Explorations in Economic History

1969 - 2025

Current editor(s): R.H. Steckel

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Universal Banking in Pre-World War I Germany: Model or Myth? pp. 305-343: Caroline Fohlin
Technological Development and Foreign Patenting: Evidence from 19th-Century Australia pp. 344-359: Gary Magee
The Rise of Multiunit Firms in U.S. Manufacturing pp. 360-386: Sukkoo Kim
Farm Value and Retirement of Farm Owners in Early-Twentieth-Century America pp. 387-408: Chulhee Lee
Risk Structure of Postbellum U.S. Deposit Rates pp. 409-427: Brian C. Gendreau
Financial Crises and Structural Change in English Commercial Bank Assets, 1860-1913 pp. 428-444: Mae Baker and Michael Collins

Suez and Sterling, 1956 pp. 181-203: Adam Klug and Gregor Smith
Cross-Border Unions: Internationals in Canada, 1901-1914 pp. 204-231: Michael Huberman and Denise Young
A Theoretical Basis for 19th-Century Changes to the Port of New York Imported Goods Auction pp. 232-245: Richard Engelbrecht-Wiggans and Tomas Nonnenmacher
Labor Mobility, Market Integration, and Wage Convergence in Late 19th Century India pp. 246-277: William Collins
An Engine of Growth: Real Bills and Schumpeterian Banking in Antebellum New York pp. 278-302: Howard Bodenhorn

The Industrial Revolution, Political Transition, and the Subsequent Decline in Inequality in 19th-Century Britain pp. 109-127: Moshe Justman and Mark Gradstein
Regional Wage Gaps and the Settlement of the Midwest pp. 128-143: Robert Margo
Business Activity and the Boston Stock Market, 1835-1869 pp. 144-179: Jeremy Atack and Peter Rousseau

The Political Economy of Agriculture in France's Fifth Republic pp. 1-29: William Adams
To Part or Not to Part: Emigration and Inheritance Institutions in Nineteenth-Century Hesse-Cassel pp. 30-55: Simone A. Wegge
Population Growth and the Dynamics of Canadian Development: A Multivariate Time Series Approach pp. 56-71: Alan Green and Gordon Sparks
State Child Labor Laws and the Decline of Child Labor pp. 72-106: Carolyn Moehling

Microcredit in Prefamine Ireland pp. 347-380: Aidan Hollis and Arthur Sweetman
Gold Shocks, Liquidity, and the United States Economy during the National Banking Era pp. 381-404: Ellis Tallman and Jon Moen
Tsarist Russia and the World Wheat Market pp. 405-430: Barry Goodwin and Thomas Grennes
The Contributions of Early Health-Insurance Programs to Mortality Declines in Pre-World War I Europe: Evidence from Fixed-Effects Models pp. 431-446: C. R. Winegarden and John E. Murray

Growth, Distribution, and Demography: Some Lessons from History pp. 241-271: Jeffrey Williamson
Racial Segregation, Working Conditions, and Workers' Health: Evidence from the A. M. Byers Company, 1916-1930 pp. 272-295: Thomas Maloney
Wealth Accumulation and the Life-Cycle in Economic History: Implications of Alternative Approaches to Data pp. 296-324: Livio Di Matteo
Purely Animal: Pastoral Production and Early Argentine Economic Growth 1825-1865 pp. 325-345: Carlos Newland and Barry Poulson

The Political Economy of Workers' Compensation Benefit Levels, 1910-1930 pp. 109-139: Price Fishback and Shawn Kantor
The Political Economy of New Deal Spending Revisited, Again: With and without Nevada pp. 140-170: John Joseph Wallis
Comparing British and American Economic and Industrial Performance 1860-1993: A Time Series Perspective pp. 171-195: David Greasley and Les Oxley
The Risk Environment of Film Making: Warner Bros in the Inter-War Years pp. 196-220: John Sedgwick and Michael Pokorny
The Origins of the Eurodollar Market in London: 1955-1963 pp. 221-238: Catherine Schenk

Sources of Risk, Institutions for Survival, and a Game against Nature in Premodern Iceland pp. 1-30: Thrainn Eggertsson
Ability and Willingness to Pay in the Age of Pax Britannica, 1890-1914 pp. 31-58: Trish Kelly
Land Hunger: Land as a Commodity and as a Status Good, England, 1500-1910 pp. 59-82: Gregory Clark
Fiduciariand Firm Liquidity Constraints: The Italian Experience with German-Style Universal Banking pp. 83-107: Caroline Fohlin

Agricultural Marketing and the Possibilities for Industrialization in the Soviet Union in the 1930s pp. 387-410: Robert Allen
Goldsmith-Banking: Mutual Acceptance and Interbanker Clearing in Restoration London pp. 411-432: Stephen Quinn
On the Puzzling Cycle in the Biological Standard of Living: The Case of Antebellum Georgia pp. 433-459: John Komlos and Peter Coclanis
Land, Factor Markets, and Inequality in Rural China: Historical Evidence pp. 460-494: Dwayne Benjamin and Loren Brandt
Trade, Institutions, and Credit pp. 495-521: Karen Clay

Manufacturing Where Agriculture Predominates: Evidence from the South and Midwest in 1860 pp. 243-264: Kenneth Sokoloff and Viken Tchakerian
Italy and the Great Depression: An Analysis of the Italian Economy, 1929-1936 pp. 265-294: Fabrizio Mattesini and Beniamino Quintieri
The Entry into the U.S. Labor Market of Antebellum European Immigrants, 1840-1860 pp. 295-330: Joseph P. Ferrie
New Data on Minting, Seigniorage, and the Money Supply in Spain (Castile), 1597-1643 pp. 331-367: Akira Motomura
Shifts in the Seasonality of Infant Deaths in Nine English Towns during the 19th Century: A Case for Reduced Breast Feeding? pp. 368-386: Paul Huck

Agriculture and the Origins of the State in Ancient Egypt pp. 135-154: Robert Allen
Collusion in the Indian Tea Industry in the Great Depression: An Analysis of Panel Data pp. 155-173: Bishnupriya Gupta
Crash! Expectational Aspects of the Departures of the United Kingdom and the United States from the Inter-War Gold Standard pp. 174-194: Paul Hallwood, Ronald MacDonald and Ian Marsh
The Importance of Adjusting Production to Sales in the Early Automobile Industry pp. 195-219: Anthony O'Brien
Bank of England vs the IBRD: Did the Nigerian Colony Deserve a Central Bank? pp. 220-241: Chibuike Ugochukwu Uche

Wage Competition between Agriculture and Industry in Mid-Nineteenth Century France pp. 1-26: Thierry Magnac and Gilles Postel-Vinay
Socioeconomic Background, Disease, and Mortality among Union Army Recruits: Implications for Economic and Demographic History pp. 27-55: Chulhee Lee
Poor Relief, Informal Assistance, and Short Time during the Lancashire Cotton Famine pp. 56-76: George R. Boyer
Railroads and Property Taxes pp. 77-99: Jac Heckelman and John Joseph Wallis
Peopling the Pampa: On the Impact of Mass Migration to the River Plate, 1870-1914 pp. 100-132: Alan Taylor