Abstracts in Economic History (Archives)

Region: Asia
Subject: Business History, Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance, History of Economic Thought, Methodology
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Accountics: Impacts of internationally standardized accounting on the Japanese socio-economy

Posted by Tomo Suzuki on July 11th, 2008

Region: Asia
Subject: History of Economic Thought, Methodology
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

The accounting figuration of business statistics as a foundation for the spread of economic ideas

Posted by Tomo Suzuki on July 3rd, 2008

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: History of Economic Thought, Methodology
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Accounting for the Euro: Operationalization of Political Economy

Posted by Tomo Suzuki on January 22nd, 2006

Region: Europe
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

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

Region: Asia
Subject: Business History, Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity , Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance, History of Economic Thought, Methodology
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

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

Region: Asia
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Income and Wealth
Time Period: 18th Century

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

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: History of Economic Thought, Methodology
Time Period: 18th Century

The Added Worker Effect in the Household

Posted by Carolyn M. Moehling on October 20th, 1997

Region: North America
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Adjusting to the Gold Rush: Endogenous Bullion Points and the French Balance of Payments, 1846-1870

Posted by Marc Flandreau on September 22nd, 1996

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 19th Century

Adjustments Prior to Long-term Stable Employment: Preconditions of the Japanese Employment System, 1945-49

Posted by Jae-Won Sun on September 20th, 2001

Region: Asia
Subject: Business History
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Education And Human Resource Development
Time Period: 19th Century

Adoption of General Purpose Technologies: Understanding Adoption Patterns in the Electrification of US Manufacturing 1880-1930

Posted by Brent Goldfarb on May 23rd, 2002

Region: North America
Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

After Columbus: Explaining Europe's Overseas Trade Boom, 1500-1800

Posted by Jeffrey G. Williamson on June 6th, 2002

Region: Europe
Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations
Time Period: General or Comparative

After Johnny Came Marching Home: The Political Economy of Veterans' Benefits in the Nineteenth Century

Posted by Hugh Rockoff on August 9th, 2007

Region: North America
Subject: Military and War
Time Period: 19th Century

Agrarian Cycles in Germany 1339-1670: A Spectral Analysis of Grain Prices and Output in Nuremberg.

Posted by Walter Bauernfeind on September 19th, 1996

Region: Europe
Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations
Time Period: General or Comparative

Agricultural Output and Productivity in Europe, 1300-1800

Posted by Robert C. Allen on November 9th, 1998

Region: Europe
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries
Time Period: General or Comparative

Agricultural Shocks in the Interwar Economy: A Structural VAR Analysis

Posted by Matthew A. Martin on October 20th, 1997

Region: North America
Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Agriculture and Economic Growth in Spain, 1800-1935

Posted by Vicente Pinilla on March 3rd, 2005

Region: Europe
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries
Time Period: 19th Century

Agriculture and the Origins of the State in Ancient Egypt

Posted by Robert C. Allen on May 5th, 1997

Region: Middle East
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries
Time Period: Ancient

The American Business Elite in Historical Perspective

Posted by Peter Temin on October 2nd, 1997

Region: North America
Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

American Federalism and Economic Development, 1840-1900

Posted by John Wallis on June 15th, 1997

Region: North America
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period: 19th Century

American Pressure for Financial Internationalization in Japan on the Eve of the Great Depression

Posted by Mark Metzler on February 10th, 2005

Region: Asia
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

American Shipping Cartels in the Pre World War I Era

Posted by Richard Sicotte on September 28th, 1999

Region: North America
Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
Time Period: 19th Century

The American Wage Structure: 1920-1947.

Posted by James K. Galbraith on October 25th, 1999

Region: North America
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Analyse cliomÈtrique de l'instruction primaire par dÈpartement en France au 19Ëme siËcle.

Posted by Claude Diebolt on October 4th, 2001

Region: Europe
Subject: Education And Human Resource Development
Time Period: 19th Century

Ancient and Modern Slavery

Posted by Gregory Zorzos on February 12th, 2002

Region: Europe
Subject: History of Economic Thought, Methodology
Time Period: Ancient

Antebellum Tariff Politics: Coalition Formation and Credible Commitments

Posted by Douglas A. Irwin on January 18th, 2005

Region: North America
Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations
Time Period: 19th Century

The Anthropometric History of Early-Modern France

Posted by John Komlos on July 22nd, 2001

Region: Europe
Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology
Time Period: 18th Century

An Anthropometric History of Modern Japanese Women: The Changes of Age at Menarche, 1871-1987

Posted by Tsutomu Hirayama on December 28th, 2003

Region: Asia
Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology
Time Period: General or Comparative

An Arduous and Unprofitable Undertaking: The Enclosure of Stanton Harcourt, Oxfordshire

Posted by David Stead on December 15th, 1998

Region: Europe
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries
Time Period: 18th Century

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

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations
Time Period: 19th Century, 20th Century: Pre WWII

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

Region: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Around the European Periphery, 1870-1913: Globalization, Schooling and Growth

Posted by Kevin O'Rourke on December 7th, 1997

Region: Europe
Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History
Time Period: 19th Century

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

Region: Asia
Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction
Time Period: 19th Century

Asian Demography and Foreign Capital Dependence

Posted by Jeffrey G. Williamson on February 23rd, 1997

Region: Asia
Subject: Income and Wealth
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Assessing Damages: The 1983 Israeli Bank Shares Crisis

Posted by Richard S. Grossman on January 15th, 2001

Region: Asia
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Assessing Growth, Inequality, and Poverty in the Long-Run: The Case of Spain

Posted by Leandro Prados de la Escosura on July 17th, 2005

Region: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: General or Comparative

Assessing the Economic Effects of Latin American Independence

Posted by Leandro Prados de la Escosura on March 9th, 2004

Region: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 19th Century

Austrian Capital Investments in Hungary, 1850-1913

Posted by Michael Pammer on September 21st, 1997

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 19th Century

Autarchy, market disintegration, and health: the mortality and nutritional crisis in Nazi Germany, 1933 - 1937

Posted by Joerg Baten on August 12th, 2003

Region: Europe
Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Economic Planning and Policy
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Availability of quantitative Information from Web resources on Stalin and Stalinism

Posted by Kornienko Serguey on December 8th, 2003

Region: Europe
Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Averting the Nazi Seizure of Power: A Counterfactual Thought Experiment

Posted by John Komlos on April 7th, 2004

Region: Europe
Subject: Income and Wealth
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Bank Clientele in Pre-World War I Germany: Microeconomic Characteristics and Their Macroeconomic Implications

Posted by Caroline Fohlin on November 6th, 1996

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Banking, Liquidity, and Investment in the German Industrialization

Posted by Caroline Fohlin on March 25th, 1998

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

The Bank of England and U.S. Business Cycles, 1890-1910

Posted by Jon Moen on November 19th, 1996

Region: North America
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 19th Century

Bank of England vs the IBRD: Did the Nigerian Colony Deserve a Central Bank?

Posted by Chibuike Ugochukwu Uche on May 14th, 1997

Region: Africa
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Bank Oversight and Firm Capital Structure: Historical Evidence from Germany

Posted by Caroline Fohlin on June 7th, 1998

Region: Europe
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Bank Runs, Information and Contagion in the Panic of 1893

Posted by Brandon Dupont on March 25th, 2007

Region: North America
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 19th Century

Bargaining for Absolutism: a Spanish path to nation-state and empire building

Posted by Alejandra Irigoin on November 14th, 2006

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period: 18th Century

Baseball as a Financial Investment: A Study of the New York Yankees 1914-1937

Posted by Michael J. Haupert on February 10th, 2002

Region: North America
Subject: Business History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Baseball as a Financial Investment: A Study of the New York Yankees 1914-1937

Posted by Michael J. Haupert on February 18th, 2003

Region: North America
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Belgian investment in trams and light railways. An international approach, 1892-1935

Posted by Alberte Mart=EDnez on April 4th, 2007

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History, International and Domestic Trade and Relations, Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
Time Period: 19th Century

Belgian Investments in the railway network of Catalonia, 1890-1936

Posted by Alberte Mart=EDnez on March 28th, 2007

Region: Europe
Subject: Business History, Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 19th Century

Better Regulation and Underwriter Reputation Have Done Nothing For IPO Underpricing Over the 20th Century

Posted by David Chambers on February 28th, 2006

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Betting on Hitler - The Value of Political Connections in Nazi Germany

Posted by Hans-Joachim Voth on April 20th, 2005

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Between God and Market: Integration of Economy and Spirit in Shaker Communal Dairying, 1830-1875

Posted by John E. Murray on December 7th, 1997

Region: North America
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries
Time Period: 19th Century

Between the Gift and the Market: The Economy of Regard

Posted by Avner Offer on January 12th, 1997

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: General or Comparative

Beyond Property: The Co-evolution of Specialization and Governance in an Island Economy

Posted by James Roumasset on August 21st, 2005

Region: Australia/New Zealand, incl. Pacific Islands
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period:

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Big changes in ownership structures - Multiple voting shares in interwar France

Posted by Muriel Petit-Konczyk on November 26th, 2006

Region: Europe
Subject: Business History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Bilingualism, Language Consolidation, and Industrialization in Mid-20th Century India

Posted by David Clingingsmith on January 12th, 2007

Region: Asia
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Bills of Exchange and the Money Market to 1600

Posted by Meir Kohn on May 24th, 1999

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: Medieval

The Biological Standard of Living in Europe During the Last Two Millennia

Posted by Joerg Baten on November 3rd, 2003

Region: Europe
Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology
Time Period: General or Comparative

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Business History
Time Period: 19th Century

The Black Industrial Experience In Pennsylvania, 1916-1950

Posted by Ryan Spencer Johnson on July 24th, 2000

Region: North America
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Black Man's Burden: Measured Philanthropy and the British Empire, 1880-1914

Posted by Marc Flandreau on May 6th, 2008

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 19th Century

The Bourgeois Revolution and the Industrialisation in Greece

Posted by Theodoros Sakellaropoulos on April 15th, 2003

Region: Europe
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Branch Banking, Bank Competition, and Financial Stability

Posted by Kris James Mitchener on January 21st, 2003

Region: North America
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Brand Names before the Industrial Revolution: Craft Guilds, Reputations, and Insurance in Fourteenth-Century England

Posted by Gary Richardson on May 14th, 1997

Region: Europe
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: Medieval

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

Region: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean
Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History
Time Period: 19th Century

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

Region: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: General or Comparative

Bridging the generational divide - currency crisis in theory and history

Posted by Conor Healy on December 1st, 2003

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 19th Century

A Brief History of Education in the United States

Posted by Claudia Goldin on November 2nd, 1999

Region: North America
Subject: Education And Human Resource Development
Time Period: General or Comparative

Britain, Sterling, and Iranian Oil, 1947-1954

Posted by Steven Galpern on March 3rd, 2002

Region: Europe, Middle East
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

The British Industrial Revolution: An Economic Perspective (2nd Revised edition)

Posted by Joel Mokyr on May 20th, 1999

Region: Europe
Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change
Time Period: 18th Century

Bubble Lessons -- Old and New

Posted by James M. O'Donnell on May 15th, 2002

Region: North America
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 18th Century

Building credible commitments: Bankruptcy law and the transition to a Republican government in Brazil, 1880-1930

Posted by Aldo Musacchio on March 3rd, 2003

Region: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period: 19th Century

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

Region: North America
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Bureau Competition and Economic Policies in Nazi-Germany, 1933-39

Posted by Dr. Oliver Volckart on October 21st, 2002

Region: Europe
Subject: Economic Planning and Policy
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Bursting Boilers and the Federal Power Redux: The Evolution of Safety on the Western Rivers

Posted by Richard N. Langlois on August 26th, 1996

Region: North America
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period: 19th Century

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Business History, Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services , Urban and Regional History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Business management in pre-industrial Europe

Posted by Meir Kohn on August 18th, 2003

Region: Europe
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: Medieval

Business organization in pre-industrial Europe

Posted by Meir Kohn on August 5th, 2003

Region: Europe
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: Medieval

The Call Loan Market in the US Financial System Prior to the Federal Reserve System

Posted by Ellis Tallman on May 13th, 2004

Region: North America
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 19th Century

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

Region: General, International, or Comparative, Europe, North America
Subject: Business History, Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity , Industry: Manufacturing and Construction
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Can the Past Teach Us What to Do in the Future?

