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Replication Data for: "Roads and Innovation"
No full textAgrawal, Ajay, Galasso, Alberto, and Oettl, Alexander, (2017) “Roads and Innovation.” Review of Economics and Statistics 99:3, 417-434
Replication Data for: "Roads and Innovation"
No full textAgrawal, Ajay, Galasso, Alberto, and Oettl, Alexander, (2017) “Roads and Innovation.” Review of Economics and Statistics 99:3, 417-434
Replication data for: Licensing Life-Saving Drugs for Developing Countries: Evidence from the Medicines Patent Pool
No full textReview of Economics and Statistics: Forthcomin
Censorship, industry structure, and creativity: evidence from the Catholic inquisition in Renaissance Venice
Get PDFWe examine the effects of the book censorship implemented by the Catholic Inquisition on printing outcomes in Renaissance Venice. We collect detailed information on indexes of prohibited books and publication activities by the main printers active in Venice during the 1500s. We construct treatment and comparison groups based on the specialization of each printer in transgressive publications before the Inquisition. We show that censorship had a significant impact on publication levels and industry structure, with the firms targeted by the Inquisition losing market shares to those less affected by censorship. These effects appear long lasting and associated to changes in survival and entry. We also show that censorship led to a change in the direction of publishing. These findings support the idea that censorship may have dynamic effects on the structure, evolution, and creativity of industries that go beyond the removal of certain types of creative work from the market
The Diffusion of New Institutions: Evidence from Renaissance Venice's Patent System
Get PDFWhat factors affect the diffusion of new economic institutions? This paper examines this question exploiting the introduction of the first regularized patent system which appeared in the Venetian Republic in 1474. We begin by developing a model which links patenting activity of craft guilds with provisions in their statutes. The model predicts that guild statutes that are more effective at preventing outsider's entry and at mitigating price competition lead to less patenting.
We test this prediction on a new dataset which combines detailed information on craft guilds and patents in the Venetian Republic during the Renaissance. We find a negative association between patenting activity and guild statutory norms which strongly restrict entry and price
competition. We show that guilds which originated from medieval religious confraternities were more likely to regulate entry and competition, and that the effect on patenting is robust to instrumenting guild statutes with their quasi-exogenous religious origin. We also find that patenting was more widespread among guilds geographically distant from Venice, and among guilds in cities with lower political connection which we measure exploiting a new database on noble families and their marriages with members of the great council. Our analysis suggests that local economic and political conditions may have a substantial impact on the diffusion of new economic institutions
Il linguaggio dei presidenti
No full textRicostruzione del profilo linguistico degli esponenti che si sono succeduti alla carica di Presidente della Repubblica, dal capo provvisorio dello Stato, Enrico De Nicola al Presidente in carica, Sergio Mattarella. Per garantire la comparabilità, lo studio si basa sui discorsi di insediamento e sui messaggi di fine anno (che sono stati tenuti da tutti i presidenti), integrati da osservazioni ed esempi tratti da altri discorsi, specifici dell’attività oratoria dei singoli presidenti. L’obiettivo è stato quello di individuare peculiarità e costanti dei discorsi dei president
“Ha il comando delle Forze armate, presiede il Consiglio supremo di difesa”
No full textLa prima ricostruzione da parte di uno storico della funzione militare del Presidente della Repubblica, basata su una ricerca nell'archivio inedito del Consiglio Supremo di Difesa presso l'Archivio del Quirinale. La prima ricerca d'archivio su un tema centrale ma spesso rimasto 'segreto' e lasciato alle ricostrzioni di profilo giuridico ma non esaminato agli storici.
The first historical account, by a historian, of the military role of the President of the Italian Republic, based on researches in the unpublished papers of the 'Supreme Defense Council' at the Quirinale Archives. The first archival research on a topic crucial but often remained 'secret' , left to scholars of law but not examined by historians
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