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Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries

The Historical Non-Existence of Resource Endowments
Posted by Jesse Czelusta on August 18th, 2005
Made for Toil: Natural Selection at the Dawn of Agriculture
Posted by Jacob L. Weisdorf on December 27th, 2007
How Did They Feed Us? The Growth of World Agricultural Output, 1800-1938
Posted by Giovanni Federico on April 29th, 2001

Business History

Can Lower Rates of Labour Productivity in US Cotton Mills Be Explained By Higher Rates of Worker Turnover?
Posted by Dr Tim Leunig on February 12th, 2001

Development of the Economic History Discipline

A restricted maximum likelihood estimator for truncated height samples
Posted by Brian A'Hearn on April 11th, 2004
Economic History and Game Theory: A Survey
Posted by Avner Greif on June 25th, 1997
Evolutionary Game Theory: A New Framework for Cliometrics?
Posted by Claude Diebolt on June 19th, 2002
La Historia Economica en Internet (The Economic History of the Internet)
Posted by Donato Gomez Diaz on October 29th, 2003
Living Economic and Social History
Posted by Pat Hudson on May 14th, 2001
Succession series and path dependence
Posted by Sorin-Gabriel Sebe on February 7th, 2007
The Encounters of Economic History and Legal History
Posted by Ron Harris on August 27th, 2002
Turning Water into Wine: New Methods of Calculating Farm Output and New Insights into Rising Crop Yields during the Agricultural Revolution
Posted by Liam Brunt on February 1st, 1997

Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity

Can the Past Teach Us What to Do in the Future?
Posted by Maurizio Pegrari on May 11th, 1999
Capital Goods Prices, Global Capital Markets and Accumulation: 1870-1950
Posted by William Collins on September 22nd, 1999
CONVERGENCE AND INTERNATIONAL FACTOR FLOWS IN THEORY AND HISTORY
Posted by Alan M. Taylor on July 29th, 1996
Growth, History and Institutions
Posted by Graziella Bertocchi on May 25th, 2006
How Did the United States and Germany Overtake Britain? A Sectoral Analysis of Comparative Productivity Levels, 1870-1990
Posted by Stephen N. Broadberry on July 28th, 1997
How Much Can Human Capital Explain?
Posted by David Mitch on October 4th, 2000
Real Wages and Relative Factor Prices in the Third World Before 1840: What Do They Tell Us about the Sources of Growth?
Posted by Jeffrey G. Williamson on October 29th, 1998
Technological Breakthroughs and Productivity Growth
Posted by Harald Edquist on March 22nd, 2004
Technology, Organization and Productivity in Services: Lessons from Britain and the United States Since 1870
Posted by Sayantan Ghosal on August 29th, 2006
The Early Modern Great Divergence: Wages, Prices and Economic Development in Europe and Asia, 1500-1800
Posted by Bishnupriya Gupta on August 27th, 2006
The Great Escape: The Industrial Revolution in Theory and in History
Posted by Gregory Clark on October 23rd, 2003
The Impact of Globalization on Pre-Industrial, Technologically Quiescent Economies
Posted by Jeffrey G. Williamson on September 26th, 1999
The Origins of the "New Economy": Comparisons and Pitfalls
Posted by Ronald Albers on March 14th, 2004
When Did Latin America Fall Behind? Evidence from Long-run International Inequality
Posted by Leandro Prados de la Escosura on April 12th, 2005
Why England? Demographic Factors, Structural Change and Physical Capital Accumulation during the Industrial Revolution
Posted by Joachim Voth on December 10th, 2006
Why the whole world is not developed
Posted by G.Jan Ligthart on March 24th, 2005
Immigration Policy and Economic Growth in Two Settler Economies
Posted by Susan B. Carter on December 10th, 2003
Labour Productivity in the US and the UK During the 19th Century
Posted by Douglas Irwin on June 4th, 2006
New Evidence on Catch-Up and Convergence Since 1872
Posted by Marianne Ward on February 17th, 2002
Sources of Convergence in the Late Nineteenth Century
Posted by Alan M. Taylor on September 3rd, 1996
Can Lower Rates of Labour Productivity in US Cotton Mills Be Explained By Higher Rates of Worker Turnover?
Posted by Dr Tim Leunig on February 12th, 2001
Electricity Diffusion and Trend Acceleration in Inter-War Manufacturing Productivity
Posted by Cristiano Andrea Ristuccia on March 13th, 2002

Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History

The Spanish Empire and its Legacy: Fiscal Re-Distribution and Political Conflict in Colonial and Post-Colonial Latin America
Posted by Alejandra Irigoin on September 19th, 2006
Is Social Capital Persistent? Comparative Measurement in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Posted by Marta Felis Rota on July 12th, 2007

Education And Human Resource Development

How Much Can Human Capital Explain?
Posted by David Mitch on October 4th, 2000
Quantifying Quantitative Literacy: Age Heaping and the History of Human Capital
Posted by Dorothee Crayen on January 22nd, 2007

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

An Interest Group Theory of Financial Development
Posted by Nela Thomas Richardson on February 18th, 2003
Financial Systems and Economic Modernization
Posted by Richard Sylla on June 6th, 2002
The Great Depression as a Watershed: International Capital Mobility over the Long Run
Posted by Alan M. Taylor on October 13th, 1997
The Misuse of Central Bank Gold Holdings
Posted by Ernst Juerg Weber on December 18th, 2003
The Origins of Money
Posted by Nick Szabo on January 16th, 2003
Early Deposit Banking
Posted by Meir Kohn on June 21st, 1999
If Only Alexander Hamilton Had Been Argentinean: A Comparison of the Early Monetary Experiences of Argentina and the United States
Posted by Carlos A. Vegh on November 5th, 1996
Black Man's Burden: Measured Philanthropy and the British Empire, 1880-1914
Posted by Marc Flandreau on May 6th, 2008
Bridging the generational divide - currency crisis in theory and history
Posted by Conor Healy on December 1st, 2003
Economic, Political, and Legal Factors in Financial System Development: International Patterns in Historical Perspective
Posted by Caroline Fohlin on February 11th, 2001
Exchange-Rate Regimes and International Trade: Evidence from the Classical Gold Standard Era
Posted by Christopher Meissner on January 28th, 2001
Measuring Market Integration: A Model of Arbitrage with an Econometric Application to the Gold Standard, 1879-1913
Posted by Alan M. Taylor on October 7th, 1997
Rethinking the evidence and paradigms of financial crises. Italy and the international=20 system, 1880-1893
Posted by Elio Cerrito on August 6th, 2006
The "Rules of the Game" and the Credibility of the Classical Gold Standard, 1880-1914
Posted by Michael D. Bordo on September 14th, 1997
War, Crisis, and the Capital Market: The Anomaly of the Size Effect 1880-1990
Posted by Margaryta Korolenko on December 4th, 2003
Central Bank Independence During the Interwar Years: Some Empirical Evidence
Posted by Eric Dehay on March 16th, 2004
Crash! Expectational Aspects of the Departures of the United Kingdom and the United States from the Inter-War Gold Standard
Posted by C. Paul Hallwood on May 11th, 1997
Economic, Political, and Legal Factors in Financial System Development: International Patterns in Historical Perspective
Posted by Caroline Fohlin on February 11th, 2001
Exchange-Rate Regimes and International Trade: Evidence from the Classical Gold Standard Era
Posted by Christopher Meissner on January 28th, 2001
Fetters of Debt, Deposit, or Gold during the Great Depression? The International Propagation of the Banking Crisis of 1931
Posted by Gary Richardson on January 1st, 2008
To Raise the Golden Anchor? The Gold Standard, Uncertainty, and the Great Depression
Posted by David A. Zalewski on November 3rd, 1996

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Monitoring the Monitor
Posted by Der-yuan Yang on April 5th, 2005
Bargaining for Absolutism: a Spanish path to nation-state and empire building
Posted by Alejandra Irigoin on November 14th, 2006
Property Rights and Land Conflict: A Comparison of Settlement of the U.S. Western and Brazilian Amazon Frontiers
Posted by Gary D. Libecap on September 15th, 1997
Corruption and Circular Games between People, Politicians, and Bureaucrats
Posted by Basharat A. Pitafi on December 22nd, 2003

Historical Demography, including Migration

Made for Toil: Natural Selection at the Dawn of Agriculture
Posted by Jacob L. Weisdorf on December 27th, 2007
Convergence in the Age of Mass Migration
Posted by Alan M. Taylor on November 28th, 1997
Citizenship Laws and International Migration in Historical Perspectiv= e
Posted by Chiara Strozzi on July 24th, 2005

History of Economic Thought, Methodology

Absolute Prices
Posted by Roberto Massera on May 20th, 1999
Institutional Economics and Historical Analysis: An Inquiry Concerning Path-Dependence and Cumulative Causation
Posted by Altug Yalcintas on January 21st, 2003
Economics of 1492 - Colombus and Zorzi Data
Posted by Gregory Zorzos on January 21st, 2002
Adam Smith versus James Buchanan's Internal Increase in Market Size: An Extension of the Division of Labor?
Posted by Chi-Chu Chou on May 25th, 1999
The accounting figuration of business statistics as a foundation for the spread of economic ideas
Posted by Tomo Suzuki on July 3rd, 2008
The epistemology of macroeconomic reality: The Keynesian Revolution from an accounting point of view
Posted by Tomo Suzuki on July 3rd, 2008
National accounting, corporate accounting and global standardization
Posted by Tomo Suzuki on July 3rd, 2008
The epistemology of macroeconomic reality: The Keynesian Revolution from an accounting point=20 of view
Posted by Tomo Suzuki on December 11th, 2007

History of Technology, including Technological Change

Episodes of collective invention
Posted by Peter B. Meyer on November 12th, 2003
Patent Institutions, Industrial Organization, and Early Technological Change: Britain and the United States, 1790-1850
Posted by B. Zorina Khan on May 16th, 1997
'Technological Lock-In' and the Power Source for the Motor Car
Posted by James Foreman-Peck on January 29th, 1997

Income and Wealth

Three Centuries of Inequality in Britain and America
Posted by Peter H. Lindert on February 24th, 1997
Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution
Posted by James A. Robinson on March 3rd, 2002
Income Convergence During the Disintegration of World Economy, 1919-1938
Posted by Branko Milanovic on February 24th, 2003

Industry: Manufacturing and Construction

Market Performance in History
Posted by Karl Gunnar Persson on May 29th, 2002
The Coevolution of Industries and National Institutions: Theory and Evidence
Posted by Johann Peter Murmann on February 16th, 2003
Can Lower Rates of Labour Productivity in US Cotton Mills Be Explained By Higher Rates of Worker Turnover?
Posted by Dr Tim Leunig on February 12th, 2001
The Coevolution of Industries and National Institutions: Theory and Evidence
Posted by Johann Peter Murmann on February 16th, 2003

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Has Globalization Made the World More Unequal?
Posted by Peter H. Lindert on April 18th, 2001
'Mind the Gap!' Transport costs and price convergence in the 19th century Atlantic economy
Posted by Karl Gunnar Persson on July 11th, 2002
A Fantastic Rain of Gold: European Migrants' Remittances and Balance of Payments Adjustment during the Gold Standard Period
Posted by David Khoudour-Casteras on January 1st, 2008
Are Your Labor Standards Set in China? Evidence from the First Great Wave of Globalization, 1870-1914
Posted by Michael Huberman on February 6th, 2007
Core, Periphery, Exchange Rate Regimes and Globalization
Posted by Michael D. Bordo on January 5th, 2006
Exchange-Rate Regimes and International Trade: Evidence from the Classical Gold Standard Era
Posted by Christopher Meissner on January 28th, 2001
Market Power and Commodity Prices: Brazil, Chile and the United States, 1820s-1930
Posted by Marcelo de Paiva Abreu on February 22nd, 2007
The nature and costs of dis-equilibrium trade: The case of transatlantic grain trade in the 19th century
Posted by Karl Gunnar Persson on March 1st, 2005
Trade Costs in the First Wave of Globalization
Posted by David Jacks on February 6th, 2007
Are Your Labor Standards Set in China? Evidence from the First Great Wave of Globalization, 1870-1914
Posted by Michael Huberman on February 6th, 2007
Exchange-Rate Regimes and International Trade: Evidence from the Classical Gold Standard Era
Posted by Christopher Meissner on January 28th, 2001
Interwar U.S. and Japanese National Product and Defense Expenditure
Posted by William D. O'Neil on September 4th, 2003
Measuring Protection in the Early Twentieth Century
Posted by Antoni Estevadeordal on November 29th, 1997
Causes of World Trade Growth in Agricultural and Food Products, 1951 - 2000
Posted by Vicente Pinilla on December 19th, 2006
Trade, convergence and globalisation: the dynamics of the international income distribution, 1950-1998
Posted by Max-Stephan Schulze on December 28th, 2003

Labor and Employment History

Labor Markets and Follow-the-Leader Strategies: Immigration Policy prior to the Thirties
Posted by Jeffrey G. Williamson on February 21st, 1997
Labor Productivity in Britain and America in the Nineteenth Century
Posted by Douglas A. Irwin on January 18th, 2005
The Evolution of Employment Systems in the US and Japan, 1900-1960
Posted by Chiaki Moriguchi on May 11th, 1999
Has the Forward March of Labor Halted? Union Growth and Decline in Comparative and Historical Perspective
Posted by Gerald Friedman on February 6th, 2003

Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology

How to (and How Not to) Analyze Deficient Height Samples
Posted by John Komlos on August 10th, 2003
Improvements in Maximum Likelihood Estimators of Truncated Normal Samples with Prior Knowledge of the Standard Deviation: A Simulation Based Study with Application to Historical Height Samples
Posted by John Komlos on August 10th, 2003
International Inequality and Polarization in Living Standards, 1870-2000: Evidence from the=20 Western World
Posted by Leandro Prados de la Escosura on March 21st, 2007
Redefining the Terms of Trade: A History of Social Protectionism in the U.S. and Overseas
Posted by Susan Aaronson on November 22nd, 1997

Macroeconomics and Fluctuations

On the Application of Benford's Law to International Macroeconomic Statistics
Posted by Eric Helland on December 9th, 1996
On the Macroeconomics of Pre-industrial Economies
Posted by George Grantham on September 4th, 1997
Globalization and Inequality Then and Now: The Late Nineteenth and Late Twentieth Centuries Compared
Posted by Jeffrey Williamson on February 20th, 1997
Unit Roots and Infrequent Large Shocks: New International Evidence on Output
Posted by DIEBOLT Claude on January 15th, 2004
A Survey on Cycles and Chaos (Part I)
Posted by Claude Diebolt on April 3rd, 2001

Markets and Institutions

Between the Gift and the Market: The Economy of Regard
Posted by Avner Offer on January 12th, 1997
Markets in China and Europe on the Eve of the Industrial Revolution
Posted by Carol H. Shiue on February 4th, 2007
Printing and Interest Restrictions in Islam and Christianity: An Economic Theory of Inhibitive Law Persistence
Posted by Jared Rubin on March 16th, 2008
Economic, Political, and Legal Factors in Financial System Development: International Patterns in Historical Perspective
Posted by Caroline Fohlin on February 11th, 2001
Feeding the British: Convergence and market efficiency in 19th century grain trade
Posted by Karl Gunnar Persson on December 29th, 2004
International Capital Mobility in History: Purchasing Power Parity in the Long Run
Posted by Alan M. Taylor on September 3rd, 1996
International Capital Mobility in History: Saving-Investment Criteria for Short- and Long-Run Capital Mobility Since the Mid-Nineteenth Century.
Posted by Alan M. Taylor on September 3rd, 1996
Micro Rules and Macro Outcomes: The Impact of the Structure of Organizational Rules on the Efficiency of Security Exchanges: London, New York, and Paris, 1800-1914
Posted by Lance Davis on September 21st, 1997
Economic, Political, and Legal Factors in Financial System Development: International Patterns in Historical Perspective
Posted by Caroline Fohlin on February 11th, 2001
Choosing Economic Regimes: Lessons from European Colonies
Posted by John R. Hanson II on November 5th, 1996