Posted by Maurizio Pegrari on May 11th, 1999

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: General or Comparative

Capital accumulation, the soft budget

Posted by Robert C. Allen on May 20th, 1999

Region: Europe
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Capital Goods Prices, Global Capital Markets and Accumulation: 1870-1950

Posted by William Collins on September 22nd, 1999

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: General or Comparative

Capital Imports and the Jacksonian Economy: A New View of the Balance of Payments

Posted by Trevor J. O. Dick on August 3rd, 1997

Region: North America
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 19th Century

The Capital Market Before 1600

Posted by Meir Kohn on June 23rd, 1999

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: Medieval

The Capital Stock of the Spanish Economy, 1900-1958

Posted by Jordi Palafox on June 12th, 1998

Region: Europe
Subject: Income and Wealth
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

The Case of the Shrinking Dutchmen: Another Example of the Early Industrial Growth Puzzle

Posted by J. W. Drukker on September 16th, 1997

Region: Europe
Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology
Time Period: 19th Century

Catalyst or Impediment: Modern Banks and Modern Industry in the Republican China

Posted by Linsun Cheng on February 15th, 2001

Region: Asia
Subject: Business History, Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Catching up to the European Core: Portuguese Economic Growth, 1910-1990

Posted by Pedro Lains on February 25th, 2003

Region: Europe
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

A Causal Analysis of Education, Defense Spending and Economic Growth in Japan: 1868-1940

Posted by Claude Diebolt on January 15th, 2004

Region: Asia
Subject: Education And Human Resource Development
Time Period: 19th Century

The Causes of Bank Failures: Deflationary Spells

Posted by Ernst Juerg Weber on December 11th, 2003

Region: North America
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 19th Century

Causes of World Trade Growth in Agricultural and Food Products, 1951 - 2000

Posted by Vicente Pinilla on December 19th, 2006

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Central Bank Independence and Market Discipline under the European Gold Standard, 1880-1914

Posted by Marc Flandreau on September 9th, 1997

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 19th Century

Central Bank Independence During the Interwar Years: Some Empirical Evidence

Posted by Eric Dehay on March 16th, 2004

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History, Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance, History of Economic Thought, Methodology, Markets and Institutions, Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender
Time Period: 19th Century, 20th Century: Pre WWII

The Challenges of Economic Maturity

Posted by Joshua L. Rosenbloom on November 23rd, 1998

Region: North America
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Changes in Economic Regulation: the Feasibility Problem

Posted by Yannick Perez on January 16th, 2003

Region: Europe
Subject: Economic Planning and Policy
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

The Changing Dynamics of Unemployment: Evidence from Civil War Pension Records

Posted by Dora L. Costa on September 25th, 1996

Region: North America
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Charters, Corporations, and Codes: Entry Restriction in Modern Banking Law

Posted by Richard S. Grossman on March 13th, 2002

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 19th Century

Child Care and Working Women in Nineteenth-Century Britain

Posted by Joyce Burnette on October 13th, 1997

Region: Europe
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 19th Century

Chilean Economic Transformation

Posted by Adam B. Lowther on February 25th, 2003

Region: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: General or Comparative

Chilean Economic Transformation

Posted by Adam B. Lowther on March 4th, 2003

Region: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: General or Comparative

China: Historical evidence

Posted by Dwayne Benjamin on May 20th, 1999

Region: Asia
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Chinese-Filipino Wage Differentials in Turn-of-the-Century Manila

Posted by John E. Murray on July 27th, 2000

Region: Asia
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 19th Century

Chinese Sojourn Labor and the Transcontinental Railroad: a Market Explanation for Immigration Volatility

Posted by Scott A. Carson on July 24th, 2000

Region: North America
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 19th Century

Choosing Economic Regimes: Lessons from European Colonies

Posted by John R. Hanson II on November 5th, 1996

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Christianity and Craft Guilds in Late-Medieval England: A Rational-Choice Analysis

Posted by Gary Richardson on October 14th, 2003

Region: Europe
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: Medieval

Citizenship Laws and International Migration in Historical Perspectiv= e

Posted by Chiara Strozzi on July 24th, 2005

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII, 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Class, Gender, and Marriage

Posted by Gillian Hamilton on January 31st, 2001

Region: North America
Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History, Historical Demography, including Migration
Time Period: 17th Century, 18th Century

The Cliometrics of Bowling Alone

Posted by Paul Rich on January 31st, 2001

Region: North America
Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII, 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Cliometrics of Glutting in French Higher Education. Theoretical and Empirical Evaluation

Posted by Magali Jaoul-Grammare on November 7th, 2007

Region: Europe
Subject: Education And Human Resource Development
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Coal and the Industrial Revolution, 1700-1869

Posted by Gregory Clark on April 23rd, 2006

Region: Europe
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 18th Century

The Coevolution of Industries and National Institutions: Theory and Evidence

Posted by Johann Peter Murmann on February 16th, 2003

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction
Time Period: 19th Century, 20th Century: Pre WWII

The Coevolution of Technology and Organization in the Transition to the Factory System

Posted by Richard N. Langlois on August 26th, 1996

Region: Europe
Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction
Time Period: 19th Century

Collusion in the Indian Tea Industry in the Great Depression: An Analysis of Panel Data

Posted by Bishnupriya Gupta on May 5th, 1997

Region: Asia
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Colonial Independence and Economic Backwardness in Latin America

Posted by Leandro Prados de la Escosura on April 12th, 2005

Region: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 19th Century

The Colonial Legacy as a Determinant of Regional Per Capita Income in Colombia

Posted by Adolfo Enrique Meisel on January 1st, 2008

Region: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean
Subject: Income and Wealth
Time Period: 19th Century

Commerce in pre-industrial Europe: an introduction

Posted by Meir Kohn on August 5th, 2003

Region: Europe
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: Medieval

The Commercial Association of Wuhan, China and the Officer's Administration Network in the 19th Century

Posted by Zilan Wang on March 23rd, 2004

Region: Asia
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: 19th Century

Common Rights to Land in England, 1475-1839

Posted by Gregory Clark on December 11th, 2001

Region: Europe
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: 16th Century

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: Medieval

The Comparative Political Economy of Mass Schooling Before 1914

Posted by Peter H. Lindert on July 25th, 2000

Region: North America
Subject: Education And Human Resource Development
Time Period: 19th Century

The competition between Genoa and Milan Stock Exchanges before 1914: a view from industrial economics

Posted by Angelo Riva on December 3rd, 2003

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 19th Century

The Competitive Advantage of Moneylenders over Banks in Rural Palestine

Posted by Amos Nadan on April 6th, 2005

Region: Middle East
Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline
Time Period:

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 16th Century

The Condition of the Working-Class in England, 1200-2000: Magna Carta to Tony Blair

Posted by Gregory Clark on February 15th, 2004

Region: Europe
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: General or Comparative

The Condition of the Working-Class in England, 1209-2004

Posted by Gregory Clark on June 30th, 2005

Region: Europe
Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology
Time Period: General or Comparative

The Confederate Constitution, Tariffs, and the Laffer Relationship

Posted by Robert A. McGuire on February 14th, 2001

Region: North America
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period: 19th Century

Consuls, Corsairs, and Commerce. The Swedish Consular Service and Long-distance Shipping, 1720-1815

Posted by Leos Muller on October 13th, 2004

Region: Europe
Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations
Time Period: 18th Century

Continuities and Discontinuities in the Economic Growth of Spain, 1850-1936

Posted by Antonio Cubel on November 18th, 1997

Region: Europe
Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Contract Evolution and Institutional Innovation: The American Fresh Fruit Industry from 1890 to 1930

Posted by Carolyn Dimitri on October 20th, 1997

Region: North America
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Contractual Responses to Institutional Changes: a Historical Institutional Analysis

Posted by Yadira Gonzalez de Lara on March 23rd, 2004

Region: Europe
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: Medieval

CONVERGENCE AND INTERNATIONAL FACTOR FLOWS IN THEORY AND HISTORY

Posted by Alan M. Taylor on July 29th, 1996

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: General or Comparative

Convergence in the Age of Mass Migration

Posted by Alan M. Taylor on November 28th, 1997

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration
Time Period: 19th Century

Cooperating to Innovate

Posted by Leonard Dudley on April 20th, 2005

Region: Europe
Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change
Time Period: 18th Century

Core or Periphery? The Credibility of the Austro-Hungarian Currency, 1867-1913

Posted by Marc Flandreau on April 9th, 2001

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Core, Periphery, Exchange Rate Regimes and Globalization

Posted by Michael D. Bordo on January 5th, 2006

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations
Time Period: 19th Century

A Corner Solution : Commodity Futures, Default Fines, and Unintended Consequences

Posted by Wojtek Sikorzewski on February 27th, 2003

Region: Europe
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: General or Comparative

Corruption and Circular Games between People, Politicians, and Bureaucrats

Posted by Basharat A. Pitafi on December 22nd, 2003

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

The Cost of Transportation in Pre-Industrial Europe

Posted by Meir Kohn on January 8th, 2001

Region: Europe
Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
Time Period: Medieval

The Costs and Consequences of the Napoleonic Reparations

Posted by Eugene N. White on September 25th, 2000

Region: Europe
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity , Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History, Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period: 19th Century

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

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Creating Firms for a New Century: Determinants of Firm Creation in Southern Germany around 1900

Posted by Joerg Baten on July 30th, 2000

Region: Europe
Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Credit Rationing and Crowding-Out During the Industrial Revolution: Evidence from Hoare's Bank, 1702-1862

Posted by Peter Temin on January 5th, 2006

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 18th Century

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

Region: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 19th Century

Culture, Heritage and Development

Posted by Jesus Miranda on August 4th, 2002

Region: Europe
Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Currency Competition in Switzerland, 1826-1850

Posted by Ernst Juerg Weber on September 29th, 2003

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 19th Century

Dépenses d'éducation et cycles économiques en Espagne aux 19ème et 20ème siècles

Posted by Claude Diebolt on October 4th, 2000

Region: Europe
Subject: Education And Human Resource Development
Time Period: 19th Century

"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

Region: Europe
Subject: Business History, Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance, Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Debt, Deficits, and Crowding Out: England, 1727-1840

Posted by Gregory Clark on June 6th, 1998

Region: Europe
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period: 18th Century

Decentralizing from Scratch: Local Public Goods and the Zemstvo in Late Tsarist Russia

Posted by Steven Nafziger on March 16th, 2008

Region: Europe
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period: 19th Century

The Decline of the Independent Inventor: A Schumpeterian Story?

Posted by Naomi Lamoreaux on April 25th, 2006

Region: North America
Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction
Time Period: 19th Century

Deficit Spending in the Nazi Recovery, 1933-1938: A Critical Reassessment

Posted by Albrecht Ritschl on April 17th, 2001

Region: Europe
Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

The Demography of Debts in Colonial New England

Posted by David Flynn on February 10th, 2002

Region: North America
Subject: Business History, Historical Demography, including Migration
Time Period: 18th Century

Deposit Insurance, Bank Market Structure, and Bank Failures: Evidence from the 1910s and 1920s

Posted by Mark D. Flood on March 1st, 1998

Region: North America
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

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

Region: North America
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

The Determinants of Wealth and Asset holding in Nineteenth Century Canada: Evidence from Micro-data

Posted by Livio Di Matteo on September 24th, 2000

Region: North America
Subject: Income and Wealth
Time Period: 19th Century

The Development and Regulation of Consumer Credit Reporting in America

Posted by Robert M. Hunt on October 30th, 2003

Region: North America
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: General or Comparative

Development and Technological Change in the South African Automotive Industry, 1950 to 2000

Posted by Maylene Y Damoense on May 4th, 2004

Region: Africa
Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

The development of the Paris Bourse in the interwar period

Posted by Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur on March 7th, 2004

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Did Monetary Forces Cause the Great Depression? A Bayesian VAR Analysis for the U.S. Economy

Posted by Albrecht Ritschl on December 10th, 2000

Region: North America
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Did Partial Globalization Increase Inequality? The Case of the Latin American Periphery, 1950-2000

Posted by Joerg Baten on April 7th, 2004

Region: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean
Subject: Income and Wealth
Time Period:

Did Smallpox Reduce Height? Stature and the Standard of Living in London, 1770-1873

Posted by Hans-Joachim Voth on January 12th, 1997

Region: Europe
Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology
Time Period: 19th Century

Did Sunspot Forces Cause the Great Depression?

Posted by Sharon G. Harrison on January 7th, 2003

Region: North America
Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Did Sunspot Forces Cause the Roaring Twenties?

Posted by Sharon G. Harrison on March 2nd, 2006

Region: North America
Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Did Tariffs Stifle Spanish Agriculture before 1936?

Posted by James Simpson on November 29th, 1997

Region: Europe
Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 19th Century

Did the WPA Displace Private Employment? Evidence from the 1940 Census

Posted by William A. Sundstrom on September 22nd, 1996

Region: North America
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Did Trade Policy Foster Italian Industrialization? Evidences from Effective Protection Rates, 1870-1930.

Posted by Giovanni Federico on October 11th, 1999

Region: Europe
Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations
Time Period: General or Comparative

Did Wages Become Stickier During the Interwar Period?

