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146: Gibrat’s Law and the British Industrial Revolution

Alexander Klein and Tim Leunig

145: Living Standards and Plague in London, 1560–1665

Neil Cummins, Morgan Kelly and Cormac Ó Gráda

144: Eurozone Sovereign Debt Restructuring: promising legal prospects?

Marcus Miller and Dania Thomas

143: Cooperation and Personality

Eugenio Proto

142: What Does the 1930s’ Experience Tell Us about the Future of the Eurozone?

Nicholas Crafts

141: What Is European Integration Really About? A Political Guide for Economists

Enrico Spolaore

140: War and Relatedness

Enrico Spolaore and Romain Wacziarg

139: A Western Reversal Since the Neolithic? The Long-Run Impact of Early Agriculture

Ola Olsson and Christopher Paik

138: A Culture Based Theory of Fiscal Union Desirability

Luigi Guiso, Helios Herrera and Massimo Morelli

137: Pre-Reformation Roots of the Protestant Ethic

Thomas Barnebeck Andersen, Jeanet Bentzen, Carl-Johan Dalgaard and Paul Sharp

136: Estimating Bayesian Decision Problems with Heterogeneous Priors

Stephen Hansen and Michael McMahon

135: The Invisible Hand and the Banking Trade: Seigniorage, Risk-shifting and More

Marcus Miller and Lei Zhang

134: Motivating Knowledge Agents: Can Incentive Pay Overcome Social Distance

Erlend Berg, Maitreesh Ghatak, R Manjula, D Rajasekhar and Sanchari Roy

133: Searching for Irving Fisher

Kris James Mitchener and Marc D Weidenmier

132: Capital Controls and Recovery from the Financial Crisis of the 1930s

Kris James Mitchener and Kirsten Wandschneider

131: Institution Building and Political Economy

Sumon Majumdar and Sharun Mukand

130: Pay Growth, Fairness and Job Satisfaction: Implications for Nominal and Real Wage Rigidity

Jennifer Smith

129: China and India: Reforms and the Response: How Differently have the Economies Behaved

Manmohan Agarwal and John Whalley

128: The 1991 Reforms, Indian Economic Growth, and Social Progress

Manmohan Agarwal and John Whalley

127: Estimating Bayesian Decision Problems with Heterogeneous Priors

Stephen Hansen and Michael McMahon

126: Political Competition, Tax Salience and Accountability: Theory and Some Evidence from Italy

Emanuele Bracco, Francesco Porcelli and Michela Redoano

125: Genetic Diversity and the Origins of Cultural Fragmentation

Quamrul Ashraf and Oded Galor

124: Wholesale Funding, Coordination, and Credit Risk

Lei Zhang, Lin Zhang and Yong Zheng

123: Market Structure and Borrower Welfare in Micro Finance

Maitreesh Ghatak, Jonathan de Quidt and Thiemo Fetzer

122: Can Market Failure Cause Political Failure?

Maitreesh Ghatak, Madhav S Aney and Massimo Morelli

121: Land Acquisition and Compensation in Singur: What Really Happened?

Maitreesh Ghatak, Sandip Mitra, Dilip Mookherjee and Anusha Nath

120: Contractual Structure in Agriculture with Endogenous Matching

Maitreesh Ghatak and Alexander Karaivanov

119: War and Inquisition: Repression in Early Modern Spain

Jordi Vidal-Robert

118: Does “Skin in the Game” Reduce Risk Taking? Leverage, Liability and the Long-Run Consequences of New Deal Financial Reforms

Kris James Mitchener and Gary Richardson

117: From Divergence to Convergence: Re-evaluating the History Behind China’s Economic Boom

Loren Brandt, Debin Ma and Thomas Rawski

116: What are we learning from business training and entrepreneurship evaluations around the developing world?

David McKenzie and Christopher Woodruff

115: A Theory of Cooperation through Social Division, with Evidence from Nepal

James Choy

114: Unfavorable Land Endowment, Cooperation, and Reversal of Fortune

Anastasia Litina

113: The Economic and Demographic Transition, Mortality, and Comparative Development

Matteo Cervellati and Uwe Sunde

112: Geography and Intra-National Home Bias: U.S. Domestic Trade in 1949 and 2007

Nicholas Crafts and Alexander Klein

111: Discrimination or Social Networks? Industrial Investment in Colonial India

Bishnupriya Gupta

110: Not the Opium of the People: Income and Secularization in a Panel of Prussian Counties

Sascha Becker and Ludger Woessmann

109: Do entrepreneurs matter?

Sascha Becker and Hans V Hvide

108: Happiness and Productivity

Andrew Oswald, Eugenio Proto and Daniel Sgroi

107: Characterizing Behavioral Decisions with Choice Data

Sayantan Ghosal and Patricio Dalton

106: Fiscal Policy in a Depressed Economy: Was There a ‘Free Lunch’ in 1930s’ Britain?

Nicholas Crafts and Terence C Mills

105: The Untold Standards of Living Story: The GDP value of Twentieth Century Health Improvements in Developed Economies

Kerry Hickson

104: UK Defence News, 1920-1938: Estimates Based on Contemporary Sources

Nicholas Crafts

103: Rearmament to the Rescue? New Estimates of the Impact of ‘Keynesian’ Policies in 1930s’ Britain

Nicholas Crafts and Terence C Mills

102: Fiscal Interactions Among European Countries: Does the EU Matter?

Michela Redoano

101: International Trade without CES: Estimating Translog Gravity

Dennis Novy

100: Estimating the influence of life satisfaction and positive affect on later income using sibling fixed-effects

Jan-Emmanuel De Neve and Andrew Oswald

99: Reciprocity towards groups: a laboratory experiment on the causes

David Hugh-Jones and Martin Leroch

98: Business Training and Female Enterprise Start-up, Growth, and Dynamics: Experimental evidence from Sri Lanka

Suresh de Mel, David McKenzie and Christopher Woodruff

97: Offshoring and the Onshore Composition of Tasks and Skills

Sascha Becker, Karolina Ekholm and Marc-Andreas Muendler