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Is Social Capital Persistent? Comparative Measurement in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Posted by Marta Felis Rota on July 12th, 2007

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

Sense in Communication
Posted by Douglas Galbi on April 7th, 2004
The Influence of Multimarket Contact on the Organization of Early Twentieth Century Steamship Conferences
Posted by Richard Sicotte on June 9th, 1998

Africa

Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity

Slavery, Institutional Development, and Long-Run Growth in Africa, 1400-2000
Posted by Nathan Nunn on October 13th, 2004

Education And Human Resource Development

A Human Capital Interpretation of the Economic History of the Jews
Posted by Maristella Botticini on February 12th, 2001

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Bank of England vs the IBRD: Did the Nigerian Colony Deserve a Central Bank?
Posted by Chibuike Ugochukwu Uche on May 14th, 1997

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

The Political Economy of the Savanna: States, Trading Networks and Castes in Medieval West Africa
Posted by Wolfram Latsch on May 3rd, 2004

Historical Demography, including Migration

A Human Capital Interpretation of the Economic History of the Jews
Posted by Maristella Botticini on February 12th, 2001

Industry: Manufacturing and Construction

Development and Technological Change in the South African Automotive Industry, 1950 to 2000
Posted by Maylene Y Damoense on May 4th, 2004

Labor and Employment History

A Human Capital Interpretation of the Economic History of the Jews
Posted by Maristella Botticini on February 12th, 2001
The Secondary Market Evaluation of Slaves in XIXth Century Mauritius
Posted by Desire Vencatachellum on February 11th, 2002

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

A Human Capital Interpretation of the Economic History of the Jews
Posted by Maristella Botticini on February 12th, 2001
The Path is Easy and the Benefits Large: The Nasiriyya, Social Networks and Economic change in Morocco, 1640-1830
Posted by David Gutelius on May 9th, 2004

Asia

Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries

The Transition to Agriculture: Climate Reversals, Population Density, and Technical Change
Posted by Clyde Reed on April 6th, 2005
On the effiency of markets for agricultural products; rice prices and capital markets in 19th century Java
Posted by Jan Luiten van Zanden on May 16th, 2002
Collusion in the Indian Tea Industry in the Great Depression: An Analysis of Panel Data
Posted by Bishnupriya Gupta on May 5th, 1997
Soil Degradation and Agricultural Change in Two Developing Countries
Posted by Peter H. Lindert on September 13th, 1996

Business History

Soci=E9t=E9 commerciale de l'Oc=E9anie (1876-1914). Rise and Fall of the Hamburg house=20 of Godeffroy
Posted by Claus Gossler on March 28th, 2007
Catalyst or Impediment: Modern Banks and Modern Industry in the Republican China
Posted by Linsun Cheng on February 15th, 2001
Model of Welfare Capitalism? The United States Rubber Company in Southeast Asia, 1910-1942
Posted by Shakila Yacob on January 15th, 2007
Scientific Management in China, 1910-1930s
Posted by Stephen L. Morgan on April 13th, 2004
A history of Japanese accounting reforms as a microfoundation of the democratic socio-economy: Accountics Part II
Posted by Tomo Suzuki on December 12th, 2007
Accountics: Impacts of internationally standardized accounting on the Japanese socio-economy
Posted by Tomo Suzuki on December 12th, 2007
Accounting for the growth and transformation of Chinese businesses and the Chinese economy: implications for transitional and development economics
Posted by Tomo Suzuki on December 16th, 2007
Adjustments Prior to Long-term Stable Employment: Preconditions of the Japanese Employment System, 1945-49
Posted by Jae-Won Sun on September 20th, 2001
Financing and Employment Adjustment: Enterprise Consolidation in Japan, 1945-49
Posted by Jae-Won Sun on February 13th, 2001

Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity

Real Wages and Relative Factor Prices in the Third World 1820-1940: Asia
Posted by Jeffrey G. Williamson on October 28th, 1998
India's De-Industrialization Under British Rule: New Ideas, New Evidence
Posted by Jeffrey G. Williamson on May 25th, 2006
The standard of livings and market integration in modern Japan, 1897-1938
Posted by Kentaro Saito on December 22nd, 2003
Bilingualism, Language Consolidation, and Industrialization in Mid-20th Century India
Posted by David Clingingsmith on January 12th, 2007
China: Historical evidence
Posted by Dwayne Benjamin on May 20th, 1999
Industrial Revolution in the Prewar Lower Yangzi Region of China: a Quantitative and Institutional Interpretation
Posted by Debin Ma on March 16th, 2004
Industrial Revolution, Demographic Transition, and Human Capital Accumulation in Korea, 1916-38
Posted by Myung Soo Cha on November 6th, 2007
Korea's First Industrial Revolution, 1911-40
Posted by Myung Soo Cha on June 20th, 2006
Why Nations Fail: Managerial Decisions and Performance in Indian Cotton Textiles, 1900-1938.
Posted by Susan Wolcott on September 3rd, 1996
Accounting for the growth and transformation of Chinese businesses and the Chinese economy: implications for transitional and development economics
Posted by Tomo Suzuki on July 3rd, 2008
Accounting for the growth and transformation of Chinese businesses and the Chinese economy: implications for transitional and development economics
Posted by Tomo Suzuki on December 16th, 2007
Financing Late Industrialisation in Historical Perspective: Interpreting East Asian Models and Globalisation
Posted by Jang-Sup Shin on February 1st, 2001
Paths of Growth: Economic Growth in East Asia and Peripheral Europe (1960-2000)
Posted by Luciano Amaral on October 6th, 2003

Economic Planning and Policy

Economic Transition from Manchukuo to the Communist China in the Case of Iron and Steel Industry in Anshan
Posted by Toshiro Matsumoto on February 7th, 2001
The Visible Palm: Market Failures, Industrial Policy and the Malaysian Palm Oil
Posted by Fredrik Gustafsson on January 22nd, 2008

Education And Human Resource Development

A Causal Analysis of Education, Defense Spending and Economic Growth in Japan: 1868-1940
Posted by Claude Diebolt on January 15th, 2004
Educational Disparity in Pakistan, 1947-71
Posted by M Niaz Asadullah on November 13th, 2003

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

American Pressure for Financial Internationalization in Japan on the Eve of the Great Depression
Posted by Mark Metzler on February 10th, 2005
Catalyst or Impediment: Modern Banks and Modern Industry in the Republican China
Posted by Linsun Cheng on February 15th, 2001
The Impact of the American Silver Purchase Act (1934) on the Chinese Economy
Posted by Tai-kuang Ho on April 27th, 2006
Assessing Damages: The 1983 Israeli Bank Shares Crisis
Posted by Richard S. Grossman on January 15th, 2001
Financing Late Industrialisation in Historical Perspective: Interpreting East Asian Models and Globalisation
Posted by Jang-Sup Shin on February 1st, 2001

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

A history of Japanese accounting reforms as a microfoundation of the democratic socio-economy: Accountics Part II
Posted by Tomo Suzuki on December 12th, 2007
Accountics: Impacts of internationally standardized accounting on the Japanese socio-economy
Posted by Tomo Suzuki on December 12th, 2007
Accounting for the growth and transformation of Chinese businesses and the Chinese economy: implications for transitional and development economics
Posted by Tomo Suzuki on December 16th, 2007
The evolution of marine property in Hawaii: fencing the new frontier
Posted by James A. Roumasset on January 4th, 2004

Historical Demography, including Migration

About the Laws of a History and Mathematical Model. Demographic Cycle Imitating Modelling Experiment
Posted by Sergey Nefedov on April 10th, 2001
Fertility, Mortality and Population Growth in Malthusian Korea
Posted by Myung Soo Cha on February 15th, 2007
Marriage, Fertility, and Economic Correlates in Nineteenth-Century Japan
Posted by Satomi Kurosu on September 4th, 1997

History of Economic Thought, Methodology

A history of Japanese accounting reforms as a microfoundation of the democratic socio-economy: Accountics Part II
Posted by Tomo Suzuki on July 3rd, 2008
A history of Japanese accounting reforms as a microfoundation of the democratic socio-economy: Accountics Part II
Posted by Tomo Suzuki on December 12th, 2007
Accountics: Impacts of internationally standardized accounting on the Japanese socio-economy
Posted by Tomo Suzuki on July 11th, 2008
Accountics: Impacts of internationally standardized accounting on the Japanese socio-economy
Posted by Tomo Suzuki on December 12th, 2007
Accounting for the growth and transformation of Chinese businesses and the Chinese economy: implications for transitional and development economics
Posted by Tomo Suzuki on December 16th, 2007

Income and Wealth

Asian Demography and Foreign Capital Dependence
Posted by Jeffrey G. Williamson on February 23rd, 1997

Industry: Manufacturing and Construction

The Artisan's Perception of and His Response to Technological Change: A Case Study of the Indian Blacksmith Since the Late Nineteenth Century
Posted by Smritikumar Sarkar on May 4th, 2004
The Role of Financial Conglomerates in Industrial Formation: Evidence from Early Modern Japan
Posted by John Pao-En Tang on November 7th, 2007

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

The Origins of Spatial Interaction: Evidence from Chinese Rice Markets, 1742-1795
Posted by Carol H. Shiue on June 18th, 2006
International Comparison in Historical Perspective: Reconstructing the 1934-36 Benchmark Purchasing Power Parity for Japan, Korea and Taiwan
Posted by Debin Ma on November 17th, 2003
Productivity and Comparative Advantage in Rice Agriculture in Southeast Asia since 1870
Posted by Pierre van der Eng on May 13th, 2004

Labor and Employment History

Chinese-Filipino Wage Differentials in Turn-of-the-Century Manila
Posted by John E. Murray on July 27th, 2000
Japanese Lifetime Employment: A Century's Perspective
Posted by Chiaki Moriguchi on February 19th, 2003

Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology

An Anthropometric History of Modern Japanese Women: The Changes of Age at Menarche, 1871-1987
Posted by Tsutomu Hirayama on December 28th, 2003
Economic growth and the biological standard of living in China, 1880 - 1930
Posted by Stephen L. Morgan on April 13th, 2004
Trends and Inequalities of Biological Welfare in North, West and East India, 1910-45
Posted by Aravinda Guntupalli on November 27th, 2003
Was Japanese Colonialism Good for the Taiwanese? Stature and the Standard of Living in Taiwan, 1895-1945
Posted by Stephen L. Morgan on April 13th, 2004

Markets and Institutions

Price Responsiveness during Scarcity: Bombay Gujarat (India), 1824/5
Posted by Marcia J. Frost on May 9th, 2004
The Commercial Association of Wuhan, China and the Officer's Administration Network in the 19th Century
Posted by Zilan Wang on March 23rd, 2004
Informal Credit in Village Economies: Contract Duration with Personal and Community Enforcement
Posted by Loren Brandt on January 31st, 2002
Interest-Free Loans Between Villagers
Posted by Loren Brandt on October 21st, 2002

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Woman's Place in Japan's Great Depression: Reflections on the Moral Economy of Deflation
Posted by Mark Metzler on February 10th, 2005

Australia/New Zealand, incl. Pacific Islands

Business History

Die Société commerciale de l'Océani (1876-1914). Aufstieg und Untergang der Hamburger Godeffroys in Ost-Polynesien.
Posted by Claus Gossler on December 19th, 2006

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Takeovers and Implicit Contracts during the First Great Merger Wave: Evidence from the Australian Banking Industry
Posted by Andrew Seltzer on November 3rd, 2003

Income and Wealth

Entitlements, Colonialism and Destitution in the 1930s Singapore Great Depression
Posted by W. G. Huff on May 11th, 1999

Labor and Employment History

Was the 1931 Wage Cut Successful? Evidence from the Personnel Records of the Union Bank of Australia
Posted by Andrew Seltzer on May 23rd, 1999
The Nature and Causes of White-Collar Internal Labor Markets: Historical Evidence from the Union Bank of Australia
Posted by Andrew Seltzer on September 8th, 1997

Macroeconomics and Fluctuations

Regime Shifts and Fast Recovery on the Periphery: New Zealand in the 1930s
Posted by David Greasley on February 7th, 2001

Europe

Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries

A Malthusian Model for all Seasons: A Theoretical Approach to Labour Input and Labour Surplus in Traditional Agriculture
Posted by Jacob L. Weisdorf on September 18th, 2007
Agricultural Output and Productivity in Europe, 1300-1800
Posted by Robert C. Allen on November 9th, 1998
PROPERTY RIGHTS AND EFFICIENCY: RESOLVING THE PROBLEM OF THE COMMONS
Posted by Gregory Clark on July 29th, 1996
The Long March of History: Farm Wages, Population and Economic Growth, England 1209-1869
Posted by Gregory Clark on February 24th, 2005
The Price History of English Agriculture, 1209-1914
Posted by Gregory Clark on October 23rd, 2003
A Finance Approach to Understanding Patterns of Land Tenure
Posted by Meir Kohn on September 27th, 2001
The Expansion of Trade and the Transformation of Agriculture in Pre-Industrial Europe
Posted by Meir Kohn on January 9th, 2001
The Prudent Village: A Corroboration of Kimball's Conjecture
Posted by Gary Richardson on October 15th, 2003
What Protected Peasants Best? Markets, Risk, Efficiency, and Medieval English Agriculture
Posted by Gary Richardson on October 16th, 2003
Primitive Forms of Agrarian Credit: "Monti Frumentari" in the Kingdom of Naples
Posted by Paola Avallone on January 31st, 2001
A Revolution Too Many: The Agricultural Revolution, 1700-1850
Posted by Gregory Clark on October 2nd, 1997
An Arduous and Unprofitable Undertaking: The Enclosure of Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire
Posted by David Stead on December 15th, 1998
Primitive Forms of Agrarian Credit: "Monti Frumentari" in the Kingdom of Naples
Posted by Paola Avallone on January 31st, 2001
Too Much Revolution: Agriculture and the Industrial Revolution: 1700-1860
Posted by Gregory Clark on May 20th, 1999
Agriculture and Economic Growth in Spain, 1800-1935
Posted by Vicente Pinilla on March 3rd, 2005
French Sharecroppers, Tenants, and Their Landlords Face the Late Nineteenth Century Crisis: What Can Narrative Tell?
Posted by Jonathan J. Liebowitz on May 11th, 1999
French Sharecroppers, Tenants, and Their Landlords Face the Late Nineteenth Century Crisis: What Can Narrative Tell?
Posted by Jonathan J. Liebowitz on June 9th, 1999
Market dynamism and international trade: a case study of Mediterranean agricultural=20 products, 1850-1935
Posted by Vicente Pinilla on March 10th, 2008
Primitive Forms of Agrarian Credit: "Monti Frumentari" in the Kingdom of Naples
Posted by Paola Avallone on January 31st, 2001
Rural Credit and the Peasant Household in Imperial Germany
Posted by John Abbott on February 19th, 2001
The Price of Land in Eastern Prussia: Data from the Capital Gains Tax Records, 1891-1907
Posted by Scott M. Eddie on November 18th, 1997
Weather and Fluctuations in Agricultural Output, 1867-1913
Posted by Solomos Solomou on October 26th, 1998
Institutional Causes of the Late Development of Capitalist Relations in Greek Agriculture: Approaches and Hypotheses
Posted by Theodoros Sakellaropoulos on January 19th, 2003
New wine in old bottles: output and productivity trends in Portuguese agriculture, 1870-1950
Posted by Pedro Lains on February 17th, 2002