Posted by Ranjit S. Dighe on July 23rd, 2000

Region: North America
Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Die Erfassung der Bildungsinvestitionen im 19. und 20. Jahrhundert. Deutschland, Frankreich, Groþbritannien und Spanien im Vergleich

Posted by Claude Diebolt on September 20th, 2000

Region: Europe
Subject: Education And Human Resource Development
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII, 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

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

Region: Australia/New Zealand, incl. Pacific Islands
Subject: Business History
Time Period: 19th Century

The Diffusion of Riots: The Patterns of 1766, 1795 and 1801 in Devonshire

Posted by Dale Williams on January 8th, 2002

Region: Europe
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: 18th Century

Diffusion of the Cotton Picking Machine, 1949-1964

Posted by Wayne A. Grove on May 11th, 2004

Region: North America
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

The Diffusion of the Herringbone Parlour: A Case Study in the History of Agricultural Technology

Posted by Oliver Grant on May 9th, 1999

Region: Europe
Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Disease and Nutrition in the Mexican Population: Evidence from the Military

Posted by Moramay Lopez-Alonso on March 26th, 1998

Region: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean
Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Displacing the Family: Union Army Pensions and Elderly Living Arrangements

Posted by Dora L. Costa on September 24th, 1996

Region: North America
Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Does ownership influence efficiency? Some insights from the principal-agent problems arising with private German and government-owned US-American synthetic rubber firms during World War II

Posted by Jochen Streb on January 30th, 2002

Region: Europe
Subject:
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Domestic trade and regional markets in late 18th century France

Posted by Guillaume Daudin on February 6th, 2007

Region: Europe
Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations
Time Period: 18th Century

Dominion or Republic? Migrants to North America from the United Kingdom, 1870-1910

Posted by Chris Minns on September 17th, 2001

Region: North America
Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Double Liability and Bank Risk Taking

Posted by Richard S. Grossman on January 11th, 2001

Region: North America
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Double Transition: Market and State in Central and Eastern Europe (1945-1948 and 1989-2000)

Posted by Tamas Reti on February 24th, 2003

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Downsizing: Personnel policies and industrial relations at the Swedish Tobacco Monopoly, 1915-1939

Posted by Tobias Karlsson on December 10th, 2006

Region: Europe
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

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

Region: North America
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 19th Century

Dynamic Social Norms and the Unexpected Transformation of Women's Higher Education, 1965=20 to 1980

Posted by Stacey Jones on July 24th, 2005

Region: North America
Subject: Education And Human Resource Development
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Early Deposit Banking

Posted by Meir Kohn on June 21st, 1999

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: Medieval

The Early Modern Great Divergence: Wages, Prices and Economic Development in Europe and Asia, 1500-1800

Posted by Bishnupriya Gupta on August 27th, 2006

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: General or Comparative

The Early Phases of the Catalan Industrialisation: A Growth Accounting Approach (1830-1861)

Posted by Joan R. Rosés on September 23rd, 1997

Region: Europe
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 19th Century

Early Twentieth Century American Productivity Growth Dynamics

Posted by Gavin Wright on July 24th, 2000

Region: North America
Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Earnings Inequality and the Business Cycle

Posted by Gadi Barlevy on January 5th, 2006

Region: North America
Subject: Income and Wealth
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Economic Development and the Distribution of Nutritional Resources in Bavaria, 1797-1839: An Anthropometric Study

Posted by Joerg Baten on September 8th, 1997

Region: Europe
Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology
Time Period: 19th Century

Economic Development and the Evolution of Government in Pre-Industrial Europe

Posted by Meir Kohn on December 6th, 2005

Region: Europe
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period: Medieval

Economic growth and the biological standard of living in China, 1880 - 1930

Posted by Stephen L. Morgan on April 13th, 2004

Region: Asia
Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Economic History and Game Theory: A Survey

Posted by Avner Greif on June 25th, 1997

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline
Time Period: General or Comparative

The Economic Policy during Francisco I. Madero Administration

Posted by Jesus Mendez Reyes on January 10th, 2002

Region: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Economic, Political, and Legal Factors in Financial System Development: International Patterns in Historical Perspective

Posted by Caroline Fohlin on February 11th, 2001

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History, Markets and Institutions
Time Period: 19th Century, 20th Century: Pre WWII

Economic Progress and the Technology Of War in Pre-Industrial Europe

Posted by Meir Kohn on December 6th, 2005

Region: Europe
Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change
Time Period: Medieval

Economics of 1492 and the Maps of Colombus and Zorzi

Posted by Gregory Zorzos on January 20th, 2002

Region: Europe
Subject: Economic Planning and Policy
Time Period: 16th Century

Economics of 1492 - Colombus and Zorzi Data

Posted by Gregory Zorzos on January 21st, 2002

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: History of Economic Thought, Methodology
Time Period: Medieval

Economics of Alexander the Great (15 volumes + 5 CD ROMS)

Posted by Gregory Zorzos on January 27th, 2002

Region: Europe
Subject: History of Economic Thought, Methodology
Time Period: Ancient

The Economics of Feuding in Late Medieval Germany

Posted by Oliver Volckart on January 30th, 2002

Region: Europe
Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender
Time Period: Medieval

Economics of the Battle of Lepanto (year 7th October 1571)

Posted by Gregory Zorzos on January 13th, 2002

Region: Europe
Subject: Economic Planning and Policy
Time Period: 16th Century

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

Region: Asia
Subject: Economic Planning and Policy
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Economists, Soviet Growth Slowdown, and the Collapse

Posted by Vladimir Kontorovich on November 21st, 1999

Region: Europe
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Educational Development and Economic Performance in the United Kingdom : 19th and 20th Centuries

Posted by Vincent Carpentier on July 25th, 2000

Region: Europe
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: General or Comparative

Educational Disparity in Pakistan, 1947-71

Posted by M Niaz Asadullah on November 13th, 2003

Region: Asia
Subject: Education And Human Resource Development
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Education and Income in the Early 20th Century: Evidence from the Prairies

Posted by Claudia Goldin on October 27th, 1999

Region: North America
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

The Effect of Unionism on Accidents in Coal Mining, 1897-1929

Posted by William M. Boal on February 16th, 2003

Region: North America
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

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

Region: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Efficiency in Western Water Law: The Development of the California Doctrine, 1850-1913

Posted by Mark Kanazawa on September 4th, 1996

Region: North America
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: 19th Century

Egyptian Cotton Policy in the Interwar Period

Posted by Tarik Yousef on September 17th, 1997

Region: Middle East
Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Electricity Diffusion and Trend Acceleration in Inter-War Manufacturing Productivity

Posted by Cristiano Andrea Ristuccia on March 13th, 2002

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Electrifying and Digitalizing the Finnish Manufacturing Industry: Historical Notes on Diffusion and Productivity

Posted by Jukka Jalava on October 22nd, 2003

Region: Europe
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

El problema del vellón en "El Chitón de las Tarabillas"

Posted by José I. García de Paso on February 20th, 2001

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 17th Century

Emergence of a French regional stock exchange in the 19th century

Posted by Muriel Petit-Konczyk on February 7th, 2005

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 19th Century

Employment and Gubernatorial Elections During the Gilded Age

Posted by Jac C. Heckelman on November 15th, 1998

Region: North America
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period: 19th Century

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 18th Century

The Encounters of Economic History and Legal History

Posted by Ron Harris on August 27th, 2002

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline
Time Period: General or Comparative

The Endogeneity of Optimum Currency Area Criteria - Lessons from History for European Monetary Union

Posted by Francois Mann-Quirici on February 28th, 2003

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: General or Comparative

Endogenous Entry and Competition in the Retail Market during the Early 20th Century

Posted by Todd C. Neumann on May 11th, 2004

Region: North America
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period:

Enforcing Property Rights Through Reputation: Mexico's Early Industrialization, 1878-1913

Posted by Noel Maurer on December 11th, 2001

Region: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 19th Century

Entitlements, Colonialism and Destitution in the 1930s Singapore Great Depression

Posted by W. G. Huff on May 11th, 1999

Region: Australia/New Zealand, incl. Pacific Islands
Subject: Income and Wealth
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

THE ENTRY INTO THE U.S. LABOR MARKET OF ANTEBELLUM EUROPEAN IMMIGRANTS, 1840-60

Posted by Joseph P. Ferrie on July 29th, 1996

Region: North America
Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration
Time Period: 19th Century

The Entry into the U.S. Labor Market of Antebellum European Immigrants, 1840-60

Posted by Joseph Ferrie on May 5th, 1997

Region: North America
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 19th Century

Episodes of collective invention

Posted by Peter B. Meyer on November 12th, 2003

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change
Time Period: General or Comparative

The epistemology of macroeconomic reality: The Keynesian Revolution from an accounting point=20 of view

Posted by Tomo Suzuki on December 11th, 2007

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: History of Economic Thought, Methodology
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

The epistemology of macroeconomic reality: The Keynesian Revolution from an accounting point of view

Posted by Tomo Suzuki on July 3rd, 2008

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: History of Economic Thought, Methodology
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Equilibrium Impotence: Why the States and Not the American National Government

Posted by John Wallis on March 7th, 2004

Region: North America
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period: 19th Century

Estimating Late-Nineteenth-Century Wealth-Age Profiles: Alternative Approaches to Micro-Data

Posted by Livio Di Matteo on November 4th, 1996

Region: North America
Subject: Income and Wealth
Time Period: 19th Century

Estimating Medieval Market Integration: Evidence from Exchange Rates

Posted by PD Dr. Oliver Volckart on October 24th, 2004

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: Medieval

Evolutionary Game Theory: A New Framework for Cliometrics?

Posted by Claude Diebolt on June 19th, 2002

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline
Time Period: General or Comparative

The Evolution of Employment Systems in the US and Japan, 1900-1960

Posted by Chiaki Moriguchi on May 11th, 1999

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

The Evolution of Entertainment Consumption and the Emergence of Cinema, 1890-1940

Posted by Gerben Bakker on July 12th, 2007

Region: Europe
Subject: Business History, Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History, Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender
Time Period: 19th Century

The evolution of marine property in Hawaii: fencing the new frontier

Posted by James A. Roumasset on January 4th, 2004

Region: Asia
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Exchange Rate Behavior and Exchange Rate Puzzles: Why the XVIII Century Might Help

Posted by Rafael Torres Sanchez on November 24th, 2003

Region: Europe
Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations
Time Period: 18th Century

Exchange-Rate Regimes and International Trade: Evidence from the Classical Gold Standard Era

Posted by Christopher Meissner on January 28th, 2001

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History, International and Domestic Trade and Relations
Time Period: 19th Century, 20th Century: Pre WWII

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 19th Century

Exchange Rates and Casualties During the First World War

Posted by George J Hall on March 3rd, 2003

Region: Europe
Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

The Expansion of Trade and the Development of European Industry to 1600

Posted by Meir Kohn on January 8th, 2001

Region: Europe
Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction
Time Period: Medieval

The Expansion of Trade and the Transformation of Agriculture in Pre-Industrial Europe

Posted by Meir Kohn on January 9th, 2001

Region: Europe
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries
Time Period: Medieval

Explaining Anglo-German Productivity Differences in Services Since 1870

Posted by Stephen N. Broadberry on January 12th, 2006

Region: Europe
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: General or Comparative

Explaining the Rise in Antebellum Pauperism, 1850-1860: New Evidence

Posted by Robert A. Margo on March 19th, 1997

Region: North America
Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History
Time Period: 19th Century

Explaining the Unemployment Gap: Race and Region in the Employment Status of Men, 1940

Posted by William A. Sundstrom on September 22nd, 1996

Region: North America
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Explorations in Monetary Cliometrics. The Reichsbank: 1876-1920

Posted by Claude Diebolt on October 8th, 2000

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Exports from Third Europe: Portugal, 1850-1914

Posted by Pedro Lains on October 5th, 1997

Region: Europe
Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations
Time Period: 19th Century

THE EXTENT OF THE LABOR MARKET IN THE UNITED STATES, 1850-1914

Posted by Joshua L. Rosenbloom on July 28th, 1996

Region: North America
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: 19th Century

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration
Time Period: General or Comparative

Famine Disease and Famine Mortality: Lessons from the Irish Experience, 1845-1850

Posted by Joel Mokyr on September 15th, 1997

Region: Europe
Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology
Time Period: 19th Century

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

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations
Time Period: 19th Century

Federalism and Conflicts over principalship. Some insights into the American constitutional history

Posted by Alain Marciano on February 24th, 2005

Region: North America
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period: 18th Century

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

Region: North America
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Feeding the British: Convergence and market efficiency in 19th century grain trade

Posted by Karl Gunnar Persson on December 29th, 2004

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: 19th Century

Female Salaries and Careers in the British Banking Industry, 1915-41

Posted by Andrew Seltzer on November 7th, 2007

Region: Europe
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Fertility, Mortality and Population Growth in Malthusian Korea

Posted by Myung Soo Cha on February 15th, 2007

Region: Asia
Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration
Time Period: 19th Century

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

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

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

Region: North America
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Finance and Development in an Emerging Market: Argentina and the Interwar Period

Posted by Alan M. Taylor on December 12th, 1997

Region: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Finance and Economic Modernization: A New View of Stock-Watering

Posted by Eric R. Hake on February 1st, 2001

Region: North America
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 19th Century

A Finance Approach to Understanding Patterns of Land Tenure

Posted by Meir Kohn on September 27th, 2001

Region: Europe
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries
Time Period: Medieval

Finance before the Industrial Revolution: An Introduction

Posted by Meir Kohn on May 27th, 1999

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: Medieval

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

Region: North America
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Financial Distress, Bankruptcy and Railroad Operations: 1928-1940

Posted by Daniel A. Schiffman on June 9th, 1998

Region: North America
Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Financial Intermediation, Capital Accumulation and Growth: Evidence from Canada

Posted by Stuart J. Wilson on January 25th, 2001

Region: North America
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History, Historical Demography, including Migration
Time Period: 19th Century, 20th Century: Pre WWII, 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Financial Market Development Within America's Great Basin: A Tale of Two Cultures

Posted by Scott A. Carson on January 29th, 2001

Region: North America
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 19th Century

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 18th Century

Financial Systems and Economic Modernization

Posted by Richard Sylla on June 6th, 2002

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: General or Comparative

Financing and Employment Adjustment: Enterprise Consolidation in Japan, 1945-49

Posted by Jae-Won Sun on February 13th, 2001

Region: Asia
Subject: Business History
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Financing Late Industrialisation in Historical Perspective: Interpreting East Asian Models and Globalisation

Posted by Jang-Sup Shin on February 1st, 2001

Region: Asia
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity , Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

The financing process of a French start-up: Air Liquide 1898-1913

Posted by Muriel Petit Konczyk on May 3rd, 2004

Region: Europe
Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

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

Region: North America
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 19th Century

Fiscal Centralization, Limited Government, and Public Finances in Europe, 1650-1914

Posted by Mark Dincecco on January 12th, 2007

Region: Europe
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period: General or Comparative

Fluctuations in Human Growth: A Food Supply Story? Anthropometric evidence from Czechoslovakia, 1946-1966

Posted by Tomas Cvrcek on May 10th, 2006

Region: Europe
Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology
Time Period:

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Business History
Time Period: 19th Century

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration, Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period: 18th Century

Free Banking in Switzerland After the Liberal Revolutions in the 19th Century

Posted by Ernst Juerg Weber on September 29th, 2003

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 19th Century

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries
Time Period: 19th Century

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries
Time Period: 19th Century

From dual structure to state monopoly in Norwegian telephony, 1880-1974

Posted by Harald Espeli on January 29th, 2002

Region: Europe
Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
Time Period:

From Locational Fundamental to Increasing Returns: The Spatial Concentration of Population in Spain, 1787-2000

Posted by Vicente Pinilla on January 22nd, 2006

Region: Europe
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration
Time Period: 19th Century

From Privateers to Navy: How Seapower Became a Public Good

Posted by Christina Gathmann on February 6th, 2007

Region: Europe
Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations
Time Period: General or Comparative

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

Region: North America
Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Generation(s) of Human Capital: Literacy in American Families, 1830-1875

Posted by John E. Murray on September 19th, 1996

Region: North America
Subject: Education And Human Resource Development
Time Period: 19th Century

The German Manufacturing Industry Faces Globalization - Old Achievements, New Challenges

Posted by Bernhard Seliger on May 29th, 2002

Region: Europe
Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History
Time Period: General or Comparative

The German Social Market Economy, Competition Policy and German Business - A Historical Review

Posted by Bernhard Seliger on May 29th, 2002

Region: Europe
Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

The German Twin Crisis of 1931

Posted by Isabel Goedde on February 13th, 2001

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Gerschenkron Revisited. European Patterns of Development in Historical Perspective

Posted by Leandro Prados de la Escosura on January 31st, 2006

Region: Europe
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: General or Comparative

"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

Region: Middle East
Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations
Time Period: 19th Century

Globalization and Inequality Then and Now: The Late Nineteenth and Late Twentieth Centuries Compared

Posted by Jeffrey Williamson on February 20th, 1997

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations
Time Period: 19th Century

The Golden Age of European Growth: A Review Essay

Posted by Peter Temin on December 2nd, 1997

Region: Europe
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

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

Region: North America
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period: 17th Century

Government Economic Policy in Pre-Industrial Europe

Posted by Meir Kohn on December 6th, 2005

Region: Europe
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period: Medieval

Government Finance in Pre-Industrial Europe

Posted by Meir Kohn on December 6th, 2005

Region: Europe
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period: Medieval

Government Insurance, Worker Health, and Labor Supply in Turn-of-the-Century Europe

Posted by John E. Murray on February 21st, 2001

Region: Europe
Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration
Time Period: 19th Century, 20th Century: Pre WWII

The Gradient of a River: Bimetallism as an Implicit Fluctuation Band

Posted by Marc Flandreau on November 1st, 1997

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 19th Century

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

Region: Europe
Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations
Time Period: Medieval

The Great Banks' Depression - Deposit Withdrawals in the German Crisis of 1931

Posted by Isabel Schnabel on January 27th, 2003

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

The Great Depression as a Watershed: International Capital Mobility over the Long Run

Posted by Alan M. Taylor on October 13th, 1997

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: General or Comparative

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: General or Comparative

The Great Escape: The Industrial Revolution in Theory and in History

Posted by Gregory Clark on October 23rd, 2003

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: General or Comparative

Great Fires, Bankruptcies, and the American Fire Insurance Industry, 1835-1904

Posted by Dalit Baranoff on May 11th, 1999

Region: North America
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 19th Century

Gresham on horseback. The monetary roots of Spanish America political fragmentation in the nineteenth century

Posted by Alejandra Irigoin on January 15th, 2007

Region: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 18th Century

Growth, History and Institutions

Posted by Graziella Bertocchi on May 25th, 2006

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: General or Comparative

Growth, Inequality, and Poverty in Latin America: Historical Evidence, Controlled=20 Conjectures

Posted by Leandro Prados de la Escosura on July 17th, 2005

Region: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: General or Comparative

Growth in the 'Cohesion Countries': the Irish tortoise and the Portuguese hare, 1979-2002

Posted by Pedro Lains on May 14th, 2006

Region: Europe
Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

The Growth of Modern Business Enterprises in the Twentieth Century

Posted by Sukkoo Kim on October 10th, 1999

Region: North America
Subject: Business History
Time Period: General or Comparative

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

Region: North America
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: General or Comparative

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

Region: North America
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: General or Comparative

Guilds, Laws, and Markets for Manufactured Merchandise in Late Medieval England

Posted by Gary Richardson on October 14th, 2003

Region: Europe
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: Medieval

Has Globalization Made the World More Unequal?

Posted by Peter H. Lindert on April 18th, 2001

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations
Time Period: General or Comparative

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Has the Forward March of Labor Halted? Union Growth and Decline in Comparative and Historical Perspective

Posted by Gerald Friedman on February 6th, 2003

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

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

Region: North America
Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

The Height of Eighteenth-Century Americans

Posted by John Komlos on October 7th, 1998

Region: North America
Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology
Time Period: 18th Century

The height of Tennessee convicts: another piece of the "antebellum puzzle"

Posted by Marco Sunder on April 11th, 2004

Region: North America
Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology
Time Period: 19th Century

The Historical Non-Existence of Resource Endowments

Posted by Jesse Czelusta on August 18th, 2005

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries
Time Period: General or Comparative

Historical Perspectives on Exotic Pests and Diseases in California

Posted by Alan L. Olmstead on April 30th, 2001

Region: North America
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

A history of health in Europe from the late Paleolithic era to the present

Posted by Richard H. Steckel on August 12th, 2003

Region: Europe
Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology
Time Period: General or Comparative

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

Region: Asia
Subject: Business History, Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance, History of Economic Thought, Methodology
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

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

Region: Asia
Subject: History of Economic Thought, Methodology
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Hitler's Money. The Bills of Exchange of Schacht and Rearmament in the Third Reich

Posted by Guido Preparata on January 25th, 2001

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Hot and Cold Markets in the Paris Stock Exchange

Posted by Muriel Petit-Konczyk on May 30th, 2006

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Hours at Work and Total Factor Productivity Growth in 19th Century U.S. Agriculture

Posted by Tom Weiss on April 8th, 1998

Region: North America
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries
Time Period: 19th Century

Hours of Work and the Fair Labor Standards Act: A Study of Retail and Wholesale Trade, 1938-1950

Posted by Dora L. Costa on March 3rd, 1999

Region:
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period:

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

Region: North America
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

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

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: General or Comparative

How Did They Feed Us? The Growth of World Agricultural Output, 1800-1938

Posted by Giovanni Federico on April 29th, 2001

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries
Time Period: 19th Century

How Long Was the Working Day in London in the 1750s? Evidence from the Courtroom

Posted by Hans-Joachim Voth on January 29th, 1997

Region: Europe
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 18th Century

How Many People were Really in Poverty in 1947?

Posted by Gordon Fisher on May 11th, 1999

Region: North America
Subject: Income and Wealth
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

How Much Can Human Capital Explain?

Posted by David Mitch on October 4th, 2000

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity , Education And Human Resource Development
Time Period: General or Comparative

How Much Did Immigrant 'Quality' Decline in Late-Nineteenth-Century America?

Posted by Timothy J. Hatton on May 19th, 1997

Region: North America
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: General or Comparative

How to (and How Not to) Analyze Deficient Height Samples

Posted by John Komlos on August 10th, 2003

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology
Time Period: General or Comparative

How to Run a Target Zone? Age Old Lessons from an Austro-Hungarian Experiment (1896-1914)

Posted by Marc Flandreau on September 23rd, 2001

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period:

Human Capital, Fertility and the Industrial Revolution

Posted by Gregory Clark on February 9th, 2005

Region: Europe
Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration
Time Period: General or Comparative

A Human Capital Interpretation of the Economic History of the Jews

Posted by Maristella Botticini on February 12th, 2001

Region: Africa, Europe, Middle East
Subject: Education And Human Resource Development, Historical Demography, including Migration, Labor and Employment History, Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender
Time Period: Ancient, Medieval

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

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 18th Century

'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

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: Medieval

Immigration and Capital Accumulation in Canada, 1870-1913

Posted by Stuart J. Wilson on July 27th, 2000

Region: North America
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 19th Century

Immigration and Capital Accumulation in Canada, 1870-1913

Posted by Stuart J. Wilson on September 24th, 2000

Region: North America
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity , Historical Demography, including Migration
Time Period: 19th Century, 20th Century: Pre WWII

Immigration Policy and Economic Growth in Two Settler Economies

Posted by Susan B. Carter on December 10th, 2003

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 19th Century

The Impact of Diseases upon the Economic History of Slavery and the American South

Posted by Robert A. McGuire on September 14th, 1997

Region: North America
Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology
Time Period: 19th Century

The Impact of Globalization on Pre-Industrial, Technologically Quiescent Economies

Posted by Jeffrey G. Williamson on September 26th, 1999

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: General or Comparative

The Impact of Government on Economic Development and Growth in Pre-Industrial Europe

Posted by Meir Kohn on December 6th, 2005

Region: Europe
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: Medieval

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

Region: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean
Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

The Impact of the American Silver Purchase Act (1934) on the Chinese Economy

Posted by Tai-kuang Ho on April 27th, 2006

Region: Asia
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

The Impact of the Civil War on Capital Intensity and Labor Productivity in Southern Manufacturing

Posted by William K. Hutchinson on April 5th, 2005

Region: North America
Subject: Income and Wealth
Time Period: 19th Century

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

Region: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean
Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

The Importance of Adjusting Production to Sales in the Early Automobile Industry

Posted by Anthony Patrick O'Brien on May 11th, 1997

Region: North America
Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

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

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology
Time Period: General or Comparative

Improvements in the Standard of Living through Cycles of Political Violence: Colombia 1910-1984

Posted by Adolfo Meisel Roca on October 29th, 2003

Region: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean
Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Incidental Protection: An Examination of the Morrill Tariff

Posted by Jane Flaherty on May 17th, 2001

Region: North America
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period: 19th Century

Income and Wealth Concentration in Spain in a Historical and Fiscal Perspective

Posted by Facundo Alvaredo on April 26th, 2008

Region: Europe
Subject: Income and Wealth
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Income Convergence During the Disintegration of World Economy, 1919-1938

Posted by Branko Milanovic on February 24th, 2003

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Income and Wealth
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Inconvertible Paper Money, Inflation and Economic Performance in Early Nineteenth Century Argentina

Posted by Maria Alejandra Irigoin on August 21st, 2000

Region: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: 19th Century

Increasing Returns and the Genesis of American Resource Abundance

Posted by Gavin Wright on November 3rd, 1996

Region: North America
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries
Time Period: 19th Century

India's De-Industrialization Under British Rule: New Ideas, New Evidence

Posted by Jeffrey G. Williamson on May 25th, 2006

Region: Asia
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 18th Century, 19th Century

Induced Innovation In American Agriculture: An Econometric Analysis

Posted by Alan L. Olmstead on October 26th, 1998

Region: North America
Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change
Time Period: General or Comparative

Industrial Growth Revisited: Manufacturing Output in Greece During the Interwar Period

Posted by Olga Christodoulaki on June 1st, 1999

Region: Europe
Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Industrial Management in Soviet Lithuania 1965-1985: Tensions and Conflicts

Posted by Saulius Grybkauskas on May 31st, 2007

Region: Europe
Subject: Economic Planning and Policy
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

The Industrial Revolution as the Escape from the Malthusian Trap

Posted by John Komlos on May 7th, 2001

Region: Europe
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 18th Century

Industrial Revolution, Demographic Transition, and Human Capital Accumulation in Korea, 1916-38

Posted by Myung Soo Cha on November 6th, 2007

Region: Asia
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Industrial Revolution in the Prewar Lower Yangzi Region of China: a Quantitative and Institutional Interpretation

Posted by Debin Ma on March 16th, 2004

Region: Asia
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

The Industrious Revolution or the Bourgeois Middle Ages?

Posted by Gregory Clark on September 3rd, 1996

Region: Europe
Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History
Time Period: Medieval

Inequality, Poverty, and the Kuznets Curve in Spain, 1850-2000

Posted by Leandro Prados de la Escosura on September 20th, 2007

Region: Europe
Subject: Income and Wealth
Time Period: 19th Century

Inflationary Expectations and Uncertainty during the Great Depression in Germany

Posted by Hans-Joachim Voth on March 19th, 1998

Region: Europe
Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

The Influence of Information Costs on the Integration of Financial Markets: Northern Europe, 1350-1560

Posted by Oliver Volckart on August 24th, 2006

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: Medieval

The Influence of Multimarket Contact on the Organization of Early Twentieth Century Steamship Conferences

Posted by Richard Sicotte on June 9th, 1998

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Informal Credit in Village Economies: Contract Duration with Personal and Community Enforcement

Posted by Loren Brandt on January 31st, 2002

Region: Asia
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Information Asymmetries, Agency Costs, and the Financing of French Firms, 1890-1939

Posted by Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur on August 4th, 1997

Region: Europe
Subject: Business History
Time Period: 19th Century

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

Region: North America
Subject: Income and Wealth
Time Period: General or Comparative

Institutional barriers to economic development: The Silesian linen proto-industry (17th to 19th century)

Posted by Marcel Boldorf on June 1st, 1999

Region: Europe
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 17th Century

Institutional Causes of the Late Development of Capitalist Relations in Greek Agriculture: Approaches and Hypotheses

Posted by Theodoros Sakellaropoulos on January 19th, 2003

Region: Europe
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Institutional Change and Industrial Accidents: Spain, 1900-1936

Posted by Javier Silvestre on November 13th, 2003

Region: Europe
Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Institutional Change in the Newfoundland Inshore Fishery

Posted by Kenneth Norrie on July 30th, 2000

Region: North America
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period: 18th Century

Institutional Economics and Historical Analysis: An Inquiry Concerning Path-Dependence and Cumulative Causation

Posted by Altug Yalcintas on January 21st, 2003

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: History of Economic Thought, Methodology
Time Period: General or Comparative

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

Region: North America
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Institutional Instability and Growth in Argentina: A Long-run View

