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Persecution Perpetuated: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany
- Nico Voigtländer, H. Voth
- History
- 1 April 2011
How persistent are cultural traits? This paper uses data on anti-Semitism in Germany and finds continuity at the local level over more than half a millennium. When the Black Death hit Europe in…
Betting on Hitler - the Value of Political Connections in Nazi Germany
- H. Voth, Thomas P. Ferguson
- Economics
- 2 February 2005
This paper examines the value of connections between German industry and the Nazi movement in early 1933. Drawing on previously unused contemporary sources about management and supervisory board…
Bowling for Fascism: Social Capital and the Rise of the Nazi Party
- S. Satyanath, Nico Voigtländer, H. Voth
- Economics, HistoryJournal of Political Economy
- 1 July 2013
Using newly collected data on association density in 229 towns and cities in interwar Germany, we show that denser social networks were associated with faster entry into the Nazi Party. The effect is…
State Capacity and Military Conflict
- N. Gennaioli, H. Voth
- Political Science, Economics
- 16 November 2011
In 1500, Europe was composed of hundreds of statelets and principalities, with weak central authority, no monopoly over the legitimate use of violence, and multiple, overlapping levels of…
Riding the South Sea Bubble
This paper presents a case study of a well-informed investor in the South Sea bubble. We argue that Hoare's Bank, a fledgling West End London banker, knew that a bubble was in progress and…
The Three Horsemen of Riches: Plague, War and Urbanization in Early Modern Europe
- Nico Voigtländer, H. Voth
- Economics, History
- 20 June 2012
How did Europe escape the “Iron Law of Wages?” We construct a simple Malthusian model with two sectors and multiple steady states, and use it to explain why European per capita incomes and…
THE LONGEST YEARS: NEW ESTIMATES OF LABOR INPUT IN ENGLAND, 1760–1830
- H. Voth
- Economics, HistoryThe Journal of Economic History
- 1 December 2001
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Credit Rationing and Crowding-Out During the Industrial Revolution: Evidence from Hoare's Bank, 1702-1862
C REDIT R ATIONING AND C ROWDING O UT DURING THE I NDUSTRIAL R EVOLUTION : E VIDENCE FROM H OARE ’ S B ANK , 1702-1862 P ETER T EMIN (MIT AND NBER) H ANS -J OACHIM V OTH (UPF, CREI, AND CEPR) A…
Path dependence and the quest for historical economics : one more chorus of the ballad of QWERTY
The term path dependence (PD) here refers to a dynamic property of allocative processes, pertaining to non-ergodic stochastic systems -those whose asymptotic distributions evolve as a function of the…
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