1.
Unified China and Divided Europe
International Economic Review, January 2018, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 56
Posted: 23 Jan 2014
Last Revised: 23 Apr 2017
Accepted Paper Series
National University of Singapore (NUS) - Department of Economics, George Mason University - Department of Economics and National University of Singapore (NUS) - Department of Economics
There are 2 versions of this paper
Unified China and Divided Europe
International Economic Review, January 2018, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 56
Posted: 23 Jan 2014
Last Revised: 23 Apr 2017
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1,959
Unified China and Divided Europe
International Economic Review, Vol. 59, Issue 1, pp. 285-327, 2018
Number of pages: 43
Posted: 20 Feb 2018
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1,959
2.
The Influence on Marcus Tullius Cicero on Modern Legal and Political Ideas
Ciceroniana, the Atti of Colloquium Tullianum Anni, MMVIII
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 05 Jun 2009
Accepted Paper Series
University of Baltimore - School of Law
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1,689
3.
The Short-Lived Influence of the Napoleonic Civil Code in 19th Century Greece
European Journal of Law & Economics, Vol. 14, No. 3, November 2002
Number of pages: 11
Posted: 20 Aug 2002
Accepted Paper Series
University of Athens - Department of History & Philosophy of Science
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1,262
4.
Jewish Persecutions and Weather Shocks: 1100-1800
GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 13-06
Number of pages: 59
Posted: 06 Feb 2013
Last Revised: 02 Jan 2014
Working Paper Series
University of Michigan at Dearborn, George Mason University - Department of Economics and George Mason University - Department of Economics
There are 2 versions of this paper
Jewish Persecutions and Weather Shocks: 1100-1800
GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 13-06
Number of pages: 59
Posted: 06 Feb 2013
Last Revised: 02 Jan 2014
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1,235
Jewish Persecutions and Weather Shocks: 1100–1800
The Economic Journal, Vol. 127, Issue 602, pp. 924-958, 2017
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 12 Jun 2017
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1
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1,235
5.
From St. Ives to Cyberspace: The Modern Distortion of the Medieval 'Law Merchant'
American University International Law Review, Vol. 21, No. 5, pp. 685-812, 2006
Number of pages: 128
Posted: 02 Nov 2005
Accepted Paper Series
Duke University School of Law
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977
6.
Should We Redistribute in Insolvency?
Number of pages: 55
Posted: 15 May 2006
Working Paper Series
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law
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944
7.
State Capacity and Military Conflict
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 18 Nov 2011
Last Revised: 18 Oct 2014
Working Paper Series
Bocconi University - Department of Finance and University of Zurich - UBS International Center of Economics in Society
There are 3 versions of this paper
State Capacity and Military Conflict
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 18 Nov 2011
Last Revised: 18 Oct 2014
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893
State Capacity and Military Conflict
EPSA 2013 Annual General Conference Paper 209A
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 20 May 2017
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31
State Capacity and Military Conflict
CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP8699
Number of pages: 62
Posted: 22 Dec 2011
Downloads
2
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893
8.
Geopolitics and Asia's Little Divergence: A Comparative Analysis of State Building in China and Japan after 1850
GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 15-54
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 30 Oct 2015
Last Revised: 19 Nov 2015
Working Paper Series
George Mason University - Department of Economics, Hitotsubashi University - Institute of Economic Research and National University of Singapore (NUS) - Department of Economics
Downloads
844
9.
Witchcraft, Weather and Economic Growth in Renaissance Europe
Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2004
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 30 Mar 2004
Accepted Paper Series
University of Chicago - Department of Economics
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822
10.
Fortifications and Democracy in the Ancient Greek World
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 24 Oct 2017
Last Revised: 30 Mar 2018
Working Paper Series
Stanford University - Department of Classics and Stanford University, Department of Political Science
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760
11.
Classical Influences on the Law and Politics of the French Revolution
THE CLASSICAL TRADITION, Anthony Grafton, Glenn Most, Salvatore Settis, eds., Harvard, 2009
Number of pages: 15
Posted: 23 Jul 2009
Accepted Paper Series
University of Baltimore - School of Law
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728
12.
What Lessons for Economic Development Can We Draw from the Champagne Fairs?
CESifo Working Paper Series, No. 3438
Number of pages: 42
Posted: 19 May 2011
Working Paper Series
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Economics and Politics and University of Cambridge - Faculty of Economics
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727
13.