Posted by Leandro Prados de la Escosura on April 12th, 2005

Region: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: General or Comparative

Institutions and Southern Development: the Strange Career of Judge Lynch

Posted by Art Carden on June 14th, 2005

Region: North America
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 19th Century

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period: Medieval

The Integration of Grain Markets in Pre-Industrial Southern Germany

Posted by Ulrich Woitek on September 20th, 1997

Region: Europe
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: 19th Century

Interest-Free Loans Between Villagers

Posted by Loren Brandt on October 21st, 2002

Region: Asia
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

An Interest Group Theory of Financial Development

Posted by Nela Thomas Richardson on February 18th, 2003

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: General or Comparative

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 18th Century

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 18th Century

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

Region: North America
Subject: Business History, Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity , Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 18th Century

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

Region: North America
Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change
Time Period: General or Comparative

International Capital Mobility in History: Purchasing Power Parity in the Long Run

Posted by Alan M. Taylor on September 3rd, 1996

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: 19th Century

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

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: 19th Century

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

Region: Asia
Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

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

Region: Europe, North America
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

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

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology
Time Period: 19th Century

Interwar U.S. and Japanese National Product and Defense Expenditure

Posted by William D. O'Neil on September 4th, 2003

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

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

Region: North America
Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change
Time Period: 19th Century

Inventory of historical data series of the project "Old Paris Stock Exchange 1919-1939"

Posted by Muriel Petit-Konczyk on June 18th, 2006

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Investment during the Great Depression: Uncertainty and the Role of the Smoot-Hawley Tariff

Posted by David H. Feldman on March 1st, 1997

Region: North America
Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Investor Sentiment and Antitrust Law as Determinants of Corporate Ownership Structure: The Great Merger Wave of 1897 to 1903

Posted by Brian R. Cheffins on December 18th, 2002

Region: North America
Subject:
Time Period: 19th Century, 20th Century: Pre WWII

Involuntary Childlessness and Voluntary Fertility Control in a Sample of American Men

Posted by John E. Murray on August 6th, 2000

Region: North America
Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration
Time Period: 19th Century

The IOOF and Sickness Insurance in the United States and Canada, 1850-1929

Posted by J. C. Herbert Emery on November 19th, 1996

Region: North America
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Iron Foundries Rule the Heavy Capital Equipment Industry in the East, 1820-1860

Posted by David R. Meyer on May 23rd, 2002

Region: North America
Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction
Time Period: 19th Century

Is it Work or is it Play? The Evolution of the Professional Baseball Labor Market

Posted by Mike Haupert on June 14th, 2005

Region: North America
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Is Social Capital Persistent? Comparative Measurement in the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries

Posted by Marta Felis Rota on July 12th, 2007

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History, Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender
Time Period: 19th Century

Is the Kuznets Curve Still Alive? Evidence from Italian Household Budgets, 1881-1961

Posted by Nicola Rossi on December 13th, 2001

Region: Europe
Subject: Income and Wealth
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Italy and the Great Depression: An Analysis of the Italian Economy, 1929-1936

Posted by Benjamino Quintieri on May 14th, 1997

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Jacksonian Monetary Policy, Specie Flows, and the Panic of 1837

Posted by Peter L. Rousseau on June 6th, 2002

Region: North America
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 19th Century

Japanese Lifetime Employment: A Century's Perspective

Posted by Chiaki Moriguchi on February 19th, 2003

Region: Asia
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII, 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 19th Century

Job Vacancies In The United States: 1923 to 1994

Posted by Jay L. Zagorsky on May 20th, 1999

Region: North America
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Keep on Scrapping: The Salvage Drives of World War II

Posted by Hugh Rockoff on October 14th, 2007

Region: North America
Subject: Military and War
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Kinship Control in New England Financial Institutions in the Ante-Bellum Period: A Textile Sector Perspective

Posted by Amit Bubna on May 20th, 1999

Region: North America
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 19th Century

Knowledge and Economic Growth in Germany, 1872-1989

Posted by Claude Diebolt on September 19th, 2000

Region: Europe
Subject: Education And Human Resource Development
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Korea's First Industrial Revolution, 1911-40

Posted by Myung Soo Cha on June 20th, 2006

Region: Asia
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

The Laborer Is Worthy of His Hire: Shaker Religious Communes in External Labor Markets

Posted by John E. Murray on November 1st, 1997

Region: North America
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 19th Century

Labor Markets and Follow-the-Leader Strategies: Immigration Policy prior to the Thirties

Posted by Jeffrey G. Williamson on February 21st, 1997

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 19th Century

Labor Productivity in Britain and America During the Nineteenth Century

Posted by Stephen Broadberry on November 12th, 2003

Region: Europe
Subject:
Time Period: 19th Century

Labor Productivity in Britain and America in the Nineteenth Century

Posted by Douglas A. Irwin on January 18th, 2005

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 19th Century

Labour Productivity in the US and the UK During the 19th Century

Posted by Douglas Irwin on June 4th, 2006

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 19th Century

Labour Services in the Thirteenth Century

Posted by Clyde Reed on October 14th, 1996

Region: Europe
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period: Medieval

La Economía Monetaria del Padre Juan de Mariana

Posted by José I. García de Paso on October 24th, 2000

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History, History of Economic Thought, Methodology, Macroeconomics and Fluctuations
Time Period: 17th Century

La Estabilización Monetaria en Castilla bajo Carlos II

Posted by José I. García de Paso on October 24th, 2000

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 17th Century

La Historia Economica en Internet (The Economic History of the Internet)

Posted by Donato Gomez Diaz on October 29th, 2003

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline
Time Period: General or Comparative

Land Communes and Factor Market Imperfections: Micro-Evidence from Late 19th-Century Russia

Posted by Steven Nafziger on January 31st, 2006

Region: Europe
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 19th Century

Land Hunger: Land as a Commodity and as a Status Good, England, 1300-1910

Posted by Gregory Clark on February 10th, 1997

Region: Europe
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: General or Comparative

Land, Labor and Globalization in the Pre-Industrial Third World

Posted by Jeffrey G. Williamson on August 6th, 2000

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject:
Time Period: 19th Century

La polÌtica monetaria castellana de los siglos XVI y XVII

Posted by JosÈ I. GarcÌa de Paso on January 11th, 2001

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 16th Century

The Lasting Legacy of Colonialism: A Theoretical Narrative of African Underdevelopment

Posted by Nathan Nunn on February 4th, 2003

Region: Africa
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period:

La théorie de l'engorgement (The Theory of Glutting)

Posted by Claude Diebolt on September 25th, 2001

Region: Europe
Subject: Education And Human Resource Development
Time Period: General or Comparative

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

Region: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries
Time Period: 19th Century

The Law and Economics of Post-Civil War Restrictions on Interstate Migration by African-Americans

Posted by David E. Bernstein on July 19th, 1998

Region: North America
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 19th Century

The Law and Labor Strife in the U.S., 1881-1894

Posted by Joseph P. Ferrie on August 29th, 1996

Region: North America
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 19th Century

The Law of Primogeniture and the Transition from Landed Aristocracy to Industrial Democracy

Posted by Graziella Bertocchi on December 18th, 2002

Region: Europe
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: General or Comparative

Learning By Investing Leads To Leading by Doing

Posted by Camilla Josephson on February 7th, 2007

Region: Europe
Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 19th Century

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

Region: Europe
Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations
Time Period: 19th Century

Le systéme d'invalidité et de vieillesse en Allemagne avant la Première Guerre mondiale.

Posted by Claude Diebolt on October 1st, 2000

Region: Europe
Subject: Education And Human Resource Development
Time Period: 19th Century

Liberation Revisited: Education, Technical Adoption and the Household Labour Supply

Posted by Marina Adshade on February 6th, 2003

Region: North America
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 19th Century

Lilliputians and Brobdingnagians, Stature in British Colonial America: Evidence from Servants, Convicts and Apprentices.

Posted by Farley Grubb on October 19th, 1999

Region: North America
Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology
Time Period: 18th Century

Living Economic and Social History

Posted by Pat Hudson on May 14th, 2001

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline
Time Period: General or Comparative

Living Standards and Population Growth: Malthus was Right

Posted by Morgan Kelly on March 31st, 2005

Region: Europe
Subject: Income and Wealth
Time Period: 18th Century

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

Region: North America
Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change
Time Period: 19th Century

Lochner, Parity, and the Chinese Laundry Cases

Posted by David E. Bernstein on February 1st, 2000

Region: North America
Subject: Business History
Time Period: 19th Century

The Longest Years: New Estimates of Labor Input in England, 1760-1830

Posted by Hans-Joachim Voth on December 11th, 2001

Region: Europe
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 18th Century

Longevity and Lifetime Labor Input: Data and Implications

Posted by Moshe Hazan on February 19th, 2007

Region: North America
Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration
Time Period: General or Comparative

The Long March of History: Farm Wages, Population and Economic Growth, England 1209-1869

Posted by Gregory Clark on February 24th, 2005

Region: Europe
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries
Time Period: General or Comparative

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations
Time Period: 19th Century

Long-run Estimates of Physical Capital in Spain, 1850-2000

Posted by Leandro Prados de la Escosura on June 18th, 2008

Region: Europe
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 19th Century

Long-run Regional Population Divergence and Modern Economic Growth in Europe: a Case Study of Spain

Posted by Vicente Pinilla on February 20th, 2007

Region: Europe
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Long-Term Marriage Patterns in the United States from Colonial Times to the Present

Posted by Michael R. Haines on April 10th, 1997

Region: North America
Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration
Time Period: General or Comparative

Long-Term Trends in Miners' Wages

Posted by Lawrence W. Boyd on November 10th, 1996

Region: North America
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

The Long Waves of Economic Development in Greece

Posted by Theodoros Sakellaropoulos on June 23rd, 2003

Region: Europe
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 19th Century

Lost decades? Independence and Latin America's Falling Behind, 1820-1= 870

Posted by Leandro Prados de la Escosura on December 27th, 2007

Region: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 19th Century

Love and Demographic Shocks: The Black Death, Social Norms, and the Florentine Marriage Market, 1260-1430

Posted by Maristella Botticini on May 11th, 1999

Region: Europe
Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History
Time Period: Medieval

A Loveless Economy? Intergenerational Altruism and the Dowry System in a Tuscan Town, c. 1415-1436

Posted by Maristella Botticini on September 18th, 1997

Region: Europe
Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History
Time Period: Medieval

Macroeconomic Aspects of Spanish American Independence. The effects of fiscal and currency fragmentation, 1800s-1860s

Posted by Maria Alejandra Irigoin on February 15th, 2004

Region: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean
Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations
Time Period: 19th Century

The Macroeconomics of Bank Resolution Costs

Posted by Joseph R. Mason on October 31st, 1996

Region: North America
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Made for Toil: Natural Selection at the Dawn of Agriculture

Posted by Jacob L. Weisdorf on December 27th, 2007

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries , Historical Demography, including Migration
Time Period: Prehistoric

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries , Development of the Economic History Discipline, Labor and Employment History
Time Period: General or Comparative

Malthus Revisited: Fertility Decision Making based on Quasi-Linear Preferences

Posted by Jacob L. Weisdorf on February 15th, 2007

Region: Europe
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 19th Century

Managerial Strategies of the Cotton South

Posted by Tetsuya Saito on January 31st, 2006

Region: North America
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries
Time Period: 19th Century

Manufacturing Where Agriculture Predominates: Evidence from the South and Midwest in 1860

Posted by Kenneth L. Sokoloff on June 25th, 1997

Region: North America
Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction
Time Period: 19th Century

Market dynamism and international trade: a case study of Mediterranean agricultural=20 products, 1850-1935

Posted by Vicente Pinilla on March 10th, 2008

Region: Europe
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries , International and Domestic Trade and Relations
Time Period: 19th Century

A Market Economy in the Early Roman Empire

Posted by Peter Temin on February 14th, 2001

Region: Europe
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: Ancient

The Market for Montreal Apprentices: Contract Length and Information

Posted by Gillian Hamilton on September 19th, 1996

Region: North America
Subject: Education And Human Resource Development
Time Period: 19th Century

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: 19th Century

Market Performance in History

Posted by Karl Gunnar Persson on May 29th, 2002

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction
Time Period: General or Comparative

Market Power and Commodity Prices: Brazil, Chile and the United States, 1820s-1930

Posted by Marcelo de Paiva Abreu on February 22nd, 2007

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations
Time Period: 19th Century

Markets and the Regulation of Export Brewing in 15th and 16th Century Holland

Posted by Richard Yntema on March 10th, 2002

Region: Europe
Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations
Time Period: Medieval

Markets for Children in Early America: A Political Economy of Pauper Apprenticeship

Posted by John E. Murray on June 6th, 2002

Region: North America
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: 18th Century

Markets in China and Europe on the Eve of the Industrial Revolution

Posted by Wolfgang Keller on June 20th, 2006

Region:
Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History
Time Period: 18th Century

Markets in China and Europe on the Eve of the Industrial Revolution

Posted by Carol H. Shiue on February 4th, 2007

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: General or Comparative

Marriage, Fertility, and Economic Correlates in Nineteenth-Century Japan

Posted by Satomi Kurosu on September 4th, 1997

Region: Asia
Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration
Time Period: 19th Century

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

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 19th Century

Measuring Protection in the Early Twentieth Century

Posted by Antoni Estevadeordal on November 29th, 1997

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Measuring the contribution of human capital to the development

Posted by Joan R. Rosés on May 20th, 1999

Region: Europe
Subject: Education And Human Resource Development
Time Period:

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Mechanical Refrigeration and the Integration of Perishable Commodity Markets

Posted by Lee A. Craig on October 15th, 2000

Region: North America
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries
Time Period: 19th Century, 20th Century: Pre WWII

Mechanisms of Integrity: Nineteenth Century New England Banking and the Success of Insider Lending

Posted by Christopher Meissner on January 29th, 2001

Region: North America
Subject: Business History, Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 18th Century, 19th Century

Mediating the Public and the Private: The Patent System, Technological Learning, and Invention in the Antebellum U.S.

