Economic History Working Papers

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66833: Medieval matching markets

Lars Boerner and Daniel Quint

66816: Puncturing the Malthus delusion: structural change in the British economy before the industrial revolution, 1500-1800

Patrick Wallis, Justin Colson and David Chilosi

66488: The revealed comparative advantages of late-Victorian Britain

Brian Varian

66306: The effects of market integration: trade and welfare during the first globalization, 1815-1913

David Chilosi and Giovanni Federico

66257: The 1920 Japanese income tax reform: government, business and democratic constraints

Shunsuke Nakaoka

65371: The rise of a financial revolution in Republican China in 1900-1937: an institutional narrative

Debin Ma

65369: To get the prices right for food: a “Gerschenkron state” versus the market in reforming China, 1979–2006

Jane Du and Kent Deng

65346: Benefits of empire? Capital market integration north and south of the Alps, 1350-1800

David Chilosi, Max-Stephan Schulze and Oliver Volckart

64857: China’s GDP per capita from the Han Dynasty to communist times

Kent Deng and O’Brien, Patrick Karl

64807: Glass ceilings and sticky floors: drawing new ontologies

Mary S. Morgan

64804: Representation without taxation, taxation without consent. The legacy of Spanish colonialism in America

Alejandra Irigoin

64779: A vision of the growth process in a technologically progressive economy: the United States, 1899-1941

Gerben Bakker, Nicholas Crafts and Pieter Woltjer

62159: Gibrat’s law and the British industrial revolution

Alexander Klein and Tim Leunig

60967: Reconsidering the rise of ‘shareholder value’ in the United States, 1960-2000

Blake Edward Taylor

60964: Geography and assimilation: a case study of Irish immigrants in late nineteenth century America

Peter Cirenza

60798: Locating a chronology for the great divergence: a critical survey of published data deployed for the measurement of nominal wages for Ming and Qing China

Patrick O'Brien and Kent Deng

60556: Housing affordability during the urban transition in Spain

Juan Carmona, Markus Lampe and Joan Rosés

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