Law, Finance and the First Corporations
GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE RULE OF LAW, James J. Heckman, Robert L. Nelson, L. Cabatingan, eds., Abingdon: Routledge-Cavendish, 2009
Number of pages: 43
Posted: 21 Jan 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law
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692
14.
Property Rights and Contract Form in Medieval Europe
11 Am. L. & Econ. Rev. 399 (2009), Georgetown Law and Economics Research Paper No. 969797
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 31 Jan 2007
Last Revised: 25 Jun 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Emory University School of Law
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632
15.
The Formation of the East India Company as a Deal between Entrepreneurs and Outside Investors
Number of pages: 59
Posted: 25 Jul 2004
Working Paper Series
Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law
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627
16.
The Firm as an Entity Before the Companies Acts
ADVENTURES OF THE LAW: PROCEEDINGS OF THE SIXTEENTH BRITISH LEGAL HISTORY CONFERENCE, DUBLIN, 2003, P. Brand, K. Costello and W.N. Osborough, eds., pp. 267-288, Four Courts Press, Dublin, 2005, Oxford Legal Studies Research Paper No. 47/2006
Number of pages: 19
Posted: 02 Nov 2006
Accepted Paper Series
University of Oxford - Faculty of Law and University of Oxford
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614
17.
Why Did the Austro-Hungarian Empire Collapse? A Public Choice Perspective
Constitutional Political Economy, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 28
Posted: 27 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 02 Sep 2008
Working Paper Series
Legatum Institute
Downloads
599
18.
1908-1918 Milli İktisat Dönemi Üzerine Bazı Notlar (Some Notes on National Economic Era (1908-1918) of Ottoman Empire)
Coşkun, Y. (2015). Some Notes on National Economic Era (1908-1918) of Ottoman Empire (1908-1918 Milli İktisat Dönemi Üzerine Bazı Notlar) (in, Birinci Dünya Savaşı’nın Yüzüncü Yılında Meşrutiyet’ten Cumhuriyet’e Vatan Savunması, Koleksiyoncular Derneği, 24 Nisan 2015, Mattek Matbaacılık, Ankara),
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 09 Dec 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Capital Markets Board of Turkey
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598
19.
Rivalry and Superior Dispatch: An Analysis of Competing Courts in Medieval and Early Modern England
George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 10-57
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 07 Nov 2010
Last Revised: 14 Nov 2010
Working Paper Series
Trinity College and George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty
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543
20.
Design and Evolution in Institutional Development: The Insignificance of the English Bill of Rights
Number of pages: 71
Posted: 16 Dec 2009
Last Revised: 07 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
University of Maryland - Department of Economics
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541
21.
Multi-Jurisdictional Bribery Law Enforcement: The OECD Anti-Bribery Convention
53 Virginia. Journal of International Law 1 (2012)
, New England Law | Boston Research Paper No. 13-04
Number of pages: 54
Posted: 06 Aug 2012
Last Revised: 19 Feb 2013
Accepted Paper Series
New England Law | Boston
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526
22.
Self-Enforcing Political System and Economic Growth: Late Medieval Genoa
97-037
Number of pages: 56
Posted: 28 Jan 1998
Working Paper Series
Stanford University - Department of Economics
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515
23.
The Value of Judicial Independence: Evidence from 18th Century England
Univ. of Virginia Law & Econ Research Paper No. 03-12; USC Law and Public Policy Research Paper No. 04-2; USC Law School, Olin Research Paper No. 04-2
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 09 Feb 2004
Working Paper Series
University of Southern California Gould School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law
There are 2 versions of this paper
The Value of Judicial Independence: Evidence from 18th Century England
Univ. of Virginia Law & Econ Research Paper No. 03-12; USC Law and Public Policy Research Paper No. 04-2; USC Law School, Olin Research Paper No. 04-2
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 09 Feb 2004
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493
The Value of Judicial Independence: Evidence from 18th Century England
7 American Law & Economics Review 1-27 (2005), USC Law and Public Policy Research Paper No. 04-27, USC CLASS Research Paper No. 04-27
Number of pages: 39
Posted: 06 Sep 2004
Last Revised: 19 Dec 2014
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256
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493
24.
Mergers and the Evolution of Patterns of Corporate Ownership and Control: The British Experience
Number of pages: 57
Posted: 04 Aug 2003
Working Paper Series
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
There are 2 versions of this paper
Mergers and the Evolution of Patterns of Corporate Ownership and Control: The British Experience
Number of pages: 57
Posted: 04 Aug 2003
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461
Mergers and the Evolution of Patterns of Corporate Ownership and Control: The British Experience
Business History, Vol. 46, pp. 256-284, April 2004
Posted: 06 Sep 2004
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461
25.