Posted by Ross Thomson on March 7th, 2002

Region:
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period: 19th Century

Medieval and early modern coinage and its problems

Posted by Meir Kohn on May 25th, 1999

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: Medieval

A Mercantilist Model of Growth and Trade in 18th Century France

Posted by Guillaume Daudin on June 8th, 1998

Region: Europe
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 18th Century

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Business History
Time Period: 19th Century

Merchant associations in pre-industrial Europe

Posted by Meir Kohn on August 6th, 2003

Region: Europe
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: Medieval

Merchant Banking in the Medieval and Early Modern Economy

Posted by Meir Kohn on May 24th, 1999

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: Medieval

Micro-credit and Economic Development: The Morris Plan Banks in the United States

Posted by Ronnie J. Phillips on January 28th, 2001

Region: North America
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

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

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: 19th Century

Migration as Disaster Relief: Lessons from the Great Irish Famine

Posted by Cormac OGrada on November 22nd, 1997

Region: Europe
Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration
Time Period: 19th Century

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

Region: North America
Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration
Time Period: 19th Century

'Mind the Gap!' Transport costs and price convergence in the 19th century Atlantic economy

Posted by Karl Gunnar Persson on July 11th, 2002

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations
Time Period: 19th Century

The Misuse of Central Bank Gold Holdings

Posted by Ernst Juerg Weber on December 18th, 2003

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: General or Comparative

Model of Welfare Capitalism? The United States Rubber Company in Southeast Asia, 1910-1942

Posted by Shakila Yacob on January 15th, 2007

Region: Asia
Subject: Business History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Monetary Sovereignty, Exchange Rates, and Capital Controls: The Trilemma in the Interwar Period

Posted by Jay C. Shambaugh on June 20th, 2006

Region:
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Moneychangers, Private Information and Gresham's Law in Late Medieval Europe

Posted by Richard Dutu on February 11th, 2003

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: Medieval

Monitoring the Monitor

Posted by Der-yuan Yang on April 5th, 2005

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period: General or Comparative

Monopsony Land Tenure and the Expansion of Settlement in Dutch South Africa: 1652-1795

Posted by Sumner La Croix on March 7th, 2002

Region: Africa
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period:

Morals, Markets and the English Crowd in 1766

Posted by Dale Williams on January 6th, 2002

Region: Europe
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: 18th Century

Multiple Equilibria in Industrial Location: Evidence From Airports in Inter-War and Re-Unified Germany

Posted by Nikolaus Wolf on April 5th, 2005

Region: Europe
Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII, 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

National accounting, corporate accounting and global standardization

Posted by Tomo Suzuki on July 3rd, 2008

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: History of Economic Thought, Methodology
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

National Development and Regional Disparities: New Evidence for Post-Unification=20 Italy, 1861-1913

Posted by Gianfranco Di Vaio on April 4th, 2008

Region: Europe
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 19th Century

The National Industrial Recovery Act of 1933 and the Compliance Crisis of 1934

Posted by Jason E. Taylor on May 16th, 2002

Region: North America
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance, Labor and Employment History, Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology , Markets and Institutions
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

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

Region: Australia/New Zealand, incl. Pacific Islands
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

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

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations
Time Period: 19th Century

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

New Approaches to Regional Development: The Southeastern Anatolia Project (GAP) in Turkey

Posted by Dr. Bulent Acma on July 24th, 2001

Region: Europe
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

New Data on Minting, Seigniorage, and the Money Supply in Spain (Castile), 1597-1643

Posted by Akira Motomura on May 11th, 1997

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 17th Century

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

Region: North America
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

New Evidence on Catch-Up and Convergence Since 1872

Posted by Marianne Ward on February 17th, 2002

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 19th Century

New Indices of British Equity Prices, 1870-1913

Posted by Richard S. Grossman on March 13th, 2002

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 19th Century

New wine in old bottles: output and productivity trends in Portuguese agriculture, 1870-1950

Posted by Pedro Lains on February 17th, 2002

Region: Europe
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 19th Century

Nominal and Real Male Agricultural Wages, 1250-1850, and English Economic Growth

Posted by Gregory Clark on November 29th, 1998

Region: Europe
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: General or Comparative

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

Region: North America
Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology
Time Period: 19th Century

Observations on the Composition of Colonial Pennsylvania's Money Supply

Posted by Robert E. Wright on March 24th, 2005

Region: North America
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 18th Century

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology
Time Period: General or Comparative

Oekonomische Krise, oziales Desaster, politische Revolution. Griechenland 1843/44

Posted by Theodoros Sakellaropoulos on January 19th, 2003

Region: Europe
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period: 19th Century

Old Sins: Exchange Rate Clauses and European Foreign Lending in the 19th Century

Posted by Nathan Sussman on June 20th, 2006

Region: Europe
Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations
Time Period: 19th Century

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology
Time Period: 19th Century

On the Accuracy of Latin American Trade Statistics: A nonparametric test for 1925

Posted by Mar Rubio on June 14th, 2005

Region: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean
Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

On the Application of Benford's Law to International Macroeconomic Statistics

Posted by Eric Helland on December 9th, 1996

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations
Time Period: General or Comparative

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

Region: Asia
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries
Time Period: 19th Century

On the Foundation of the Bank of England: A Mechanism for Showing Trust

Posted by Der-Yuan Yang on January 4th, 2007

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 17th Century

On the History of the Institutional Foundations of Impersonal Exchange

Posted by Avner Greif on May 27th, 2002

Region: Europe
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: Medieval

On the Macroeconomics of Pre-industrial Economies

Posted by George Grantham on September 4th, 1997

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations
Time Period: 17th Century

On the Puzzling Cycle in the Biological Standard of Living: The Case ofAntebellum Georgia

Posted by John Komlos on May 20th, 1999

Region: North America
Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology
Time Period: 19th Century

On the Size of Horses During the Industrial Revolution

Posted by John Komlos on January 21st, 2002

Region: Europe
Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology
Time Period: 18th Century

On the Social Foundations and Historical Development of Institutions that Facilitate Impersonal Exchange

Posted by Avner Greif on October 2nd, 1997

Region: Europe
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: Medieval

Open Market Forces and National Labor Market Outcomes: Convergence in Nineteenth-Century Europe

Posted by Michael Huberman on February 2nd, 1997

Region: Europe
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 19th Century

Operations of "Unfettered" Labor Markets

Posted by Price V. Fishback on February 4th, 1998

Region: North America
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

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

Region: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean
Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction
Time Period: 19th Century

The Organization of Government in Pre-Industrial Europe

Posted by Meir Kohn on December 6th, 2005

Region: Europe
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period: Medieval

The Organization of Merchant Empires: A Case Study of Portugal and England

Posted by Claudia Rei on January 12th, 2006

Region: Europe
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: General or Comparative

Organized markets in pre-industrial Europe

Posted by Meir Kohn on August 6th, 2003

Region: Europe
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: Medieval

The Origins of Democracy: A Model with Application to Ancient Greece

Posted by Robert K. Fleck on February 13th, 2003

Region: Europe
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period: Ancient

The Origins of Money

Posted by Nick Szabo on January 16th, 2003

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: Prehistoric

The Origins of Spatial Interaction: Evidence from Chinese Rice Markets, 1742-1795

Posted by Carol H. Shiue on June 18th, 2006

Region: Asia
Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations
Time Period: 18th Century

The Origins of the "New Economy": Comparisons and Pitfalls

Posted by Ronald Albers on March 14th, 2004

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: General or Comparative

Ottoman Taxation in Palestine, Syria, and Transjordan in the Sixteenth Century: the Determinants of Kism Rates

Posted by Metin Cosgel on February 24th, 2002

Region: Middle East
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period: 16th Century

The Panic of 1819 and Its Impact on Virginia Merchants

Posted by Clyde A. Haulman on May 25th, 1999

Region: North America
Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations
Time Period: 19th Century

The Papal Conclave: Are Cardinals Voting Strategically or Divining the Will of God?

Posted by J.T. Toman on November 24th, 2003

Region: Europe
Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender
Time Period: General or Comparative

Par Clearance in the Domestic Exchanges: The Impact of National Bank Notes

Posted by Ronnie J. Phillips on October 26th, 1998

Region: North America
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 19th Century

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 19th Century

Partisan Appointments to the Central Bank: Policy Uncertainty and the Democratic Deficit

Posted by José I. García de Paso on October 25th, 2000

Region: North America
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Patenting Abroad and Human Capital Formation

Posted by Kirsten Labuske on June 14th, 2005

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject:
Time Period: 19th Century, 20th Century: Pre WWII

Patent Institutions, Industrial Organization, and Early Technological Change: Britain and the United States, 1790-1850

Posted by B. Zorina Khan on May 16th, 1997

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change
Time Period: 19th Century

Path dependent border effects: The case of Poland's reunification, (1918-1939)

Posted by Nikolaus Wolf on March 7th, 2004

Region: Europe
Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

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

Region: Africa
Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender
Time Period: 18th Century

Paths of Growth: Economic Growth in East Asia and Peripheral Europe (1960-2000)

Posted by Luciano Amaral on October 6th, 2003

Region: Asia, Europe
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: 16th Century

Paupers and Planters: The Transition to Sugar in Barbados, 1638-1674

Posted by Emily Mechner on May 16th, 1997

Region: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries
Time Period: 17th Century

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

Region: North America
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Paying Back to Borrow More: Reputation and Bank Credit Access in Early America

Posted by Ta-Chen Wang on February 4th, 2007

Region: North America
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 19th Century

Paying for Privilege: The Political Economy of Bank of England Charters, 1694-1844

Posted by Richard Grossman on September 1st, 2003

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 18th Century

Payments and the Development of Finance in Pre-Industrial Europe

Posted by Meir Kohn on November 27th, 2001

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: Medieval

Pelasgian Economists

Posted by Gregory Zorzos on February 12th, 2002

Region: Europe
Subject: History of Economic Thought, Methodology
Time Period: Ancient

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

Region: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 19th Century, 20th Century: Pre WWII

Peopling the Pampa: On the Impact of Mass Migration to the River Plate, 1870-1914

Posted by Alan M. Taylor on October 31st, 1996

Region: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean
Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration
Time Period: 19th Century

Philip Sober Controlling Philip Drunk: Buchanan v. Warley in Historical Perspective

Posted by David E. Bernstein on July 19th, 1998

Region: North America
Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Political Business Cycles Before the Great Depression

Posted by Robert Whaples on August 29th, 1996

Region: North America
Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations
Time Period: 19th Century

The Political Economy of Constitutional Compromise: Did the Founding Fathers Get It Right in 1787?

Posted by Robert A. McGuire on July 17th, 2005

Region: North America
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period: 18th Century

The Political Economy of Fiscal Federalism: The German Reich from Unification to Default

Posted by Carsten Hefeker on September 15th, 1997

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 19th Century

The Political Economy of New Deal Expenditures:A Preliminary and Exploratory Investigation

Posted by Price Fishback on August 6th, 1997

Region: North America
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

The Political Economy of Race, 1940-1960: The Adoption of State-Level Fair Employment Legislation

Posted by William J. Collins on September 25th, 2000

Region: North America
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance, Labor and Employment History, Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

The Political Economy of State-Provided Health Insurance in the Progressive Era: Evidence from California

Posted by Dora L. Costa on September 24th, 1996

Region: North America
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

The Political Economy of the Savanna: States, Trading Networks and Castes in Medieval West Africa

Posted by Wolfram Latsch on May 3rd, 2004

Region: Africa
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period: Medieval

The Political Economy of the Second World War: Did the New Deal Really End in 1939?

Posted by Jason E. Taylor on May 11th, 1999

Region:
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

The Political Economy of Workers' Compensation Benefit Levels, 1910-1930

Posted by Price Fishback on June 27th, 1997

Region: North America
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Political Fragmentation and Technology Adoption: Watermill Construction in Feudal France Internet

Posted by Karine van der Beek on April 5th, 2007

Region: Europe
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity , History of Technology, including Technological Change , Markets and Institutions
Time Period: Medieval

Political Instability and Economic Performance: Evidence from Revolutionary Mexico

Posted by Stephen H. Haber on October 5th, 1998

Region: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance, Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
Time Period: 17th Century

Political Institutions and the Spanish Monarchy's Finances, 1521-1648

Posted by Akira Motomura on January 4th, 1998

Region: Europe
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period: 16th Century

Political Monetary Cycles and the Independent Treasury

Posted by Jac C. Heckelman on February 21st, 2001

Region: North America
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History, Macroeconomics and Fluctuations
Time Period: 19th Century

The Politics of Pension Reform in South European Welfare States

Posted by Marina Angelaki on June 8th, 2006

Region: Europe
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Poor Relief before the Welfare State: Britain versus the Continent, 1780-1880

Posted by Peter H. Lindert on February 10th, 1998

Region: Europe
Subject: Economic Planning and Policy
Time Period: 18th Century

Pork Packers, Reciprocity, and Laurier's Defeat in the 1911 Canadian General Election

Posted by Eugene Beaulieu on December 13th, 2001

Region: North America
Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Portugal's Growth Paradox, 1870-1950

Posted by Pedro Lains on November 27th, 2003

Region: Europe
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 19th Century

The Potential Crowding Out Effect of Social Security Transfers 1937 to 1977

Posted by Samuel H. Williamson on September 25th, 2002

Region: North America
Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

The Power of Prosaic Innovation: World War II Merchant Shipbuilding in the U.S.