Business History

Belgian Investments in the railway network of Catalonia, 1890-1936
Posted by Alberte Mart=EDnez on March 28th, 2007
Foreign Capital and Business Strategies: a comparative analysis of urban transport in Madrid=20 and Barcelona, 1871-1925
Posted by Alberte Mart=EDnez on April 4th, 2007
Information Asymmetries, Agency Costs, and the Financing of French Firms, 1890-1939
Posted by Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur on August 4th, 1997
Mercato e Impresa in Europa. L'azienda Gonzalez de la Sierra Nel Commercio Gaditano Tra XVIII e XIX Secolo
Posted by AMEDEO LEPORE on October 14th, 2002
The Birth and Death of European Flax, Hemp, and Jute Spinning Firms: The Irish and Belgian Cases
Posted by Peter Solar on August 4th, 1997
The Evolution of Entertainment Consumption and the Emergence of Cinema, 1890-1940
Posted by Gerben Bakker on July 12th, 2007
The Supply and Demand for Entrepreneurs in Nineteenth-Century France
Posted by James Foreman-Peck on August 5th, 1997
When is Meaning 'Plain'? Delay and the Gain from Limited Liability in Victorian Britain
Posted by Wade E. Shilts on February 11th, 2002
Women in the Russian Business Structure, 1900-1914
Posted by Baryshnikov Michail on June 1st, 2005
"Dead on the Point of 'Safety'": Occupational Safety Education on the Great Western Railway, c.1913-39
Posted by Mike Esbester on January 22nd, 2008
Big changes in ownership structures - Multiple voting shares in interwar France
Posted by Muriel Petit-Konczyk on November 26th, 2006
Business activity during the Franco regime: the Compan=EDa de Tranv=EDas de La Coruna,=20 1936-1962
Posted by Alberte Mart=EDnez on April 4th, 2007
Can Lower Rates of Labour Productivity in US Cotton Mills Be Explained By Higher Rates of Worker Turnover?
Posted by Dr Tim Leunig on February 12th, 2001
Taxation of Corporate Profits, Inflation and Income Distribution in France, 1914-1926
Posted by Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur on February 20th, 2001

Development of the Economic History Discipline

A Malthusian Model for all Seasons: A Theoretical Approach to Labour Input and Labour Surplus in Traditional Agriculture
Posted by Jacob L. Weisdorf on September 18th, 2007
Availability of quantitative Information from Web resources on Stalin and Stalinism
Posted by Kornienko Serguey on December 8th, 2003

Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity

Educational Development and Economic Performance in the United Kingdom : 19th and 20th Centuries
Posted by Vincent Carpentier on July 25th, 2000
Explaining Anglo-German Productivity Differences in Services Since 1870
Posted by Stephen N. Broadberry on January 12th, 2006
Gerschenkron Revisited. European Patterns of Development in Historical Perspective
Posted by Leandro Prados de la Escosura on January 31st, 2006
The Reports of the Charity Commission as a Source in Economic History
Posted by Gregory Clark on February 9th, 1997
The Simplest Unified Growth Theory
Posted by Jacob L. Weisdorf on October 25th, 2007
The Sources of Long-run Growth in Spain, 1850-2000
Posted by Leandro Prados de la Escosura on January 18th, 2007
On the History of the Institutional Foundations of Impersonal Exchange
Posted by Avner Greif on May 27th, 2002
Political Fragmentation and Technology Adoption: Watermill Construction in Feudal France Internet
Posted by Karine van der Beek on April 5th, 2007
The Impact of Government on Economic Development and Growth in Pre-Industrial Europe
Posted by Meir Kohn on December 6th, 2005
Trading Costs, the Expansion of Trade and Economic Growth in Pre-Industrial Europe
Posted by Meir Kohn on January 7th, 2001
Religion and Economic Growth: Was Weber Right?
Posted by Leonard Dudley on July 27th, 2000
Institutional barriers to economic development: The Silesian linen proto-industry (17th to 19th century)
Posted by Marcel Boldorf on June 1st, 1999
A Mercantilist Model of Growth and Trade in 18th Century France
Posted by Guillaume Daudin on June 8th, 1998
Coal and the Industrial Revolution, 1700-1869
Posted by Gregory Clark on April 23rd, 2006
The Industrial Revolution as the Escape from the Malthusian Trap
Posted by John Komlos on May 7th, 2001
Land Communes and Factor Market Imperfections: Micro-Evidence from Late 19th-Century Russia
Posted by Steven Nafziger on January 31st, 2006
Long-run Estimates of Physical Capital in Spain, 1850-2000
Posted by Leandro Prados de la Escosura on June 18th, 2008
Malthus Revisited: Fertility Decision Making based on Quasi-Linear Preferences
Posted by Jacob L. Weisdorf on February 15th, 2007
National Development and Regional Disparities: New Evidence for Post-Unification=20 Italy, 1861-1913
Posted by Gianfranco Di Vaio on April 4th, 2008
Portugal's Growth Paradox, 1870-1950
Posted by Pedro Lains on November 27th, 2003
Regional Industrialisation without National Growth: The Catalan Industrialization and the Growth of Spanish Economy (1830-1861)
Posted by Joan R. Roses on February 15th, 2005
Successive Waves of Technological Progress During the German Industrialization
Posted by Jochen Streb on March 18th, 2004
The Costs and Consequences of the Napoleonic Reparations
Posted by Eugene N. White on September 25th, 2000
The Early Phases of the Catalan Industrialisation: A Growth Accounting Approach (1830-1861)
Posted by Joan R. Rosés on September 23rd, 1997
The Long Waves of Economic Development in Greece
Posted by Theodoros Sakellaropoulos on June 23rd, 2003
Transition From the Solar Age to the Fossil Era in the Finnish Energy Economy
Posted by Timo Myllyntaus on February 19th, 2001
Two Views of the British Industrial Revolution
Posted by Peter Temin on September 30th, 1996
What made Britannia great? How much of the rise of Britain to world dominance by 1850 does the Industrial Revolution explain?
Posted by Gregory Clark on May 25th, 2006
Why isn't the Whole Spain Industrialised? The Concentration of Spanish Manufacturing During the Early Industrialisation
Posted by Joan R. Rosés on October 8th, 2000
"A Social Accounting Matrix for Italy, 1911."
Posted by Giovanni Federico on December 7th, 1998
Can Lower Rates of Labour Productivity in US Cotton Mills Be Explained By Higher Rates of Worker Turnover?
Posted by Dr Tim Leunig on February 12th, 2001
Capital accumulation, the soft budget
Posted by Robert C. Allen on May 20th, 1999
Electrifying and Digitalizing the Finnish Manufacturing Industry: Historical Notes on Diffusion and Productivity
Posted by Jukka Jalava on October 22nd, 2003
Soviet Industrial Production, 1928 to 1955: Real Growth and Hidden Inflation
Posted by Mark Harrison on August 6th, 2000
Spurious Growth in German Output Data, 1913-1938
Posted by Albrecht Ritschl on August 27th, 2006
The Bourgeois Revolution and the Industrialisation in Greece
Posted by Theodoros Sakellaropoulos on April 15th, 2003
Transition From the Solar Age to the Fossil Era in the Finnish Energy Economy
Posted by Timo Myllyntaus on February 19th, 2001
Catching up to the European Core: Portuguese Economic Growth, 1910-1990
Posted by Pedro Lains on February 25th, 2003
Economists, Soviet Growth Slowdown, and the Collapse
Posted by Vladimir Kontorovich on November 21st, 1999
From Locational Fundamental to Increasing Returns: The Spatial Concentration of Population in Spain, 1787-2000
Posted by Vicente Pinilla on January 22nd, 2006
Has Our Country the Patience Needed to Become Wealthy? Productivity in the Finnish Manufacturing Industry, 1960-2000
Posted by Jukka Jalava on October 22nd, 2003
Long-run Regional Population Divergence and Modern Economic Growth in Europe: a Case Study of Spain
Posted by Vicente Pinilla on February 20th, 2007
New Approaches to Regional Development: The Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP) in Turkey
Posted by Dr. Bulent Acma on July 24th, 2001
Paths of Growth: Economic Growth in East Asia and Peripheral Europe (1960-2000)
Posted by Luciano Amaral on October 6th, 2003
The Golden Age of European Growth: A Review Essay
Posted by Peter Temin on December 2nd, 1997
Transition From the Solar Age to the Fossil Era in the Finnish Energy Economy
Posted by Timo Myllyntaus on February 19th, 2001
Using the Regional CPI to Assess Institutional History in Transition Russia
Posted by Carol S.Leonard on May 10th, 2006
What technical change really is in a disaggregate production function
Posted by Camilla Josephson on May 10th, 2006

Economic Planning and Policy

Economics of 1492 and the Maps of Colombus and Zorzi
Posted by Gregory Zorzos on January 20th, 2002
Economics of the Battle of Lepanto (year 7th October 1571)
Posted by Gregory Zorzos on January 13th, 2002
Poor Relief before the Welfare State: Britain versus the Continent, 1780-1880
Posted by Peter H. Lindert on February 10th, 1998
"Socialist Competition" and Unbalanced Development: Origins of the Soviet Industrial System
Posted by Kerry Pannell on May 16th, 1999
Autobahn Construction in Germany (Reichsautobahn) in the Nazi Period with Special Reference to the Hessian Autobahn Network
Posted by Richard Vahrenkamp on October 14th, 2002
Bureau Competition and Economic Policies in Nazi-Germany, 1933-39
Posted by Dr. Oliver Volckart on October 21st, 2002
Changes in Economic Regulation: the Feasibility Problem
Posted by Yannick Perez on January 16th, 2003
Industrial Management in Soviet Lithuania 1965-1985: Tensions and Conflicts
Posted by Saulius Grybkauskas on May 31st, 2007

Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History

Searching for the Roots of Retardation: Spain in European Perspective, 1500-1850
Posted by Leandro Prados de la Escosura on March 21st, 2007
Sweden and the European Miracles. Conquest, Growth and Voice: A Survey of Problems and Theories
Posted by Erik Orjan Emilsson on March 1st, 1997
The German Manufacturing Industry Faces Globalization - Old Achievements, New Challenges
Posted by Bernhard Seliger on May 29th, 2002
Switzerland Before 1815
Posted by Ernst Juerg Weber on December 18th, 2003
Around the European Periphery, 1870-1913: Globalization, Schooling and Growth
Posted by Kevin O'Rourke on December 7th, 1997
The Evolution of Entertainment Consumption and the Emergence of Cinema, 1890-1940
Posted by Gerben Bakker on July 12th, 2007
Was Italy a Protectionist Country?
Posted by Giovanni Federico on August 3rd, 1997
"Weak" European States in the International Arms Transfer System of the Interwar Period: The Impact of External Threats, Market Forces, and Domestic Constraints
Posted by Jari Eloranta on November 4th, 2001
BEYOND THE VOID? The Interaction of Military Spending, Systemic Leadership, and Economic Growth among Democracies and Transitional Regimes, 1870-1938
Posted by Jari Eloranta on November 6th, 2001
Opportunities and Constraints in the Game for Public Goods: The Political Economy of Military Spending in Finland and Sweden, 1920-1938
Posted by Jari Eloranta on November 1st, 2001
The Structure and Short-Term Development of Finnish Industries in the 1920s and 1930s: An Input-output Approach
Posted by Jari Kauppila on January 22nd, 2008
The German Social Market Economy, Competition Policy and German Business - A Historical Review
Posted by Bernhard Seliger on May 29th, 2002

Education And Human Resource Development

La théorie de l'engorgement (The Theory of Glutting)
Posted by Claude Diebolt on September 25th, 2001
Systeme Educatif et performances Economiques au Royaume-Uni: 19eme et 20eme siecles
Posted by Vincent Carpentier on February 10th, 2002
A Human Capital Interpretation of the Economic History of the Jews
Posted by Maristella Botticini on February 12th, 2001
The Role of Education and Skill in the British Industrial Revolution
Posted by David Mitch on July 19th, 1998
Administration and Funding of Schools at Times of Profound Social Change: The example of Thessaloniki (1792-1912)
Posted by Evanghelos Hekimoglou on December 8th, 2003
Analyse cliomÈtrique de l'instruction primaire par dÈpartement en France au 19Ëme siËcle.
Posted by Claude Diebolt on October 4th, 2001
Dépenses d'éducation et cycles économiques en Espagne aux 19ème et 20ème siècles
Posted by Claude Diebolt on October 4th, 2000
Le systéme d'invalidité et de vieillesse en Allemagne avant la Première Guerre mondiale.
Posted by Claude Diebolt on October 1st, 2000
Was the Rise of Popular Literacy Subject to Diminishing Returns?
Posted by David Mitch on January 31st, 2000
Die Erfassung der Bildungsinvestitionen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Deutschland, Frankreich, Groþbritannien und Spanien im Vergleich
Posted by Claude Diebolt on September 20th, 2000
Cliometrics of Glutting in French Higher Education. Theoretical and Empirical Evaluation
Posted by Magali Jaoul-Grammare on November 7th, 2007
Die Erfassung der Bildungsinvestitionen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Deutschland, Frankreich, Groþbritannien und Spanien im Vergleich
Posted by Claude Diebolt on September 20th, 2000
Knowledge and Economic Growth in Germany, 1872-1989
Posted by Claude Diebolt on September 19th, 2000

