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13017: Capital market efficiency in the British industrial revolution: the case of the Lancashire cotton industry, 1760-1840

Steven Toms

13016: The landlord lag: productivity on peasant farms and landlord demesnes, Sweden 1700-1860

Patrick Svensson and Mats Olsson

13015: German and British balance of payments with the European neutrals in the Second World War

Eric Golson

13014: The 19th-century value chain in dairying: from milk pail to breakfast table

Ingrid Henriksen

13013: Opening to the East: shipping between Europe and Asia, 1770-1830

Peter Solar

13012: Regional inequality and migration in prewar Japan, 1890-1940

Ralph Paprzycki, Kyoji Fukao, Jean-Pascal Bassino, Tokihiko Settsu and Tangjun Yuan

13011: The economy of medieval Ragusa: an early example of economic prosperity based on good governance and strong institutions

Oleh Havrylyshyn and Nora Srzentic

13010: Returning to growth: lessons from the 1930s

Nicholas Crafts

13009: How to organise a ‘capital strike’: The British Australasian Society and the Queensland government, 1899-1924

Bernard Attard

13008: The politics of Imperial commerce: The Congress of Chambers of Commerce of the Empire, 1886-1914

Andrew Dilley

13007: The diffusion and impact of the corporation in 1910

James Foreman-Peck and Leslie Hannah

13006: IPO waves: an empirical analysis of going-public decisions in the Netherlands, 1876-2009

Wilco Legierse and Abe de Jong

13005: Business Associations as legitimacy-seekers: the case of CLCB

John Singleton and James Reveley

13004: Savings banks and savings behaviour in 19th-century England

Josephine Maltby and Linda Perriton

13003: Trends in Korean stature, 1547-1882

Myung Soo Cha and Young-Jun Cho

13002: Commercial life and trading networks in the Manchester region during the 19th century: the economic role of the public house, the warehouse and the Manchester Exchange

Deborah Woodman

13001: The welfare paradox: poor relief and economic development in England in a European perspective, c.1600-c.1800

Thijs Lambrecht

12030: The reluctant Central Bankers

Jon Moen and Ellis Tallman

12029: A sinew of power? Taxation, the state, and society in mid 18th-century Ireland, 1714-63

Patrick Walsh

12028: The impact of the Great Depression of the 1930s on the British economy

Nicholas Dimsdale and Nicholas Horsewood

12027: James Mason and the Eynsham Hall Estate: business and landownership in the late 19th century

Peter Dewey

12026: Strategies for longevity: the success and failings of merchant partnerships in the Liverpool-New York trading community, 1763-1833

Emily Buchnea

12025: Hunger in Hell’s Kitchen: real wages and deprivation in Spain’s early industrialisation - the Bilbao Estuary, 1914-35

Stefan Houpt and Juan Carlos Rojo Cagigal

12024: The adoption of the Méline tariff (January 1892): what determined legislators’ votes?

Jean-Pierre Dormois

12023: From ‘empire shopping’ to ‘buying British’: the public politics of consumption, 1945-63

David Thackeray and Richard Toye

12022: Silver and glass in medieval trade and cultural exchange between Bohemia and Venice

Roman Zaoral

12021: The legacy of Fortress Europe: evidence on trade diversion from Nazi Germany’s confidential wartime foreign trade statistics

Tamás Vonyó

12020: The Central Bank and the government throughout the last quarter of the 20th century: the case of Argentina

Hernán Gil Forleo

12019: Fighting inflation in Brazil, 1958-67: an economic and political view of the gradualist stabilisation plans

Eduardo Bastian and Fabio Sá Earp

12018: The bicentennial of a failure: Venezuelan economic growth from the late colonial age to the Bolivarian Revolution; a quantitative history

Giuseppe De Corso

12017: Informational dynamics and cross market linkages in the Tokyo Stock Exchange, 1931-40

Thomas Lagoarde-Segot and Jean-Pascal Bassino

12016: Why did agricultural labour productivity not converge in Europe, 1950-2006?

Vicente Pinilla and Miguel Martín-Retortillo

12015: Breaking with natural constraints: provincial grain yields in Spain 1750-2009

Carlos Santiago-Caballero

12014: Landed society, farm size and support for public schooling in 19th-century England

David Mitch

12013: Intergenerational social mobility during modernisation: a micro-level study of a community in southern Sweden 1830-1968

Martin Dribe, Jonas Helgertz and Bart van de Putte

12012: ‘You can't start a fire without a spark’: strikes and class struggle in the Basque Country, 1914-36

Stefan Houpt and Juan Carlos Rojo Cagigal

12011: Intermediation and the provision of liquidity services during the South Sea Bubble

Andrew Mays and Gary Shea

12010: Revolutionising transport: modern infrastructure, agriculture and development in Ghana

Alexander Moradi and Remi Jedwab

12009: Market access and information technology adoption: historical lessons from the introduction of the telephone in Bavaria

Florian Ploeckl

12008: Communication vs. Transportation: the relative contributions of railways and Post Offices to British Indian grain price convergence

Michael Kuehlwein, Tahir Andrabi and Sheetal Bharat

12007: Competing in a Victorian market: telecommunication service from its origins to nationalisation, 1846-69

Simone Fari

12006: Human development in Africa: a long-run perspective

Leandro Prados de la Escosura

12005: Lead miners’ earnings in 19th-century Allendale

Tim Barmby

12004: What price a roof? Housing and the cost of living in 16th-century Toledo

Mauricio Drelichman and David Gonzalez Agudo

12003: Was the early modern period a time of growing economic inequality? Portugal, 1550-1770

Jaime Reis, Conceição Andrade Martins and Álvaro Santos Pereira

12002: Reputation and economic performance: the competitive strategies of medieval English towns

Catherine Casson

12001: The dispersion of customs tariffs in France between 1850 and 1913: a contribution to the tariff growth paradox

Bertrand Blancheton and Stéphane Becuwe

11037: Was there ever a ruling class? Social and economic mobility in England, 1200-2010

Gregory Clark

11036: The cost of protection to grain farmers during the interwar years

Eva Fernandez

11035: ‘Fortress Europe’ in long-term perspective: agricultural protection in the European Community, 1957-2003

Mark Spoerer