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2017, Volume 21, Issue 1
- 64-82 Determinants of banks’ capital structure in the Pre-Regulation Era
by Kim Abildgren - 83-103 A model of the beginnings of coinage in antiquity
by Jacques Melitz - 104-132 The effectiveness of Canada's navy on escort duty
by Karl Skogstad - 133-139 Karl Gunnar Persson (1943–2016)
by Giovanni Federico & Paul Sharp
2016, Volume 20, Issue 4
- 387-409 Accounting for the “Little Divergence”: What drove economic growth in pre-industrial Europe, 1300–1800?
by Alexandra M. de Pleijt & Jan Luiten van Zanden - 410-428 The political economy of strategic default: Sweden and the international capital markets, 1810–1830
by Patrik Winton - 429-451 The Berlin stock exchange and the geography of German stock markets in 1913
by Carsten Burhop & Sibylle Lehmann-Hasemeyer - 452-477 Spanish agriculture in the little divergence1,2
by Carlos Álvarez-Nogal & Leandro Prados De La Escosura & Carlos Santiago-Caballero - 478-525 Political instability and non-price loan terms in Lima, Peru: evidence from notarized contracts
by Luis FELIPE Zegarra - 526-527 Obituary: Lennart Schön
by Kerstin Enflo & Jonas Ljungberg
2016, Volume 20, Issue 3
- 275-298 Does military pressure boost fiscal capacity? Evidence from late-modern military revolutions in Europe and North America
by Oriol Sabaté - 299-321 Reverse assimilation? Immigrants in the Canadian labour market during the Great Depression
by Kris Inwood & Chris Minns & Fraser Summerfield - 322-344 War, housing rents, and free market: Berlin's rental housing during World War I
by Konstantin A. Kholodilin - 345-367 Little Divergence revisited: Polish weighted real wages in a European perspective, 1500–1800
by Mikołaj Malinowski - 368-386 Estimating the shares of secondary- and tertiary-sector outputs in the age of early modern growth: the case of Japan, 1600–18741
by Osamu Saito & Masanori Takashima
2016, Volume 20, Issue 2
- 123-146 Editor's choice Serfs and the city: market conditions, surplus extraction institutions, and urban growth in early modern Poland
by Mikołaj Malinowski - 147-175 Immigration and the demand for life insurance: evidence from Canada, 1911
by Alan De Bromhead & Karol Jan Borowiecki - 176-197 Industrialization and inequality revisited: mortality differentials and vulnerability to economic stress in Stockholm, 1878–1926
by Joseph Molitoris & Martin Dribe - 198-214 Credit for the poor: the decline of pawnbroking 1880–1930
by Sofia Murhem - 215-241 Where do we go from here? Market access and regional development in Italy (1871–1911)
by Anna Missiaia - 242-273 Contemporaries' opinions of the Allied and Central Powers' performance during the First World War: measuring turning points in perception with sovereign debt prices
by Tobias A. Jopp
2016, Volume 20, Issue 1
- 1-22 Editor's choice Economic inequality and growth before the industrial revolution: the case of the Low Countries (fourteenth to nineteenth centuries)
by Wouter Ryckbosch - 23-45 All equal in the sight of God: economic inequality and religion in the early twentieth century
by Livio Di Matteo - 46-65 Escaping from a human capital trap? Italy's regions and the move to centralized primary schooling, 1861–1936
by Gabriele Cappelli - 66-78 Ship speeds during the Industrial Revolution: East India Company ships, 1770–1828
by Peter M. Solar & Luc Hens - 79-101 Why did the National Industrial Recovery Act fail?
by Bernard C. Beaudreau - 102-122 Politics, coalitions, and support of farmers, 1920–1975
by Eva Fernández
2015, Volume 19, Issue 4
- 317-334 Editor's choice Democracy, extension of suffrage, and redistribution in nineteenth-century Europe
by Giovanni B. Pittaluga & Giampiero Cama & Elena Seghezza - 335-358 Market potential and regional economic growth in Spain (1860–1930)
by Julio Martinez-Galarraga & Daniel A. Tirado & Rafael González-Val - 359-381 Wage restraint in Scandinavia: during the postwar period or the neoliberal age?