'Rulers Ruled by Women': An Economic Analysis of the Rise and Fall of Women's Rights in Ancient Sparta
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 30 Aug 2005
Working Paper Series
Montana State University - Bozeman - Department of Agricultural Economics and Economics and Clemson University - John E. Walker Department of Economics
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450
26.
Adam Smith on the Joint Stock Company
Working Paper of the Max Planck Institute for Tax Law and Public Finance No. 2016-1
Number of pages: 59
Posted: 25 Jan 2016
Last Revised: 02 Feb 2016
Working Paper Series
Humboldt University of Berlin - Faculty of Law
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423
27.
Tax Britannica: Nineteenth Century Tariffs and British National Income
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 05 Sep 2001
Working Paper Series
University of Tennessee, Chattanooga - Department of Finance and George Mason University - Department of Economics
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418
28.
'Whatever Is, Is Right'? Economic Institutions in Pre-Industrial Europe (Tawney Lecture 2006)
CESifo Working Paper Series No. 2066
Number of pages: 39
Posted: 02 Aug 2007
Working Paper Series
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Economics
Downloads
404
29.
The Historical Evolution of Politics
Revista de Economía Institucional, Vol. 2, No. 2, First Semester 2000,
Number of pages: 16
Posted: 01 Jan 2004
Accepted Paper Series
Washington University in St. Louis - Department of Economics
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399
30.
Queens
Number of pages: 91
Posted: 06 Apr 2017
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy and College of William & Mary
There are 3 versions of this paper
Queens
University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper No. 2019-120
Number of pages: 91
Posted: 03 Oct 2019
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237
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392
31.
Institutions, the Rise of Commerce, and the Persistence of Laws: Interest Restrictions in Islam & Christianity
Islamic Law and Law of the Muslim World Paper No. 08-10
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 25 Jan 2008
Last Revised: 08 Jun 2010
Working Paper Series
Chapman University - The George L. Argyros School of Business & Economics
Downloads
390
32.
Overseas Trade and the Decline of Privateering
Number of pages: 60
Posted: 26 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 23 Nov 2010
Working Paper Series
University of Mannheim and Alfred-Weber Institut
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389
33.
Plague, Politics, and Pogroms: The Black Death, Rule of Law, and the Persecution of Jews in the Holy Roman Empire
GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 16-19
Number of pages: 55
Posted: 19 Apr 2016
Last Revised: 10 May 2016
Working Paper Series
Susquehanna University and George Mason University - Department of Economics
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383
34.
The Problem with Neoclassical Institutional Economics: A Critique with Special Reference to the North/Thomas Model of Pre-1500 Europe
Explorations in Economic History, Vol. 18, No. 2, 1981
Number of pages: 25
Posted: 20 Mar 2008
Accepted Paper Series
Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business - Economics Department
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381
35.
The Rise and Decline of a Great Power: Venice 1250-1650
University Ca' Foscari of Venice, Dept. of Economics Research Paper Series No. 27/WP/2006
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 28 Nov 2006
Working Paper Series
Ca Foscari University of Venice
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380
36.
Taxes, Lawyers, and the Decline of Witch Trials in France
GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 11-47
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 06 Nov 2011
Last Revised: 04 Sep 2012
Working Paper Series
George Mason University - Department of Economics and George Mason University - Department of Economics
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373
37.
Shareholders' Duties to the Company and Fellow Shareholders
9 European Company Law 2012, p. 185-191
Number of pages: 7
Posted: 20 Sep 2011
Last Revised: 19 Jun 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Amsterdam Court of Appeal
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356
38.
The (Neglected) Value of Board Accountability in Corporate Governance
University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 9/2015
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 18 Feb 2015
Working Paper Series
University College London, Faculty of Laws
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353
39.
The Use and Abuse of Trust: Social Capital and its Deployment by Early Modern Guilds
CESifo Working Paper Series No. 1302
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 05 Nov 2004
Working Paper Series
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Economics
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342
40.
Visions of Cadiz: The Constitution of 1812 in Historical and Constitutional Thought
Studies in Law, Politics, and Society, Vol. 53, pp. 59-88, December 2010
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 13 Jan 2011
Accepted Paper Series
Florida International University (FIU) - College of Law
Downloads
339
41.
