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51: The Impact of the 1896 Factory and Shops Act on Victorian Labour Markets

Andrew Seltzer and Jeff Borland

50: Managing Political Imperatives: Strategic Responses of Philips in Australia, 1939-1945

Pierre van der Eng

49: The Role of English Fluency in Migrant Assimilation: Evidence from United States History

Zachary Ward

48: Implicit contracts and acquisitions: An econometric case study of the nineteenth century Australian banking industry

Andrew J. Seltzer

47: European Integration and Australian Manufacturing Industry: The Case of Philips Electronics, 1960s-1970s

Pierre van der Eng

46: After 200 years, why is Indonesia’s cadastral system still incomplete?

Pierre van der Eng

45: A Tale of Two Sics: Japanese and American Industrialization in Historical Perspective

John Tang

44: The Engine and the Reaper: Industrialization and Mortality in Early Modern Japan

John Tang

43: The First 100 Years of Tariffs in Australia: The Colonies

P.J. Lloyd

42: Whither Business History?: Memory, Message and Meaning

David Merrett

41: East Asian Industrial Pioneers: Japan, Korea and Taiwan

Dwight Perkins and John Tang

40: A nation without a corporate income tax: Evidence from nineteenth century Japan

Kazuki Onji and John Tang

39: Stature and Sibship: Historical Evidence

Timothy J. Hatton

38: Growing incomes, growing people in nineteenth-century Tasmania

Kris Inwood, Hamish Maxwell-Stewart and Deb Oxley

37: A World Record in the Improvement in Biological Standards of Living in Korea: Evidence from Age at Menarche

Kitae Sohn

36: Dense Enough To Be Brilliant: Patents, Urbanization, and Transportation in Nineteenth Century America

Elisabeth Perlman

35: The U-Shaped Self-Selection of Return Migrants

Zachary Ward

34: Was the First World War Disturbing or Reinforcing of Australia's Economic Model?

William Coleman

33: The Growth Contribution of Colonial Indian Railways in Comparative Perspective

Dan Bogart, Latika Chaudhary and Alfonso Herranz-Loncan

32: A Tale of Two Tails: Plant Size Variation and Comparative Labor Productivity in U.S. and German Manufacturing in the Early 20th Century

Joost Veenstra and Herman de Jong

31: The Permanent Effects of Transportation Revolutions in Poor Countries: Evidence from Africa

Remi Jedwab and Alexander Moradi

30: Did the world settle its debts through the branches of multinational banks? Evidence from the 1930s

Laura Panza and David Merrett

29: Health, Height and the Household at the Turn of the 20th Century

Roy E. Bailey, Timothy J. Hatton and Kris Inwood

28: Corporate Defaults, Workouts and the Rise of the Distressed Asset Investment Industry

Douglas Cumming and Grant Fleming

27: Making a land fit for a gold standard: monetary policy in Australia 1920-1925

Selwyn Cornish and William Coleman

26: 2014 Sir Leslie Melville Lecture - Central Banks and Financial Crises: Some Historical Examples

Forrest Capie

25: The Long-Term Effects of Protestant Activities in China

Yuyu Chen, Hui Wang and Se Yan

24: The Institution of Macroeconomic Measurement in Indonesia Before the 1980s

Pierre van der Eng

23: Two Centuries of International Migration

Tim Hatton and Joseph P. Ferrie

22: Macroeconomic Consequences of Terms of Trade Episodes, Past and Present

Tim Atkin, Mark Caputo, Tim Robinson and Hao Wang

21: Asia's role in the global economy in historical perspective

Angus Maddison and Pierre van der Eng

20: Australia's Major Terms of Trade and Commodity Shocks, 1800-2013: Sources and Impacts

Nigel Stapledon

19: Distributional Impact of Commodity Price Shocks: Australia over a Century

Sambit Bhattacharyya and Jeffrey Williamson

18: Was the African American great migration delayed by outlawing emigrant agents?

Kha Yen Prentice, Laszlo Konya and David Prentice

17: Long run trends in Australian executive remuneration: BHP 1887-2012

Mike Pottenger and Andrew Leigh

16: A preliminary examination of the effects of credit instruments on de facto and de jure political power: lien laws in the postbellum United States South and nineteenth century New South Wales, Australia

Edwyna Harris

15: The Australian Bank Crashes of the 1890s Revisited

David T. Merrett

14: Financial intermediation and late development in Meiji Japan, 1868 to 1912

John Tang

13: From Boom to Bust: A Typology of Real Commodity Prices in the Long Run

David Jacks

12: Trading patterns at the Tokyo Stock Exchange, 1931-1940

Jean-Pascal Bassino and Thomas Lagoarde-Segot

11: Railroad expansion and entrepreneurship: evidence from Meiji Japan

John Tang

11: Share ownership and the introduction of no liability legislation in nineteenth-century Australia

Grant Fleming, Frank Liu, David Merrett and Simon Ville

11: The Struggle over Australian Railways in 1890s: The Strange Economics of State Control vs the Ruthless Economics of Federal

William Coleman

11: The Evolution of Inflation Targeting In Australia

Selwyn Cornish

10: Intergenerational Mobility in American History: Accounting for Race and Measurement Error

Zachary Ward

10: The Biological Standard of Living in China during the 20th Century: Evidence from the Age at Menarche

Pierre van der Eng and Kitae Sohn

10: The ownership and control of Australian companies in the interwar period

Grant Fleming, Zhangxin (Frank) Liu, David Merrett and Simon Ville

10: The Impact of the ‘Braddon Blot’ on Australia’s Tariff Structure, 1901-1910: A Leviathanic Analysis

William Coleman

10: Immigrants' Genes: Genetic Diversity and Economics Development in the US

Philipp Ager and Markus Brueckner

10: Trends and Cycles in Real Commodity Prices: 1650-2010

David Harvey, Neil Kellard, Jakob Madsen and Mark Wohar

10: Persecution, Pogroms and Genocide: A Conceptual Framework and New Evidence

Sascha Becker, Sharun Mukand and Ivan Yotzov