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Becker, Sascha O., Ferrara, Andreas, Melander, Eric and Pascali , Luigi (2018) Wars, local political institutions, and fiscal capacity : evidence from six centuries of German history. Working Paper. Coventry, UK: University of Warwick. Department of Economics. Warwick economics research papers series (WERPS) (1182). (Unpublished)
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Abstract
We study the effect of warfare on the development of state capacity and representative institutions using novel data on cities and territories in the German lands between 1200 and 1750. More specifically, we show that cities with a higher conflict exposure establish more sophisticated tax systems, but also develop larger councils, councils that are more likely to be elected by citizens, and more likely to be independent of other local institutions. These results are consistent with the idea of a trade-off between more efficient taxation and power sharing proposed in earlier work. We make head way one stablishing a causal role of wars by using changes to German nobles’ positions within the European nobility network to instrument for conflict
| Item Type: | Working or Discussion Paper (Working Paper) | ||||||
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| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HJ Public Finance | ||||||
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Economics | ||||||
| Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Taxation -- History -- Germany, War -- Economic aspects, Germany -- History, Nobility -- History -- Germany | ||||||
| Series Name: | Warwick economics research papers series (WERPS) | ||||||
| Publisher: | University of Warwick. Department of Economics | ||||||
| Place of Publication: | Coventry, UK | ||||||
| ISSN: | 0083-7350 | ||||||
| Official Date: | December 2018 | ||||||
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| Number: | 1182 | ||||||
| Number of Pages: | 55 | ||||||
| Institution: | University of Warwick | ||||||
| Status: | Not Peer Reviewed | ||||||
| Publication Status: | Unpublished | ||||||
| Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||
| Description: | This paper also appears as CAGE discussion paper 395 |
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| Date of first compliant deposit: | 21 December 2018 | ||||||
| Date of first compliant Open Access: | 21 December 2018 | ||||||
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