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

The Endogeneity of Optimum Currency Area Criteria - Lessons from History for European Monetary Union
Posted by Francois Mann-Quirici on February 28th, 2003
Rural Monetization and Debt Crisis in the Late Roman Republic
Posted by David B. Hollander on February 13th, 2003
Social Insurance, Commitment, and the Origin of Law: Interest Bans in Early Christianity
Posted by Jared Rubin on October 8th, 2007
'Imaginary' or 'Real' Moneys of Account in Medieval Europe? An Econometric Analysis of the Basle Pound, 1365-1429
Posted by Ernst Juerg Weber on September 18th, 1996
Bills of Exchange and the Money Market to 1600
Posted by Meir Kohn on May 24th, 1999
Estimating Medieval Market Integration: Evidence from Exchange Rates
Posted by PD Dr. Oliver Volckart on October 24th, 2004
Finance before the Industrial Revolution: An Introduction
Posted by Meir Kohn on May 27th, 1999
Medieval and early modern coinage and its problems
Posted by Meir Kohn on May 25th, 1999
Merchant Banking in the Medieval and Early Modern Economy
Posted by Meir Kohn on May 24th, 1999
Moneychangers, Private Information and Gresham's Law in Late Medieval Europe
Posted by Richard Dutu on February 11th, 2003
Payments and the Development of Finance in Pre-Industrial Europe
Posted by Meir Kohn on November 27th, 2001
Rules, Discretion or Reputation? Monetary Policies and the Efficiency of Financial Markets in Germany, 14th to 16th Centuries
Posted by Oliver Volckart on February 27th, 2007
The Capital Market Before 1600
Posted by Meir Kohn on June 23rd, 1999
The Influence of Information Costs on the Integration of Financial Markets: Northern Europe, 1350-1560
Posted by Oliver Volckart on August 24th, 2006
Completing a Financial Revolution: The Finance of the Dutch East India Trade and the Rise of the Amsterdam Capital Market, 1595-1612
Posted by Oscar Gelderblom on March 22nd, 2004
La polÃŒtica monetaria castellana de los siglos XVI y XVII
Posted by JosÈ I. GarcÌa de Paso on January 11th, 2001
El problema del vellón en "El Chitón de las Tarabillas"
Posted by José I. García de Paso on February 20th, 2001
La Economía Monetaria del Padre Juan de Mariana
Posted by José I. García de Paso on October 24th, 2000
La Estabilización Monetaria en Castilla bajo Carlos II
Posted by José I. García de Paso on October 24th, 2000
New Data on Minting, Seigniorage, and the Money Supply in Spain (Castile), 1597-1643
Posted by Akira Motomura on May 11th, 1997
On the Foundation of the Bank of England: A Mechanism for Showing Trust
Posted by Der-Yuan Yang on January 4th, 2007
Primitive Forms of Agrarian Credit: "Monti Frumentari" in the Kingdom of Naples
Posted by Paola Avallone on January 31st, 2001
The 1628 Castilian Crydown: A Test of Competing Theories of the Price Level
Posted by José I. García de Paso on October 25th, 2000
The 1628 Castilian Crydown: Origins and Failure
Posted by José I. García de Paso on November 7th, 2000
Credit Rationing and Crowding-Out During the Industrial Revolution: Evidence from Hoare's Bank, 1702-1862
Posted by Peter Temin on January 5th, 2006
Financial Repression in a Natural Experiment: Loan Allocation and the Change in the Usury Laws in 1714
Posted by Peter Temin on January 12th, 2006
Interest Rate Restrictions in a Natural Experiment: Loan Allocation and the Change in the Usury Laws in 1714
Posted by Hans-Joachim Voth on April 20th, 2005
Interest Rate Restrictions in a Natural Experiment: Loan Allocation and the Change in the Usury Laws in 1714
Posted by Joachim Voth on December 10th, 2006
Paying for Privilege: The Political Economy of Bank of England Charters, 1694-1844
Posted by Richard Grossman on September 1st, 2003
Primitive Forms of Agrarian Credit: "Monti Frumentari" in the Kingdom of Naples
Posted by Paola Avallone on January 31st, 2001
The story of urban credit. "Monti di Pieta" in the Kingdom of Naples between the 17th and 19th centuries
Posted by Paola Avallone on September 19th, 2006
What Do Notaries Do? Overcoming Asymmetric Information in Financial Markets: The Case of Paris, 1751
Posted by Philip T. Hoffman on August 3rd, 1997
Adjusting to the Gold Rush: Endogenous Bullion Points and the French Balance of Payments, 1846-1870
Posted by Marc Flandreau on September 22nd, 1996
Austrian Capital Investments in Hungary, 1850-1913
Posted by Michael Pammer on September 21st, 1997
Belgian investment in trams and light railways. An international approach, 1892-1935
Posted by Alberte Mart=EDnez on April 4th, 2007
Belgian Investments in the railway network of Catalonia, 1890-1936
Posted by Alberte Mart=EDnez on March 28th, 2007
Central Bank Independence and Market Discipline under the European Gold Standard, 1880-1914
Posted by Marc Flandreau on September 9th, 1997
Central Bank Politics Under the Conditions of Ethnical Diversity. The Institutional Arrangements of the Austro-Hungarian Monetary Union, 1867-1914
Posted by Univ.-Doz. Dr. Juergen Nautz on February 8th, 2001
Charters, Corporations, and Codes: Entry Restriction in Modern Banking Law
Posted by Richard S. Grossman on March 13th, 2002
Currency Competition in Switzerland, 1826-1850
Posted by Ernst Juerg Weber on September 29th, 2003
Did the control exerted by the Pereires on their clients point out the limits of Agency Theory as regards financial policy of firms?
Posted by Elisabeth Paulet on December 4th, 2003
Emergence of a French regional stock exchange in the 19th century
Posted by Muriel Petit-Konczyk on February 7th, 2005
Exchange Rate Regimes, Inflationary Expectations, Fisher's Hypothesis, and the Gibson Paradox: Evidence from the British Consol Market, 1790-1825
Posted by Yona Rubinstein on September 15th, 1997
Free Banking in Switzerland After the Liberal Revolutions in the 19th Century
Posted by Ernst Juerg Weber on September 29th, 2003
L'emergere di una funzione pubblica di controllo monetario. La Banca d'Italia dal 1894=20 al 1913
Posted by Elio Cerrito on August 6th, 2006
New Indices of British Equity Prices, 1870-1913
Posted by Richard S. Grossman on March 13th, 2002
Noisy Optimists. Risk and Information Management in French and German Banks in the 19th and early 20th Centuries.
Posted by Monika Pohle Fraser on January 11th, 2001
Primitive Forms of Agrarian Credit: "Monti Frumentari" in the Kingdom of Naples
Posted by Paola Avallone on January 31st, 2001
Resilience of the pre-World War I German stock exchange: Evidence from a panel vector autoregression
Posted by Gerhard Kling on May 3rd, 2004
Rural Credit and the Peasant Household in Imperial Germany
Posted by John Abbott on February 19th, 2001
The competition between Genoa and Milan Stock Exchanges before 1914: a view from industrial economics
Posted by Angelo Riva on December 3rd, 2003
The Costs and Consequences of the Napoleonic Reparations
Posted by Eugene N. White on September 25th, 2000
The Gradient of a River: Bimetallism as an Implicit Fluctuation Band
Posted by Marc Flandreau on November 1st, 1997
The Paris Stock-Exchange from 1854 to 1997 A new blue chips index and some results
Posted by David Le Bris on April 4th, 2008
The Political Economy of Fiscal Federalism: The German Reich from Unification to Default
Posted by Carsten Hefeker on September 15th, 1997
The Russian Joint-Stock Banks and Their Client Networks, 1864-1917
Posted by Sonya Salomatina on October 19th, 2000
To List or Not to List: Deciding between the Official and the Informal French Stock Markets during the Second Empire and Early Third Republic
Posted by Lacey Plache on March 19th, 1998
Bank Clientele in Pre-World War I Germany: Microeconomic Characteristics and Their Macroeconomic Implications
Posted by Caroline Fohlin on November 6th, 1996
Banking, Liquidity, and Investment in the German Industrialization
Posted by Caroline Fohlin on March 25th, 1998
Better Regulation and Underwriter Reputation Have Done Nothing For IPO Underpricing Over the 20th Century
Posted by David Chambers on February 28th, 2006
Betting on Hitler - The Value of Political Connections in Nazi Germany
Posted by Hans-Joachim Voth on April 20th, 2005
Central Bank Politics Under the Conditions of Ethnical Diversity. The Institutional Arrangements of the Austro-Hungarian Monetary Union, 1867-1914
Posted by Univ.-Doz. Dr. Juergen Nautz on February 8th, 2001
Core or Periphery? The Credibility of the Austro-Hungarian Currency, 1867-1913
Posted by Marc Flandreau on April 9th, 2001
Explorations in Monetary Cliometrics. The Reichsbank: 1876-1920
Posted by Claude Diebolt on October 8th, 2000
Hitler's Money. The Bills of Exchange of Schacht and Rearmament in the Third Reich
Posted by Guido Preparata on January 25th, 2001
Hot and Cold Markets in the Paris Stock Exchange
Posted by Muriel Petit-Konczyk on May 30th, 2006
International Financial Crisis by Way of Localized Disaster: The San Francisco Earthquake and the Panic of 1907
Posted by Marc Weidenmier on February 8th, 2001
Inventory of historical data series of the project "Old Paris Stock Exchange 1919-1939"
Posted by Muriel Petit-Konczyk on June 18th, 2006
Italy and the Great Depression: An Analysis of the Italian Economy, 1929-1936
Posted by Benjamino Quintieri on May 14th, 1997
La Banque de Gen=E8ve: premi=E8res notes sur la composition du conseil d'administration et les=20 actionnaires
Posted by Alix Heiniger on April 26th, 2008
Nazi Economic Imperialism and the Exploitation of the Small: Evidence from Germany's Secret Foreign Exchange Balances, 1938-40
Posted by Albrecht Ritschl on September 17th, 1997
Resilience of the pre-World War I German stock exchange: Evidence from a panel vector autoregression
Posted by Gerhard Kling on January 18th, 2004
Taxation of Corporate Profits, Inflation and Income Distribution in France, 1914-1926
Posted by Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur on February 20th, 2001
The 1935 Currency Crises in Italy. League of Nations' Sanctions, Balance of Payments Constraint and the Economic Policy of Fascist Italy in the late 1930s
Posted by Roberto Di Quirico on January 25th, 2001
The development of the Paris Bourse in the interwar period
Posted by Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur on March 7th, 2004
The German Twin Crisis of 1931
Posted by Isabel Goedde on February 13th, 2001
The Great Banks' Depression - Deposit Withdrawals in the German Crisis of 1931
Posted by Isabel Schnabel on January 27th, 2003
Threat of a Capital Levy, Expected Devaluation, and Interest Rates in Interwar France
Posted by Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur on May 15th, 1997
Universal Banking Networks in Pre-War Germany: New Evidence from Company Financial Data
Posted by Caroline Fohlin on May 20th, 1999
Was Schacht Right? Foreign Debt, the Young Plan, and the Great Depression in Germany
Posted by Albrecht Ritschl on November 4th, 1997
Why Do Investors Still Hope? The Soviet Repudiation Puzzle (1918-1919)
Posted by Kim Oosterlinck on March 9th, 2004
With a bang, not a whimper: Pricking Germany's stockmarket bubble in 1927
Posted by Joachim Voth on July 18th, 1999
Britain, Sterling, and Iranian Oil, 1947-1954
Posted by Steven Galpern on March 3rd, 2002
Double Transition: Market and State in Central and Eastern Europe (1945-1948 and 1989-2000)
Posted by Tamas Reti on February 24th, 2003
Stability of Monetary Unions: Lessons from the Break Up of Czechoslovakia
Posted by Jan Fidrmuc on September 26th, 2000

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Fiscal Centralization, Limited Government, and Public Finances in Europe, 1650-1914
Posted by Mark Dincecco on January 12th, 2007
Private Provision of Public Goods: The Athenian Trierarchy as a Game of Mechanism Design
Posted by Brooks Kaiser on February 24th, 2002
The Origins of Democracy: A Model with Application to Ancient Greece
Posted by Robert K. Fleck on February 13th, 2003
Economic Development and the Evolution of Government in Pre-Industrial Europe
Posted by Meir Kohn on December 6th, 2005
Government Economic Policy in Pre-Industrial Europe
Posted by Meir Kohn on December 6th, 2005
Government Finance in Pre-Industrial Europe
Posted by Meir Kohn on December 6th, 2005
Institutions for Contract Enforcement and Risk-Sharing: from Debt to Equity in Late Mediveal Venice
Posted by Yadira Gonzalez de Lara on January 31st, 2002
Labour Services in the Thirteenth Century
Posted by Clyde Reed on October 14th, 1996
The Organization of Government in Pre-Industrial Europe
Posted by Meir Kohn on December 6th, 2005
Political Institutions and the Spanish Monarchy's Finances, 1521-1648
Posted by Akira Motomura on January 4th, 1998
Governing with epidemic: the viceroy, Count of Castrillo, and the plague of 1656 in the Kinkdom of Naples
Posted by Idamaria Fusco on May 11th, 1999
Political Institutions and the Emergence of Regulatory Commitment in England: Evidence from Road and River Improvement Authorities, 1600-1750
Posted by Dan Bogart on October 7th, 2007
Primitive Forms of Agrarian Credit: "Monti Frumentari" in the Kingdom of Naples
Posted by Paola Avallone on January 31st, 2001
Rent Extraction through Corrupt Officials - Default Risk and Monitoring Costs
Posted by Mikael Priks on February 10th, 2003
Debt, Deficits, and Crowding Out: England, 1727-1840
Posted by Gregory Clark on June 6th, 1998
France's Slow Transition from Privatized to Government-Administered Tax Collection: Tax Farming in the Eighteenth Century
Posted by Eugene N. White on January 29th, 2001
Primitive Forms of Agrarian Credit: "Monti Frumentari" in the Kingdom of Naples
Posted by Paola Avallone on January 31st, 2001
Central Bank Politics Under the Conditions of Ethnical Diversity. The Institutional Arrangements of the Austro-Hungarian Monetary Union, 1867-1914
Posted by Univ.-Doz. Dr. Juergen Nautz on February 8th, 2001
Decentralizing from Scratch: Local Public Goods and the Zemstvo in Late Tsarist Russia
Posted by Steven Nafziger on March 16th, 2008
Oekonomische Krise, oziales Desaster, politische Revolution. Griechenland 1843/44
Posted by Theodoros Sakellaropoulos on January 19th, 2003
Primitive Forms of Agrarian Credit: "Monti Frumentari" in the Kingdom of Naples
Posted by Paola Avallone on January 31st, 2001
The Costs and Consequences of the Napoleonic Reparations
Posted by Eugene N. White on September 25th, 2000
"Dead on the Point of 'Safety'": Occupational Safety Education on the Great Western Railway, c.1913-39
Posted by Mike Esbester on January 22nd, 2008
Central Bank Politics Under the Conditions of Ethnical Diversity. The Institutional Arrangements of the Austro-Hungarian Monetary Union, 1867-1914
Posted by Univ.-Doz. Dr. Juergen Nautz on February 8th, 2001
Public spending and the banking system in Italy. Have taxation, public spending and banks been procyclical in the long run?
Posted by Giandomenico Piluso on March 16th, 2008
Reparation transfers, the Borchardt hypothesis, and the Great Depression in Germany
Posted by Albrech Ritschl on May 20th, 1999
Taxation of Corporate Profits, Inflation and Income Distribution in France, 1914-1926
Posted by Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur on February 20th, 2001
Why Party and How Much? The Soviet State and the Party Finance, 1930s - 1960s
Posted by Eugenia Belova on April 23rd, 2006
Accounting for the Euro: Operationalization of Political Economy
Posted by Tomo Suzuki on January 22nd, 2006
National Priorities and European Challenges in the reform process of the Social Protection and Employment policies in Greece, 1980-2004
Posted by Theodoros Sakellaropoulos on January 19th, 2008
State-Security Clearance as an Instrument of Social Control in the Industry of Soviet Lithuania, 1965 to 1985
Posted by Saulius Grybkauskas on August 6th, 2007
Wines of liberty, vintages of liberalism: The Tokaj Renaissance
Posted by Jesus Miranda on March 5th, 2002

Historical Demography, including Migration

Extreme Depopulation in the Spanish Rural Mountain Areas: A Case Study of Aragon in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
Posted by Vicente Pinilla on February 10th, 2005
Human Capital, Fertility and the Industrial Revolution
Posted by Gregory Clark on February 9th, 2005
A Human Capital Interpretation of the Economic History of the Jews
Posted by Maristella Botticini on February 12th, 2001
Survival of the Richest: The Malthusian Mechanism in Pre-Industrial England
Posted by Gregory Clark on April 23rd, 2006
France's Slow Transition from Privatized to Government-Administered Tax Collection: Tax Farming in the Eighteenth Century
Posted by Eugene N. White on January 29th, 2001
From Preventive to Permissive Checks: The changing nature of the Malthusian relationship between nuptiality and the price of provisions in the nineteenth century
Posted by Jacob Weisdorf on April 7th, 2008
Government Insurance, Worker Health, and Labor Supply in Turn-of-the-Century Europe
Posted by John E. Murray on February 21st, 2001
Migration as Disaster Relief: Lessons from the Great Irish Famine
Posted by Cormac OGrada on November 22nd, 1997
To Part or Not to Part: Emigration and Inheritance Institutions in Nineteenth-Century Hesse-Cassel
Posted by Simone Wegge on September 21st, 1997
Government Insurance, Worker Health, and Labor Supply in Turn-of-the-Century Europe
Posted by John E. Murray on February 21st, 2001

Historical Geography

A Sampling Approach to History: The Enclosure of English Common Lands
Posted by Gregory Clark on October 5th, 1998

History of Economic Thought, Methodology

Ancient and Modern Slavery
Posted by Gregory Zorzos on February 12th, 2002
Economics of Alexander the Great (15 volumes + 5 CD ROMS)
Posted by Gregory Zorzos on January 27th, 2002
Pelasgian Economists
Posted by Gregory Zorzos on February 12th, 2002
A Tale of Two Theories: Monopolies and Craft Guilds in Medieval England and Modern Imagination
Posted by Gary Richardson on October 15th, 2003
La Economía Monetaria del Padre Juan de Mariana
Posted by José I. García de Paso on October 24th, 2000
Rousseau's Economic Philosophy. Beyond the Market of Innocents.
Posted by Bertil Fridin on March 3rd, 1999
Central Bank Politics Under the Conditions of Ethnical Diversity. The Institutional Arrangements of the Austro-Hungarian Monetary Union, 1867-1914
Posted by Univ.-Doz. Dr. Juergen Nautz on February 8th, 2001

History of Technology, including Technological Change

Economic Progress and the Technology Of War in Pre-Industrial Europe
Posted by Meir Kohn on December 6th, 2005
Political Fragmentation and Technology Adoption: Watermill Construction in Feudal France Internet
Posted by Karine van der Beek on April 5th, 2007
Standardized Latin and Medieval Economic Growth
Posted by Leonard Dudley on April 15th, 2003
Cooperating to Innovate
Posted by Leonard Dudley on April 20th, 2005
The British Industrial Revolution: An Economic Perspective (2nd Revised edition)
Posted by Joel Mokyr on May 20th, 1999
Skirts, Suits, and Unit Roots. German Textile Industry and Innovations (1877-1913)
Posted by Jacek Wallusch on November 19th, 2003
The Diffusion of the Herringbone Parlour: A Case Study in the History of Agricultural Technology
Posted by Oliver Grant on May 9th, 1999
The financing process of a French start-up: Air Liquide 1898-1913
Posted by Muriel Petit Konczyk on May 3rd, 2004

