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[PDF] Tolerance, religious competition and the rise and fall of muslim science

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E Chaney - Unpublished manuscript, Harvard University, 2008 - economics.harvard.edu
Abstract This paper investigates how medieval Islam encouraged scientific innovation. By
granting non'Muslims a degree of religious freedom, Muslim law created competition
between religions for converts and social standing. Institutionalized tolerance, coupled ...
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Assessing pacification policy in Iraq: Evidence from Iraqi financial markets

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E Chaney - Journal of Comparative Economics, 2008 - Elsevier
At the end of January, 2006 the Iraqi government issued roughly 2.7
billionofdebtinexchangeforover 20 billion of Saddam-era commercial claims. This paper
uses variation in the yield spread of this sovereign debt to evaluate pacification policy in ...
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[PDF] Ethnic cleansing and the long-term persistence of extractive institutions: Evidence from the expulsion of the Moriscos

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E Chaney - Unpublished working paper, 2008 - bachman.hul.harvard.edu
This paper uses the 1609 expulsion of 300,000 Muslims from the Iberian peninsula to
analyze the mechanisms through which exploitative institutions dampen the development of
pre-industrial economies. The evidence suggests that the persistence of extractive ...
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[CITATION] A Weaker Euro is Critical for the Recovery

E Chaney - Morgan Stanley Global Economic Forum, 2003
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[PDF] Dividend Taxes, Partial Expensing and Business Fixed Investment: The Case of the Bush Tax Cuts

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AJ Auerbach, E Chaney… - Prepared for Forum for Analysis of …, 2008 - aei.org
In 2002, US fiscal policy toward investment took an activist turn. In response to a recession
eventually declared by the NBER to have begun in March, 2001, the further pressure put on
the economy by the attacks of September 11 later that year, and a sharp drop in business ...
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Pirates of the Mediterranean: An Empirical Investigation of Bargaining with Transaction Costs

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A Ambrus, E Chaney… - 2011 - papers.ssrn.com
Abstract: This paper uses ransom prices and time to ransom for over 10,000 captives
rescued from two Barbary strongholds to investigate the empirical relevance of dynamic
bargaining models with one-sided asymmetric information in ransoming settings. We ...
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[PDF] Institutional Inertia: Political Legitimacy in Muslim Iberia

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E Chaney - economics.stanford.edu
Abstract: The ultimate success of the reconquista (the reconquering of Muslim lands in the
Iberian Peninsula from 718-1492) and the ensuing consolidation of Spain beneath the joint
rule of Ferdinand and Isabel helped define the course of western civilization. This paper ...
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[PDF] Sultans, the Sharina and Seven Empty Ears: Economic Catastrophes, Church and State

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E Chaney - Genesis, 2010 - Citeseer
Abstract This paper uses over 700 years of Nile flood data and a novel data set on the
tenure of Egyptian political and religious leaders to investigate how economic shocks
affected the balance of power between ochurchpand ostatep in pre'modern Egypt. Results ...
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[PDF] Revolt on the Nile: Economic Shocks, Religion and Political Influence

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E Chaney - 2011 - scholar.harvard.edu
Abstract Can religious leaders use their popular influence to political ends? This paper
explores this question using over 700 years of Nile flood data. Results show that deviant
Nile floods reduced the dismissal probability of Egyptos highest&ranking religious ...
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[PDF] Revolt on the Nile: Economic Shocks, Religion and Institutional Change

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E Chaney, T Kuran, R Mccleary, C Petry… - 2010 - mauricio.econ.ubc.ca
Abstract This paper uses over 700 years of Nile flood data to investigate the effect of
economic shocks on political outcomes in pre'Modern Islamic Egypt. Results show that while
deviant Nile floods increased political instability, these shocks decreased the likelihood of ...
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[PDF] Democratic Change in the Arab World, Past and Present

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E Chaney - 2012 - economics.harvard.edu
Abstract Will the Arab Spring lead to long-lasting democratic change? To explore this
question I examine the determinants of the Arab world's democratic deficit in 2010. I find that
the percent of a country's landmass that was conquered by Arab armies following the ...
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[PDF] Economic Development, Religious Competition, and the Rise and Fall of Muslim Science

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E Chaney - 2007 - uccs-dev.dss.ucdavis.edu
Abstract Is Islam compatible with modern economic development? The poor development
record of predominantly Muslim countries during the past century has led to claims that only
a return to medieval Islamic institutions will produce economic growth in a manner that is ...
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[PDF] Review Essay _ Islamic Law, Institutions and Economic Development in the Islamic Middle East

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E Chaney - economics.harvard.edu
Although generations of scholars have sought to understand the Middle East's economic
decline, Kuran's book is especially timely given recent political developments in the region.
Observers across the world are looking to the region's history to better understand the ...
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[PDF] Separation of Powers and the Medieval Roots of Institutional Divergence between Europe and the Islamic Middle East

