Report NEP-HIS-2025-04-21

This is the archive for NEP-HIS, a report on new working papers in the area of Business, Economic and Financial History. Bernardo Bátiz-Lazo issued this report. It is usually issued weekly.

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• BROADBERRY, Stephen & FUKAO, Kyoji & SETTSU, Tokihiko, 2025. "How Did Japan Catch-up ｗith the West? Some Implications of Recent Revisions to Japan’s Historical Growth Record," Discussion Paper Series 763, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University.
• Atsuki Kotani, 2025. "Connecting to Electricity: Technical Change and Regional Development," ISER Discussion Paper 1279, Institute of Social and Economic Research, The University of Osaka.
• Wagenaar, Homer, 2025. "The patent system of the Netherlands in a Belgian mirror, 1817-1869," QUCEH Working Paper Series 25-03, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History.
• Costanza Maria Fileccia & Eric Strobl, 2025. "Climate adaptation in early Australian wheat farming (1860-1960)," Working Papers 0276, European Historical Economics Society (EHES).
• Eduardo Levy Yeyati, 2024. "When did Argentina lose its mojo? A short note on economic divergence," School of Government Working Papers 202404, Universidad Torcuato Di Tella.
• Giulio Cainelli & Carlo Ciccarelli & Roberto Ganau, 2025. "Napoleonic Administrative Reforms and Development in the Italian Mezzogiorno," Quaderni di storia economica (Economic History Working Papers) 54, Bank of Italy, Economic Research and International Relations Area.
• Mattias Nasman & Grace Ballor, 2024. "The Car Industry and Climate Change: A Historical Review," GREEN Working Papers 24, GREEN, Centre for Research on Geography, Resources, Environment, Energy & Networks, Universita' Bocconi, Milano, Italy.
• Süße, Marvin & Grigoriadis, Theocharis, 2025. "Financing late industrialization evidence from the State Bank of the Russian Empire," Discussion Papers 2025/2, Free University Berlin, School of Business & Economics.
• Berker, Christian, 2025. "The Geopolitical Context for Institutional Change: The Case of Prussia in the 17th and 18th Century," Publications of Darmstadt Technical University, Institute for Business Studies (BWL) 153630, Darmstadt Technical University, Department of Business Administration, Economics and Law, Institute for Business Studies (BWL).
• Fenske, James & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Mukhopadhyay, Anwesh, 2025. "Colonial Persistence," The Warwick Economics Research Paper Series (TWERPS) 1557, University of Warwick, Department of Economics.
• BROADBERRY, Stephen & FUKAO, Kyoji & GUAN, Hanhui, 2025. "Regional Variation and the Asian Little Divergence," Discussion Paper Series 764, Institute of Economic Research, Hitotsubashi University.
• Yatish Arya & Amit Chaudhary & Anisha Garg, 2025. "Religious Identity, Lost Learning: Evidence from Colonial India," Working Papers 138, Ashoka University, Department of Economics.
• Trung V. Vu, 2025. "Revisiting the Ancient Origins of Gender Inequality," CAMA Working Papers 2025-11, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University.
• Wagenaar, Homer & Colvin, Christopher L., 2025. "Patently peculiar: Patents and innovation in the United Kingdom of the Netherlands," QUCEH Working Paper Series 25-04, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's University Centre for Economic History, revised 2025.
• Mathias Hoffmann & Tetsuji Okazaki & Toshihiro Okubo, 2025. "Branch Banking and Regional Financial Markets: Evidence from Prewar Japan," CAMA Working Papers 2025-16, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University.
• Tetsuji Okazaki & Toshihiro Okubo & Eric Strobl, 2025. ""Life Insurance, Natural Disasters, and Human Capital Investment: A Case of Early 20 th Century Japan" Abstract This paper examines the role of life insurance buffering negative income shock," CIRJE F-Series CIRJE-F-1246, CIRJE, Faculty of Economics, University of Tokyo.
• Marzian, Johannes & Trebesch, Christoph, 2025. "How to finance Europe's military buildup? Lessons from history," Kiel Policy Brief 184, Kiel Institute for the World Economy (IfW Kiel).
• Marcel Parent & Antoine Parent & Pierre-Charles Pradier & Laurent Gauthier, 2024. "Jaurès's The New Army (1911) as a Model of Strategic War Prevention," Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers) hal-04425659, HAL.
• Schmucker, Alexandra & Vom Berge, Philipp, 2025. "Sample of Integrated Labour Market Biographies (SIAB) 1975-2023," FDZ-Datenreport. Documentation on Labour Market Data 202502 (en), Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany].
• Daniel Fehrle & Vasilij Konysev, 2025. "A “Marginal” Tale of Two Germanies: Accounting for the Systemic Divide," Discussion Paper Series 347, Universitaet Augsburg, Institute for Economics.
• Schmucker, Alexandra & Vom Berge, Philipp, 2025. "Stichprobe der Integrierten Arbeitsmarktbiografien (SIAB) 1975-2023," FDZ-Datenreport. Documentation on Labour Market Data 202502 (de), Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany].
• Lafond, François, 2025. "Forecasting technological progress," INET Oxford Working Papers 2025-10, Institute for New Economic Thinking at the Oxford Martin School, University of Oxford.
• Claire-Lise Gaillard & Irène Gimenez, 2025. "Amitiés, couples, sexualités : penser le continuum des intimités relationnelles," Working Papers 305, French Institute for Demographic Studies.
• Giuseppe Ciccarone & Giovanni Di Bartolomeo, 2025. "La "svalutazione virtuosa" del 1992 e la politica dei redditi: un insegnamento da ricordare," Working Papers in Public Economics 259, Department of Economics and Law, Sapienza University of Roma.
• Ramon Ramon-Muñoz & Guillermo Esteban-Oliver & Josep-Maria Ramon-Muñoz, 2025. "Transport and Biological Living Standards: Evidence from Late 19th-Century Catalonia," Working Papers 0277, European Historical Economics Society (EHES).
• Hansch, Michelle, 2025. "Smoothing the Turmoil: Harmonization of the 1988 Occupation Codes over Time," FDZ-Methodenreport 202502 (en), Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany].
• Chiplunkar,Gaurav & Tatjana Kleineberg, 2025. "Gender Barriers, Structural Transformation, and Economic Development," Policy Research Working Paper Series 11083, The World Bank.
• Daniel Fehrle & Vasilij Konysev, 2025. "To converge or not to converge: Accounting for the German reunification," Discussion Paper Series 348, Universitaet Augsburg, Institute for Economics.
• Popov, Alexander, 2025. "Putting countries on the cap? Pastoral visits of John Paul II and international trade," Working Paper Series 3037, European Central Bank.
• Eric Schuss, 2025. "The Effects of Expanding Higher Education on Wages and Establishments' Labor Demand," Economics of Education Working Paper Series 0239, University of Zurich, Department of Business Administration (IBW).