Explorations in Economic History

1969 - 2025

Current editor(s): R.H. Steckel

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Volume 45, issue 4, 2008

Wage strikes in 1880s America: A test of the war of attrition model pp. 303-326

Thomas M. Geraghty and Thomas Wiseman

Resolving the puzzle of the underissuance of national bank notes pp. 327-355

Charles Calomiris and Joseph R. Mason

Family and sex-specific U.S. immigration from Europe, 1870-1910: A panel data study of rates and composition pp. 356-382

Michael J. Greenwood

Scylla and Charybdis. Explaining Europe's exit from gold, January 1928-December 1936 pp. 383-401

Nikolaus Wolf

Explaining the spread of residential air conditioning, 1955-1980 pp. 402-423

Jeff Biddle

The negative trade-off between risk and incentives: Evidence from the american whaling industry pp. 424-444

Eric Hilt

The economics of market coordination for the pre-Fed check-clearing system: A peek into the Bloomington (IL) node pp. 445-461

Howard H. Chang, Marina Danilevsky, David Evans and Daniel D. Garcia-Swartz

Shareholder value mining: Wealth effects of takeovers in German coal mining, 1896-1913 pp. 462-476

Thorsten Lübbers

Paying back to borrow more: Reputation and bank credit access in early America pp. 477-488

Ta-Chen Wang

Volume 45, issue 3, 2008

Deindustrialization in 18th and 19th century India: Mughal decline, climate shocks and British industrial ascent pp. 209-234

David Clingingsmith and Jeffrey Williamson

The death blow to unlimited liability in Victorian Britain: The City of Glasgow failure pp. 235-253

Graeme G. Acheson and John Turner

The antebellum U.S. iron industry: Domestic production and foreign competition pp. 254-269

Joseph H. Davis and Douglas Irwin

The roles of electricity and ICT in economic growth: Case Finland pp. 270-287

Jukka Jalava and Matti Pohjola

Bimetallism: The "rules of the game" pp. 288-302

Claude Diebolt and Antoine Parent

Volume 45, issue 2, 2008

Did nordic countries recognize the gathering storm of World War II? Evidence from the bond markets pp. 107-126

Daniel Waldenström and Bruno Frey

Agricultural specialization and height in ancient and medieval Europe pp. 127-146

Nikola Koepke and Joerg Baten

GDP per capita or real wages? Making sense of conflicting views on pre-industrial Europe pp. 147-163

Luis Angeles

The Fed's reaction to the stock market during the great depression: Fact or artefact? pp. 164-184

Pierre Siklos

Steam power, establishment size, and labor productivity growth in nineteenth century American manufacturing pp. 185-198

Jeremy Atack, Fred Bateman and Robert Margo

The postbellum demand for cotton revisited pp. 199-206

Erik D. Craft and James Monks

Volume 45, issue 1, 2008

Water and Chicago's mortality transition, 1850-1925 pp. 1-16

Joseph P. Ferrie and Werner Troesken

The evolution of a national banking market in pre-war Japan pp. 17-29

Richard Grossman and Masami Imai

Mechanical refrigeration, seasonality, and the hog-corn cycle in the United States: 1870-1940 pp. 30-50

Lee Craig and Matthew Holt

The accumulation of property by southern blacks and whites: Individual-level evidence from a South Carolina cotton county, 1910-1919 pp. 51-75

Neil Canaday

From home to hospital: The evolution of childbirth in the United States, 1928-1940 pp. 76-99

Melissa Thomasson and Jaret Treber

Errata to "Gold shocks, liquidity, and the United States Economy during the National Banking Era" [Explor. Econ. Hist. 35 (1998) 381-404] pp. 100-105

Ellis Tallman and Jon Moen

Volume 44, issue 4, 2007

Compensation and the abandoned property of the 1948 Palestinian refugees: Assessment and implications pp. 523-537

Frank Lewis

The times they are not changin': Days and hours of work in Old and New Worlds, 1870-2000 pp. 538-567

Michael Huberman and Chris Minns

Accident risk compensation in late imperial Austria: Wage differentials and social insurance pp. 568-587

