Economic History Working Papers

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60555: Longevity and the rise of the West: lifespans of the European elite, 800-1800

Neil Cummins

60453: Sailing away from Malthus: intercontinental trade and European economic growth, 1500-1800

Nuno Palma

60452: Quakers, coercion and pre-modern growth: why friends’ formal institutions for contract enforcement did not matter for early Atlantic trade expansion

Esther Sahle

60382: Epidemic trade

Lars Boerner and Battista Severgnini

59304: How they made news pay: news traders’ quest for crisis-resistant business models

Gerben Bakker

59303: Clarifying data for reciprocal comparisons of nutritional standards of living in England and the Yangtze Delta (Jiangnan), c.1644 – c.1840

Kent Deng and Patrick O'Brien

58363: Gibrat's Law and the British industrial revolution

Alexander Klein and Tim Leunig

57209: Reverse assimilation? Immigrants in the Canadian labour market during the Great Depression

Kris Inwood, Chris Minns and Fraser Summerfield

56896: Was the Gibson Paradox for real? A wicksellian study of the relationship between interest rates and prices

Jagjit Chadha and Morris Perlman

56786: The internationalization of economic history: a puzzle

Johan Fourie and Leigh Gardner

56493: African economic growth in a European mirror: a historical perspective

Stephen Broadberry and Leigh Gardner

56334: American tariff policy and the British alkali industry, 1880-1905

Brian Varian

56333: Soft power: the media industries in Britain since 1870

Gerben Bakker

56332: Discovering economic history in footnotes: the story of Tŏng Tàishēng merchant archive (1790-1850) and the historiography of modern China

Debin Ma and Weipeng Yuan

56122: Medical care in early modern Venice

Alex Bamji

56053: Medical revolutions? The growth of medicine in England, 1660-1800

Teerapa Pirohakul and Patrick Wallis

55961: The political economy of Byzantium: transaction costs and the decentralisation of the Byzantine Empire in the twelfth century

Richard Knight

54574: Asian globalisations: market integration, trade and economic growth, 1800-1938

David Chilosi and Giovanni Federico

54573: Accounting for the great divergence

Stephen Broadberry

54518: Money for nothing: how firms have financed R&D-projects since the Industrial Revolution

Gerben Bakker

54515: Surnames and social mobility: England 1230-2012

Gregory Clark and Neil Cummins

54513: Intergenerational mobility in England, 1858-2012. Wealth, surnames, and social mobility

Gregory Clark and Neil Cummins

51582: Depression econometrics: a FAVAR model of monetary policy during the Great Depression

Pooyan Amir Ahmadi and Albrecht Ritschl

50970: Educação para todos –“free to those who can afford it”: human capital and inequality persistence in 21st c Brazil

Neil Kendrick

50969: Demystifying growth and development in North Song China, 960–1127

Kent Deng

50907: Histoire de la médicalisation européenne, XIVe-XIXe siècles

Christelle Rabier

50816: From divergence to convergence: re-evaluating the history behind China’s economic boom

Loren Brandt, Debin Ma and Thomas Rawski

50815: Risky institutions: political regimes and the cost of public borrowing in early modern Italy

David Chilosi

50687: Macroeconomic aspects of Spanish American independence: the effects of fiscal and currency fragmentation, 1800s-1860s

Alejandra Irigoin

50686: Bargaining for absolutism: a Spanish path to nation state and empire building

Alejandra Irigoin and R. Grafe

50489: No intrinsic value: accounting for medical expenditure in early-modern France

Christelle Rabier

49148: Historical foundations for a global perspective on the emergence of a Western European regime for the discovery, development and diffusion of useful and reliable knowledge

Patrick O'Brien

49083: Evaluating the Swiss transitory labour contribution to Germany in the Second War

Eric Golson

49082: A trojan horse in Daoguang China? Explaining the flows of silver in and out of China

Alejandra Irigoin

49081: Sunk costs and the dynamics of creative industries

Gerben Bakker

47804: The eighth wonder of the world: how might access for vehicles have prevented the economic failure of the Thames Tunnel 1843-1865?

Rio Lydon

47507: Adopting the rights-based model: music multinationals and local music industries since 1945

Gerben Bakker

45681: The rise of the patent department: a case study of Westinghouse Electric and Manufacturing Company

Shigehiro Nishimura

45680: The Maghribi industrialists: contract enforcement in the Moroccan industry, 1956-82

Romain Ferrali

45563: Public finance in China and Britain in the long eighteenth century

Peer Vries

45562: Going beyond social savings: how would the British economy have developed in the absence of the railways?: a case study of Brunner Mond 1882-1914

Edward Longinotti

44725: Monetary sovereignty during the classical gold standard era: the Ottoman Empire and Europe, 1880-1913

Ali Coskun Tuncer

44492: Bounded Leviathan: or why North and Weingast are only right on the right half

Alejandra Irigoin and Regina Grafe

44335: Reparations, deficits, and debt default: the Great Depression in Germany

Albrecht Ritschl

42880: Steel, style and status: the economics of the cantilever chair, 1929-1936

Tobias Vogelgsang

42878: The seven mechanisms for achieving sovereign debt sustainability

Garrick Hileman

41940: Money and monetary system in China in the 19th-20th century: an overview

Debin Ma

41660: From divergence to convergence: re-evaluating the history behind China’s economic boom

Loren Brandt, Debin Ma and Thomas Rawski

41659: Hand looms, power looms, and changing production organizations: the case of the Kiryu weaving district in the early 20th century Japan

Tomoko Hashino and Keijiro Otsuka

41348: Why did (pre‐industrial) firms train?: premiums and apprenticeship contracts in 18th century England

Chris Minns and Patrick Wallis