by Erik Bengtsson - 382-411 The emergence of a European region: business cycles in South-East Europe from political independence to World War II
by Matthias Morys & Martin Ivanov - 412-431 Contracts and cooperation: the relative failure of the Irish dairy industry in the late nineteenth century reconsidered
by Ingrid Henriksen & Eoin McLaughlin & Paul Sharp - 432-453 How the Danes discovered Britain: the international integration of the Danish dairy industry before 1880
by Markus Lampe & Paul Sharp - 454-468 The Swedish lighthouse system 1650–1890: private versus public provision of public goods
by Erik Lindberg
2015, Volume 19, Issue 3
- 215-234 Editor's choice Labor, wages, and living standards in Java, 1680–1914
by Pim De Zwart & Jan Luiten Van Zanden - 235-254 Did the Great Deflation of 1929–33 really have to happen? A reconsideration of the inevitability of the Great Deflation view
by Marek A. Dąbrowski - 255-274 Modern Greece's first industry? The shipbuilding center of sailing merchant marine of Syros, 1830–70
by Apostolos Delis - 275-293 Institutions versus demand: determinants of agricultural development in Saxony, 1660–1850
by Ulrich Pfister & Michael Kopsidis - 294-315 Did democracy bring redistribution? Insights from the Spanish tax system, 1960–90
by Sara Torregrosa Hetland
2015, Volume 19, Issue 2
- 109-127 Editor's choice Self-defeating austerity? Evidence from 1930s' Britain
by Nicholas Crafts & Terence C. Mills - 128-148 The paradox of progress: the emergence of wage discrimination in US manufacturing
by Joyce Burnette - 149-170 Plenty of land, land of plenty: the agrarian output of Portugal (1311–20)
by António Henriques - 171-194 A twin crisis with multiple banks of issue. Spain in the 1860s
by Alessio Moro & Galo Nuño & Pedro Tedde - 195-214 Agricultural protection and support in the European Economic Community, 1962–92: rent-seeking or welfare policy?
by Mark Spoerer
2015, Volume 19, Issue 1
- 1-22 Editor's choice The great escape? The contribution of the empire to Portugal's economic growth, 1500–1800
by Leonor Freire Costa & Nuno Palma & Jaime Reis - 23-43 Fighting fiscal dominance. The case of Spain, 1874–1998
by Marcela Sabaté & Regina Escario & Maria Dolores Gadea - 44-66 Passive modernization? The new human development index and its components in Italy's regions (1871–2007)
by Emanuele Felice & Michelangelo Vasta - 67-87 Markets and politics: the Swedish urban–rural wage gap, 1865–1985
by Christer Lundh & Svante Prado - 88-107 Bank on steel? Joint-stock banks and the rationalization of the British interwar steel industry
by Simon C. Holmes & Florian Ploeckl
2014, Volume 18, Issue 4
- 371-397 Editor's choice Output, national income, and expenditure: an input–output table of Germany in 1936
by Rainer Fremdling & Reiner Staeglin - 398-412 The world refuses to shrink: the speed and reliability of information transmission in North and Baltic Sea region, 1750–1825
by Hannes Vinnal - 413-432 Plenty of trust, not much cooperation: social capital and collective action in early twentieth century eastern Spain
by Samuel Garrido - 433-451 Does lineage matter? A study of ancestral influence on educational attainment in Korea
by Christopher Paik - 452-471 Revisiting Italian emigration before the Great War: a test of the standard economic model
by Pier Giorgio Ardeni & Andrea Gentili
2014, Volume 18, Issue 3
- 227-247 Editor's choice Can general purpose technology theory explain economic growth? Electrical power as a case study
by Cristiano Andrea Ristuccia & Solomos Solomou - 248-276 A monthly stock exchange index for Ireland, 1864–1930
by Richard S. Grossman & Ronan C. Lyons & Kevin Hjortshøj O'rourke & Madalina A. Ursu - 277-305 New methods for construction of historical price indices, with an illustration from Norway, 1777–1920
by Jan Tore Klovland - 306-323 The environmental Kuznets curve and the Pasteur effect: environmental costs in Sweden 1850–2000
by Magnus Lindmark & Sevil Acar - 324-348 Geography or politics? Regional inequality in colonial India
by Tirthankar Roy - 349-369 The ripples of the industrial revolution: exports, economic growth, and regional integration in Italy in the early nineteenth century
by Giovanni Federico & Antonio Tena-Junguito
2014, Volume 18, Issue 2
- 107-143 Editor's choice Von Thünen south of the Alps: access to markets and interwar Italian agriculture
by Pablo Martinelli - 144-165 Why are you tall while others are short? Agricultural production and other proximate determinants of global heights
by Joerg Baten & Matthias Blum - 166-184 The roots of economic failure: what explains East Germany's falling behind between 1945 and 1950?
