Browsing Department of Economics by Author "Rei, Claudia"
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Rei, Claudia (Vanderbilt University, 2011)The Portuguese and Dutch merchant empires had a similar geographic distribution with outposts all around the Indian Ocean, which they controlled and manned. Both empires faced the same problem of monitoring their agents ...
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Rei, Claudia (Vanderbilt University, 2011)This paper focuses on the implications of organizational control on the race for economic leadership across merchant empires. Poor organizational choices reduce incentives to invest, which in turn stifle technological ...