Explorations in Economic History

1969 - 2025

Current editor(s): R.H. Steckel

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Volume 42, issue 4, 2005

Turnpike trusts and the transportation revolution in 18th century England pp. 479-508

Dan Bogart

Voting rules and the success of connected lending in 19th century New England banks pp. 509-528

Christopher Meissner

The anti-tobacco movement in the Progressive Era: A case study of direct democracy in Oregon pp. 529-546

John Dinan and Jac Heckelman

Institutions, wages, and inequality: The case of Europe and its periphery (1500-1899) pp. 547-566

Davin Chor

Deposit drains on "interest-paying" banks before financial crises pp. 567-585

Christopher Hoag

Industrialization and urbanization: Did the steam engine contribute to the growth of cities in the United States? pp. 586-598

Sukkoo Kim

Volume 42, issue 3, 2005

Credit rationing and crowding out during the industrial revolution: evidence from Hoare's Bank, 1702-1862 pp. 325-348

Peter Temin and Hans-Joachim Voth

The curse of Moctezuma: American silver and the Dutch disease pp. 349-380

Mauricio Drelichman

Intra- and international commodity market integration in the Atlantic economy, 1800-1913 pp. 381-413

David Jacks

Path dependent border effects: the case of Poland's reunification (1918-1939) pp. 414-438

Nikolaus Wolf

The convergence process of Argentina with Australia and Canada: 1875-2000 pp. 439-458

Isabel Sanz-Villarroya

Much ado about nothing: the limitation of liability and the market for 19th century Irish bank stock pp. 459-476

Charles R. Hickson, John Turner and Claire McCann

Volume 42, issue 2, 2005

Order without law? Property rights during the California gold rush pp. 155-183

Karen Clay and Gavin Wright

The role of the merchant coalition in pre-modern Japanese economic development: an historical institutional analysis pp. 184-201

Tetsuji Okazaki

The drachma, foreign creditors, and the international monetary system: tales of a currency during the 19th and the early 20th centuries pp. 202-236

Sophia Lazaretou

Regime change and debt default: the case of Russia, Austro-Hungary, and the Ottoman empire following World War One pp. 237-258

Lyndon Moore and Jakub Kaluzny

The spirit of capitalism? Ethnicity, religion, and self-employment in early 20th century Canada pp. 259-281

Chris Minns and Marian Rizov

The efficiency gains from site value taxes: the Tithe Commutation Act of 1836 pp. 282-309

Gregory Clark and Eric Jamelske

The gang system and comparative advantage pp. 310-323

J.T. Toman

Volume 42, issue 1, 2005

Emerging financial markets and early US growth pp. 1-26

Peter Rousseau and Richard Sylla

How could everyone have been so wrong? Forecasting the Great Depression with the railroads pp. 27-55

Adam Klug, John Landon-Lane and Eugene White

Causes of bank suspensions in the panic of 1893 pp. 56-80

Mark Carlson

On the nature and causes of business fluctuations in Italy, 1861-2000 pp. 81-100

Domenico Delli Gatti, Marco Gallegati and Mauro Gallegati

The quantity theory in New England, 1703-1749: new data to analyze an old question pp. 101-121

Lawrence Officer

Team promotion in early major league baseball and the origin of the closed sports league pp. 122-152

Edwin Eckard

Erratum to "Stature decline and recovery in a food-rich export economy: Argentina 1900-1934" [Explorations in Economic History 41 (2004) 233-255] pp. 153-153

Ricardo D. Salvatore

Volume 41, issue 4, 2004

Early evidence of an adverse selection death spiral? The case of Blue Cross and Blue Shield pp. 313-328

Melissa Thomasson

The circulating medium of exchange in colonial Pennsylvania, 1729-1775: new estimates of monetary composition, performance, and economic growth pp. 329-360

Farley Grubb

Male-female earnings differentials in early 20th century Manila pp. 361-376

John E. Murray and Kristen Keith

The micro-economic effects of financial market structure: evidence from 20th century North American steel firms pp. 377-403

Ian Keay and Angela Redish

Regional wage convergence in Spain 1850-1930 pp. 404-425

Joan Rosés and Blanca Sanchez-Alonso

Patterns of historical CO2 intensity transitions among high and low-income countries pp. 426-447

Magnus Lindmark

Volume 41, issue 3, 2004

Efficiency, competition, and the development of life insurance in France (1870-1939): Or: should we trust pension funds? pp. 205-232

