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Working Papers

2025

1. Financing innovation: The role of patent examination
   QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History

2024

2. Mind Your Language: Explaining the Retreat of the Irish Language Frontier
   CEPR Discussion Papers, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers
   Also in QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History (2024)

2023

3. What can we learn from historical pandemics? A systematic review of the literature
   QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History
   See also Journal Article What can we learn from historical pandemics? A systematic review of the literature, Social Science & Medicine, Elsevier (2024) View citations (1) (2024)

2022

4. Demography and age heaping: Solving Ireland's post-famine digit preference puzzle
   QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History
   Also in Working Papers, European Historical Economics Society (EHES) (2022)
5. Economic history and the future of pedagogy in economics
   QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History

2021

6. Cohort component population estimates for Ireland, 1911-1920: A new county-level dataset for use in historical demography
   QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History View citations (1)
7. Going Dutch: How the Netherlands Escaped its Golden Fetters, 1925-1936
   QBS Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's Business School

2020

8. Death, Demography and the Denominator: New Influenza-18 Mortality Estimates for Ireland
   QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History View citations (1)
   Also in SRERC Working Paper Series, University College Cork (UCC), Spatial and Regional Economic Research Centre (SRERC) (2020) View citations (1)

2019

9. Applied history, applied economics, and economic history
   QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History View citations (6)
10. Going Dutch: The management of monetary policy in the Netherlands during the interwar gold standard
    QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History View citations (4)

2018

11. The Origins of the (Cooperative) Species: Raiffeisen Banking in the Netherlands, 1898–1909
    Working Papers, European Historical Economics Society (EHES) View citations (3)
    Also in QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History (2018) View citations (3)

2017

12. Banking on a religious divide: Accounting for the success of the Netherlands' Raiffeisen cooperatives in the crisis of the 1920s
    QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History View citations (5)
    See also Journal Article Banking on a Religious Divide: Accounting for the Success of the Netherlands' Raiffeisen Cooperatives in the Crisis of the 1920s, The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press (2017) View citations (5) (2017)
13. Scarring and Selection in the Great Irish Famine
    Discussion Papers in Environment and Development Economics, University of St. Andrews, School of Geography and Sustainable Development View citations (6)
    Also in QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History (2017) View citations (6)

2016

14. Work Ethic, Social Ethic, No Ethic: Measuring the Economic Values of Modern Christians
    Economics Working Papers, Queen's Management School, Queen's University Belfast View citations (1)
    See also Journal Article Work Ethic, Social Ethic, no Ethic: Measuring the Economic Values of Modern Christians, Journal of Applied Econometrics, John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. (2017) View citations (4) (2017)

2015

15. Quantifying Human Capital Accumulation in Rural Ireland in the Nineteenth Century
    Discussion Papers in Environment and Development Economics, University of St. Andrews, School of Geography and Sustainable Development View citations (4)
    Also in QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History (2015) View citations (3)
    See also Journal Article Women of an uncertain age: quantifying human capital accumulation in rural Ireland in the nineteenth century, Economic History Review, Economic History Society (2017) View citations (16) (2017)
16. The past, present and future of banking history
    QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History View citations (1)

2014

17. Can women count? Gender and numeracy in nineteenth-century Ireland
    Working Papers, Utrecht University, Centre for Global Economic History
18. Predicting the past: Understanding the causes of bank distress in the Netherlands in the 1920s
    QUCEH Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History View citations (5)
    Also in Working Papers, European Historical Economics Society (EHES) (2013)
    See also Journal Article Predicting the past: Understanding the causes of bank distress in the Netherlands in the 1920s, Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier (2015) View citations (10) (2015)

2007

19. Universal Banking Failure? An Analysis of the Contrasting Responses of the Amsterdamsche Bank and the Rotterdamsche Bankvereeniging to the Dutch Financial Crisis of the 1920s
    MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany
    Also in Economic History Working Papers, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History (2007)
    See also Journal Article Interlocking directorates and conflicts of interest: the Rotterdamsche Bankvereeniging, M�ller & Co. and the Dutch financial crisis of the 1920s, Business History, Taylor & Francis Journals (2014) View citations (6) (2014)