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E Chaney - iea-world.com
Abstract An influential literature sees the roots of sustained economic growth in Europe's
unique institutional framework. In this article, I combine historical evidence with insights from
my ongoing research to propose a conceptual framework to better understand the ...
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[PDF] The Feudal Revolution and Europe's Rise: Institutional Divergence in the Christian and Muslim Worlds before 1500 CE

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L Blaydes… - 2011 - pluto.mscc.huji.ac.il
Abstract This paper investigates the political origins of Europe's economic rise by examining
the emergence of increasing ruler durability in Western Europe when compared with the
Islamic world. While European rulers were less durable than their Muslim counterparts in ...
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[PDF] Taxation and Middle Class Formation: Evidence from the Expulsion of the Moriscos

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E Chaney - 2008 - econ.ucdavis.edu
Abstract This paper uses variation in tax rates created by the 1609 expulsion of 120,000
Valencian Muslims to estimate the long% term effects of taxation on middle class formation.
The evidence suggests that by 1787 cities with lower tax rates had developed a 4% larger ...
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[BOOK] Diversity, tolerance and economic performance: Evidence from the Muslim and Spanish golden ages

EJ Chaney - 2008 - books.google.com
Page 1. Diversity, Tolerance and Economic Performance: Evidence from the Muslim
and Spanish Golden Ages by Eric Justin Chaney BA (Stanford University) 2003 BS
(Stanford University) 2003 A dissertation submitted in partial ...
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[PDF] Revolt on the Nile: Economic Shocks, Religion and Political Power

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E Chaney - 2011 - econ.brown.edu
Abstract Can economic shocks increase the political power of religious leaders? I
investigate this question using over 700 years of Nile flood data. I find that deviant Nile
floods decreased the probability of change of Egypt's highestranking religious authority by ...
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[CITATION] Assessing Stabilization Policy in Iraq: Evidence from Iraqi Financial Markets

E Chaney - 2006
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[PDF] The Feudal Revolution and Europe's Rise: Political Divergence of the Christian and Muslim Worlds before 1500 CE

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L Blaydes… - 2011 - economics.harvard.edu
Abstract This paper documents a divergence in the duration of rule for monarchs in Western
Europe and the Islamic world beginning in the medieval period. While leadership tenures in
the two regions were similar in 700 CE, Christian kings became increasingly long-lived ...
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Comments on Professor Otmar Issing's “Monetary Policy in a World of Uncertainty”

E Chaney - Economie internationale, 2002 - cairn.info
Professor Issing gives a fair and comprehensive description of the three main sources of
uncertainties that have to be taken into account by monetary policy authorities: uncertainties
about the state of the economy, its structure and the reaction of economic agents, both in ...
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[PDF] Appendix for Democratic Change in the Arab World, Past and Present

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E Chaney - 2012 - economics.harvard.edu
In the main text I addressed in some detail potential concerns that the results were picking
up the effects of desert terrain working through channels other than Arab conquest. In this
subsection of the appendix I do so in greater detail. To do this, I use as a proxy for desert ...
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[PDF] Oil, Revolutions and Wars: The Islamic Revival 1965&1987

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E Chaney - 2009 - hks.harvard.edu
Abstract This paper uses panel data on Hajj attendance to investigate the causes of
increases in Muslim religious observance from 1965&1987. While aggregate movements in
Hajj attendance coincide with the conventional Revival timeline, detailed analysis casts ...
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[PDF] 1.3 Business cycle analysis needs robust national statistics

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E CHANEY - Short-term indicators, 2005 - uni-mannheim.de
Financial markets and policy-makers share a common compulsive habit: they have become
so addicted to high frequency statistical releases that they tend to over-trust and over-
interpret them. Mr Jim Dollar hopes that if he pays enough attention to the latest German ...
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[PDF] Appendix for Pirates of the Mediterranean: An Empirical Investigation of Bargaining with Transaction Costs

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A Ambrus, E Chaney… - 2011 - scholar.harvard.edu
Data are drawn from 53 ransom books taken from the Archivo Histórico Nacional and the
Biblioteca Nacional de Madrid. These books constitute the majority of the known surviving
records of trips by the Spanish redemption orders to Algiers and Tetuan. Summary ...
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Islamic Law, Institutions and Economic Development in the Islamic Middle East

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E Chaney - Development and Change, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Timur Kuran has spent much of the last decade investigating the economic and institutional
development of the Middle East. The Long Divergence: How Islamic Law Held Back the
Middle East brings the results of this research together to provide an explanation for the ...
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[HTML] Taux d'utilisation des capacités de production: un reflet des fluctuations conjoncturelles

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D Bourlange… - Economie et statistique, 1990 - persee.fr
The Use Rates of Productive Capacities Reflect Fluctuations in the Overall Economic Climate -
The rates at which industrial productive capacities are used, which can be defined as the
difference between actual production and potential production, are a good economic indicator ...
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