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Working Papers

1997

1. On the Social Foundations and Historical Development of Institutions that Facilitate Impersonal Exchange: From the Community Responsibility System to Individual Legal Responsibility in Pre-modern Europe
   Working Papers, Stanford University, Department of Economics
2. Self-enforcing Political System and Economic Growth: Late Medieval Genoa
   Working Papers, Stanford University, Department of Economics View citations

1995

3. A Transactions-Cost Theory of Agglomeration Economies
   Working Papers, Stanford University, Department of Economics View citations

Undated

4. Economic History and Game Theory: a Survey
   Working Papers, Stanford University, Department of Economics View citations
5. Micro Theory and Recent Developments in the Study of Economic Institutions Through Economic History
   Working Papers, Stanford University, Department of Economics View citations

Journal Articles

2006

1. Family Structure, Institutions, and Growth: The Origins and Implications of Western Corporations
   American Economic Review, 2006, 96, (2), 308-312
2. History Lessons: The Birth of Impersonal Exchange: The Community Responsibility System and Impartial Justice
   Journal of Economic Perspectives, 2006, 20, (2), 221-236

2002

3. Institutions and Impersonal Exchange: From Communal to Individual Responsibility
   Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), 2002, 158, (1), 168- View citations

2001

4. The fundamental problem of exchange: A research agenda in Historical Institutional Analysis
   European Review of Economic History, 2001, 4, (03), 251-284 View citations

1998

5. Historical and Comparative Institutional Analysis
   American Economic Review, 1998, 88, (2), 80-84 View citations

1997

6. Cliometrics after Forty Years
   American Economic Review, 1997, 87, (2), 400-403

1996

7. The Study of Organizations and Evolving Organizational Forms through History: Reflections from the Late Medieval Family Firm
   Industrial and Corporate Change, 1996, 5, (2), 473-501 View citations

1994

8. Coordination, Commitment, and Enforcement: The Case of the Merchant Guild
   Journal of Political Economy, 1994, 102, (4), 745-76 View citations
9. Cultural Beliefs and the Organization of Society: A Historical and Theoretical Reflection on Collectivist and Individualist Societies
   Journal of Political Economy, 1994, 102, (5), 912-50 View citations

1993

10. Contract Enforceability and Economic Institutions in Early Trade: the Maghribi Traders' Coalition
    American Economic Review, 1993, 83, (3), 525-48 View citations

1992

11. Institutions and International Trade: Lessons from the Commercial Revolution
    American Economic Review, 1992, 82, (2), 128-33 View citations

Chapters

2002

1. Economic history and game theory
   Chapter 52 in Handbook of Game Theory with Economic Applications, 2002, vol. 3, pp 1989-2024 View citations