Journal Articles

2024

1. The Legacy of the Global Financial Crisis. By Youssef Cassis and Jean-Jacques van Helten, eds. London: Bloomsbury Academic, 2021. Pp. 236. $39.89, paper
   The Journal of Economic History, 2024, 84, (2), 653-654
2. What can we learn from historical pandemics? A systematic review of the literature
   Social Science & Medicine, 2024, 342, (C) View citations (1)
   See also Working Paper What can we learn from historical pandemics? A systematic review of the literature, QUCEH Working Paper Series (2023) (2023)

2022

3. Going Dutch: monetary policy in the Netherlands during the interwar gold standard, 1925–1936
   Financial History Review, 2022, 29, (2), 121-151 View citations (2)

2021

4. Anthropometric History: Revisiting What’s in it for Ireland
   Irish Economic and Social History, 2021, 48, (1), 3-26
5. Death, demography and the denominator: Age-adjusted Influenza-18 mortality in Ireland
   Economics & Human Biology, 2021, 41, (C) View citations (8)

2020

6. The origins of the (cooperative) species: Raiffeisen banking in the Netherlands, 1898–19091
   European Review of Economic History, 2020, 24, (4), 749-782 View citations (1)

2018

7. Organizational Determinants of Bank Resilience: Explaining the Performance of SME Banks in the Dutch Financial Crisis of the 1920s
   Business History Review, 2018, 92, (4), 661-690 View citations (6)

2017

8. Banking on a Religious Divide: Accounting for the Success of the Netherlands' Raiffeisen Cooperatives in the Crisis of the 1920s
   The Journal of Economic History, 2017, 77, (3), 866-919 View citations (5)
   See also Working Paper Banking on a religious divide: Accounting for the success of the Netherlands' Raiffeisen cooperatives in the crisis of the 1920s, QUCEH Working Paper Series (2017) View citations (5) (2017)
9. Women of an uncertain age: quantifying human capital accumulation in rural Ireland in the nineteenth century
   Economic History Review, 2017, 70, (1), 187-223 View citations (16)
   See also Working Paper Quantifying Human Capital Accumulation in Rural Ireland in the Nineteenth Century, Discussion Papers in Environment and Development Economics (2015) View citations (4) (2015)
10. Work Ethic, Social Ethic, no Ethic: Measuring the Economic Values of Modern Christians
    Journal of Applied Econometrics, 2017, 32, (5), 1043-1053 View citations (4)
    See also Working Paper Work Ethic, Social Ethic, No Ethic: Measuring the Economic Values of Modern Christians, Economics Working Papers (2016) View citations (1) (2016)

2015

11. Predicting the past: Understanding the causes of bank distress in the Netherlands in the 1920s
    Explorations in Economic History, 2015, 55, (C), 97-121 View citations (10)
    See also Working Paper Predicting the past: Understanding the causes of bank distress in the Netherlands in the 1920s, QUCEH Working Paper Series (2014) View citations (5) (2014)
12. Stijn Claessens, M. Ayhan Kose, Luc Laeven, and Fabián Valencia, eds., Financial crises: causes, consequences and policy response ( Washington, DC: International Monetary Fund, 2014. Pp. xxxii+635. ISBN 9781475543407 Hbk. $40)
    Economic History Review, 2015, 68, (2), 766-767

2014

13. Interlocking directorates and conflicts of interest: the Rotterdamsche Bankvereeniging, M�ller & Co. and the Dutch financial crisis of the 1920s
    Business History, 2014, 56, (2), 314-334 View citations (6)
    See also Working Paper Universal Banking Failure? An Analysis of the Contrasting Responses of the Amsterdamsche Bank and the Rotterdamsche Bankvereeniging to the Dutch Financial Crisis of the 1920s, MPRA Paper (2007) (2007)
14. Raiffeisenism abroad: why did German cooperative banking fail in Ireland but prosper in the Netherlands?
    Economic History Review, 2014, 67, (2), 492-516 View citations (24)

2012

15. Men, women, and money: perspectives on gender, wealth, and investment 1850--1930
    Business History, 2012, 54, (4), 642-643

Edited books

2018

1. An Economist’s Guide to Economic History
   Palgrave Studies in Economic History, Palgrave Macmillan View citations (3)

Chapters

2018

1. Culture and Religion
   Palgrave Macmillan
2. Economics Versus History
   Palgrave Macmillan View citations (1)
3. Industrial Revolution and British Exceptionalism
   Palgrave Macmillan
4. Introduction, or Why We Started This Project
   Palgrave Macmillan View citations (1)