation, Real Income, Human Development, Latin America Bibliography: Prados de la Escosura, Leandro. "When Did Latin America Fall Behind? Evidence from Long-run International Inequality." Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Working Paper 04-66, Economic History and Institutions Series 04, December 2004 Subject: D Geographical Area: 0 Country/Region: Time Period: 0 ------------------------------------------------------- Visit the library of Abstracts in Economic History or submit your abstract at: http://www.eh.net/abstracts From leandro.prados.delaescosura at uc3m.es Wed Apr 13 21:47:10 2005 From: leandro.prados.delaescosura at uc3m.es (Leandro Prados de la Escosura) Date: Wed Feb 27 22:58:57 2008 Subject: AEH: AMER.GROWTH: Institutional Instability and Growth in Argentina: A Long-run View Message-ID: ABSTRACTS IN ECONOMIC HISTORY (c) 2005 EH.Net ----------------------------------------------------------- Name: Leandro Prados de la Escosura Email: leandro.prados.delaescosura@uc3m.es Institution: Universidad Carlos III Co-author: Isabel Sanz-Villarroya Dpto de Estructura Econ?mica Econom?a P?blica e Historia Econ?mica Universidad de Zaragoza. Title: Institutional Instability and Growth in Argentina: A Long-run View Internet Address of abstracted work: http://www.uc3m.es/uc3m/dpto/HISEC/Doctrab/2004/wp04-67(05).pdf By mail: Universidad Carlos III 28903 Getafe (Madrid), Spain Language: English Abstract: Argentina has slipped from being among the ten richest countries in the world by the eve of World War I to its current position close to developing countries. What did originate Argentina's economic retardation?. In this paper we employ a structural model to investigate the extent to which institutional instability, as captured by "Contract Intensive Money" (Clague, Keefer, Knack and Olson, 1999), conditioned capital accumulation and economic growth in Argentina and, consequently, the country's relative international position. Our results suggest that institutional instability played a major role in Argentina's unique historical experience of economic decline. JEL classification: N16, N26, N46 Key words: institutional instability, property rights, growth, retardation, Argentina Bibliography: Prados de la Escosura, Leandro and Isabel Sanz-Villarroya. "Institutional Instability and Growth in Argentina: A Long-run View." Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, Working Paper 04-67, Economic History and Institutions Series 05, December 2004 Subject: D Geographical Area: 5 Country/Region: Argentina Time Period: 0 ------------------------------------------------------- Visit the library of Abstracts in Economic History or submit your abstract at: http://www.eh.net/abstracts From leonard.dudley at umontreal.ca Thu Apr 21 09:45:38 2005 From: leonard.dudley at umontreal.ca (Leonard Dudley) Date: Wed Feb 27 22:58:57 2008 Subject: AEH: EUR.GROWTH: Cooperating to Innovate Message-ID: ABSTRACTS IN ECONOMIC HISTORY (c) 2005 EH.Net ----------------------------------------------------------- Name: Leonard Dudley Email: leonard.dudley@umontreal.ca Institution: Economics Department, Universite de Montreal Co-author: none Title: Cooperating to Innovate Internet Address of abstracted work: http://www.fas.umontreal.ca/sceco/u/dudley/cv-dept/ir.pdf By mail: Leonard Dudley Sciences Economiques Universite de Montreal Montreal QC Canada H3C 3J7 Language: English Abstract: Can events during the Industrial Revolution help us understand the sources of innovation? Both the "preconditions" and "path-dependency" approaches used previously to study this period lead to serious prediction errors. Here, innovation is modeled as a contingency-learning process that endogenously generates a new equilibrium in a bilateral coordination game. Tests of the resulting propositions with data on 116 innovations and 201 regions between 1700 and 1849 suggest two interacting conditions that favored innovation: namely, high literacy and a standardized national language. Differences in rates of innovation across regions are explained not by knowledge accumulation but by learning to cooperate. Bibliography: Dudley, Leonard, "Cooperating to Innovate", Economics Department, Universite de Montreal, Working Paper, April 2005. Subject: M Geographical Area: 4 Country/Region: UK, France, USA Time Period: 6, 7 ------------------------------------------------------- Visit the library of Abstracts in Economic