Pierre Hautcoeur

Stature decline and recovery in a food-rich export economy: Argentina 1900-1934 pp. 233-255

Ricardo D. Salvatore

Measuring returns to scale in nineteenth-century French industry pp. 256-281

Ulrich Doraszelski

The economics of feuding in late medieval Germany pp. 282-299

Oliver Volckart

The effectiveness of the Nord-Pas-de-Calais coal cartel during the inter-war period: a research note pp. 300-307

Gil Montant

Volume 41, issue 2, 2004

The allocation of property rights to land: US land policy and farm failure in the northern great plains pp. 103-129

Zeynep K. Hansen and Gary Libecap

Mortality, interest rates, investment, and agricultural production in 18th century England pp. 130-155

Esteban Nicolini

Was 19th century British growth steam-powered?: the climacteric revisited pp. 156-171

Nicholas Crafts and Terence C. Mills

Freight rates and productivity gains in British tramp shipping 1869-1950 pp. 172-203

Saif I. Shah Mohammed and Jeffrey Williamson

Volume 41, issue 1, 2004

Guilds, laws, and markets for manufactured merchandise in late-medieval England pp. 1-25

Gary Richardson

Globalization and real wages in New Zealand 1873-1913 pp. 26-47

David Greasley and Les Oxley

Paying for privilege: the political economy of Bank of England charters, 1694-1844 pp. 48-72

J. Lawrence Broz and Richard Grossman

Family structure, school attendance, and child labor in the American South in 1900 and 1910 pp. 73-100

Carolyn Moehling

Volume 40, issue 4, 2003

Religious prohibitions against usury pp. 347-368

Clyde G. Reed and Cliff T. Bekar

Catching up to the European core: Portuguese economic growth, 1910-1990 pp. 369-386

Pedro Lains

Globalisation versus de-coupling: German emigration and the evolution of the Atlantic labour market 1870-1913 pp. 387-418

Oliver Grant

Slave prices from succession and bankruptcy sales in Mauritius, 1825-1827 pp. 419-442

Shirley Chenny, Pascal St-Amour and Désiré Vencatachellum

Monetary Union, institutions and financial market integration: Italy, 1862-1905 pp. 443-461

Gianni Toniolo, Leandro Conte and Giovanni Vecchi

Volume 40, issue 3, 2003

The property tax as a coordinating device: Financing Indiana's Mammoth Internal Improvement System, 1835-1842 pp. 223-250

John Joseph Wallis

The New Deal at war: alphabet agencies' expenditure patterns, 1940-1945 pp. 251-277

Fred Bateman and Jason E. Taylor

Can the New Deal's three Rs be rehabilitated? A program-by-program, county-by-county analysis pp. 278-307

Price Fishback, Shawn Kantor and John Joseph Wallis

Open fields, risk, and land divisibility pp. 308-325

Cliff T. Bekar and Clyde G. Reed

The bond market and the legitimacy of Vichy France pp. 326-344

Kim Oosterlinck

Volume 40, issue 2, 2003

The political economy of Reconstruction Finance Corporation assistance during the Great Depression pp. 101-121

Joseph R. Mason

Paper money but a gold debt: Italy on the gold standard pp. 122-142

Giuseppe Tattara

Aggregate price shocks and financial stability: the United Kingdom 1796-1999 pp. 143-169

Michael Bordo, Michael Dueker and David Wheelock

Productivity in manufacturing and the length of the working day: evidence from the 1880 census of manufactures pp. 170-194

Jeremy Atack, Fred Bateman and Robert Margo

Comment: Rules, monitoring, and incentives in the age of sail pp. 195-211

Daniel Benjamin and Christopher F. Thornberg

Rules and rewards in the age of sail: a reply pp. 212-220

Douglas Allen

Volume 40, issue 1, 2003

Rich and poor before the Industrial Revolution: a comparison between Java and the Netherlands at the beginning of the 19th century pp. 1-23

Jan Luiten van Zanden

The political economy of state-level fair employment laws, 1940-1964 pp. 24-51

William Collins

Factor prices and productivity growth during the British industrial revolution pp. 52-77

Pol Antras and Hans-Joachim Voth

Distribution dynamics: stratification, polarization, and convergence among OECD economies, 1870-1992 pp. 78-97

Philip Epstein, Peter Howlett and Max-Stephan Schulze