Explorations in Economic History

1969 - 2025

Current editor(s): R.H. Steckel

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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

Volume 43, issue 4, 2006

Migration to the agricultural frontier and wealth accumulation, 1860-1870 pp. 547-577

James I. Stewart

The development and inequality of heights in North, West, and East India 1915-1944 pp. 578-608

Aravinda Guntupalli and Joerg Baten

An experiment with multiple currencies: the American monetary system from 1838-60 pp. 609-645

Jay Shambaugh

Bondholder gains from the annexation of Texas and implications of the US bailout pp. 646-666

Richard Burdekin

The long-term impact of mergers and the emergence of a merger wave in pre-World-War I Germany pp. 667-688

Gerhard Kling

The impact of the Civil War on capital intensity and labor productivity in southern manufacturing pp. 689-704

William K. Hutchinson and Robert Margo

Volume 43, issue 3, 2006

What drove 19th century commodity market integration? pp. 383-412

David Jacks

Does a reduction in the length of the working week reduce unemployment? Some evidence from the Italian economy during the Great Depression pp. 413-437

Fabrizio Mattesini and B. Quintieri

Nutrition and growth in Italy, 1861-1911: What macroeconomic data hide pp. 438-464

Giovanni Vecchi and Michela Coppola

The fertility of the Irish in the United States in 1910 pp. 465-485

Timothy Guinnane, Carolyn Moehling and Cormac Ó Gráda

Indian lands, "Squatterism," and slavery: Economic interests and the passage of the indian removal act of 1830 pp. 486-504

Leonard Carlson and Mark A. Roberts

How were the Federal Reserve Bank locations selected? pp. 505-526

Michael R. McAvoy

Food, nutrition, and substitution in the late nineteenth century pp. 527-545

Trevon Logan

Volume 43, issue 2, 2006

The impact of New Deal expenditures on mobility during the Great Depression pp. 179-222

Price Fishback, William Horrace and Shawn Kantor

How brinkmanship saved Chadbourne: Credibility and the International Sugar Agreement of 1931 pp. 223-256

Alan Dye and Richard Sicotte

Labor productivity in the United States and the United Kingdom during the nineteenth century pp. 257-279

Stephen Broadberry and Douglas Irwin

International comparison in historical perspective: Reconstructing the 1934-1936 Benchmark purchasing power parity for Japan, Korea, and Taiwan pp. 280-308

Kyoji Fukao, Debin Ma and Tangjun Yuan

Does fiscal policy influence monetary policy? The case of Spain, 1874-1935 pp. 309-331

Marcela Sabate, María Gadea and Regina Escario

Taxes, efficiency, and redistribution: Discriminatory taxation of villages in Ottoman Palestine, Southern Syria, and Transjordan in the sixteenth century pp. 332-356

Metin Cosgel

Investment in private water development: Property rights and contractual opportunism during the California Gold Rush pp. 357-381

Mark Kanazawa

Volume 43, issue 1, 2006

Financial revolutions and economic growth: Introducing this EEH symposium pp. 1-12

Peter Rousseau and Richard Sylla

Stock market development and economic growth in Belgium pp. 13-38

Stijn Van Nieuwerburgh, Frans Buelens and Ludo Cuyvers

Did banks cause the German industrialization? pp. 39-63

Carsten Burhop

Free or central banking? Liquidity and financial deepening in Sweden, 1834-1913 pp. 64-93

Anders Ögren

Japanese industrial finance at the close of the 19th century: Trade credit and financial intermediation pp. 94-118

Yoshiro Miwa and John Ramseyer

Growth in manufacturing output in Ireland between the Union and the Famine: Some evidence pp. 119-152

Andy Bielenberg and Frank Geary

Change in the plantation system: American South, 1910-1945 pp. 153-176

Nancy Virts