Military and War

Quantity Versus Quality in the Soviet Market for Weapons
Posted by Mark Harrison on January 1st, 2008

Household, Family and Consumer History

Shelter from the Storm: Housing and the Industrial Revolution, 1550-1909
Posted by Gregory Clark on June 6th, 2002
A Loveless Economy? Intergenerational Altruism and the Dowry System in a Tuscan Town, c. 1415-1436
Posted by Maristella Botticini on September 18th, 1997
Love and Demographic Shocks: The Black Death, Social Norms, and the Florentine Marriage Market, 1260-1430
Posted by Maristella Botticini on May 11th, 1999
The Industrious Revolution or the Bourgeois Middle Ages?
Posted by Gregory Clark on September 3rd, 1996
Women and the "Second Serfdom": Evidence from Bohemia
Posted by Sheilagh Ogilvie on December 18th, 1998
Rural Credit and the Peasant Household in Imperial Germany
Posted by John Abbott on February 19th, 2001

Income and Wealth

Prices and Real Inequality in Europe since 1500
Posted by Peter H. Lindert on May 3rd, 2001
Living Standards and Population Growth: Malthus was Right
Posted by Morgan Kelly on March 31st, 2005
The Actual "Per Quarter" Market Price of Corn in 18th Century London: New Data from the Mealweigher's Books in the Corporation of London Record Office
Posted by Dale Williams on January 7th, 2002
Inequality, Poverty, and the Kuznets Curve in Spain, 1850-2000
Posted by Leandro Prados de la Escosura on September 20th, 2007
Averting the Nazi Seizure of Power: A Counterfactual Thought Experiment
Posted by John Komlos on April 7th, 2004
Income and Wealth Concentration in Spain in a Historical and Fiscal Perspective
Posted by Facundo Alvaredo on April 26th, 2008
Is the Kuznets Curve Still Alive? Evidence from Italian Household Budgets, 1881-1961
Posted by Nicola Rossi on December 13th, 2001
Top income shares in Portugal over the twentieth century
Posted by Jordi Guilera Rafecas on July 3rd, 2008
Top incomes in Portugal over the twentieth century
Posted by Jordi Guilera Rafecas on October 23rd, 2007
The Capital Stock of the Spanish Economy, 1900-1958
Posted by Jordi Palafox on June 12th, 1998
Top Incomes and Earnings in Portugal 1936-2004
Posted by Facundo Alvaredo on April 26th, 2008

Industry: Manufacturing and Construction

The Expansion of Trade and the Development of European Industry to 1600
Posted by Meir Kohn on January 8th, 2001
Subcontracting and Vertical Integration in the Spanish Cotton Industry
Posted by Joan R. Roses on March 24th, 2005
The Coevolution of Technology and Organization in the Transition to the Factory System
Posted by Richard N. Langlois on August 26th, 1996
The Stroudwater Canal Company and Its Role in the Mechanisation of the Gloucestershire Woollen Industry, 1779-1840
Posted by Philip Grover on February 8th, 1997
Can Lower Rates of Labour Productivity in US Cotton Mills Be Explained By Higher Rates of Worker Turnover?
Posted by Dr Tim Leunig on February 12th, 2001
Creating Firms for a New Century: Determinants of Firm Creation in Southern Germany around 1900
Posted by Joerg Baten on July 30th, 2000
Industrial Growth Revisited: Manufacturing Output in Greece During the Interwar Period
Posted by Olga Christodoulaki on June 1st, 1999
Institutional Change and Industrial Accidents: Spain, 1900-1936
Posted by Javier Silvestre on November 13th, 2003
Stability of the Nord-Pas-De-Calais Coal Cartel During the Interwar Period: An Econometric Study Based on Structural and VAR Approaches
Posted by Gil Montant on March 7th, 2002
Strategic reaction to shocks: the British wool and cotton textile industries during the interwar years
Posted by David Michael Higgins on May 11th, 1999
What Did Matter Electricity Rates or Capital and Labour Prices? Electrification of the Madrilenean Industry and its Determinants
Posted by Anna M. Aubanell-Jubany on April 25th, 2006

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

After Columbus: Explaining Europe's Overseas Trade Boom, 1500-1800
Posted by Jeffrey G. Williamson on June 6th, 2002
Did Trade Policy Foster Italian Industrialization? Evidences from Effective Protection Rates, 1870-1930.
Posted by Giovanni Federico on October 11th, 1999
From Privateers to Navy: How Seapower Became a Public Good
Posted by Christina Gathmann on February 6th, 2007
Markets and the Regulation of Export Brewing in 15th and 16th Century Holland
Posted by Richard Yntema on March 10th, 2002
The grain trade between Malta and Sicily in the late middle ages and its economic and political implications
Posted by Mark A. Aloisio on May 27th, 2002
The State as and Enforcer in Early Venetian Trade: a Historical Institutional Analysis
Posted by Yadira Gonzalez de Lara on October 16th, 2003
Trading Costs and the Pattern of Trade in Pre-Industrial Europe
Posted by Meir Kohn on January 7th, 2001
Transparency and Contract Selection: Evidence from the Financing of Trade in Venetian Crete: 1303-1351
Posted by Dean V. Williamson on January 29th, 2002
Consuls, Corsairs, and Commerce. The Swedish Consular Service and Long-distance Shipping, 1720-1815
Posted by Leos Muller on October 13th, 2004
Domestic trade and regional markets in late 18th century France
Posted by Guillaume Daudin on February 6th, 2007
Exchange Rate Behavior and Exchange Rate Puzzles: Why the XVIII Century Might Help
Posted by Rafael Torres Sanchez on November 24th, 2003
Profits, Risk, Maturity and Liquidity: Slave Trade and Other Long Distance Trade investment in Eighteenth Century France
Posted by Guillaume Daudin on February 10th, 2003
Trade and Empire, 1700-1870
Posted by Leandro Prados de la Escosura on July 3rd, 2008
Belgian investment in trams and light railways. An international approach, 1892-1935
Posted by Alberte Mart=EDnez on April 4th, 2007
Exports from Third Europe: Portugal, 1850-1914
Posted by Pedro Lains on October 5th, 1997
Lessons on Tariff History from the European Periphery. Measuring Protection and the Infant Industry Argument in Spain and Italy 1870-1930
Posted by Antonio Tena Junguito on September 27th, 2000
Market dynamism and international trade: a case study of Mediterranean agricultural=20 products, 1850-1935
Posted by Vicente Pinilla on March 10th, 2008
Old Sins: Exchange Rate Clauses and European Foreign Lending in the 19th Century
Posted by Nathan Sussman on June 20th, 2006
Small was Beautiful: Belgian Workers and Free Trade before 1913
Posted by Michael Huberman on March 16th, 2004
1935 Sanctions against Italy: Would Coal and Crude Oil Have Made a Difference?
Posted by Cristiano Andrea Ristuccia on July 24th, 1997
Did Tariffs Stifle Spanish Agriculture before 1936?
Posted by James Simpson on November 29th, 1997
Exchange Rates and Casualties During the First World War
Posted by George J Hall on March 3rd, 2003
Path dependent border effects: The case of Poland's reunification, (1918-1939)
Posted by Nikolaus Wolf on March 7th, 2004

Labor and Employment History

A Malthusian Model for all Seasons: A Theoretical Approach to Labour Input and Labour Surplus in Traditional Agriculture
Posted by Jacob L. Weisdorf on September 18th, 2007
Nominal and Real Male Agricultural Wages, 1250-1850, and English Economic Growth
Posted by Gregory Clark on November 29th, 1998
The Condition of the Working-Class in England, 1200-2000: Magna Carta to Tony Blair
Posted by Gregory Clark on February 15th, 2004
The Great Divergence: Wages and Prices in Europe from the Middle Ages to the First World War
Posted by Robert C. Allen on November 9th, 1998
A Human Capital Interpretation of the Economic History of the Jews
Posted by Maristella Botticini on February 12th, 2001
Employment Patterns of Agricultural Day-Laborers near Sheffield: Gender Differences and Changes over Time, 1772-75 and 1831-45
Posted by Joyce Burnette on September 13th, 1996
How Long Was the Working Day in London in the 1750s? Evidence from the Courtroom
Posted by Hans-Joachim Voth on January 29th, 1997
The Longest Years: New Estimates of Labor Input in England, 1760-1830
Posted by Hans-Joachim Voth on December 11th, 2001
A Revival of the Pessimist View: Child Labor and the Industrial Revolution
Posted by Carolyn Tuttle on October 22nd, 1998
Child Care and Working Women in Nineteenth-Century Britain
Posted by Joyce Burnette on October 13th, 1997
Job Tenure and Employment Structure during High Industrialization: The Case of Germany before World War I
Posted by John C. Brown on September 15th, 1997
Open Market Forces and National Labor Market Outcomes: Convergence in Nineteenth-Century Europe
Posted by Michael Huberman on February 2nd, 1997
Productivity in British Coalmining: Evidence from Microdata, Co. Durham, 1890-93
Posted by John Treble on September 21st, 1997
The Wage Profiles of Agricultural Laborers in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain
Posted by Joyce Burnette on February 1st, 2001
Wage Competition between Agriculture and Industry in Mid-Nineteenth-Century France
Posted by Gilles Postel-Vinay on October 31st, 1996
When Labor Hires Capital: Evidence from Lancashire, 1870-1914
Posted by Michael Huberman on January 28th, 2001
Downsizing: Personnel policies and industrial relations at the Swedish Tobacco Monopoly, 1915-1939
Posted by Tobias Karlsson on December 10th, 2006
Female Salaries and Careers in the British Banking Industry, 1915-41
Posted by Andrew Seltzer on November 7th, 2007
Technological change and labour market institutions in Swedish industry 1920-1995
Posted by Lars Svensson on March 14th, 2004
National Priorities and European Challenges in the reform process of the Social Protection and Employment policies in Greece, 1980-2004
Posted by Theodoros Sakellaropoulos on January 19th, 2008
The Politics of Pension Reform in South European Welfare States
Posted by Marina Angelaki on June 8th, 2006
The Rise of Centralized Wage Bargaining in Sweden, 1956-69
Posted by Jon Cohen on March 5th, 2002

Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology

A history of health in Europe from the late Paleolithic era to the present
Posted by Richard H. Steckel on August 12th, 2003
Observations on the history of Dutch physical stature from the late-Middle Ages to the present
Posted by Hans de Beer on April 11th, 2004
Real Inequality in Europe since 1500
Posted by Peter H. Lindert on June 6th, 2002
The Biological Standard of Living in Europe During the Last Two Millennia
Posted by Joerg Baten on November 3rd, 2003
The Condition of the Working-Class in England, 1209-2004
Posted by Gregory Clark on June 30th, 2005
On the Size of Horses During the Industrial Revolution
Posted by John Komlos on January 21st, 2002
The Anthropometric History of Early-Modern France
Posted by John Komlos on July 22nd, 2001
Did Smallpox Reduce Height? Stature and the Standard of Living in London, 1770-1873
Posted by Hans-Joachim Voth on January 12th, 1997
Economic Development and the Distribution of Nutritional Resources in Bavaria, 1797-1839: An Anthropometric Study
Posted by Joerg Baten on September 8th, 1997
Famine Disease and Famine Mortality: Lessons from the Irish Experience, 1845-1850
Posted by Joel Mokyr on September 15th, 1997
On British Pygmies and Giants: the Physical Stature of English Youth in the 18th and 19th Centuries
Posted by John Komlos on October 14th, 2004
Shifts in the Seasonality of Infant Deaths in Nine English Towns During the Nineteenth Century: A Case for Reduced Breast Feeding?
Posted by Paul Huck on June 24th, 1997
The Case of the Shrinking Dutchmen: Another Example of the Early Industrial Growth Puzzle
Posted by J. W. Drukker on September 16th, 1997
Autarchy, market disintegration, and health: the mortality and nutritional crisis in Nazi Germany, 1933 - 1937
Posted by Joerg Baten on August 12th, 2003
Culture, Heritage and Development
Posted by Jesus Miranda on August 4th, 2002
National Priorities and European Challenges in the reform process of the Social Protection and Employment policies in Greece, 1980-2004
Posted by Theodoros Sakellaropoulos on January 19th, 2008
Social Status and Adult Heights in the Two Germanies
Posted by John Komlos on August 3rd, 2003
Social Status and Adult Heights in the Two Germanies
Posted by John Komlos on July 23rd, 2001

Macroeconomics and Fluctuations

Agrarian Cycles in Germany 1339-1670: A Spectral Analysis of Grain Prices and Output in Nuremberg.
Posted by Walter Bauernfeind on September 19th, 1996
La Economía Monetaria del Padre Juan de Mariana
Posted by José I. García de Paso on October 24th, 2000
Long Memory Time Series and Fractional Integration. A Cliometric Contribution to French and German Economic andSocial History
Posted by Claude Diebolt on October 5th, 2000
Tracking Down Germany's Pre WWI Business Cycle: A Dynamic Factor Model 1820-1913
Posted by Martin Uebele on May 16th, 2006
Transfer problem dynamics: Macroeconomics of the Franco-Prussian war indemnity
Posted by Gregor Smith on January 23rd, 2003
Continuities and Discontinuities in the Economic Growth of Spain, 1850-1936
Posted by Antonio Cubel on November 18th, 1997
Deficit Spending in the Nazi Recovery, 1933-1938: A Critical Reassessment
Posted by Albrecht Ritschl on April 17th, 2001
Inflationary Expectations and Uncertainty during the Great Depression in Germany
Posted by Hans-Joachim Voth on March 19th, 1998
Measuring the Nazi Recovery: An Assessment of Public Expenditure and Its Effects on Aggregate Activity, 1933-1938
Posted by Albrecht Ritschl on June 12th, 1998
Growth in the 'Cohesion Countries': the Irish tortoise and the Portuguese hare, 1979-2002
Posted by Pedro Lains on May 14th, 2006

