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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 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

90: Spanish Land Reform in the 1930s: Economic Necessity or Political Opportunism?

Juan Carmona, Joan Rosés and James Simpson

89: Risen from Chaos: What drove the spread of Mass Education in the early 20th century China

Pei Gao

88: A city of trades: Spanish and Italian Immigrants in Late Nineteenth Century Buenos Aires. Argentina

Leticia Arroyo Abad and Blanca Sánschez-Alonso

87: A closer look at the long-term patterns of regional income inequality in Spain: the poor stay poor (and stay together)

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

86: Did monetary forces cause the Hungarian crises of 1931?

Flora Macher

85: Did closures do any good? Labour productivity, mine dynamics, and rationalization in interwar Ruhr coal-mining

Tobias Jopp

84: Any lessons for today? Exchange-rate stabilisation in Greece and South-East Europe between economic and political objectives and fiscal reality, 1841-1939

Matthias Morys

83: Size and structure of disaster relief when state capacity is limited: China’s 1823 flood

Ni Yuping and Martin Uebele

82: Was Gerschenkron right? Bulgarian agricultural growth during the Interwar period in light of modern development economics

Michael Kopsidis and Martin Ivanov

81: A Note on Danish Living Standards through Historical Wage Series, 1731-1913

Ekaterina Khaustova and Paul Sharp

80: Agriculture in Europe's Little Divergence: The Case of Spain

Carlos Álvarez-Nogal, Leandro Prados de la Escosura and Carlos Santiago-Caballero

79: Equity short-term finance under Philip II, with an option to long-term funded debt

Carlos Álvarez-Nogal and Christophe Chamley

78: Inequality and poverty in a developing economy: Evidence from regional data (Spain, 1860-1930)

Francisco Beltrán Tapia and Julio Martinez-Galarrage

77: Human Development as Positive Freedom: Latin America in Historical Perspective

Leandro Prados de la Escosura