History or submit your abstract at: http://www.eh.net/abstracts From voth at mit.edu Thu Apr 21 09:46:47 2005 From: voth at mit.edu (Hans-Joachim Voth) Date: Wed Feb 27 22:58:57 2008 Subject: AEH: EUR.MONEY: Interest Rate Restrictions in a Natural Experiment: Loan Allocation and the Change in the Usury Laws in 1714 Message-ID: ABSTRACTS IN ECONOMIC HISTORY (c) 2005 EH.Net ----------------------------------------------------------- Name: Hans-Joachim Voth Email: voth@mit.edu Institution: Universitat Pompeu Fabra Co-author: Peter Temin (MIT) Title: Interest Rate Restrictions in a Natural Experiment: Loan Allocation and the Change in the Usury Laws in 1714 Internet Address of abstracted work: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=570146 By mail: Joachim Voth Economics Department + CREI Universitat Pompeu Fabra c/Ramon Trias Fargas 25-27 E-08005 Barcelona -- SPAIN Language: English Abstract: This paper studies the effects of interest rate restrictions on loan allocation. In 1714, the British government tightened the usury laws, reducing the maximum permissible interest rate from 6 to 5 percent. A sample of individual loan transactions from a goldsmith bank allows us to examine how interest rate restrictions affected loan allocation. Average loan size and minimum loan size increased strongly. Access to credit for those of noble origin improved, while it worsened for those with less social capital. Collateralized credits, which had accounted for a declining share of total lending, returned to their former role of prominence. While we have no direct evidence that loans were misallocated, the discontinuity in loan receipts makes this likely. Our results suggest that the usury laws distorted credit markets substantially. We find no evidence that they offered a form of Pareto-improving social insurance. Bibliography: Voth, Hans-Joachim and Peter Temin. "Interest Rate Restrictions in a Natural Experiment: Loan Allocation and the Change in the Usury Laws in 1714." Universitat Pompeu Fabra and MIT, Working Paper, 2005. Subject: H Geographical Area: 4 Country/Region: Britain Time Period: 6 ------------------------------------------------------- Visit the library of Abstracts in Economic History or submit your abstract at: http://www.eh.net/abstracts From voth at mit.edu Thu Apr 21 09:47:51 2005 From: voth at mit.edu (Hans-Joachim Voth) Date: Wed Feb 27 22:58:57 2008 Subject: AEH: EUR.MONEY: Betting on Hitler--The Value of Political Connections in Nazi Germany Message-ID: ABSTRACTS IN ECONOMIC HISTORY (c) 2005 EH.Net ----------------------------------------------------------- Name: Hans-Joachim Voth Email: voth@mit.edu Institution: Universitat Pompeu Fabra Co-author: Thomas Ferguson (U Mass) Title: Betting on Hitler - The Value of Political Connections in Nazi Germany Internet Address of abstracted work: http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=651984 By mail: Economics Department UPF c/Ramon Trias Fargas 25-27 Barcelona-Spain Language: English Abstract: We examine the effect of close links with the NSDAP on the stock price of listed firms in 1932-33. While earlier work had primarily analysed the connections between executives and the Nazi party, we also look at supervisory board membership - the importance of which is hard to overestimate in the case of German industry. One implication of our work is that, weighted by stock market capitalization in 1932, more than half of listed firms on the Berlin stock exchange had substantive links with the NSDAP. Crucially, stock market investors recognized the value of these links, sending the share prices of connected firms up once the new regime was firmly established. While all firms including unaffiliated ones saw a rise in their stock prices after Hitler's seizure of power, those with board members known to favor the party (or backing it financially) outperformed the market by 6 to 9 percent between January and May 1933. We show that this finding is robust to a range of additional control variables and alternative estimation techniques. Bibliography: Voth, Hans-Joachim and Thomas Ferguson. "Betting on Hitler - The Value of Political Connections in Nazi Germany." SSRN working paper, 2005. Subject: H Geographical Area: 4 Country/Region: Germany Time Period: 8 ------------------------------------------------------- Visit the library of Abstracts in Economic History or submit your abstract at: http://www.eh.net/abstracts