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 19, issue 4, 2015

Editor's choice Democracy, extension of suffrage, and redistribution in nineteenth-century Europe pp. 317-334

Giovanni B. Pittaluga, Giampiero Cama and Elena Seghezza

Market potential and regional economic growth in Spain (1860–1930) pp. 335-358

Julio Martinez-Galarraga, Daniel Tirado-Fabregat and Rafael González-Val

Wage restraint in Scandinavia: during the postwar period or the neoliberal age? pp. 359-381

Erik Bengtsson

The emergence of a European region: business cycles in South-East Europe from political independence to World War II pp. 382-411

Matthias Morys and Martin Ivanov

Contracts and cooperation: the relative failure of the Irish dairy industry in the late nineteenth century reconsidered pp. 412-431

Ingrid Henriksen, Eoin McLaughlin and Paul Sharp

How the Danes discovered Britain: the international integration of the Danish dairy industry before 1880 pp. 432-453

Markus Lampe and Paul Sharp

The Swedish lighthouse system 1650–1890: private versus public provision of public goods pp. 454-468

Erik Lindberg

Volume 19, issue 3, 2015

Editor's choice Labor, wages, and living standards in Java, 1680–1914 pp. 215-234

Pim De Zwart and Jan Luiten van Zanden

Did the Great Deflation of 1929–33 really have to happen? A reconsideration of the inevitability of the Great Deflation view pp. 235-254

Marek Dąbrowski

Modern Greece's first industry? The shipbuilding center of sailing merchant marine of Syros, 1830–70 pp. 255-274

Apostolos Delis

Institutions versus demand: determinants of agricultural development in Saxony, 1660–1850 pp. 275-293

Ulrich Pfister and Michael Kopsidis

Did democracy bring redistribution? Insights from the Spanish tax system, 1960–90 pp. 294-315

Sara Torregrosa-Hetland

Volume 19, issue 2, 2015

Editor's choice Self-defeating austerity? Evidence from 1930s' Britain pp. 109-127

Nicholas Crafts and Terence C. Mills

The paradox of progress: the emergence of wage discrimination in US manufacturing pp. 128-148

Joyce Burnette

Plenty of land, land of plenty: the agrarian output of Portugal (1311–20) pp. 149-170

Antonio Henriques

A twin crisis with multiple banks of issue. Spain in the 1860s pp. 171-194

Alessio Moro, Galo Nuño Barrau and Pedro Tedde

Agricultural protection and support in the European Economic Community, 1962–92: rent-seeking or welfare policy? pp. 195-214

Mark Spoerer

Volume 19, issue 1, 2015

Editor's choice The great escape? The contribution of the empire to Portugal's economic growth, 1500–1800 pp. 1-22

Leonor Costa, Nuno Palma and Jaime Reis

Fighting fiscal dominance. The case of Spain, 1874–1998 pp. 23-43

Marcela Sabate, Regina Escario and María Gadea

Passive modernization? The new human development index and its components in Italy's regions (1871–2007) pp. 44-66

Emanuele Felice and Michelangelo Vasta

Markets and politics: the Swedish urban–rural wage gap, 1865–1985 pp. 67-87

Christer Lundh and Svante Prado

Bank on steel? Joint-stock banks and the rationalization of the British interwar steel industry pp. 88-107

Simon C. Holmes and Florian Ploeckl

Volume 18, issue 4, 2014

Editor's choice Output, national income, and expenditure: an input–output table of Germany in 1936 pp. 371-397

Rainer Fremdling and Reiner Staeglin

The world refuses to shrink: the speed and reliability of information transmission in North and Baltic Sea region, 1750–1825 pp. 398-412

Hannes Vinnal

Plenty of trust, not much cooperation: social capital and collective action in early twentieth century eastern Spain pp. 413-432

Samuel Garrido

Does lineage matter? A study of ancestral influence on educational attainment in Korea pp. 433-451

Christopher Paik

Revisiting Italian emigration before the Great War: a test of the standard economic model pp. 452-471

Pier Giorgio Ardeni and Andrea Gentili

Volume 18, issue 3, 2014

Editor's choice Can general purpose technology theory explain economic growth? Electrical power as a case study pp. 227-247

Cristiano Andrea Ristuccia and Solomos Solomou

A monthly stock exchange index for Ireland, 1864–1930 pp. 248-276

Richard Grossman, Ronan Lyons, Kevin O'Rourke and Madalina A. Ursu

New methods for construction of historical price indices, with an illustration from Norway, 1777–1920 pp. 277-305

Jan Tore Klovland

The environmental Kuznets curve and the Pasteur effect: environmental costs in Sweden 1850–2000 pp. 306-323

Magnus Lindmark and Sevil Acar

Geography or politics? Regional inequality in colonial India pp. 324-348

Tirthankar Roy

The ripples of the industrial revolution: exports, economic growth, and regional integration in Italy in the early nineteenth century pp. 349-369