Financial Innovation and Growth: Listings and IPOs from 1880 to World War II in the Athens Stock Exchange
London School of Economics, Working Paper
Number of pages: 70
Posted: 11 Jan 2013
Last Revised: 30 Nov 2015
Working Paper Series
National and Kapodistrian University of Athens - Faculty of Economics, University of Bath, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens - Faculty of Economics and University of Athens - School of Economics
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327
42.
The Rise of Effective States in Europe
Journal of Economic History, Vol. 75, No. 3
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 08 Feb 2015
Last Revised: 06 Oct 2015
Accepted Paper Series
University of Michigan at Ann Arbor
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316
43.
Determinants of Corporate Financial Disclosure in an Unregulated Environment: Evidence from the Early 20th Century
European Accounting Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 48
Posted: 02 Mar 2008
Last Revised: 07 Jan 2009
Working Paper Series
affiliation not provided to SSRN, Maastricht Accounting and Auditing Research and Education Center (MARC) and University of Antwerp
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311
44.
What Are Analytic Narratives?
HEC Paris Research Paper No. ECO/SCD-2016-1155
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 19 Jun 2016
Working Paper Series
GREGHEC
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295
45.
Fragmented Networks and Entrepreneurship in Late Imperial Russia
Donald H Jones Center for Entrepreneurship Research Paper No. 11-02
Number of pages: 67
Posted: 19 Jun 2009
Last Revised: 15 Apr 2011
Working Paper Series
University of Mannheim and Carnegie Mellon University
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282
46.
Law, Revolution and Religion: Harold Berman's Interpretation of the English Revolution
Journal of Markets & Morality, Vol. 8, No. 2, pp. 355-385, Fall 2005
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 10 May 2006
Accepted Paper Series
University of Queensland - TC Beirne School of Law
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282
47.
The Effect of War Risk on Managerial and Investor Behavior: Evidence From the Brussels Stock Exchange in the Pre-1914 Era
The Journal of Economic History, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 20 Dec 2018
Last Revised: 13 Jan 2020
Working Paper Series
Monash University - Department of Banking and Finance
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281
48.
On the Evolution of Collective Enforcement Institutions: Communities and Courts
TILEC Discussion Paper No. 2011-017, U of Michigan Law & Econ, Empirical Legal Studies Center Paper No. 11-013
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 05 Mar 2011
Last Revised: 19 Jul 2016
Working Paper Series
University of Michigan, Stephen M. Ross School of Business and Tilburg University - CentER
There are 2 versions of this paper
On the Evolution of Collective Enforcement Institutions: Communities and Courts
TILEC Discussion Paper No. 2011-017, U of Michigan Law & Econ, Empirical Legal Studies Center Paper No. 11-013
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 05 Mar 2011
Last Revised: 19 Jul 2016
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273
On the Evolution of Collective Enforcement Institutions: Communities and Courts
Ross School of Business Paper No. 1169, CentER Discussion Paper No. 2011-074
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 30 Jun 2011
Last Revised: 08 Apr 2014
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119
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273
49.
The Value of Judicial Independence: Evidence from 18th Century England
7 American Law & Economics Review 1-27 (2005), USC Law and Public Policy Research Paper No. 04-27, USC CLASS Research Paper No. 04-27
Number of pages: 39
Posted: 06 Sep 2004
Last Revised: 19 Dec 2014
Accepted Paper Series
University of Southern California Gould School of Law and University of Virginia School of Law
There are 2 versions of this paper
The Value of Judicial Independence: Evidence from 18th Century England
Univ. of Virginia Law & Econ Research Paper No. 03-12; USC Law and Public Policy Research Paper No. 04-2; USC Law School, Olin Research Paper No. 04-2
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 09 Feb 2004
Downloads
493
The Value of Judicial Independence: Evidence from 18th Century England
7 American Law & Economics Review 1-27 (2005), USC Law and Public Policy Research Paper No. 04-27, USC CLASS Research Paper No. 04-27
Number of pages: 39
Posted: 06 Sep 2004
Last Revised: 19 Dec 2014
Downloads
256
Downloads
256
50.
Testing Legal Origins Theory within France: Customary Laws versus Roman Code
Journal of Comparative Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 43
Posted: 25 Nov 2013
Last Revised: 14 Nov 2018
Accepted Paper Series
Toulouse Business School
Downloads
255
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