European Review of Economic History

2012 - 2025

Continuation of European Review of Economic History.

Current editor(s): Christopher M. Meissner, Steven Nafziger and Alessandro Nuvolari

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Volume 26, issue 4, 2022

The panopticon of Germany’s foreign trade, 1880–1913: New facts on the first globalization (Economics and the modern economic historian) pp. 479-507

Wolf-Fabiann Hungerland and Nikolaus Wolf

The paradox of “Malthusian urbanization”: urbanization without growth in the Republic of Genoa, 1300–1800 (Reversal of fortune: geography and institutions in the making of the modern world income distribution) pp. 508-534

Luigi Oddo and Andrea Zanini

Benchmarking the Middle Ages: fifteenth century Tuscany in European perspective (Plague in seventeenth century Europe and the decline of Italy: an epidemiological hypothesis) pp. 535-554

Jan Luiten van Zanden and Emanuele Felice

Trade globalization and social spending in Spain, 1850–2000 (Trade, democracy, and the size of the public sector: the political underpinnings of openness) pp. 555-578

Sergio Espuelas

Political power of the press in the Weimar Republic (Radio and the rise of the Nazis in prewar Germany) pp. 579-611

Bang Dinh Nguyen

Gender and the long-run development process. A survey of the literature (Rethinking age heaping: A cautionary tale from nineteenth-century Italy) pp. 612-641

Youssouf Merouani and Faustine Perrin

Volume 26, issue 3, 2022

Income tax progressivity and inflation during the world wars (War finance and inflation in Britain and Germany, 1914–1918) pp. 311-339

Sara Torregrosa-Hetland and Oriol Sabaté

Fiscal capacity in ‘‘responsible government’’ colonies: the Cape Colony in comparative perspective, c. 1865–1910 (The spread of empire: Clio and the measurement of colonial borrowing costs) pp. 340-369

Abel Gwaindepi

Capital market development over the long run: the portfolios of UK life assurers over two centuries (Corporate ownership and control in Victorian Britain) pp. 370-398

David A Bogle, Christopher Coyle and John Turner

Reassessing Ireland’s economic development through the lens of sustainable development (Sustainability and the measurement of wealth) pp. 399-422

Luke McGrath, Stephen Hynes and John McHale

Scuttle for shelter: flight-to-safety and political uncertainty during the Spanish Second Republic (The mother of all sudden stops: capital flows and reversals in Europe, 1919–32) pp. 423-447

Stefano Battilossi, Stefan Houpt and Gertjan Verdickt

The effects of lender of last resort on financial intermediation during the great depression in Japan (Ginko Hatan gaoyobosu Densenkoka no Bunseki (The analyses of the effect of contagion caused by bank failures)) pp. 448-478

Masami Imai, Tetsuji Okazaki and Michiru Sawada

Volume 26, issue 2, 2022

Elite violence and elite numeracy in Africa from 1400 CE to 1950 CE (Quantifying quantitative literacy: age heaping and the history of human capital) pp. 155-184

Joerg Baten and Kleoniki Alexopoulou

The wild card: colonial paper money in French North America, 1685 to 1719 (Economic Structure and Agricultural Productivity in Europe, 1300–1800) pp. 185-207

Bryan P Cutsinger, Vincent Geloso and Mathieu Bédard

What causes hot markets for equity IPOs? An analysis of initial public offerings in the Netherlands, 1876–2015 (Market timing and capital structure) pp. 208-233

Abe de Jong and Wilco Legierse

Death, sex, and fertility: female infanticide in rural Spain, 1750–1950 (Son targeting fertility behaviour: some consequences and determinants) pp. 234-254

Francisco Beltrán Tapia and Francisco Marco-Gracia

Reconstructing income inequality in a colonial cash crop economy: five social tables for Uganda, 1925–1965 (Long-term trends in income inequality: winners and losers of economic change in Ghana, 1891–1960) pp. 255-283