by Albrecht Ritschl & Tamás Vonyó - 185-202 Living standards on the pre-colonial Gold Coast: a quantitative estimate of African laborers’ welfare ratios
by Klas Rönnbäck - 203-226 Vine-growing in Catalonia: the main agricultural change underlying the earliest industrialization in Mediterranean Europe (1720–1939)
by Marc Badia-Miró & Enric Tello
2014, Volume 18, Issue 1
- 1-18 Editor's choice Governance and institutional change in marine insurance, 1350–1850
by Christopher Kingston - 19-38 Loans to salaried employees: the case of the Dutch East India Company, 1602–1794
by Christiaan Van Bochove & Ton Van Velzen - 39-56 Escaping the macroeconomic trilemma: the Belgian two-tier foreign exchange system under Bretton Woods
by Alain Durré & Philippe Ledent - 57-81 Respiratory tuberculosis and standards of living in postwar Europe
by Sue Bowden & JoÃo tovar jalles & Álvaro santos Pereira & Alex Sadler - 82-105 The stability of voluntarism: financing social care in early modern Dutch towns compared with the English Poor Law, c. 1600–1800
by Elise van Nederveen Meerkerk & Daniëlle Teeuwen
November 2013, Volume 17, Issue 4
- 389-407 The bondholder, the sovereign, and the banker: sovereign debt and bondholders' protection before 1914
by Rui Pedro Esteves - 408-430 Plague in seventeenth-century Europe and the decline of Italy: an epidemiological hypothesis
by Guido Alfani - 431-451 Credit and growth: reconsidering Italian industrial policy during the Golden Age
by Mauro Rota - 452-470 The Rain in Spain? Climate versus urban demand as causes of agricultural stagnation in eighteenth-century Spain
by Carlos Santiago-Caballero
August 2013, Volume 17, Issue 3
- 251-271 One world of labour regulation, two worlds of trade: examples of Belgium and Brazil
by Michael Huberman - 272-293 Currency crisis and collapse in interwar Greece: predicament or policy failure?
by Nicos Christodoulakis - 294-317 Land markets and inequality: evidence from medieval England
by Cliff T. Bekar & Clyde G. Reed - 318-339 The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth: the English Corn Returns as a data source in economic history, 1770-1914
by Liam Brunt & Edmund Cannon - 340-363 Inescapable hunger? Energy cost accounting and the costs of digestion, pregnancy, and lactation
by Eric B. Schneider - 364-387 The financial penalty for 'unfair' debt: the case of Cuban bonds at the time of independence
by Stephanie Collet
May 2013, Volume 17, Issue 2
- 141-146 Introduction
by Jane Humphries & Tine De Moor & Jaco Zuijderduijn - 147-170 Bargaining for basics? Inferring decision making in nineteenth-century British households from expenditure, diet, stature, and death
by Sara Horrell & Deborah Oxley - 171-189 To navigate the family economy over a lifetime: life-cycle squeezes in pre-industrial Swedish towns
by Kristina Lilja & Dan Bäcklund - 190-209 English individualism and continental altruism? Servants, remittances, and family welfare in eighteenth-century rural Europe
by Thijs Lambrecht - 210-232 Picking winners? The effect of birth order and migration on parental human capital investments in pre-modern England
by Marc Klemp & Chris Minns & Patrick Wallis & Jacob Weisdorf - 233-249 Preferences of the poor: market participation and asset management of poor households in sixteenth-century Holland
by Tine De Moor & Jaco Zuijderduijn
February 2013, Volume 17, Issue 1
- 1-23 The surprising social mobility of Victorian Britain
by Jason Long - 24-44 Does women's education affect fertility? Evidence from pre-demographic transition Prussia
by Sascha O. Becker & Francesco Cinnirella & Ludger Woessmann - 45-70 When did England overtake Italy? Medieval and early modern divergence in prices and wages
by Paolo Malanima - 71-94 The First World War and working-class food consumption in Britain
by Ian Gazeley & Andrew Newell - 95-121 Growth effects of nineteenth-century mass migrations: 'Fome Zero' for Brazil?
