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| Title: | The role of technology and institutions for growth : Danish creameries in the late nineteenth century |
| Author(s): | Henriksen, Ingrid
Lampe, Markus [mlampe]
Sharp, Paul |
| Publisher: | Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Departamento de Historia Económica e Instituciones
Instituto Figuerola de Historia y Ciencias sociales |
| Issued date: | Nov-2010 |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/10016/9693 |
| Abstract: | We consider the relative contributions of changing technology and institutions for economic growth through the investigation of a natural experiment in history: the almost simultaneous introduction of the automatic cream separator and the cooperative ownership form in the Danish dairy industry from around 1880. Using a new database of statistics from creameries and the tool of stochastic frontier analysis, we find that both institutions and technology were important for the success of the Danish dairy industry and, by implication, the growth and early development of the Danish economy. |
| Serie / Nº.: | Working Papers in Economic History
10-13 |
| Keywords: | Creameries
Dairies
Denmark
Development
Economic growth
Institutions
Technology
Stochastic frontier analysis |
| JEL Classification: | L2
N5
O3
Q1 |
| Appears in Collections: | DHEI - Working Papers in Economic History.WH
Economists Online
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