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Working Papers

2022

1. Persistence and Historical Evidence: The Example of the Rise of the Nazi Party
   CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo
   Also in Cambridge Working Papers in Economics, Faculty of Economics, University of Cambridge (2022)

2019

2. Dark Matter Credit: The Development of Peer-to-Peer Lending and Banking in France
   Post-Print, HAL View citations (11)
   Also in PSE-Ecole d'économie de Paris (Postprint), HAL (2019) View citations (11)

2015

3. Entry, information, and financial development: A century of competition between French banks and notaries
   Post-Print, HAL View citations (7)
   Also in PSE-Ecole d'économie de Paris (Postprint), HAL (2015) View citations (7)
   See also Journal Article Entry, information, and financial development: A century of competition between French banks and notaries, Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier (2015) View citations (9) (2015)

2014

4. Capitalism and Financial Development: The Case of Mortgage Markets in France, 1807–1899
   PSE-Ecole d'économie de Paris (Postprint), HAL
   Also in Post-Print, HAL (2014)

2011

5. History, Geography, and the Markets for Mortgage Loans in Nineteenth-Century
   Post-Print, HAL View citations (5)
   Also in PSE-Ecole d'économie de Paris (Postprint), HAL (2011) View citations (5)

2009

6. Surviving Large Losses: Financial Crises, the Middle Class, and the Development of Capital Markets
   PSE-Ecole d'économie de Paris (Postprint), HAL View citations (3)
   Also in Post-Print, HAL (2007) View citations (11)
   Post-Print, HAL (2009) View citations (3)
   PSE-Ecole d'économie de Paris (Postprint), HAL (2007) View citations (11)

1994

7. What do Notaries do? Overcoming Asymmetric Information in Financial Markets: The Case of Paris, 1751
   UCLA Economics Working Papers, UCLA Department of Economics View citations (3)
   See also Journal Article What do Notaries do?. Overcoming Asymmetric Information in Financial Markets: The Case of Paris, 1751, Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen (1998) View citations (7) (1998)

1992

8. New Evidence for an Old Controversy: Scattered Landholdings and Open Fields
   Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences

1991

9. Land Rents and Agricultural Productivity: The Paris Basin, 1450-1789
   Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
   See also Journal Article Land Rents and Agricultural Productivity: The Paris Basin, 1450–1789, The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press (1991) View citations (5) (1991)

1990

10. Social History and Agricultural Productivity: The Paris Basin, 1450-1800
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences

1983

11. Economic Theory and Sharecropping in Early Modern France
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
12. Social History and Taxes: The Case of Early Modern France
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences

1981

13. Pious Bequests in Wills: A Statistical Analysis
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
14. Sharecropping and Investment in Agriculture in Early Modern France
    Working Papers, California Institute of Technology, Division of the Humanities and Social Sciences
    See also Journal Article Sharecropping and Investment in Agriculture in Early Modern France, The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press (1982) View citations (4) (1982)

Journal Articles

2020

1. The Great Divergence: Why Britain Industrialised First
   Australian Economic History Review, 2020, 60, (2), 126-147

2017

2. Public Economics and History: A Review of Fiscal Regimes and the Political Economy of Premodern States, Edited by Andrew Monson and Walter Scheidel
   Journal of Economic Literature, 2017, 55, (4), 1556-69 View citations (3)

2015

3. Entry, information, and financial development: A century of competition between French banks and notaries
   Explorations in Economic History, 2015, 55, (C), 39-57 View citations (9)
   See also Working Paper Entry, information, and financial development: A century of competition between French banks and notaries, Post-Print (2015) View citations (7) (2015)
4. What Do States Do? Politics and Economic History
   The Journal of Economic History, 2015, 75, (2), 303-332 View citations (26)

2012

5. Why Was It Europeans Who Conquered the World?
   The Journal of Economic History, 2012, 72, (3), 601-633 View citations (18)