John E. Murray and Lars Nilsson

Categories and causes of bank distress during the great depression, 1929-1933: The illiquidity versus insolvency debate revisited pp. 588-607

Gary Richardson

Total factor productivity growth on Britain's railways, 1852-1912: A reappraisal of the evidence pp. 608-634

Nicholas Crafts, Terence C. Mills and Abay Mulatu

Why was Australia so rich? pp. 635-656

Ian McLean

Micro-aspects of monetary policy: Lender of Last Resort and selection of banks in pre-war Japan pp. 657-679

Tetsuji Okazaki

Military positions and post-service occupational mobility of Union Army veterans, 1861-1880 pp. 680-698

Chulhee Lee

Volume 44, issue 3, 2007

A neighborhood-level view of riots, property values, and population loss: Cleveland 1950-1980 pp. 365-386

William Collins and Fred Smith

The pitfalls of estimating transactions costs from price data: Evidence from trans-Atlantic gold-point arbitrage, 1886-1905 pp. 387-410

Andrew Coleman

Bank runs, information and contagion in the panic of 1893 pp. 411-431

Brandon Dupont

Business fluctuations in Italy, 1861-1913: The new evidence pp. 432-451

Carlo Ciccarelli and Stefano Fenoaltea

Infrastructure investment and Spanish economic growth, 1850-1935 pp. 452-468

Alfonso Herranz-Loncán

Working hours in the European periphery: The length of the working day in Spain, 1885-1920 pp. 469-486

Jordi Domenech

The origin and diffusion of shocks to regional interest rates in the United States, 1880-2002 pp. 487-500

John Landon-Lane and Hugh Rockoff

Can a rapidly growing export-oriented economy exit smoothly from a currency peg? Lessons from Japan's high-growth era pp. 501-521

Barry Eichengreen and Mariko Hatase

Volume 44, issue 2, 2007

Usury ceilings and bank lending behavior: Evidence from nineteenth century New York pp. 179-202

Howard Bodenhorn

Knowledge spill-over from new to old industries: The case of German synthetic dyes and textiles (1878-1913) pp. 203-223

Jochen Streb, Jacek Wallusch and Shuxi Yin

Japanese episodic long swings in economic growth pp. 224-241

Solomos Solomou and Masao Shimazaki

Profitability and factory-based cotton gin production in the antebellum south pp. 242-254

William H. Phillips

Modeling the age and age composition of late 19th century U.S. immigrants from Europe pp. 255-269

Michael J. Greenwood

Asymmetric information in late 19th century cooperative insurance societies pp. 270-292

Daniel Gottlieb

Market integration and market efficiency: The case of 19th century Italy pp. 293-316

Giovanni Federico

Organization and incentives in the age of sail pp. 317-341

Daniel Benjamin and Christopher Thornberg

Populists versus theorists: Futures markets and the volatility of prices pp. 342-362

David Jacks

Erratum to "The equipment hypothesis and US economic growth" [Explor. Econ. Hist. 44 (2007) 43-58] pp. 362-363

Alexander Field

Volume 44, issue 1, 2007

Inequality among the poor of eighteenth century Amsterdam pp. 1-21

Anne E.C. McCants

Endowments vs. market potential: What explains the relocation of industry after the Polish reunification in 1918? pp. 22-42

Nikolaus Wolf

The equipment hypothesis and US economic growth pp. 43-58

Alexander Field

Fear and greed: The evolution of double liability in American banking, 1865-1930 pp. 59-80

Richard Grossman

Texas treasury notes and market manipulation, 1837-1842 pp. 81-99

Gary M. Pecquet and Clifford Thies

Trade, convergence, and globalisation: The dynamics of the international income distribution, 1950-1998 pp. 100-113

Philip Epstein, Peter Howlett and Max-Stephan Schulze

Women doing men's work and women doing women's work: Female work and pay in British wartime engineering pp. 114-130

Robert Hart

Retail price concentration, transaction costs, and price flexibility circa 1900 pp. 131-153

Edwin Eckard

India's contribution to the British balance of payments, 1757-1812 pp. 154-176

Javier Cuenca-Esteban