Economic History Working Papers

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41172: Labour, law and training in early modern London: apprenticeship and the city’s institutions

Patrick Wallis

37829: The finances of the East India Company in India, c. 1766-1859

John F. Richards

37569: Rock, scissors, paper: the problem of incentives and information in traditional Chinese state and the origin of Great Divergence

Debin Ma

37336: The evolution of the British entertainment business: film, music and videogames

Gerben Bakker

36861: To take or to make?: contracting for legitimacy in the emerging states of twelth century Britain

Leigh Gardner

35518: From a “normal recession” to the “Great Depression”: finding the turning point in Chicago bank portfolios, 1923-1933

Natacha Postel-Vinay

32423: Seeking parts, looking for wholes

Mary S. Morgan

32413: School resources and schooling outcomes in a frontier society: evidence from British Columbia, 1900-19201

Mary MacKinnon and Chris Minns

31741: The contributions of warfare with Revolutionary and Napoleonic France to the consolidation and progress of the British industrial revolution

Patrick O'Brien

31459: Studying the past to plan for the future: a case study analysis of the unintended and indirect effects of regulation on productivity

Gerben Bakker and Stavroula Iliopoulou

30043: Economic effects of vertical disintegration: the American motion picture industry, 1945 to 1955

Gregory Mead Silver

30016: Labour market dynamics in Canada, 1891-1911: a first look from new census samples

Kris Inwood, Mary MacKinnon and Chris Minns

29960: The cost of living in London, 1740-1834

Ralph Turvey

29409: The utility of a common coinage: currency unions and the integration of money markets in late medieval Central Europe

Lars Boerner and Oliver Volckart

28988: ‘Deep’ integration of 19th century grain markets: coordination and standardisation in a global value chain

Aashish Velkar

28986: Books or bullion? Printing, mining and financial integration in Central Europe from the 1460s

David Chilosi and Oliver Volckart

28577: Exotic drugs and English medicine: England’s drug trade, c.1550-c.1800

Patrick Wallis

28446: Becoming a London goldsmith in the seventeenth century: social capital and mobility of apprentices and masters of the guild

Raphaelle Schwarzberg

28443: Rethinking the origins of British India: state formation and military-fiscal undertakings in an eighteenth century world region

Tirthankar Roy

27958: The education and training of gentry sons in early-modern England

Patrick Wallis and Cliff Webb

27946: Good or bad money?: debasement, society and the state in the late Middle Ages

David Chilosi and Oliver Volckart

27906: The amazing synchronicity of the Global Development (the 1300s-1450s). An institutional approach to the globalization of the late Middle Ages

Lucy Badalian and Victor Krivorotov

27889: Were British railway companies well-managed in the early twentieth century?

Nicholas Crafts, Tim Leunig and Abay Mulatu

27888: Pirates, polities and companies: global politics on the Konkan littoral, c.1690-1756

Derek L. Elliott

27887: From sickness to death: the financial viability of the English friendly societies and coming of the Old Age Pensions Act, 1875-1908

Nicholas Broten

27886: Total factor productivity for the Royal Navy from victory at Texal (1653) to triumph at Trafalgar (1805)

Patrick O'Brien and Xavier Duran

27885: Regional market integration in Italy during the unification (1832-1882)

Anna Missiaia

27884: Money, states and empire: financial integration cycles and institutional change in Central Europe, 1400-1520

David Chilosi and Oliver Volckart

27879: The economic legacies of the ‘thin white line’: indirect rule and the comparative development of sub-Saharan Africa

Peter Richens

27878: Depression econometrics: a FAVAR model of monetary policy during the Great Depression

Pooyan Amir Ahmadi and Albrecht Ritschl

27877: Does trade explain Europe’s rise? Geography, market size and economic development

Roman Studer

27876: Did globalization aid industrial development in colonial India?: a study of knowledge transfer in the iron industry

Tirthankar Roy

27874: After the Great Debasement, 1544-51: did Gresham’s Law apply?

Ling-Fan Li

27873: Leaving home and entering service: the age of apprenticeship in early modern London

Patrick Wallis, Cliff Webb and Chris Minns

27872: Law and economic change in traditional China: a comparative perspective

Debin Ma

27871: Wages, prices, and living standards in China, 1738-1925: in comparison with Europe, Japan and India

Robert Allen, Jean-Pascal Bassino, Debin Ma, Christine Moll-Murata and Jan Luiten van Zanden

27870: Evolution of living standards and human capital in China in 18-20th century: evidences from real wage and anthropometrics

Joerg Baten, Debin Ma, Stephen Morgan and Qing Wang

27869: Bairoch revisited: tariff structure and growth in the late 19th century

Antonio Tena-Junguito

27868: The pattern of trade in seventeenth-century Mughal India: towards an economic explanation

Jagjeet Lally

27866: Time and productivity growth in services: how motion pictures industrialized entertainment

Gerben Bakker

27865: Rules and reality: quantifying the practice of apprenticeship in early modern Europe

Chris Minns and Patrick Wallis

27864: Why Easter Island collapsed: an answer for an enduring question

Barzin Pakandam

27863: The impact of school provision on pupil attendance: evidence from the early 20th century

Mary MacKinnon and Chris Minns

27852: Re-evaluating the role of voluntary organisations: merchant networks, the Baltic and the expansion of European long-distance trade

Esther Sahle

26065: The Sunyani branch of the national archives [of Ghana]: an introductory note

Gareth Austin

25817: Towards a model of the central decision-making process in a war economy

Peter Howlett

22557: Regional GDP in Britain, 1871-1911: some estimates

Nicholas Crafts

22556: Market potential in British regions, 1871-1931

Nicholas Crafts

22555: How did the location of industry respond to falling transport costs in Britain before World War 1?

Nicholas Crafts and Abay Mulatu

22554: Social savings as a measure of the contribution of a new technology to economic growth

Nicholas Crafts