Economic History Working Papers

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22325: An estimate of imperial Austria’s gross domestic fixed capital stock, 1870-1913: methods, sources and results

Max-Stephan Schulze

22324: Harbingers of dissolution?: grain prices, borders and nationalism in the Hapsburg economy before the First World War

Max-Stephan Schulze and Nikolaus Wolf

22322: Mercantilist institutions for the pursuit of power with profit. The management of Britain’s national debt, 1756-1815

Patrick O'Brien

22321: Gresham on horseback: the monetary roots of Spanish American political fragmentation in the nineteenth century

Alejandra Irigoin

22320: Universal banking failure?: an analysis of the contrasting responses of the Amsterdamsche Bank and the Rotterdamsche Bankvereeniging to the Dutch financial crisis of the 1920s

Christopher Colvin

22319: The triumph and denouement of the British fiscal state: taxation for the wars against Revolutionary and Napoleonic France, 1793-1815

Patrick O'Brien

22318: Origins of catch-up failure: comparative productivity growth in the Hapsburg Empire, 1870-1910

Max-Stephan Schulze

22317: Was Dick Whittington taller than those he left behind?: anthropometric measures, migration and the quality of life in early nineteenth century London

Jane Humphries and Tim Leunig

22316: The evolution of entertainment consumption and the emergence of cinema, 1890-1940

Gerben Bakker

22315: Is social capital persistent?: comparative measurement in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries

Marta Felis Rota

22314: Structural change and the growth contribution of services: how motion pictures industrialized US spectator entertainment

Gerben Bakker

22313: The Jesuits as knowledge brokers between Europe and China (1582-1773): shaping European views of the Middle Kingdom

Ashley E. Millar

22311: Regional income dispersion and market potential in the late nineteenth century Hapsburg Empire

Max-Stephan Schulze

22310: ‘The big problem of the petty coins’, and how it could be solved in the late Middle Ages

Oliver Volckart

22309: The Anglo-German productivity puzzle, 1895-1935: a restatement and a possible resolution

Albrecht Ritschl

22308: The history, nature and economic significance of an exceptional fiscal state for the growth of the British economy, 1453-1815

Patrick O'Brien

22307: The economic history of sovereignty: communal responsibility, the extended family, and the firm

Lars Boerner and Albrecht Ritschl

22306: A stakeholder empire: the political economy of Spanish imperial rule in America

Regina Grafe and Alejandra Irigoin

22305: The U.S. business cycle, 1867-1995: dynamic factor analysis vs. reconstructed national accounts

Albrecht Ritschl, Samad Sarferaz and Martin Uebele

22304: Understanding West German economic growth in the 1950s

Barry Eichengreen and Albrecht Ritschl

22303: War and wealth: economic opportunity before and after the Civil War, 1850-1870

Taylor Jaworski

21432: Carlyle and the French Enlightenment: transitional readings of Voltaire and Diderot

Timothy Hochstrasser

21107: The causes of recession following stabilization

Stanislaw Gomulka and Paul Johnson

21105: Ageing and economic performance

Paul Johnson

20669: British economic policy and industrial performance in the early post-war period

Stephen Broadberry and Nicholas Crafts

20349: Some dimensions of the 'quality of life' during the British industrial revolution

Nicholas Crafts

20283: Term limits and electoral accountability

Michael Smart and Daniel Sturm

19566: Real origins of the great depression: monopoly power, unions and the American business cycle in the 1920s

Monique Ebell and Albrecht Ritschl

15601: Umbrella model of inquiry and the dynamics of scientific practices

Erika Mattila

13300: Institutional change in Meiji Japan: image and reality

Janet Hunter

13299: Understanding the economic history of postal services: some preliminary observations from the case of Meiji Japan

Janet Hunter

13295: Trade, convergence and globalisation: the dynamics of change in the international income distribution, 1950-1998

Philip Epstein, Peter Howlett and Max-Stephan Schulze

13294: Markets with, without, and in spite of states: West Africa in the pre-colonial nineteenth century

Gareth Austin

12761: Multi-criteria analysis: a manual

Js Dodgson, M Spackman, A Pearman and Ld Phillips

12670: High quality public services for Scotland

Nicholas Crafts

6922: The social history of occupied Japan: 1: some sources and problems, 2: British writings on Japanese history

Gordon Daniels, Janet Hunter and Ian Nish

4286: An historical analysis of the expansion of compulsory schooling in Europe after the Second World War

Martina Viarengo

779: The impact of training on productivity and wages: evidence from British panel data

Lorraine Dearden, Howard Reed and John van Reenen

652: Great leaps backward: poverty under Mao

Kent Deng

536: Britannia ruled the waves

Tim Leunig

515: Can profitable arbitrage opportunities in the raw cotton market explain Britain’s continued preference for mule spinning?

Tim Leunig