Markets and Institutions

A Corner Solution : Commodity Futures, Default Fines, and Unintended Consequences
Posted by Wojtek Sikorzewski on February 27th, 2003
Land Hunger: Land as a Commodity and as a Status Good, England, 1300-1910
Posted by Gregory Clark on February 10th, 1997
The Law of Primogeniture and the Transition from Landed Aristocracy to Industrial Democracy
Posted by Graziella Bertocchi on December 18th, 2002
The Organization of Merchant Empires: A Case Study of Portugal and England
Posted by Claudia Rei on January 12th, 2006
"Rulers Ruled by Women": An Economic Analysis of the Rise and Fall of Women's Rights in Ancient Sparta
Posted by F. Andrew Hanssen on February 28th, 2006
A Market Economy in the Early Roman Empire
Posted by Peter Temin on February 14th, 2001
A PRECOCIOUS INFANT? THE EVOLUTION OF THE ENGLISH GRAIN MARKET, 1208-1770
Posted by Gregory Clark on September 3rd, 1996
Brand Names before the Industrial Revolution: Craft Guilds, Reputations, and Insurance in Fourteenth-Century England
Posted by Gary Richardson on May 14th, 1997
Business management in pre-industrial Europe
Posted by Meir Kohn on August 18th, 2003
Business organization in pre-industrial Europe
Posted by Meir Kohn on August 5th, 2003
Christianity and Craft Guilds in Late-Medieval England: A Rational-Choice Analysis
Posted by Gary Richardson on October 14th, 2003
Commerce in pre-industrial Europe: an introduction
Posted by Meir Kohn on August 5th, 2003
Community, the Individual, and the Rise of Capitalism: The Organization of Finnish Foreign Trade in the Middle Ages
Posted by Mika Kallioinen on February 5th, 1997
Contractual Responses to Institutional Changes: a Historical Institutional Analysis
Posted by Yadira Gonzalez de Lara on March 23rd, 2004
Guilds, Laws, and Markets for Manufactured Merchandise in Late Medieval England
Posted by Gary Richardson on October 14th, 2003
Merchant associations in pre-industrial Europe
Posted by Meir Kohn on August 6th, 2003
On the Social Foundations and Historical Development of Institutions that Facilitate Impersonal Exchange
Posted by Avner Greif on October 2nd, 1997
Organized markets in pre-industrial Europe
Posted by Meir Kohn on August 6th, 2003
Political Fragmentation and Technology Adoption: Watermill Construction in Feudal France Internet
Posted by Karine van der Beek on April 5th, 2007
Religious Prohibitions against Usury
Posted by Clyde Reed on November 1st, 1997
Risk Instruments in the Medieval and Early Modern Economy
Posted by Meir Kohn on May 24th, 1999
Common Rights to Land in England, 1475-1839
Posted by Gregory Clark on December 11th, 2001
Patronage, Reputation, and Common Agency Contracting in the Scientific Revolution: The Historical Origins of 'Open Science' Institutions
Posted by Paul A. David on March 9th, 2004
Morals, Markets and the English Crowd in 1766
Posted by Dale Williams on January 6th, 2002
The Diffusion of Riots: The Patterns of 1766, 1795 and 1801 in Devonshire
Posted by Dale Williams on January 8th, 2002
Central Bank Politics Under the Conditions of Ethnical Diversity. The Institutional Arrangements of the Austro-Hungarian Monetary Union, 1867-1914
Posted by Univ.-Doz. Dr. Juergen Nautz on February 8th, 2001
Market Integration and Transport Costs in France 1825-1900: A Threshold Error Correction Approach to the Law of One Price
Posted by Karl Gunnar Persson on June 8th, 1998
The Integration of Grain Markets in Pre-Industrial Southern Germany
Posted by Ulrich Woitek on September 20th, 1997
Bank Oversight and Firm Capital Structure: Historical Evidence from Germany
Posted by Caroline Fohlin on June 7th, 1998
Central Bank Politics Under the Conditions of Ethnical Diversity. The Institutional Arrangements of the Austro-Hungarian Monetary Union, 1867-1914
Posted by Univ.-Doz. Dr. Juergen Nautz on February 8th, 2001
Quantity Versus Quality in the Soviet Market for Weapons
Posted by Mark Harrison on January 1st, 2008
Zagreb Fair and the participation of Banovina Croatia at the international fairs (1939-1941)
Posted by Ivica Sute on March 31st, 2005
National Priorities and European Challenges in the reform process of the Social Protection and Employment policies in Greece, 1980-2004
Posted by Theodoros Sakellaropoulos on January 19th, 2008

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

The Papal Conclave: Are Cardinals Voting Strategically or Divining the Will of God?
Posted by J.T. Toman on November 24th, 2003
A Human Capital Interpretation of the Economic History of the Jews
Posted by Maristella Botticini on February 12th, 2001
Social Insurance, Commitment, and the Origin of Law: Interest Bans in Early Christianity
Posted by Jared Rubin on October 8th, 2007
A Human Capital Interpretation of the Economic History of the Jews
Posted by Maristella Botticini on February 12th, 2001
Religion, Longevity, and Cooperation: The Case of the Craft Guild
Posted by Gary Richardson on January 12th, 2007
The Economics of Feuding in Late Medieval Germany
Posted by Oliver Volckart on January 30th, 2002
Central Bank Politics Under the Conditions of Ethnical Diversity. The Institutional Arrangements of the Austro-Hungarian Monetary Union, 1867-1914
Posted by Univ.-Doz. Dr. Juergen Nautz on February 8th, 2001
The Evolution of Entertainment Consumption and the Emergence of Cinema, 1890-1940
Posted by Gerben Bakker on July 12th, 2007
Central Bank Politics Under the Conditions of Ethnical Diversity. The Institutional Arrangements of the Austro-Hungarian Monetary Union, 1867-1914
Posted by Univ.-Doz. Dr. Juergen Nautz on February 8th, 2001

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

The Cost of Transportation in Pre-Industrial Europe
Posted by Meir Kohn on January 8th, 2001
Political Institutions and the Emergence of Regulatory Commitment in England: Evidence from Road and River Improvement Authorities, 1600-1750
Posted by Dan Bogart on October 7th, 2007
Productivity and Profitability of Shipping by Sail in the Long Run: The Case of Finland, c. 1750-1914
Posted by Jari Ojala on September 17th, 1997
Turnpike Trusts and the Transportaton Revolution in Eighteenth Century England
Posted by Dan Bogart on December 10th, 2003
Belgian investment in trams and light railways. An international approach, 1892-1935
Posted by Alberte Mart=EDnez on April 4th, 2007
Transition From the Solar Age to the Fossil Era in the Finnish Energy Economy
Posted by Timo Myllyntaus on February 19th, 2001
"Dead on the Point of 'Safety'": Occupational Safety Education on the Great Western Railway, c.1913-39
Posted by Mike Esbester on January 22nd, 2008
Business activity during the Franco regime: the Compan=EDa de Tranv=EDas de La Coruna,=20 1936-1962
Posted by Alberte Mart=EDnez on April 4th, 2007
Multiple Equilibria in Industrial Location: Evidence From Airports in Inter-War and Re-Unified Germany
Posted by Nikolaus Wolf on April 5th, 2005
Transition From the Solar Age to the Fossil Era in the Finnish Energy Economy
Posted by Timo Myllyntaus on February 19th, 2001
Learning By Investing Leads To Leading by Doing
Posted by Camilla Josephson on February 7th, 2007
Multiple Equilibria in Industrial Location: Evidence From Airports in Inter-War and Re-Unified Germany
Posted by Nikolaus Wolf on April 5th, 2005
Transition From the Solar Age to the Fossil Era in the Finnish Energy Economy
Posted by Timo Myllyntaus on February 19th, 2001

Urban and Regional History

Business activity during the Franco regime: the Compan=EDa de Tranv=EDas de La Coruna,=20 1936-1962
Posted by Alberte Mart=EDnez on April 4th, 2007
The strange death of Labour England: collective provision and social cohesion in Southwark, 1950-2000
Posted by Harold Carter on June 19th, 2002

Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean

Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries

Paupers and Planters: The Transition to Sugar in Barbados, 1638-1674
Posted by Emily Mechner on May 16th, 1997
The Spanish Royal Tobacco Monopoly in the Viceroyalty of Peru, 1752-1813
Posted by Richard Sicotte on September 16th, 1997
Latifundia as Malefactor in Latin American Economic Development? A View from the Pampas: Scale, Tenancy, and Agricultural Operations in Argentina, c. 1890-1914
Posted by Alan M. Taylor on September 22nd, 1996

Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity

Assessing Growth, Inequality, and Poverty in the Long-Run: The Case of Spain
Posted by Leandro Prados de la Escosura on July 17th, 2005
Chilean Economic Transformation
Posted by Adam B. Lowther on February 25th, 2003
Chilean Economic Transformation
Posted by Adam B. Lowther on March 4th, 2003
Growth, Inequality, and Poverty in Latin America: Historical Evidence, Controlled=20 Conjectures
Posted by Leandro Prados de la Escosura on July 17th, 2005
Institutional Instability and Growth in Argentina: A Long-run View
Posted by Leandro Prados de la Escosura on April 12th, 2005
Real Wages and Relative Factor Prices in the Third World 1820-1940: Latin America
Posted by Jeffrey G. Williamson on October 29th, 1998
Assessing the Economic Effects of Latin American Independence
Posted by Leandro Prados de la Escosura on March 9th, 2004
Colonial Independence and Economic Backwardness in Latin America
Posted by Leandro Prados de la Escosura on April 12th, 2005
Lost decades? Independence and Latin America's Falling Behind, 1820-1= 870
Posted by Leandro Prados de la Escosura on December 27th, 2007
Property Rights and Economic Growth in Argentina: 1875-1990
Posted by Isabel Sanz Villarroya on December 3rd, 2003
The Rate of Growth of Productivity in Mexico, 1850-1933: Evidence from the Cotton Textile Industry
Posted by Armando Razo on October 5th, 1998
Political Instability and Economic Performance: Evidence from Revolutionary Mexico
Posted by Stephen H. Haber on October 5th, 1998
The Efficiency Consequences of Institutional Change: Financial Market Regulation and Industrial Productivity Growth in Brazil, 1866-1934
Posted by Stephen Haber on April 1st, 1997

Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History

Brazil and Argentina in the context of the capitalist world-economy: external debt and=20 economic policy (1870-1930)
Posted by Felipe Amin Filomeno on March 27th, 2007
Impact of the transition of the world financial hegemony from the United Kingdom to the=20 U.S.A on Brazilian and Argentine economic policy=20 in the 1920s
Posted by Felipe Amin Filomeno on April 11th, 2007

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Gresham on horseback. The monetary roots of Spanish America political fragmentation in the nineteenth century
Posted by Alejandra Irigoin on January 15th, 2007
1890 and 1898: Government policy, bank formation and bank failure in Sao Paulo
Posted by Anne Hanley on March 12th, 2002
Credit Where Credit is Due: Banks and the Development of the Financial Market in Rio de Janeiro, 1820-1900
Posted by Joseph Ryan on February 19th, 2003
Enforcing Property Rights Through Reputation: Mexico's Early Industrialization, 1878-1913
Posted by Noel Maurer on December 11th, 2001
The People's Savings and the Brazilian National Treasury: Nation Building and the Caixa Economica Federal, 1860-1912
Posted by Alison Anne Adams on February 11th, 2003
Finance and Development in an Emerging Market: Argentina and the Interwar Period
Posted by Alan M. Taylor on December 12th, 1997
Private Payment Systems in Historical Perspective: The Banco Central System of Mexico
Posted by Patrice Robitaille on November 4th, 1997
The People's Savings and the Brazilian National Treasury: Nation Building and the Caixa Economica Federal, 1860-1912
Posted by Alison Anne Adams on February 11th, 2003
Argentina and the World Capital Market: Saving, Investment, and International Capital Mobility in the Twentieth Century
Posted by Alan M. Taylor on December 12th, 1997

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Building credible commitments: Bankruptcy law and the transition to a Republican government in Brazil, 1880-1930
Posted by Aldo Musacchio on March 3rd, 2003
The Economic Policy during Francisco I. Madero Administration
Posted by Jesus Mendez Reyes on January 10th, 2002

Historical Demography, including Migration

Peopling the Pampa: On the Impact of Mass Migration to the River Plate, 1870-1914
Posted by Alan M. Taylor on October 31st, 1996

Income and Wealth

The Colonial Legacy as a Determinant of Regional Per Capita Income in Colombia
Posted by Adolfo Enrique Meisel on January 1st, 2008

Industry: Manufacturing and Construction

Organizational Choice in a French Civil-Law Underdeveloped Economy: Partnerships, Corporations and the Chartering of Business in Mexico, 1886-1910
Posted by Aurora Gomez-Galvarriato on December 11th, 2003

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Terms of Trade Shocks and Structural Adjustment: The Economic Consequences of Argentine Independence 1810-1825
Posted by Carlos Newland on May 16th, 1999
On the Accuracy of Latin American Trade Statistics: A nonparametric test for 1925
Posted by Mar Rubio on June 14th, 2005

Labor and Employment History

The Rise and Fall of the Sliding Scale
Posted by Christopher Hanes on June 8th, 1998

Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology

Disease and Nutrition in the Mexican Population: Evidence from the Military
Posted by Moramay Lopez-Alonso on March 26th, 1998
Improvements in the Standard of Living through Cycles of Political Violence: Colombia 1910-1984
Posted by Adolfo Meisel Roca on October 29th, 2003
The Impact of Revolution: The Evolution of Prices, Real Wages, and Productivity Levels in a Mexican Textile Mill from 1900 to 1929.
Posted by Aurora Gomez-Galvarriato on October 5th, 1998

Macroeconomics and Fluctuations

Macroeconomic Aspects of Spanish American Independence. The effects of fiscal and currency fragmentation, 1800s-1860s
Posted by Maria Alejandra Irigoin on February 15th, 2004

Markets and Institutions

Brazilian Market Power in Rubber Market: an AIDS approach to Assess Impact on Welfare (1861-1910)
Posted by Felipe Tamega Fernandes on February 5th, 2007
Inconvertible Paper Money, Inflation and Economic Performance in Early Nineteenth Century Argentina
Posted by Maria Alejandra Irigoin on August 21st, 2000

Middle East

Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries

Agriculture and the Origins of the State in Ancient Egypt
Posted by Robert C. Allen on May 5th, 1997

Education And Human Resource Development

A Human Capital Interpretation of the Economic History of the Jews
Posted by Maristella Botticini on February 12th, 2001

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Britain, Sterling, and Iranian Oil, 1947-1954
Posted by Steven Galpern on March 3rd, 2002

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Ottoman Taxation in Palestine, Syria, and Transjordan in the Sixteenth Century: the Determinants of Kism Rates
Posted by Metin Cosgel on February 24th, 2002

Historical Demography, including Migration

A Human Capital Interpretation of the Economic History of the Jews
Posted by Maristella Botticini on February 12th, 2001

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

"Give Us Good Black Tobacco": Brazilian Tobacco, Indigenous Consumer Demand and Cross-Cultural Exchange in the Hudson's Bay Company's Fur Trade, 1750-1800
Posted by Linda Wimmer on February 8th, 2001
Egyptian Cotton Policy in the Interwar Period
Posted by Tarik Yousef on September 17th, 1997

Labor and Employment History

A Human Capital Interpretation of the Economic History of the Jews
Posted by Maristella Botticini on February 12th, 2001

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

North America

Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries

Between God and Market: Integration of Economy and Spirit in Shaker Communal Dairying, 1830-1875
Posted by John E. Murray on December 7th, 1997
Hours at Work and Total Factor Productivity Growth in 19th Century U.S. Agriculture
Posted by Tom Weiss on April 8th, 1998
Increasing Returns and the Genesis of American Resource Abundance
Posted by Gavin Wright on November 3rd, 1996
Managerial Strategies of the Cotton South
Posted by Tetsuya Saito on January 31st, 2006
Mechanical Refrigeration and the Integration of Perishable Commodity Markets
Posted by Lee A. Craig on October 15th, 2000
Were Free Southern Farmers "Driven to Indolence" by Slavery? A Stochastic Production Frontier Approach
Posted by Lee A. Craig on March 31st, 1997
Where Have All the Sharecroppers Gone? Black Occupations in Mississippi in 1880
Posted by Anthony Patrick O'Brien on November 3rd, 1996
"Rain Follows the Plow:" The Climate Information Problem and Homestead Failure in the Upper Great Plains, 1890-1925
Posted by Gary D. Libecap on July 30th, 2000
Contract Evolution and Institutional Innovation: The American Fresh Fruit Industry from 1890 to 1930
Posted by Carolyn Dimitri on October 20th, 1997
Historical Perspectives on Exotic Pests and Diseases in California
Posted by Alan L. Olmstead on April 30th, 2001
Mechanical Refrigeration and the Integration of Perishable Commodity Markets
Posted by Lee A. Craig on October 15th, 2000
Diffusion of the Cotton Picking Machine, 1949-1964
Posted by Wayne A. Grove on May 11th, 2004
Fieldhands or Machines: Private Investment and Public Subsidy of Cotton Harvest Mechanization in Texas after World War II
Posted by Craig Heinicke on March 12th, 2002
The Federal Soil Bank, the Decline of Cotton, and the Demise of the Southern Plantation in the 1950s
Posted by Craig Heinicke on November 4th, 1996