Posted by Christopher Tassava on May 13th, 2004

Region: North America
Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

A PRECOCIOUS INFANT? THE EVOLUTION OF THE ENGLISH GRAIN MARKET, 1208-1770

Posted by Gregory Clark on September 3rd, 1996

Region: Europe
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: Medieval

Preference Formation and the Rise of Women's Labour Force Participation: Evidence from WWII

Posted by Claudia Olivetti on June 20th, 2006

Region: North America
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Premium inventions: a Quantitative Analysis of Prizes and Patents in Britain and the United States, 1750-1930

Posted by Zorina Khan on November 7th, 2007

Region: Europe
Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change
Time Period:

The Price History of English Agriculture, 1209-1914

Posted by Gregory Clark on October 23rd, 2003

Region: Europe
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries
Time Period: General or Comparative

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries
Time Period: 19th Century

Price Responsiveness during Scarcity: Bombay Gujarat (India), 1824/5

Posted by Marcia J. Frost on May 9th, 2004

Region: Asia
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: 19th Century

Prices and Real Inequality in Europe since 1500

Posted by Peter H. Lindert on May 3rd, 2001

Region: Europe
Subject: Income and Wealth
Time Period: General or Comparative

Primitive Forms of Agrarian Credit: "Monti Frumentari" in the Kingdom of Naples

Posted by Paola Avallone on January 31st, 2001

Region: Europe
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries , Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History, Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period: 17th Century, 18th Century, 19th Century

Printing and Interest Restrictions in Islam and Christianity: An Economic Theory of Inhibitive Law Persistence

Posted by Jared Rubin on March 16th, 2008

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: General or Comparative

Private Enterprise, Public Good? Communications Deregulation as a National Political Issue, 1839-1851

Posted by Richard R. John on January 29th, 2002

Region: North America
Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
Time Period: 19th Century

Private Payment Systems in Historical Perspective: The Banco Central System of Mexico

Posted by Patrice Robitaille on November 4th, 1997

Region: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Private Provision of Public Goods: The Athenian Trierarchy as a Game of Mechanism Design

Posted by Brooks Kaiser on February 24th, 2002

Region: Europe
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period: Ancient

Problems in Analysing Inflation During the Civil War

Posted by Michael J. Haupert on July 23rd, 2000

Region: North America
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 19th Century

Productivity and Comparative Advantage in Rice Agriculture in Southeast Asia since 1870

Posted by Pierre van der Eng on May 13th, 2004

Region: Asia
Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
Time Period: 18th Century

Productivity in British Coalmining: Evidence from Microdata, Co. Durham, 1890-93

Posted by John Treble on September 21st, 1997

Region: Europe
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 19th Century

Profitability and Factory-Based Cotton Gin Production in the Antebellum South

Posted by William H. Phillips on May 4th, 2004

Region: North America
Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction
Time Period: 19th Century

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

Region: Europe
Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations
Time Period: 18th Century

Property Ownership by Married Women in Victorian Ontario

Posted by Kris Inwood on May 16th, 1999

Region: North America
Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender
Time Period: 19th Century

Property Rights and California Gold

Posted by Gavin Wright on March 17th, 1998

Region: North America
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: 19th Century

Property Rights and Economic Growth in Argentina: 1875-1990

Posted by Isabel Sanz Villarroya on December 3rd, 2003

Region: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 19th Century

PROPERTY RIGHTS AND EFFICIENCY: RESOLVING THE PROBLEM OF THE COMMONS

Posted by Gregory Clark on July 29th, 1996

Region: Europe
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries
Time Period: General or Comparative

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

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period: 19th Century

The Prudent Village: A Corroboration of Kimball's Conjecture

Posted by Gary Richardson on October 15th, 2003

Region: Europe
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries
Time Period: Medieval

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

The Puzzle of Slave Heights in Antebellum America

Posted by Ulrich Woitek on May 16th, 1999

Region: North America
Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology
Time Period: 19th Century

The Puzzle of Slave Heights in Antebellum America

Posted by Ray Rees on November 28th, 1997

Region: North America
Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology
Time Period: 19th Century

Quantifying Quantitative Literacy: Age Heaping and the History of Human Capital

Posted by Dorothee Crayen on January 22nd, 2007

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Education And Human Resource Development
Time Period: General or Comparative

A Quantity-Based Annual Index of U.S. Industrial Production, 1790-1915

Posted by Joseph Davis on June 19th, 2002

Region: North America
Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction
Time Period: 19th Century

Quantity Versus Quality in the Soviet Market for Weapons

Posted by Mark Harrison on January 1st, 2008

Region: Europe
Subject: Military and War, Markets and Institutions
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

The Question of Note Issue in American Free Banks

Posted by Michael J. Haupert on October 2nd, 1997

Region: North America
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 19th Century

Race and Home Ownership, 1900 to 1990

Posted by William Collins on September 9th, 1999

Region: North America
Subject: Income and Wealth
Time Period: General or Comparative

Race, Occupational Mobility, and Government Intervention in the World War II Era

Posted by William J. Collins on May 20th, 1999

Region: North America
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

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

Region: North America
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Racism, Railroad Unions, and Labor Regulations

Posted by David E. Bernstein on February 7th, 2001

Region: North America
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Railroads and Property Taxes

Posted by Jac C. Heckelman on October 31st, 1996

Region: North America
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period: 19th Century

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

Region: North America
Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
Time Period: 19th Century

"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

Region: North America
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

The Rate of Growth of Productivity in Mexico, 1850-1933: Evidence from the Cotton Textile Industry

Posted by Armando Razo on October 5th, 1998

Region: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 19th Century

The Rate of Time Preference and Obesity: Is there a Connection?

Posted by John Komlos on August 3rd, 2003

Region: North America
Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology
Time Period: General or Comparative

Real and Financial Shocks to the Payments System: Earthquakes, Panics, and the San Francisco Clearinghouse

Posted by Ronnie J. Phillips on May 11th, 1999

Region: North America
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Real Inequality in Europe since 1500

Posted by Peter H. Lindert on June 6th, 2002

Region: Europe
Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology
Time Period: General or Comparative

Real Wages and Relative Factor Prices in the Third World 1820-1940: Asia

Posted by Jeffrey G. Williamson on October 28th, 1998

Region: Asia
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: General or Comparative

Real Wages and Relative Factor Prices in the Third World 1820-1940: Latin America

Posted by Jeffrey G. Williamson on October 29th, 1998

Region: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: General or Comparative

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

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: General or Comparative

Real Wages and Standards of Living in the Ottoman Empire, 1489-1914

Posted by Sevket Pamuk on June 6th, 2002

Region: Middle East
Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology
Time Period:

A Reconsideration of the Revenue Act of 1932

Posted by David A. Zalewski on March 3rd, 2002

Region: North America
Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Redefining the Terms of Trade: A History of Social Protectionism in the U.S. and Overseas

Posted by Susan Aaronson on November 22nd, 1997

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Redemption Servitude in America's Great Basin: Repayment and Enforcement Mechanisms

Posted by Scott A. Carson on May 11th, 1999

Region: North America
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 19th Century

Regime Shifts and Fast Recovery on the Periphery: New Zealand in the 1930s

Posted by David Greasley on February 7th, 2001

Region: Australia/New Zealand, incl. Pacific Islands
Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 19th Century

Regional Interest Rate Premia in the American Railroad Bond Market from 1876 to 1890

Posted by Lea V. Carty on September 18th, 1996

Region: North America
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: 19th Century

The Relative Labour Market Performance of Second-Generation Americans in the Early 20th Century

Posted by Chris Minns on February 15th, 2001

Region: North America
Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration, Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Religion and Economic Growth: Was Weber Right?

Posted by Leonard Dudley on July 27th, 2000

Region: Europe
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 16th Century

Religion, Longevity, and Cooperation: The Case of the Craft Guild

Posted by Gary Richardson on January 12th, 2007

Region: Europe
Subject: Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender
Time Period: Medieval

Religious Prohibitions against Usury

Posted by Clyde Reed on November 1st, 1997

Region: Europe
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: Medieval

Rent Extraction through Corrupt Officials - Default Risk and Monitoring Costs

Posted by Mikael Priks on February 10th, 2003

Region: Europe
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period: 17th Century

Reparation transfers, the Borchardt hypothesis, and the Great Depression in Germany

Posted by Albrech Ritschl on May 20th, 1999

Region: Europe
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

The Reports of the Charity Commission as a Source in Economic History

Posted by Gregory Clark on February 9th, 1997

Region: Europe
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: General or Comparative

Resilience of the pre-World War I German stock exchange: Evidence from a panel vector autoregression

Posted by Gerhard Kling on January 18th, 2004

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Resilience of the pre-World War I German stock exchange: Evidence from a panel vector autoregression

Posted by Gerhard Kling on May 3rd, 2004

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 19th Century

A restricted maximum likelihood estimator for truncated height samples

Posted by Brian A'Hearn on April 11th, 2004

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline
Time Period: General or Comparative

Rethinking the evidence and paradigms of financial crises. Italy and the international=20 system, 1880-1893

Posted by Elio Cerrito on August 6th, 2006

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 19th Century

Rethinking the Separation of Ownership from Management in American History

Posted by Kenneth Lipartito on July 18th, 2007

Region: North America
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

The Returns to Skill in the United States across the Twentieth Century

Posted by Claudia Goldin on November 1st, 1999

Region: North America
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Reversal of Fortune: Geography and Institutions in the Making of the Modern World Income Distribution

Posted by James A. Robinson on March 3rd, 2002

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Income and Wealth
Time Period: 16th Century

Revisiting Structural Change and Market Integration

Posted by Brandon Dupont on April 4th, 2007

Region: North America
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 19th Century

A Revival of the Pessimist View: Child Labor and the Industrial Revolution

Posted by Carolyn Tuttle on October 22nd, 1998

Region: Europe
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 19th Century

The "Revolution of Rising Expectations," Relative Deprivation, and the Urban Racial Disturbances of the 1960s

Posted by Siddharth Chandra on May 23rd, 2002

Region: North America
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

A Revolution Too Many: The Agricultural Revolution, 1700-1850

Posted by Gregory Clark on October 2nd, 1997

Region: Europe
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries
Time Period: 18th Century

Ringing in the 20th Century: The Effects of State Monopolies, Private Ownership, and Operating Licenses on Telecommunications in Europe, 1892-1914

Posted by Scott Wallsten on January 31st, 2002

Region: Europe
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period:

The Rise and Fall of Property Regimes: Evidence from the History of Transportation

Posted by Jim Cohen on March 5th, 2002

Region: North America
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance, Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
Time Period: 19th Century

The Rise and Fall of the Sliding Scale

Posted by Christopher Hanes on June 8th, 1998

Region: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 19th Century

The Rise in U.S. Antidumping Actions in Historical Perspective

Posted by Douglas A. Irwin on January 18th, 2005

Region: North America
Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

The Rise of Centralized Wage Bargaining in Sweden, 1956-69

Posted by Jon Cohen on March 5th, 2002

Region: Europe
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

The Rise of the Leisured Class: The Growth of Recreation since 1888

Posted by Dora L. Costa on September 25th, 1996

Region: North America
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: General or Comparative

Risk Instruments in the Medieval and Early Modern Economy

Posted by Meir Kohn on May 24th, 1999

Region: Europe
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: Medieval

The Role of Economists in World War II

Posted by Mark A. Guglielmo on February 27th, 2003

Region: North America
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

The Role of Education and Skill in the British Industrial Revolution

Posted by David Mitch on July 19th, 1998

Region: Europe
Subject: Education And Human Resource Development
Time Period: 18th Century

The Role of Financial Conglomerates in Industrial Formation: Evidence from Early Modern Japan

Posted by John Pao-En Tang on November 7th, 2007

Region: Asia
Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction
Time Period: 19th Century

The Role of the Real Interest Rate in US Macroeconomic History

Posted by Ernst Juerg Weber on February 5th, 2007

Region: North America
Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations
Time Period: General or Comparative

Rousseau's Economic Philosophy. Beyond the Market of Innocents.