Giovanni Federico and Antonio Tena-Junguito

Volume 18, issue 2, 2014

Editor's choice Von Thünen south of the Alps: access to markets and interwar Italian agriculture pp. 107-143

Pablo Martinelli

Why are you tall while others are short? Agricultural production and other proximate determinants of global heights pp. 144-165

Joerg Baten and Matthias Blum

The roots of economic failure: what explains East Germany's falling behind between 1945 and 1950? pp. 166-184

Albrecht Ritschl and Tamás Vonyó

Living standards on the pre-colonial Gold Coast: a quantitative estimate of African laborers’ welfare ratios pp. 185-202

Klas Rönnbäck

Vine-growing in Catalonia: the main agricultural change underlying the earliest industrialization in Mediterranean Europe (1720–1939) pp. 203-226

Marc Badia-Miró and Enric Tello

Volume 18, issue 1, 2014

Editor's choice Governance and institutional change in marine insurance, 1350–1850 pp. 1-18

Christopher Kingston

Loans to salaried employees: the case of the Dutch East India Company, 1602–1794 pp. 19-38

Christiaan Van Bochove and Ton Van Velzen

Escaping the macroeconomic trilemma: the Belgian two-tier foreign exchange system under Bretton Woods pp. 39-56

Alain Durré and Philippe Ledent

Respiratory tuberculosis and standards of living in postwar Europe pp. 57-81

Sue Bowden, Joao Jalles, Álvaro santos Pereira and Alex Sadler

The stability of voluntarism: financing social care in early modern Dutch towns compared with the English Poor Law, c. 1600–1800 pp. 82-105

Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk and Daniëlle Teeuwen

Volume 17, issue 4, 2013

The bondholder, the sovereign, and the banker: sovereign debt and bondholders' protection before 1914 pp. 389-407

Rui Esteves

Plague in seventeenth-century Europe and the decline of Italy: an epidemiological hypothesis pp. 408-430

Guido Alfani

Credit and growth: reconsidering Italian industrial policy during the Golden Age pp. 431-451

Mauro Rota

The Rain in Spain? Climate versus urban demand as causes of agricultural stagnation in eighteenth-century Spain pp. 452-470

Carlos Santiago-Caballero

Volume 17, issue 3, 2013

One world of labour regulation, two worlds of trade: examples of Belgium and Brazil pp. 251-271

Michael Huberman

Currency crisis and collapse in interwar Greece: predicament or policy failure? pp. 272-293

Nicos Christodoulakis

Land markets and inequality: evidence from medieval England pp. 294-317

Cliff T. Bekar and Clyde G. Reed

The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth: the English Corn Returns as a data source in economic history, 1770-1914 pp. 318-339

Liam Brunt and Edmund Cannon

Inescapable hunger? Energy cost accounting and the costs of digestion, pregnancy, and lactation pp. 340-363

Eric Schneider

The financial penalty for 'unfair' debt: the case of Cuban bonds at the time of independence pp. 364-387

Stephanie Collet

Volume 17, issue 2, 2013

Introduction pp. 141-146

Jane Humphries, Tine De Moor and Jaco Zuijderduijn

Bargaining for basics? Inferring decision making in nineteenth-century British households from expenditure, diet, stature, and death pp. 147-170

Sara Horrell and Deborah Oxley

To navigate the family economy over a lifetime: life-cycle squeezes in pre-industrial Swedish towns pp. 171-189

Kristina Lilja and Dan Bäcklund

English individualism and continental altruism? Servants, remittances, and family welfare in eighteenth-century rural Europe pp. 190-209

Thijs Lambrecht

Picking winners? The effect of birth order and migration on parental human capital investments in pre-modern England pp. 210-232

Marc Klemp, Chris Minns, Patrick Wallis and Jacob Weisdorf

Preferences of the poor: market participation and asset management of poor households in sixteenth-century Holland pp. 233-249

Tine De Moor and Jaco Zuijderduijn

Volume 17, issue 1, 2013

The surprising social mobility of Victorian Britain pp. 1-23

Jason Long

Does women's education affect fertility? Evidence from pre-demographic transition Prussia pp. 24-44

Sascha Becker, Francesco Cinnirella and Ludger Woessmann

When did England overtake Italy? Medieval and early modern divergence in prices and wages pp. 45-70

Paolo Malanima

The First World War and working-class food consumption in Britain pp. 71-94

Ian Gazeley and Andrew Newell

Growth effects of nineteenth-century mass migrations: 'Fome Zero' for Brazil? pp. 95-121

Yvonne Stolz, Joerg Baten and Tarcísio Botelho

Desertions in nineteenth-century shipping: modelling quit behaviour pp. 122-140

Jari Ojala, Jaakko Pehkonen and Jari Eloranta