... on fiscal capacity and their transmission. The comparison between Japan and Argentina sheds light on the significance of domestic credit markets to keep foreign dependence under control and prevent falling into a debt trap. Meanwhile, the comparison between Siam and Ethiopia demonstrates the perils...

... increased, suggesting no decline in fiscal capacity. The lands ruled by Spain’s Habsburg and Bourbon kings were vastly more heterogeneous than those ruled by English monarchs from Henry V to George III. While both had inherited territories with preexisting linguistic, cultural, and economic...

...This chapter explores the forces that shape investments in fiscal capacity. It sets out a core model that shows how this aspect of state building is influenced by economic and political factors, such as common interests and political institutions. A key feature of the model has been to delineate...

... at 0.68. Arguably, deviations from the mean might be suggestive of some patronage, but on average more staffed tax bureaucracies seem to point to more fiscal capacity. Next, I assess the extent to which tax administrations today are shaped by war finance in the long nineteenth century. For consistency...

.... Standard error in parentheses. ^***  p<0.01, ^** p<0.05, ^*  p<0.1. Table 7.4. Effects of War and External Capital Access on Short-Term Fiscal Capacity Figure 7.1 Figure 7.3     (1) (2...