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141: Financial intermediation cost, rents, and productivity: An international comparison

Guillaume Bazot

140: The introduction of serfdom and labour markets

Peter Jensen, Cristina Radu, Battista Severgnini and Paul Sharp

139: Two stories, one fate: Age-heaping and literacy in Spain, 1877-1930

Francisco Beltrán Tapia, Alfonso Díez-Minguela, Julio Martinez-Galarraga and Daniel Tirado-Fabregat

138: Two Worlds of Female Labour: Gender Wage Inequality in Western Europe, 1300-1800

Alexandra de Pleijt and Jan Luiten van Zanden

137: From Convergence to Divergence: Portuguese Economic Growth, 1527-1850

Nuno Palma and Jaime Reis

136: The Big Bang: Stock Market Capitalization in the Long Run

Dmitry Kuvshinov and Kaspar Zimmermann

135: The Great Moderation of Grain Price Volatility: Market Integration vs. Climate Change, Germany, 1650–1790

Hakon Albers, Ulrich Pfister and Martin Uebele

134: The age of mass migration in Latin America

Blanca Sanchez-Alonso

133: Gravity and Migration before Railways: Evidence from Parisian Prostitutes and Revolutionaries

Morgan Kelly and Cormac Ó Gráda

132: On the economics of forced labour. Did the employment of Prisoners-of-War depress German coal mining productivity in World War I?

Tobias A. Jopp

131: Well-being Inequality in the Long Run

Leandro Prados de la Escosura

130: The Napoleonic Wars: A Watershed in Spanish History?

Leandro Prados de la Escosura and Carlos Santiago-Caballero

129: A New Indicator for Describing Bull and Bear Markets

German Forero-Laverde

128: The long run impact of foreign direct investment, exports, imports and GDP: evidence for Spain from an ARDL approach

Verónica Cañal-Fernández and Julio Tascón Fernández

127: Can Autocracy Promote Literacy? Evidence from a Cultural Alignment Success Story

Nuno Palma and Jaime Reis

126: The Origins of the (Cooperative) Species: Raiffeisen Banking in the Netherlands, 1898–1909

Christopher Colvin, Stuart Henderson and John Turner

125: ‘Getting to Denmark’: the Role of Elites for Development

Peter Jensen, Markus Lampe, Paul Sharp and Christian Skovsgaard

124: How to become a leader in an emerging new global market: The determinants of French wine exports, 1848-1938

María-Isabel Ayuda, Hugo Ferrer-Pérez and Vicente Pinilla

123: Still a long way to go: decomposing income inequality across Italy’s regions, 1871 – 2011

Gabriele Cappelli, Emanuele Felice, Julio Martinez-Galarraga and Daniel Tirado-Fabregat

121: UNREAL WAGES? REAL INCOME AND ECONOMIC GROWTH IN ENGLAND, 1260-1850

Jane Humphries and Jacob Weisdorf

120: The Gains from Import Variety in Two Globalisations: Evidence from Germany

Wolf-Fabian Hungerland

119: The long-term relationship between economic development and regional inequality: South-West Europe, 1860-2010

Alfonso Díez-Minguela, Rafael González-Val, Julio Martinez-Galarraga, M. Teresa Sanchis and Daniel A. Tirado

118: Openness and growth in a historical perspective: a VECM approach

Giovanni Federico, Paul Sharp and Antonio Tena-Junguito

117: The Bank of England as Lender of Last Resort: New historical evidence from daily transactional data

Mike Anson, David Bholat, Miao Kang and Ryland Thomas

116: HARBINGERS OF MODERNITY: MONETARY INJECTIONS AND EUROPEAN ECONOMIC GROWTH, 1492-1790

Nuno Palma

115: ÔRationalÕ Farmers and the Emergence of Modern Accounting in Danish Dairying

Markus Lampe and Paul Sharp

114: Missed opportunities? The development of human welfare in Western Europe, 1913-1950

Daniel Gallardo Albarr‡n

113: Portugal’s wine globalization waves, 1750-2015

Pedro Lains

112: Effects of reforms and supervisory organizations: Evidence from the Ottoman Empire and the Istanbul bourse

Elmas Yaldiz Hanedar, Avni Hanedar and Ferdi Celikay

111: Resource endowments and agricultural commercialization in colonial Africa: Did labour seasonality and food security drive Uganda’s cotton revolution?

Michiel de Haas and Kostadis J. Papaioannou

110: Currency Valuations, Retaliation and Trade Conflicts Evidence from Interwar France

Thilo Albers

109: Measuring Extractive Institutions: Colonial Trade and Price Gaps in French Africa

Federico Tadei

108: Between war and peace: The Ottoman economy and foreign exchange trading at the Istanbul bourse

Avni Hanedar, Hatice Gaye Gencer, Sercan Demiralay and Ismail Altay

107: Why did Argentina become a super-exporter of agricultural and food products during the Belle Époque (1880-1929)?

Vicente Pinilla and Agustina Rayes

106: Plague and long-term development: the lasting effects of the 1629-30 epidemic on the Italian cities

Guido Alfani and Marco Percoco

105: The mining sectors in Chile and Norway, ca. 1870 - 1940: the development of a knowledge gap

Kristin Ranestad

104: Accounting for the ‘Little Divergence’ What drove economic growth in pre-industrial Europe, 1300-1800?

Alexandra de Pleijt and Jan Luiten van Zanden

103: Spain’s Historical National Accounts: Expenditure and Output, 1850-2015

Leandro Prados de la Escosura

102: You Reap What You Know: Darwin beats Malthus: Medicalization, Evolutionary Anthropology and the Demographic Transition

Katharina Mühlhoff

101: You Reap What You Know: Observability of Soil Quality, and Political Fragmentation

Thilo Rene Huning and Fabian Wahl

100: Danger to the Old Lady of Threadneedle Street? The Bank Restriction Act and the regime shift to paper money, 1797-1821

Patrick K. O’Brien and Nuno Palma

99: The Role of human capital in pre-industrial societies: skills and earnings in eighteenth-century Castile (Spain)

Begoña Álvarez and Fernando Ramos Palencia

98: The Gross Agricultural Output of Portugal: A Quantitative, Unified Perspective, 1500-1850

Jaime Reis

97: The revealed comparative advantages of late-Victorian Britain

Brian Varian

96: Knowledge Shocks Diffusion and the Resilience of Regional Inequality

Alexandra Cermeño

95: Comparing Income and Wealth Inequality in Pre-Industrial Economies: Lessons from 18th-Century Spain

Esteban Nicolini and Fernando Ramos Palencia

94: Reconstruction of annual money supply over the long run: The case of England, 1279-1870

Nuno Palma

93: World trade, 1800-1938: a new data-set

Giovanni Federico and Antonio Tena-Junguito

92: Capital shares and income inequality: Evidence from the long run

Erik Bengtsson and Daniel Waldenstršm

91: The Rise of the Middle Class, Brazil (1839-1950)

María Gómez-León