Business History

The Growth of Modern Business Enterprises in the Twentieth Century
Posted by Sukkoo Kim on October 10th, 1999
Interest Rate Risk, Illiquid Assets, and Information Asymmetries: Balance Sheet Deterioration and "Debtor" Angst in Colonial America
Posted by Robert E. Wright on February 4th, 2001
Mechanisms of Integrity: Nineteenth Century New England Banking and the Success of Insider Lending
Posted by Christopher Meissner on January 29th, 2001
The Demography of Debts in Colonial New England
Posted by David Flynn on February 10th, 2002
Lochner, Parity, and the Chinese Laundry Cases
Posted by David E. Bernstein on February 1st, 2000
Mechanisms of Integrity: Nineteenth Century New England Banking and the Success of Insider Lending
Posted by Christopher Meissner on January 29th, 2001
Baseball as a Financial Investment: A Study of the New York Yankees 1914-1937
Posted by Michael J. Haupert on February 10th, 2002
Can Lower Rates of Labour Productivity in US Cotton Mills Be Explained By Higher Rates of Worker Turnover?
Posted by Dr Tim Leunig on February 12th, 2001
The Stability of the American Business Elite
Posted by Peter Temin on June 12th, 1998
The Vanishing Hand: the Changing Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism
Posted by Richard N. Langlois on November 15th, 2001

Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity

The Growth of the Service Sector in Historical Perspective: Explaining Trends in U.S. Sectoral Output and Employment, 1840-1990
Posted by Louis D. Johnston on January 26th, 1997
The U.S. Business Cycle, 1866-1939: Dynamic Factor Analysis vs. Reconstructed National Accounts
Posted by Martin Uebele on January 14th, 2007
Interest Rate Risk, Illiquid Assets, and Information Asymmetries: Balance Sheet Deterioration and "Debtor" Angst in Colonial America
Posted by Robert E. Wright on February 4th, 2001
Immigration and Capital Accumulation in Canada, 1870-1913
Posted by Stuart J. Wilson on July 27th, 2000
Immigration and Capital Accumulation in Canada, 1870-1913
Posted by Stuart J. Wilson on September 24th, 2000
Institutions and Southern Development: the Strange Career of Judge Lynch
Posted by Art Carden on June 14th, 2005
The Telegraphic Transmission of Financial Asset Prices and Orders to Trade: Implications for Economic Growth, Trading Volume, and Securities Market Regulation
Posted by Alexander Field on March 17th, 1998
Can Lower Rates of Labour Productivity in US Cotton Mills Be Explained By Higher Rates of Worker Turnover?
Posted by Dr Tim Leunig on February 12th, 2001
How Could Irving Fischer Have Been So Wrong? Forecasting the Great Depression with Evidence from the Railroad Shippers' Forecasts
Posted by Adam Klug on August 6th, 1997
Immigration and Capital Accumulation in Canada, 1870-1913
Posted by Stuart J. Wilson on September 24th, 2000
The Challenges of Economic Maturity
Posted by Joshua L. Rosenbloom on November 23rd, 1998

Education And Human Resource Development

A Brief History of Education in the United States
Posted by Claudia Goldin on November 2nd, 1999
Valuing Children in Early America: Compensation for Bound Child Labor in the Eighteenth Century
Posted by John Murray on June 10th, 1999
Accomplishment and Abandonment: The Freedmen's Bureau and Black Literacy Rates
Posted by William Troost on May 10th, 2006
Generation(s) of Human Capital: Literacy in American Families, 1830-1875
Posted by John E. Murray on September 19th, 1996
The Comparative Political Economy of Mass Schooling Before 1914
Posted by Peter H. Lindert on July 25th, 2000
The Market for Montreal Apprentices: Contract Length and Information
Posted by Gillian Hamilton on September 19th, 1996
Dynamic Social Norms and the Unexpected Transformation of Women's Higher Education, 1965=20 to 1980
Posted by Stacey Jones on July 24th, 2005

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

A Variance Ratio Related Prediction Tool with Application to the NYSE Index 1825-2002
Posted by Kandel Shmuel on July 24th, 2005
Bubble Lessons -- Old and New
Posted by James M. O'Donnell on May 15th, 2002
Interest Rate Risk, Illiquid Assets, and Information Asymmetries: Balance Sheet Deterioration and "Debtor" Angst in Colonial America
Posted by Robert E. Wright on February 4th, 2001
Mechanisms of Integrity: Nineteenth Century New England Banking and the Success of Insider Lending
Posted by Christopher Meissner on January 29th, 2001
Observations on the Composition of Colonial Pennsylvania's Money Supply
Posted by Robert E. Wright on March 24th, 2005
State "Currencies" and the Transition to the U.S. Dollar: Clarifying Some Confusions
Posted by Robert E. Wright on January 22nd, 2004
Bank Runs, Information and Contagion in the Panic of 1893
Posted by Brandon Dupont on March 25th, 2007
Capital Imports and the Jacksonian Economy: A New View of the Balance of Payments
Posted by Trevor J. O. Dick on August 3rd, 1997
Finance and Economic Modernization: A New View of Stock-Watering
Posted by Eric R. Hake on February 1st, 2001
Financial Intermediation, Capital Accumulation and Growth: Evidence from Canada
Posted by Stuart J. Wilson on January 25th, 2001
Financial Market Development Within America's Great Basin: A Tale of Two Cultures
Posted by Scott A. Carson on January 29th, 2001
Financing the Crop Cycle: Seasonality, Southern Financial Underdevelopment, and the Founding of the Federal Reserve System
Posted by Scott A. Redenius on March 10th, 2002
Great Fires, Bankruptcies, and the American Fire Insurance Industry, 1835-1904
Posted by Dalit Baranoff on May 11th, 1999
Jacksonian Monetary Policy, Specie Flows, and the Panic of 1837
Posted by Peter L. Rousseau on June 6th, 2002
Kinship Control in New England Financial Institutions in the Ante-Bellum Period: A Textile Sector Perspective
Posted by Amit Bubna on May 20th, 1999
Mechanisms of Integrity: Nineteenth Century New England Banking and the Success of Insider Lending
Posted by Christopher Meissner on January 29th, 2001
Par Clearance in the Domestic Exchanges: The Impact of National Bank Notes
Posted by Ronnie J. Phillips on October 26th, 1998
Paying Back to Borrow More: Reputation and Bank Credit Access in Early America
Posted by Ta-Chen Wang on February 4th, 2007
Political Monetary Cycles and the Independent Treasury
Posted by Jac C. Heckelman on February 21st, 2001
Problems in Analysing Inflation During the Civil War
Posted by Michael J. Haupert on July 23rd, 2000
Revisiting Structural Change and Market Integration
Posted by Brandon Dupont on April 4th, 2007
Suspension of Payments, Bank Failures, and the Nonbank Public's Losses
Posted by Gerald P. Dwyer, Jr. on September 23rd, 1996
The Bank of England and U.S. Business Cycles, 1890-1910
Posted by Jon Moen on November 19th, 1996
The Call Loan Market in the US Financial System Prior to the Federal Reserve System
Posted by Ellis Tallman on May 13th, 2004
The Causes of Bank Failures: Deflationary Spells
Posted by Ernst Juerg Weber on December 11th, 2003
The Question of Note Issue in American Free Banks
Posted by Michael J. Haupert on October 2nd, 1997
A Shareholder's Democracy? Innovations in Financial Securities Marketing in the United States, 1917-1929
Posted by Julia Ott on May 25th, 2004
Baseball as a Financial Investment: A Study of the New York Yankees 1914-1937
Posted by Michael J. Haupert on February 18th, 2003
Branch Banking, Bank Competition, and Financial Stability
Posted by Kris James Mitchener on January 21st, 2003
Deposit Insurance in Developing Economies: Lessons from the Archives of the Board of Governors and the State Deposit Insurance Experiments
Posted by Gary Richardson on January 23rd, 2003
Deposit Insurance, Bank Market Structure, and Bank Failures: Evidence from the 1910s and 1920s
Posted by Mark D. Flood on March 1st, 1998
Did Monetary Forces Cause the Great Depression? A Bayesian VAR Analysis for the U.S. Economy
Posted by Albrecht Ritschl on December 10th, 2000
Double Liability and Bank Risk Taking
Posted by Richard S. Grossman on January 11th, 2001
Financial Development and Economic Performance: The Emergence of the U.S. Market for Bankers' Acceptances in the early 1900s
Posted by J. Peter Ferder on February 4th, 2001
Financial Intermediation, Capital Accumulation and Growth: Evidence from Canada
Posted by Stuart J. Wilson on January 25th, 2001
Institutional Innovation and the Creation of Liquid Financial Markets: The Case of Bankers' Acceptances, 1914-1934
Posted by J. Peter Ferderer on January 30th, 2002
International Financial Crisis by Way of Localized Disaster: The San Francisco Earthquake and the Panic of 1907
Posted by Marc Weidenmier on February 8th, 2001
Micro-credit and Economic Development: The Morris Plan Banks in the United States
Posted by Ronnie J. Phillips on January 28th, 2001
Partisan Appointments to the Central Bank: Policy Uncertainty and the Democratic Deficit
Posted by José I. García de Paso on October 25th, 2000
Real and Financial Shocks to the Payments System: Earthquakes, Panics, and the San Francisco Clearinghouse
Posted by Ronnie J. Phillips on May 11th, 1999
The Macroeconomics of Bank Resolution Costs
Posted by Joseph R. Mason on October 31st, 1996
Financial Intermediation, Capital Accumulation and Growth: Evidence from Canada
Posted by Stuart J. Wilson on January 25th, 2001

Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance

Federalism and Conflicts over principalship. Some insights into the American constitutional history
Posted by Alain Marciano on February 24th, 2005
Institutional Change in the Newfoundland Inshore Fishery
Posted by Kenneth Norrie on July 30th, 2000
The Political Economy of Constitutional Compromise: Did the Founding Fathers Get It Right in 1787?
Posted by Robert A. McGuire on July 17th, 2005
American Federalism and Economic Development, 1840-1900
Posted by John Wallis on June 15th, 1997
Bursting Boilers and the Federal Power Redux: The Evolution of Safety on the Western Rivers
Posted by Richard N. Langlois on August 26th, 1996
Employment and Gubernatorial Elections During the Gilded Age
Posted by Jac C. Heckelman on November 15th, 1998
Equilibrium Impotence: Why the States and Not the American National Government
Posted by John Wallis on March 7th, 2004
Incidental Protection: An Examination of the Morrill Tariff
Posted by Jane Flaherty on May 17th, 2001
Railroads and Property Taxes
Posted by Jac C. Heckelman on October 31st, 1996
Species of Property: The American Property-Tax Uniformity Clauses Reconsidered
Posted by Robin L. Einhorn on December 11th, 2001
The Confederate Constitution, Tariffs, and the Laffer Relationship
Posted by Robert A. McGuire on February 14th, 2001
The Rise and Fall of Property Regimes: Evidence from the History of Transportation
Posted by Jim Cohen on March 5th, 2002
Typhoid Rates and the Public Acquisition of Private Waterworks, 1880-1920
Posted by Werner Troesken on May 19th, 1997
Was the Alaska Purchase a Good Deal?
Posted by David Barker on May 11th, 1999
Paving Machines: Politics and the Provision of Public Infrastructure in American Cities during the Progressive Era, 1900-1910
Posted by Rebecca Menes on March 26th, 1998
The National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 and the Compliance Crisis of 1934
Posted by Jason E. Taylor on May 16th, 2002
The Political Economy of New Deal Expenditures:A Preliminary and Exploratory Investigation
Posted by Price Fishback on August 6th, 1997
The Political Economy of State-Provided Health Insurance in the Progressive Era: Evidence from California
Posted by Dora L. Costa on September 24th, 1996
The Political Economy of Workers' Compensation Benefit Levels, 1910-1930
Posted by Price Fishback on June 27th, 1997
Tax Policy, Group Insurance, and Health Insurance Demand: New Evidence on How the 1954 Tax Subsidy Encouraged Market Expansion
Posted by Melissa A. Thomasson on May 25th, 1997
The Political Economy of Race, 1940-1960: The Adoption of State-Level Fair Employment Legislation
Posted by William J. Collins on September 25th, 2000

Historical Demography, including Migration

Long-Term Marriage Patterns in the United States from Colonial Times to the Present
Posted by Michael R. Haines on April 10th, 1997
Longevity and Lifetime Labor Input: Data and Implications
Posted by Moshe Hazan on February 19th, 2007
Understanding the Twentieth Century Decline in Chronic Conditions Among Older Men
Posted by Dora L. Costa on March 3rd, 1999
Class, Gender, and Marriage
Posted by Gillian Hamilton on January 31st, 2001
The Demography of Debts in Colonial New England
Posted by David Flynn on February 10th, 2002
Financial Intermediation, Capital Accumulation and Growth: Evidence from Canada
Posted by Stuart J. Wilson on January 25th, 2001
Immigration and Capital Accumulation in Canada, 1870-1913
Posted by Stuart J. Wilson on September 24th, 2000
Involuntary Childlessness and Voluntary Fertility Control in a Sample of American Men
Posted by John E. Murray on August 6th, 2000
Migration to the Frontier in Mid-Nineteenth Century America: A Re-Examination of Turner's "Safety Valve"
Posted by Joseph P. Ferrie on September 20th, 1997
THE ENTRY INTO THE U.S. LABOR MARKET OF ANTEBELLUM EUROPEAN IMMIGRANTS, 1840-60
Posted by Joseph P. Ferrie on July 29th, 1996
The Transportation Revolution and Transatlantic Migration, 1850-1914
Posted by Drew Keeling on October 3rd, 1999
Dominion or Republic? Migrants to North America from the United Kingdom, 1870-1910
Posted by Chris Minns on September 17th, 2001
Financial Intermediation, Capital Accumulation and Growth: Evidence from Canada
Posted by Stuart J. Wilson on January 25th, 2001
Immigration and Capital Accumulation in Canada, 1870-1913
Posted by Stuart J. Wilson on September 24th, 2000
Selective Immigration and Ethnic Economic Achievement: Japanese Americans before World War II
Posted by Masao Suzuki on May 11th, 1999
The 1907-08 Recession and Transatlantic Migration
Posted by Drew Keeling on February 7th, 2007
The Relative Labour Market Performance of Second-Generation Americans in the Early 20th Century
Posted by Chris Minns on February 15th, 2001
The Use of the Census to Estimate Childhood Mortality: Comparisons from the 1900 and 1910 United States Census Public Use Samples
Posted by Michael R. Haines on April 10th, 1997
Financial Intermediation, Capital Accumulation and Growth: Evidence from Canada
Posted by Stuart J. Wilson on January 25th, 2001

Historical Geography

Urban Development in the United States, 1690-1990
Posted by Sukkoo Kim on September 8th, 1999

History of Technology, including Technological Change

Induced Innovation In American Agriculture: An Econometric Analysis
Posted by Alan L. Olmstead on October 26th, 1998
Interindustry Factor Mobility and Technological Change: Evidence on Wage and Profit Dispersion Across U.S. Industries, 1820-1990
Posted by Michael J. Hiscox on June 6th, 2002
Inventors, Firms, and the Market for Technology: U.S. Manufacturing in the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Posted by Naomi Lamoreaux on May 25th, 1997
Location and Technological Change in the American Glass Industry during the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Posted by Naomi R. Lamoreaux on March 19th, 1997
The Skills of the Unskilled in the American Industrial Revolution
Posted by James Bessen on September 27th, 2000
The Spatial Aggregation of Automobile Manufacturing Activities in the American Midwest
Posted by Lucia Tsai on June 12th, 1998
Adoption of General Purpose Technologies: Understanding Adoption Patterns in the Electrification of US Manufacturing 1880-1930
Posted by Brent Goldfarb on May 23rd, 2002
Early Twentieth Century American Productivity Growth Dynamics
Posted by Gavin Wright on July 24th, 2000
"Uncle Sam Calling All Inventors": Inventive Culture and Women's Inventive Activities in WWII America
Posted by Lisa A. Marovich on March 18th, 1998
The Power of Prosaic Innovation: World War II Merchant Shipbuilding in the U.S.
Posted by Christopher Tassava on May 13th, 2004

Military and War

After Johnny Came Marching Home: The Political Economy of Veterans' Benefits in the Nineteenth Century
Posted by Hugh Rockoff on August 9th, 2007
Keep on Scrapping: The Salvage Drives of World War II
Posted by Hugh Rockoff on October 14th, 2007

