Economic History Working Papers

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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

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