Michiel de Haas

Economic growth on the periphery: estimates of GDP per capita of the Congress Kingdom of Poland (for years 1870–1912) (The Maddison Project: collaborative research on historical national accounts) pp. 284-301

Piotr Koryś and Maciej Tymiński

To the manor born: a new microlevel wage database for eighteenth-century Denmark (Trends in real wages in Denmark since the late Middle Ages) pp. 302-310

Peter Jensen, Cristina Victoria Radu and Paul Sharp

Volume 26, issue 1, 2022

Credit supply shocks and the Great Depression in Germany pp. 1-37

Max Breitenlechner, Daniel GrÜndler, Gabriel P Mathy and Johann Scharler

Living costs and welfare ratios in Western Europe: new estimates using a linear programming model pp. 38-61

Luis Zegarra

Quantifying the mortality impact of the 1935 old-age assistance pp. 62-77

Gregori Galofré-Vilà, Martin McKee and David Stuckler

Pandemics and regional economic growth: evidence from the Great Influenza in Italy pp. 78-106

Mario Carillo and Tullio Jappelli

Structural change in the job matching process in the United States, 1923–1932 pp. 107-123

Woong Lee and Yeo Joon Yoon

Cartelization and firm performance in Upper Silesia 1880–1913 pp. 124-153

Christian Beyer

Volume 25, issue 4, 2021

A short history of the European Review of Economic History in celebration of its twenty-fifth anniversary (Editorial 2012) pp. 610-617

Paul Sharp

Spreading Clio: a quantitative analysis of the first 25 years of the European Review of Economic History (Plague in seventeenth-century Europe and the decline of Italy: an epidemiological hypothesis) pp. 618-644

Martina Cioni, Giovanni Federico and Michelangelo Vasta

Before the cult of equity: the British stock market, 1829–1929 (Rule Britannia! British stock market returns, 1825–1870) pp. 645-679

Gareth Campbell, Richard Grossman and John Turner

Comparing income and wealth inequality in pre-industrial economies: the case of Castile (Spain) in the eighteenth century (Wealth inequalities and population dynamics in early modern northern Italy) pp. 680-702

Esteban A Nicolini and Fernando Ramos-Palencia

Asientos as sinews of war in the composite superpower of the 16th century (Debt policy under constraints: Philip II, the Cortes and Genoese bankers) pp. 703-722

Carlos Alvarez-Nogal and Christophe Chamley

Spatial population trends and economic development in Puerto Rico, 1765–2010 (Rural Puerto Rico in the early twentieth century reconsidered: Land and society, 1899-1915) pp. 723-756

Brian Marein

Institutions and literacy rates: the legacy of Napoleonic reforms in Italy (The consequences of radical reform: the French Revolution) pp. 757-779

M Postigliola and Mauro Rota

Britain’s Empire Marketing Board and the failure of soft trade policy, 1926–33 (Bringing another empire alive? The Empire Marketing Board and the construction of Dominion identity, 1926–1933) pp. 780-805

David Higgins and Brian Varian

Erratum to: Climate change, weather shocks, and price convergence in pre-industrial Germany pp. 806-806

Hakon Albers and Ulrich Pfister

Volume 25, issue 3, 2021

L’histoire immobile? A reappraisal of French economic growth using the demand-side approach, 1280–1850 (Economic structure and agricultural productivity in Europe, 1300–1800) pp. 405-428

Leonardo Ridolfi and Alessandro Nuvolari

The golden age of mercenaries (Institutionally constrained technology adoption: Resolving the longbow puzzle) pp. 429-446

Peter Leeson and Ennio E Piano

The consolidation of royal control: evidence from northern Castile, 1352–1787 (The consequences of radical reform: The French Revolution) pp. 447-466

Valentín Figueroa

Climate change, weather shocks, and price convergence in pre-industrial Germany (Information from markets near and far: mobile phones and agricultural markets in Niger) pp. 467-489