Posted by Bertil Fridin on March 3rd, 1999

Region: Europe
Subject: History of Economic Thought, Methodology
Time Period: 18th Century

"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

Region: Europe
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: Ancient

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: Medieval

The "Rules of the Game" and the Credibility of the Classical Gold Standard, 1880-1914

Posted by Michael D. Bordo on September 14th, 1997

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 19th Century

Rural Credit and the Peasant Household in Imperial Germany

Posted by John Abbott on February 19th, 2001

Region: Europe
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries , Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History, Household, Family and Consumer History
Time Period: 19th Century

Rural Monetization and Debt Crisis in the Late Roman Republic

Posted by David B. Hollander on February 13th, 2003

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: Ancient

The Russian Joint-Stock Banks and Their Client Networks, 1864-1917

Posted by Sonya Salomatina on October 19th, 2000

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 19th Century

A Sampling Approach to History: The Enclosure of English Common Lands

Posted by Gregory Clark on October 5th, 1998

Region: Europe
Subject: Historical Geography
Time Period: General or Comparative

Scientific Management in China, 1910-1930s

Posted by Stephen L. Morgan on April 13th, 2004

Region: Asia
Subject: Business History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Searching for the Roots of Retardation: Spain in European Perspective, 1500-1850

Posted by Leandro Prados de la Escosura on March 21st, 2007

Region: Europe
Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History
Time Period: General or Comparative

The Secondary Market Evaluation of Slaves in XIXth Century Mauritius

Posted by Desire Vencatachellum on February 11th, 2002

Region: Africa
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 19th Century

Selective Immigration and Ethnic Economic Achievement: Japanese Americans before World War II

Posted by Masao Suzuki on May 11th, 1999

Region: North America
Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Sense in Communication

Posted by Douglas Galbi on April 7th, 2004

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
Time Period: General or Comparative

A Shareholder's Democracy? Innovations in Financial Securities Marketing in the United States, 1917-1929

Posted by Julia Ott on May 25th, 2004

Region: North America
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Shelter from the Storm: Housing and the Industrial Revolution, 1550-1909

Posted by Gregory Clark on June 6th, 2002

Region: Europe
Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History
Time Period: General or Comparative

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology
Time Period: 19th Century

Shocks: Inertia, Competition and the Absence of the Core

Posted by Michael Perelman on May 11th, 1999

Region: North America
Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations
Time Period: 19th Century

Shocks: Inertia, Competition and the Absence of the Core

Posted by Michael Perelman on May 23rd, 1999

Region: North America
Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations
Time Period: 19th Century

Sickness absence and insurance benefits in turn-of-the-century America

Posted by John Murray on December 1st, 2003

Region: North America
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

The Simplest Unified Growth Theory

Posted by Jacob L. Weisdorf on October 25th, 2007

Region: Europe
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: General or Comparative

The Skills of the Unskilled in the American Industrial Revolution

Posted by James Bessen on September 27th, 2000

Region: North America
Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change , Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 19th Century

Skirts, Suits, and Unit Roots. German Textile Industry and Innovations (1877-1913)

Posted by Jacek Wallusch on November 19th, 2003

Region: Europe
Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change
Time Period: 19th Century

Slavery, Institutional Development, and Long-Run Growth in Africa, 1400-2000

Posted by Nathan Nunn on October 13th, 2004

Region: Africa
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: General or Comparative

Small was Beautiful: Belgian Workers and Free Trade before 1913

Posted by Michael Huberman on March 16th, 2004

Region: Europe
Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations
Time Period: 19th Century

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

Region: Asia
Subject: Business History
Time Period: 19th Century

"A Social Accounting Matrix for Italy, 1911."

Posted by Giovanni Federico on December 7th, 1998

Region: Europe
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Social Insurance, Commitment, and the Origin of Law: Interest Bans in Early Christianity

Posted by Jared Rubin on October 8th, 2007

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History, Social and Cultural History, including Race, Ethnicity and Gender
Time Period: Ancient

"Socialist Competition" and Unbalanced Development: Origins of the Soviet Industrial System

Posted by Kerry Pannell on May 16th, 1999

Region: Europe
Subject: Economic Planning and Policy
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Social Saving of the Panama Canal

Posted by William K. Hutchinson on March 3rd, 2005

Region: North America
Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Social Status and Adult Heights in the Two Germanies

Posted by John Komlos on August 3rd, 2003

Region: Europe
Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Social Status and Adult Heights in the Two Germanies

Posted by John Komlos on July 23rd, 2001

Region: Europe
Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Socioeconomic Background, Disease, and Mortality among Union Army Recruits: Implications for Economic and Demographic History

Posted by Chulhee Lee on October 31st, 1996

Region: North America
Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology
Time Period: 19th Century

Soil Degradation and Agricultural Change in Two Developing Countries

Posted by Peter H. Lindert on September 13th, 1996

Region: Asia
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Sources of Convergence in the Late Nineteenth Century

Posted by Alan M. Taylor on September 3rd, 1996

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 19th Century

The Sources of Long-run Growth in Spain, 1850-2000

Posted by Leandro Prados de la Escosura on January 18th, 2007

Region: Europe
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: General or Comparative

The Sources of Regional Variation in the Severity of the Great Depression

Posted by Joshua L. Rosenbloom on October 5th, 1997

Region: North America
Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Soviet Industrial Production, 1928 to 1955: Real Growth and Hidden Inflation

Posted by Mark Harrison on August 6th, 2000

Region: Europe
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

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

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History
Time Period: General or Comparative

The Spanish Royal Tobacco Monopoly in the Viceroyalty of Peru, 1752-1813

Posted by Richard Sicotte on September 16th, 1997

Region: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries
Time Period: 18th Century

The Spatial Aggregation of Automobile Manufacturing Activities in the American Midwest

Posted by Lucia Tsai on June 12th, 1998

Region: North America
Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change
Time Period: 19th Century

Species of Property: The American Property-Tax Uniformity Clauses Reconsidered

Posted by Robin L. Einhorn on December 11th, 2001

Region: North America
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period: 19th Century

Spurious Growth in German Output Data, 1913-1938

Posted by Albrecht Ritschl on August 27th, 2006

Region: Europe
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Stability of Monetary Unions: Lessons from the Break Up of Czechoslovakia

Posted by Jan Fidrmuc on September 26th, 2000

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

The Stability of the American Business Elite

Posted by Peter Temin on June 12th, 1998

Region: North America
Subject: Business History
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Standardized Latin and Medieval Economic Growth

Posted by Leonard Dudley on April 15th, 2003

Region: Europe
Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change
Time Period: Medieval

The standard of livings and market integration in modern Japan, 1897-1938

Posted by Kentaro Saito on December 22nd, 2003

Region: Asia
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 19th Century

The State as and Enforcer in Early Venetian Trade: a Historical Institutional Analysis

Posted by Yadira Gonzalez de Lara on October 16th, 2003

Region: Europe
Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations
Time Period: Medieval

State "Currencies" and the Transition to the U.S. Dollar: Clarifying Some Confusions

Posted by Robert E. Wright on January 22nd, 2004

Region: North America
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 18th Century

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

The Statutory Regulation of Colonial Servitude: An Incomplete-Contract Approach

Posted by Farley Grubb on June 7th, 1998

Region: North America
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: 18th Century

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

Region: North America
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: 19th Century

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 18th Century

The strange death of Labour England: collective provision and social cohesion in Southwark, 1950-2000

Posted by Harold Carter on June 19th, 2002

Region: Europe
Subject: Urban and Regional History
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Strategic reaction to shocks: the British wool and cotton textile industries during the interwar years

Posted by David Michael Higgins on May 11th, 1999

Region: Europe
Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction
Time Period: 19th Century

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Subcontracting and Vertical Integration in the Spanish Cotton Industry

Posted by Joan R. Roses on March 24th, 2005

Region: Europe
Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction
Time Period: 19th Century

Succession series and path dependence

Posted by Sorin-Gabriel Sebe on February 7th, 2007

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Development of the Economic History Discipline
Time Period: General or Comparative

Successive Waves of Technological Progress During the German Industrialization

Posted by Jochen Streb on March 18th, 2004

Region: Europe
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 19th Century

The Supply and Demand for Entrepreneurs in Nineteenth-Century France

Posted by James Foreman-Peck on August 5th, 1997

Region: Europe
Subject: Business History
Time Period: 19th Century

The Supply Price of Labor During the Great Depression

Posted by Curtis J. Simon on December 13th, 2001

Region: North America
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

A Survey on Cycles and Chaos (Part I)

Posted by Claude Diebolt on April 3rd, 2001

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Survival of the Richest: The Malthusian Mechanism in Pre-Industrial England

Posted by Gregory Clark on April 23rd, 2006

Region: Europe
Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration
Time Period: 17th Century

Suspension of Payments, Bank Failures, and the Nonbank Public's Losses

Posted by Gerald P. Dwyer, Jr. on September 23rd, 1996

Region: North America
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 19th Century

Sweden and the European Miracles. Conquest, Growth and Voice: A Survey of Problems and Theories

Posted by Erik Orjan Emilsson on March 1st, 1997

Region: Europe
Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History
Time Period: General or Comparative

Switzerland Before 1815

Posted by Ernst Juerg Weber on December 18th, 2003

Region: Europe
Subject: Economywide Country Studies and Comparative History
Time Period: Medieval

Systeme Educatif et performances Economiques au Royaume-Uni: 19eme et 20eme siecles

Posted by Vincent Carpentier on February 10th, 2002

Region: Europe
Subject: Education And Human Resource Development
Time Period: General or Comparative

Takeovers and Implicit Contracts during the First Great Merger Wave: Evidence from the Australian Banking Industry

Posted by Andrew Seltzer on November 3rd, 2003

Region: Australia/New Zealand, incl. Pacific Islands
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 19th Century

A Tale of Two Theories: Monopolies and Craft Guilds in Medieval England and Modern Imagination

Posted by Gary Richardson on October 15th, 2003

Region: Europe
Subject: History of Economic Thought, Methodology
Time Period: Medieval

Tallest in the World: Native Americans of the Great Plains in the Nineteenth Century

Posted by Richard H. Steckel on July 25th, 2000

Region: North America
Subject: Living Standards, Anthropometric History, Economic Anthropology
Time Period: 19th Century

Tariff Structure and Institutions in Late 19th Century. New perspectives on the Tariff Growth Paradox

Posted by Antonio Tena on April 4th, 2008

Region:
Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations
Time Period: 19th Century

Taxation of Corporate Profits, Inflation and Income Distribution in France, 1914-1926

Posted by Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur on February 20th, 2001

Region: Europe
Subject: Business History, Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History, Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

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

Region: North America
Subject: Government, Law and Regulation, Public Finance
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Technological Breakthroughs and Productivity Growth

Posted by Harald Edquist on March 22nd, 2004

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: General or Comparative

Technological change and labour market institutions in Swedish industry 1920-1995

Posted by Lars Svensson on March 14th, 2004

Region: Europe
Subject: Labor and Employment History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

'Technological Lock-In' and the Power Source for the Motor Car

Posted by James Foreman-Peck on January 29th, 1997

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: History of Technology, including Technological Change
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Technological uncertainty and earnings dispersion in U.S. iron work, 1865-1880

Posted by Peter B. Meyer on March 10th, 2002

Region: North America
Subject: Industry: Manufacturing and Construction
Time Period: 19th Century

Technology, Organization and Productivity in Services: Lessons from Britain and the United States Since 1870

Posted by Sayantan Ghosal on August 29th, 2006

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: General or Comparative

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

Region: North America
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: 19th Century

Terms of Trade Shocks and Structural Adjustment: The Economic Consequences of Argentine Independence 1810-1825

Posted by Carlos Newland on May 16th, 1999

Region: Latin America, incl. Mexico and the Caribbean
Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations
Time Period: 19th Century

Threat of a Capital Levy, Expected Devaluation, and Interest Rates in Interwar France

Posted by Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur on May 15th, 1997

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Three Centuries of Inequality in Britain and America

Posted by Peter H. Lindert on February 24th, 1997

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Income and Wealth
Time Period: General or Comparative

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

Region: Europe
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 19th Century

Too Much Revolution: Agriculture and the Industrial Revolution: 1700-1860

Posted by Gregory Clark on May 20th, 1999

Region: Europe
Subject: Agriculture, Natural Resources, and Extractive Industries
Time Period: 18th Century

To Part or Not to Part: Emigration and Inheritance Institutions in Nineteenth-Century Hesse-Cassel

Posted by Simone Wegge on September 21st, 1997

Region: Europe
Subject: Historical Demography, including Migration
Time Period: 19th Century

Top Incomes and Earnings in Portugal 1936-2004

Posted by Facundo Alvaredo on April 26th, 2008

Region: Europe
Subject: Income and Wealth
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Top income shares in Portugal over the twentieth century

Posted by Jordi Guilera Rafecas on July 3rd, 2008

Region: Europe
Subject: Income and Wealth
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Top incomes in Portugal over the twentieth century

Posted by Jordi Guilera Rafecas on October 23rd, 2007

Region: Europe
Subject: Income and Wealth
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

To Raise the Golden Anchor? The Gold Standard, Uncertainty, and the Great Depression

Posted by David A. Zalewski on November 3rd, 1996

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: Financial Markets, Financial Institutions, and Monetary History
Time Period: 20th Century: Pre WWII

Tracking Down Germany's Pre WWI Business Cycle: A Dynamic Factor Model 1820-1913

Posted by Martin Uebele on May 16th, 2006

Region: Europe
Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations
Time Period: 19th Century

Trade and Empire, 1700-1870

Posted by Leandro Prados de la Escosura on July 3rd, 2008

Region: Europe
Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations
Time Period: 18th Century

Trade, Consumption, and the Native Economy: Lessons from York Factory, Hudson Bay

Posted by Ann M. Carlos on December 13th, 2001

Region: North America
Subject: Household, Family and Consumer History
Time Period: 18th Century

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

Posted by Max-Stephan Schulze on December 28th, 2003

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations
Time Period: 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

Trade Costs in the First Wave of Globalization

Posted by David Jacks on February 6th, 2007

Region: General, International, or Comparative
Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations
Time Period: 19th Century

Trading Costs and the Pattern of Trade in Pre-Industrial Europe

Posted by Meir Kohn on January 7th, 2001

Region: Europe
Subject: International and Domestic Trade and Relations
Time Period: Medieval

Trading Costs, the Expansion of Trade and Economic Growth in Pre-Industrial Europe

Posted by Meir Kohn on January 7th, 2001

Region: Europe
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity
Time Period: Medieval

Transfer problem dynamics: Macroeconomics of the Franco-Prussian war indemnity

Posted by Gregor Smith on January 23rd, 2003

Region: Europe
Subject: Macroeconomics and Fluctuations
Time Period: 19th Century

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

Region: North America
Subject: Markets and Institutions
Time Period: 16th Century

Transition From the Solar Age to the Fossil Era in the Finnish Energy Economy

Posted by Timo Myllyntaus on February 19th, 2001

Region: Europe
Subject: Economic Development, Growth, and Aggregate Productivity , Transport and Distribution, Energy, and Other Services
Time Period: 19th Century, 20th Century: Pre WWII, 20th Century: WWII and post-WWII

The Transition to Agriculture: Climate Reversals, Population Density, and Technical Change