Household, Family and Consumer History

Class, Gender, and Marriage
Posted by Gillian Hamilton on January 31st, 2001
Trade, Consumption, and the Native Economy: Lessons from York Factory, Hudson Bay
Posted by Ann M. Carlos on December 13th, 2001
Explaining the Rise in Antebellum Pauperism, 1850-1860: New Evidence
Posted by Robert A. Margo on March 19th, 1997
Displacing the Family: Union Army Pensions and Elderly Living Arrangements
Posted by Dora L. Costa on September 24th, 1996
Women's Work and Men's Unemployment
Posted by Carolyn M. Moehling on December 10th, 2001

Income and Wealth

In Search of Kuznets' Curve: A Reexamination of the Distribution of Wealth in the United States between 1650 and 1950
Posted by Martin Shanahan on July 28th, 1997
Race and Home Ownership, 1900 to 1990
Posted by William Collins on September 9th, 1999
U.S. Regional Growth and Convergence, 1880-1980
Posted by Ian McLean on October 20th, 1997
Estimating Late-Nineteenth-Century Wealth-Age Profiles: Alternative Approaches to Micro-Data
Posted by Livio Di Matteo on November 4th, 1996
The Determinants of Wealth and Asset holding in Nineteenth Century Canada: Evidence from Micro-data
Posted by Livio Di Matteo on September 24th, 2000
The Impact of the Civil War on Capital Intensity and Labor Productivity in Southern Manufacturing
Posted by William K. Hutchinson on April 5th, 2005
Wealth Accumulation and Distribution in the Midwest in the Late Nineteenth Century
Posted by Mary Eschelbach Gregson on September 18th, 1996
Absolutely Relative or Relatively Absolute: The Income Elasticity of Orshansky-Method Poverty Lines, 1919-1959
Posted by Linda Barrington on May 11th, 1999
Earnings Inequality and the Business Cycle
Posted by Gadi Barlevy on January 5th, 2006
How Many People were Really in Poverty in 1947?
Posted by Gordon Fisher on May 11th, 1999

Industry: Manufacturing and Construction

A Quantity-Based Annual Index of U.S. Industrial Production, 1790-1915
Posted by Joseph Davis on June 19th, 2002
Iron Foundries Rule the Heavy Capital Equipment Industry in the East, 1820-1860
Posted by David R. Meyer on May 23rd, 2002
Manufacturing Where Agriculture Predominates: Evidence from the South and Midwest in 1860
Posted by Kenneth L. Sokoloff on June 25th, 1997
Profitability and Factory-Based Cotton Gin Production in the Antebellum South
Posted by William H. Phillips on May 4th, 2004
Technological uncertainty and earnings dispersion in U.S. iron work, 1865-1880
Posted by Peter B. Meyer on March 10th, 2002
The Decline of the Independent Inventor: A Schumpeterian Story?
Posted by Naomi Lamoreaux on April 25th, 2006
Can Lower Rates of Labour Productivity in US Cotton Mills Be Explained By Higher Rates of Worker Turnover?
Posted by Dr Tim Leunig on February 12th, 2001
The Importance of Adjusting Production to Sales in the Early Automobile Industry
Posted by Anthony Patrick O'Brien on May 11th, 1997
Work Related Accidents and the Level of Market Competition: An Analysis of Worker Injury Rates at United States Steel Corporation, 1907-1939
Posted by David T. Flynn on August 24th, 2006

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Antebellum Tariff Politics: Coalition Formation and Credible Commitments
Posted by Douglas A. Irwin on January 18th, 2005
Pork Packers, Reciprocity, and Laurier's Defeat in the 1911 Canadian General Election
Posted by Eugene Beaulieu on December 13th, 2001
Social Saving of the Panama Canal
Posted by William K. Hutchinson on March 3rd, 2005
The Rise in U.S. Antidumping Actions in Historical Perspective
Posted by Douglas A. Irwin on January 18th, 2005

Labor and Employment History

How Much Did Immigrant 'Quality' Decline in Late-Nineteenth-Century America?
Posted by Timothy J. Hatton on May 19th, 1997
The Growth of the Service Sector in Historical Perspective: Explaining Trends in U.S. Sectoral Output and Employment, 1840-1990
Posted by Louis Johnston on May 23rd, 1997
The Rise of the Leisured Class: The Growth of Recreation since 1888
Posted by Dora L. Costa on September 25th, 1996
The Unreliability of Job Duration Estimates, Current and Past
Posted by Warren Whatley on October 19th, 1997
Chinese Sojourn Labor and the Transcontinental Railroad: a Market Explanation for Immigration Volatility
Posted by Scott A. Carson on July 24th, 2000
Driven from the Field or Enticed to the City?: The Mechanical Cotton Harvester and the Great Migration from the Cotton Belt, 1949-1964
Posted by Craig Heinicke on February 11th, 2001
Liberation Revisited: Education, Technical Adoption and the Household Labour Supply
Posted by Marina Adshade on February 6th, 2003
Redemption Servitude in America's Great Basin: Repayment and Enforcement Mechanisms
Posted by Scott A. Carson on May 11th, 1999
The Entry into the U.S. Labor Market of Antebellum European Immigrants, 1840-60
Posted by Joseph Ferrie on May 5th, 1997
The Laborer Is Worthy of His Hire: Shaker Religious Communes in External Labor Markets
Posted by John E. Murray on November 1st, 1997
The Law and Economics of Post-Civil War Restrictions on Interstate Migration by African-Americans
Posted by David E. Bernstein on July 19th, 1998
The Law and Labor Strife in the U.S., 1881-1894
Posted by Joseph P. Ferrie on August 29th, 1996
The Skills of the Unskilled in the American Industrial Revolution
Posted by James Bessen on September 27th, 2000
A New Deal for the Forgotten Man? Wages, Unions, and the Distribution of Transitory and Permanent Employment During the Inter-War Period
Posted by Ryan S. Johnson on February 4th, 2003
Did the WPA Displace Private Employment? Evidence from the 1940 Census
Posted by William A. Sundstrom on September 22nd, 1996
Education and Income in the Early 20th Century: Evidence from the Prairies
Posted by Claudia Goldin on October 27th, 1999
Explaining the Unemployment Gap: Race and Region in the Employment Status of Men, 1940
Posted by William A. Sundstrom on September 22nd, 1996
Is it Work or is it Play? The Evolution of the Professional Baseball Labor Market
Posted by Mike Haupert on June 14th, 2005
Long-Term Trends in Miners' Wages
Posted by Lawrence W. Boyd on November 10th, 1996
Operations of "Unfettered" Labor Markets
Posted by Price V. Fishback on February 4th, 1998
Racial Segregation, Working Conditions, and Workers' Health: Evidence from the A. M. Byers Company, 1916-1930
Posted by Thomas N. Maloney on July 29th, 1998
Racism, Railroad Unions, and Labor Regulations
Posted by David E. Bernstein on February 7th, 2001
Sickness absence and insurance benefits in turn-of-the-century America
Posted by John Murray on December 1st, 2003
The Added Worker Effect in the Household
Posted by Carolyn M. Moehling on October 20th, 1997
The American Wage Structure: 1920-1947.
Posted by James K. Galbraith on October 25th, 1999
The Black Industrial Experience In Pennsylvania, 1916-1950
Posted by Ryan Spencer Johnson on July 24th, 2000
The Changing Dynamics of Unemployment: Evidence from Civil War Pension Records
Posted by Dora L. Costa on September 25th, 1996
The Effect of Unionism on Accidents in Coal Mining, 1897-1929
Posted by William M. Boal on February 16th, 2003
The Golden Age of Flexible Wages in The South: Labor Markets in Virginia during the Panic of 1907
Posted by Brad Hansen on December 9th, 1996
The Relative Labour Market Performance of Second-Generation Americans in the Early 20th Century
Posted by Chris Minns on February 15th, 2001
The Supply Price of Labor During the Great Depression
Posted by Curtis J. Simon on December 13th, 2001
Bullets, Bombers, and Battleships: Contrasting Approaches to Defining 'Women's Work' in War Industries in the U.S., 1941-45.
Posted by David Mitch on July 23rd, 2000
Job Vacancies In The United States: 1923 to 1994
Posted by Jay L. Zagorsky on May 20th, 1999
Preference Formation and the Rise of Women's Labour Force Participation: Evidence from WWII
Posted by Claudia Olivetti on June 20th, 2006
Race, Occupational Mobility, and Government Intervention in the World War II Era
Posted by William J. Collins on May 20th, 1999
The "Revolution of Rising Expectations," Relative Deprivation, and the Urban Racial Disturbances of the 1960s
Posted by Siddharth Chandra on May 23rd, 2002
The Political Economy of Race, 1940-1960: The Adoption of State-Level Fair Employment Legislation
Posted by William J. Collins on September 25th, 2000
The Returns to Skill in the United States across the Twentieth Century
Posted by Claudia Goldin on November 1st, 1999

Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology

The Rate of Time Preference and Obesity: Is there a Connection?
Posted by John Komlos on August 3rd, 2003
Unequal at Birth: A Long-Term Comparison of Income and Birth Weight
Posted by Dora L. Costa on January 4th, 1998
Lilliputians and Brobdingnagians, Stature in British Colonial America: Evidence from Servants, Convicts and Apprentices.
Posted by Farley Grubb on October 19th, 1999
The Height of Eighteenth-Century Americans
Posted by John Komlos on October 7th, 1998
Access to Food and the Biological Standard of Living: Perspectives on the Nutritional Status of Native Americans
Posted by John Komlos on May 27th, 2002
Non-parametric Regression with BayesX: a Flexible Estimation of Trends in Human Physical Stature in 19th Century America
Posted by Marco Sunder on August 12th, 2003
On the Puzzling Cycle in the Biological Standard of Living: The Case ofAntebellum Georgia
Posted by John Komlos on May 20th, 1999
Socioeconomic Background, Disease, and Mortality among Union Army Recruits: Implications for Economic and Demographic History
Posted by Chulhee Lee on October 31st, 1996
Tallest in the World: Native Americans of the Great Plains in the Nineteenth Century
Posted by Richard H. Steckel on July 25th, 2000
The height of Tennessee convicts: another piece of the "antebellum puzzle"
Posted by Marco Sunder on April 11th, 2004
The Impact of Diseases upon the Economic History of Slavery and the American South
Posted by Robert A. McGuire on September 14th, 1997
The Puzzle of Slave Heights in Antebellum America
Posted by Ray Rees on November 28th, 1997
The Puzzle of Slave Heights in Antebellum America
Posted by Ulrich Woitek on May 16th, 1999
From the Tallest in the World to (One of) the Fattest: The Enigmatic Fate of the Size of the American Population in the Twentieth Century
Posted by John Komlos on July 6th, 2003

Macroeconomics and Fluctuations

The Role of the Real Interest Rate in US Macroeconomic History
Posted by Ernst Juerg Weber on February 5th, 2007
Political Business Cycles Before the Great Depression
Posted by Robert Whaples on August 29th, 1996
Political Monetary Cycles and the Independent Treasury
Posted by Jac C. Heckelman on February 21st, 2001
Shocks: Inertia, Competition and the Absence of the Core
Posted by Michael Perelman on May 23rd, 1999
Shocks: Inertia, Competition and the Absence of the Core
Posted by Michael Perelman on May 11th, 1999
The Panic of 1819 and Its Impact on Virginia Merchants
Posted by Clyde A. Haulman on May 25th, 1999
A Reconsideration of the Revenue Act of 1932
Posted by David A. Zalewski on March 3rd, 2002
Agricultural Shocks in the Interwar Economy: A Structural VAR Analysis
Posted by Matthew A. Martin on October 20th, 1997
Did Sunspot Forces Cause the Great Depression?
Posted by Sharon G. Harrison on January 7th, 2003
Did Sunspot Forces Cause the Roaring Twenties?
Posted by Sharon G. Harrison on March 2nd, 2006
Did Wages Become Stickier During the Interwar Period?
Posted by Ranjit S. Dighe on July 23rd, 2000
Financial Distress, Bankruptcy and Railroad Operations: 1928-1940
Posted by Daniel A. Schiffman on June 9th, 1998
Have Working-Class Americans Always Been Low Savers? An Empirical Analysis of Household Saving around the Turn of the Twentieth Century
Posted by Mark Thomas on December 9th, 1996
Investment during the Great Depression: Uncertainty and the Role of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff
Posted by David H. Feldman on March 1st, 1997
The Sources of Regional Variation in the Severity of the Great Depression
Posted by Joshua L. Rosenbloom on October 5th, 1997
The Potential Crowding Out Effect of Social Security Transfers 1937 to 1977
Posted by Samuel H. Williamson on September 25th, 2002

Markets and Institutions

The Development and Regulation of Consumer Credit Reporting in America
Posted by Robert M. Hunt on October 30th, 2003
The Transition from Demand-led to Supply-led Manufacturing Growth: The Role of the Spanish Empire, 1564-1750
Posted by David J. Weiland on May 11th, 1999
Markets for Children in Early America: A Political Economy of Pauper Apprenticeship
Posted by John E. Murray on June 6th, 2002
The Statutory Regulation of Colonial Servitude: An Incomplete-Contract Approach
Posted by Farley Grubb on June 7th, 1998
Efficiency in Western Water Law: The Development of the California Doctrine, 1850-1913
Posted by Mark Kanazawa on September 4th, 1996
Property Rights and California Gold
Posted by Gavin Wright on March 17th, 1998
Regional Interest Rate Premia in the American Railroad Bond Market from 1876 to 1890
Posted by Lea V. Carty on September 18th, 1996
Storage, Arbitrage, and the Law of One Price: Evidence From the Nineteenth Century U.S. Corn Market
Posted by Andrew Coleman on May 25th, 2004
THE EXTENT OF THE LABOR MARKET IN THE UNITED STATES, 1850-1914
Posted by Joshua L. Rosenbloom on July 28th, 1996
Was There A National Labor Market At The End Of The Nineteenth Century? Intercity And Interregional Variation In Male Earnings In Manufacturing
Posted by Joshua L. Rosenbloom on July 29th, 1996
Rethinking the Separation of Ownership from Management in American History
Posted by Kenneth Lipartito on July 18th, 2007
The IOOF and Sickness Insurance in the United States and Canada, 1850-1929
Posted by J. C. Herbert Emery on November 19th, 1996
The Role of Economists in World War II
Posted by Mark A. Guglielmo on February 27th, 2003

Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender

Property Ownership by Married Women in Victorian Ontario
Posted by Kris Inwood on May 16th, 1999
Philip Sober Controlling Philip Drunk: Buchanan v. Warley in Historical Perspective
Posted by David E. Bernstein on July 19th, 1998
The Cliometrics of Bowling Alone
Posted by Paul Rich on January 31st, 2001
The American Business Elite in Historical Perspective
Posted by Peter Temin on October 2nd, 1997
The Cliometrics of Bowling Alone
Posted by Paul Rich on January 31st, 2001
The Political Economy of Race, 1940-1960: The Adoption of State-Level Fair Employment Legislation
Posted by William J. Collins on September 25th, 2000

Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services

American Shipping Cartels in the Pre World War I Era
Posted by Richard Sicotte on September 28th, 1999
Private Enterprise, Public Good? Communications Deregulation as a National Political Issue, 1839-1851
Posted by Richard R. John on January 29th, 2002
The Railroad's Impact on Land Values in the Upper Great Plains at the Closing of the Frontier
Posted by David T. Flynn on June 17th, 2004
The Rise and Fall of Property Regimes: Evidence from the History of Transportation
Posted by Jim Cohen on March 5th, 2002

Urban and Regional History

U.S. Urban Development, 1790 to 1990
Posted by Sukkoo Kim on May 15th, 1997

Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History

Markets in China and Europe on the Eve of the Industrial Revolution
Posted by Wolfgang Keller on June 20th, 2006

Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History

Monetary Sovereignty, Exchange Rates, and Capital Controls: The Trilemma in the Interwar Period
Posted by Jay C. Shambaugh on June 20th, 2006

International and Domestic Trade and Relations

Tariff Structure and Institutions in Late 19th Century. New perspectives on the Tariff Growth Paradox
Posted by Antonio Tena on April 4th, 2008