Huning, Thilo Rene and Wahl, Fabian (Accepted: 2023) You reap what you know:Appropriability and the origin of European states. European Journal of Political Economy. 102432. ISSN 0176-2680 (In Press)
Abstract
Geography provides some states with a higher level of soil quality than others, and in addition has allowed some historical states to appropriate agricultural output at lower costs. To test this empirically, we propose a new measure of appropriability: caloric observability. The idea behind this measure is that geography induces variation between states because their signals about agricultural output differ in precision. Caloric observability is robustly and significantly correlated with proxies of government success on three levels: Data on all European states 1300–1700, our new data set on the Holy Roman Empire 1150–1789, and a municipality-level data set of 1545 Duchy of Württemberg.
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Item Type: | Article |
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Copyright, Publisher and Additional Information: | © 2023 The Author(s) |
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Institution: | The University of York |
Academic Units: | The University of York > Faculty of Social Sciences (York) > Economics and Related Studies (York) |
Depositing User: | Pure (York) |
Date Deposited: | 07 Aug 2023 16:20 |
Last Modified: | 01 Mar 2025 00:09 |
Published Version: | https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2023.102432 |
Status: | In Press |
Refereed: | Yes |
Identification Number: | 10.1016/j.ejpoleco.2023.102432 |
Open Archives Initiative ID (OAI ID): | oai:eprints.whiterose.ac.uk:202241 |
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