Post-Bellum Britain and the Inventor

Absorptive Capacity and Post-Acquisition Inventor Productivity

Inventors often experience a low productivity after their company has been subject to a merger or acquisition (M&As). It is of central managerial interest to identify factors facilitating the integration of new inventive staff and thereby counteracting innovation declines after M&As. This paper provides empirical evidence into the role of acquiring firms’ absorptive capacity for the post-merger...

Suffrage , Schooling , and Sorting in the Post - Bellum U . S . South

This paper estimates the political and economic effects of the 19th century disenfranchisement of black citizens in the U.S. South. Using adjacent county-pairs that straddle state boundaries, I first examine the effect of voting restrictions on political competition. I find that each disenfranchisement law lowered overall electoral turnout by 8-17% and increased the Democratic presidential part...

Science and the ante-bellum American college

book is the last period which covers their own professional lifetimes, 1946 to 1976. In the first two sections the material is divided into more general topics such as medical education, medical practice, research, preventive medicine, and governmental control, whereas the third although dealing with some of these is devoted mainly to special subjects: drugs, cardiology, genetics, biochemistry,...

The Individual Inventor

A Post - Imperial Power ? Britain and the Royal Navy

F or a century and a half, from the Napoleonic Wars to World War II, the British Empire was the greatest power in the world. At the core of that power was the Royal Navy, the greatest and most advanced naval force in the world. For decades, the distinctive nature, the power and the glory, of the empire and the Royal Navy shaped the character and provided the identity of the British nation. Toda...