by Yvonne Stolz & Joerg Baten & Tarcísio Botelho - 122-140 Desertions in nineteenth-century shipping: modelling quit behaviour
by Jari Ojala & Jaakko Pehkonen & Jari Eloranta
November 2012, Volume 16, Issue 4
- 335-355 The origins of formal education in sub-Saharan Africa: was British rule more benign?
by Ewout H.P. Frankema - 356-383 Bondholders versus bond-sellers? Investment banks and conditionality lending in the London market for foreign government debt, 1815-1913
by Marc Flandreau & Juan H. Flores - 384-407 The 'Thin film of gold': monetary rules and policy credibility
by Niall Ferguson & Moritz Schularick - 408-429 Early modern copper money: multiple currencies and trimetallism in Sweden 1624-1776
by Rodney Edvinsson - 430-448 The political economy of Swedish absolutism, 1789-1809
by Patrik Winton - 449-468 Spain's development of rural credit cooperatives from 1900 to 1936: the role of financial resources and formal education
by Angel Pascual Martinez-Soto & Susana Martinez-Rodriguez & Ildefonso Mendez - 469-489 The speed of ships and shipping productivity in the age of sail
by Klas Ronnback - 490-510 Financial structures and the real effects of credit-supply shocks in Denmark 1922-2011
by Kim Abildgren - 511-528 Commons, social capital, and the emergence of agricultural cooperatives in early twentieth century Spain
by Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia - 529-549 The Swedish economy in the early modern period: constructing historical national accounts
by Lennart Schon & Olle Krantz - 550-571 A reflection of history: fluctuations in Greek sovereign risk between 1914 and 1929
by Olga Christodoulaki & Haeran Cho & Piotr Fryzlewicz
August 2012, Volume 16, Issue 3
- 233-246 The lasting damage to mortality of early-life adversity: evidence from the English famine of the late 1720s
by Marc Klemp & Jacob Weisdorf - 247-269 Liquidity premia during the industrial breakthrough: evidence from the Stockholm Stock Exchange, 1901-1919-super- †
by Otto Gernandt & Thomas Palm & Daniel Waldenström - 270-291 Are composers different? Historical evidence on conflict-induced migration (1816-1997)
by Karol Jan Borowiecki - 292-310 Was the manorial system an efficient insurance institution? Economic stress and demographic response in Sweden, 1749-1859
by Martin Dribe & Mats Olsson & Patrick Svensson - 311-333 Diverse paths to industrial development: evidence from late-nineteenth-century Canada
by Kris Inwood & Ian Keay
May 2012, Volume 16, Issue 2
- 119-143 Commodity market disintegration in the interwar period
by William Hynes & David S. Jacks & Kevin H. O'rourke - 144-165 War and economics: Spanish civil war finances revisited
by Pablo Martín-Aceña & Elena Martínez Ruiz & María A. Pons - 166-187 The Corn Laws in continental perspective
by Giovanni Federico - 188-210 The role of Rentiers in the stabilization processes of the 1920s
by Giovanni B. Pittaluga & Elena Seghezza - 211-232 Are dictatorships less redistributive? A comparative analysis of social spending in Europe, 1950-1980
by Sergio Espuelas
February 2012, Volume 16, Issue 1
- 1-2 Editorial 2012
by Gregory Clark & Jaime Reis & Hans-Joachim Voth - 3-22 Small is beautiful: the efficiency of credit markets in the late medieval Holland
by Jan Luiten van Zanden & Jaco Zuijderduijn & Tine De Moor - 23-50 Extending broadcast technology in the British Colonies during the 1950s
by Sue Bowden & David Clayton & Alvaro Pereira - 51-73 The origins of foreign exchange policy: the National Bank of Belgium and the quest for monetary independence in the 1850s
by Stefano Ugolini - 74-96 Land markets and agrarian backwardness (Spain, 1904-1934)
by Juan Carmona & Joan R. Rosés - 97-118 The bombing of Germany: the economic geography of war-induced dislocation in West German industry
by Tamás Vonyó