Hakon Albers and Ulrich Pfister

Bank branching, concentration, and local economic growth in pre-WW1 England and Wales (Distance and private information in lending) pp. 490-512

Walter Jansson

The drivers of Italian exports and product market entry: 1862–1913 (Institutions, externalities, and economic growth in Southern Italy: evidence from the cotton textile industry, 1861-1914) pp. 513-548

Jacopo Timini

A hidden fight behind neutrality. Spain’s struggle on exchange rates and gold during the Great War (Your country needs funds: the extraordinary story of Britain’s early efforts to finance the First World War) pp. 549-570

Carles Sudrià

GPTs and growth: evidence on the technological adoption of electrical and electronic technologies in the 1920s (University research and the location of business R&D) pp. 571-608

Sergio Petralia

Volume 25, issue 2, 2021

Political fragmentation, rural-to-urban migration and urban growth patterns in western Eurasia, 800–1800 (The economics of labor coercion) pp. 203-222

Gary W Cox and Valentin Figueroa

Spatial concentration of manufacturing industries in the United States: re-examination of long-run trends (The driving forces of service localization during the twentieth century: Evidence from the United States) pp. 223-246

Nicholas Crafts and Alexander Klein

Animals and the prehistoric origins of economic development (The colonial origins of comparative development: an empirical investigation) pp. 247-279

Ideen A Riahi

The domestic consumption of firewood in preindustrial Seville, 1518–1775. An intensive bias driven by the Mediterranean diet (The great divergence in European wages and prices from the middle ages to the first world war) pp. 280-299

Isabel Bartolomé Rodríguez and Manuel González-Mariscal

Intergenerational mobility of sons and daughters: evidence from nineteenth-century West Flanders (Women and social stratification: a case of intellectual sexism) pp. 300-327

Vincent Delabastita and Erik Buyst

Old wine in new wineskins? Understanding the cooperative movement: Catalonia, 1860–1939 (Format development and retail change: supermarket retailing and the London co-operative society) pp. 328-354

Francisco J Medina-Albaladejo, Dolores Añón Higón, Alfonso Díez-Minguela and José-MiguelLana-Berasain

Labor shares and inequality: insights from Italian economic history, 1895–19701 (‘A paradise for profiteers’? The importance and treatment of profits during the first world war) pp. 355-378

Giacomo Gabbuti

Domestic industrialization under colonization: evidence from Korea, 1932–1940 (Do domestic firms benefit from direct foreign investment? Evidence from Venezuela) pp. 379-403

Yutaka Arimoto and Changmin Lee

Erratum to: Without coal in the age of steam and dams in the age of electricity: an explanation for the failure of Portugal to industrialize before the Second World War pp. 404-404

Sofia Henriques and Paul Sharp

Volume 25, issue 1, 2021

Optimism or pessimism? A composite view on English living standards during the Industrial Revolution pp. 1-19

Daniel Gallardo-Albarrán and Herman de Jong

The effects of market integration during the first globalization: a multi-market approach pp. 20-58

David Chilosi and Giovanni Federico

Spanish subsistence wages and the Little Divergence in Europe, 1500–1800 pp. 59-84

Ernesto López Losa and Santiago Piquero Zarauz

Without coal in the age of steam and dams in the age of electricity: an explanation for the failure of Portugal to industrialize before the Second World War pp. 85-105

Sofia Henriques and Paul Sharp

The gold standard, fiscal dominance and financial supervision in Greece and South-East Europe, 1841–1939 pp. 106-136

Matthias Morys

Tariffs and industrialization in late nineteenth century America: the role of scale economies pp. 137-159

Yeo Joon Yoon

Letting the masses pay for the welfare state: tax regressivity in postwar Sweden pp. 160-179

Gunnar Lantz

Dirty float or clean intervention? The Bank of England in the foreign exchange market pp. 180-201

Alain Naef