2011

6. Prices, the military revolution, and western Europe's comparative advantage in violence
   Economic History Review, 2011, 64, 39-59 View citations (13)
   Also in Economic History Review, 2011, 64, (s1), 39-59 (2011) View citations (12)
7. Why the West Rules–for Now: The Patterns of History and What They Reveal About the Future. By Ian Morris. New York: Farrar, Straus, and Giroux, 2010. $35.00, hardcover
   The Journal of Economic History, 2011, 71, (2), 545-547

2002

8. REAL INEQUALITY IN EUROPE SINCE 1500
   The Journal of Economic History, 2002, 62, (2), 322-355 View citations (86)

2001

9. MODERN EUROPE Histoire agraire de la France au XVIIIe siècle. By Gérard Béaur. Paris: Éditions SEDES, 2000. Pp. 320. €21.13, paper
   The Journal of Economic History, 2001, 61, (4), 1108-1109
10. SESSION 2B: WARS AND STRUCTURE OF GOVERNMENT
    The Journal of Economic History, 2001, 61, (2), 519-520

1998

11. What do Notaries do?. Overcoming Asymmetric Information in Financial Markets: The Case of Paris, 1751
    Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), 1998, 154, (3), 499- View citations (7)
    See also Working Paper What do Notaries do? Overcoming Asymmetric Information in Financial Markets: The Case of Paris, 1751, UCLA Economics Working Papers (1994) View citations (3) (1994)

1995

12. Les fermiers de l'ôle-de-France: L'ascension d'un patronat agricole (XVe–XVIIIe siècles). By Jean-Marc Moriceau. Paris: Fayard, 1994. Pp. 1,069
    The Journal of Economic History, 1995, 55, (4), 925-926
13. Redistribution and Long-Term Private Debt in Paris, 1660–1726
    The Journal of Economic History, 1995, 55, (2), 256-284 View citations (2)

1992

14. Private Credit Markets in Paris, 1690–1840
    The Journal of Economic History, 1992, 52, (2), 293-306 View citations (8)

1991

15. Land Rents and Agricultural Productivity: The Paris Basin, 1450–1789
    The Journal of Economic History, 1991, 51, (4), 771-805 View citations (5)
    See also Working Paper Land Rents and Agricultural Productivity: The Paris Basin, 1450-1789, Working Papers (1991) (1991)

1990

16. Comments on Craig, Hood, and Barbezat
    The Journal of Economic History, 1990, 50, (2), 444-446

1988

17. Institutions and Agriculture in Old Regime France
    Politics & Society, 1988, 16, (2-3), 241-264 View citations (8)

1986

18. Absolutism and Society in Seventeenth-Century France: State Power and Provincial Aristocracy in Languedoc. By William Beik. New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985. Pp. xviii, 375. $44.50
    The Journal of Economic History, 1986, 46, (2), 533-534
19. Taxes and Agrarian Life in Early Modern France: Land Sales, 1550–1730
    The Journal of Economic History, 1986, 46, (1), 37-55 View citations (4)

1984

20. The Economic Theory of Sharecropping in Early Modern France
    The Journal of Economic History, 1984, 44, (2), 309-319 View citations (12)

1982

21. Sharecropping and Investment in Agriculture in Early Modern France
    The Journal of Economic History, 1982, 42, (1), 155-159 View citations (4)
    See also Working Paper Sharecropping and Investment in Agriculture in Early Modern France, Working Papers (1981) (1981)

Books

2015

1. Why Did Europe Conquer the World?
   Economics Books, Princeton University Press View citations (53)

Edited books

2010

1. Finance, Intermediaries, and Economic Development
   Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press

2003

2. Finance, Intermediaries, and Economic Development
   Cambridge Books, Cambridge University Press View citations (31)

Chapters

2024

1. Cliometric Approaches to War
   Springer
2. Institutions
   Springer

2015

3. Introduction
   A chapter in Why Did Europe Conquer the World?, 2015 View citations (1)

2008

4. History, Geography, and the Markets for Mortgage Loans in Nineteenth-Century France
   A chapter in Understanding Long-Run Economic Growth: Geography, Institutions, and the Knowledge Economy, 2008, pp 155-176 View citations (4)