1.
Political Determinants of Corporate Governance
Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 451
Number of pages: 19
Posted: 14 Jan 2004
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School
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3,854
2.
Is There a Tulip in Your Future?: Ruminations on Tulip Mania and the Innovative Dutch Futures Markets
Journal des Economistes et des Etudes Humaines, Vol. 14, No. 2, pp. 151-170, December 2004
Number of pages: 21
Posted: 21 Nov 2006
Accepted Paper Series
Syracuse University - College of Law
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1,156
3.
The Formation of the East India Company as a Cooperation-Enhancing Institution
Number of pages: 59
Posted: 10 Jan 2006
Working Paper Series
Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law
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767
4.
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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633
5.
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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627
6.
The Importance of Intercultural Competence in the Development of Successful International Businesses
Number of pages: 7
Posted: 26 Aug 2014
Working Paper Series
Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences - Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
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582
7.
Banking as an Emerging Technology: Hoare's Bank 1702-1742
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 12 Jan 2004
Working Paper Series
University of Zurich - UBS International Center of Economics in Society and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics
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483
8.
Relationship Banking, Liquidity, and Investment in the German Industrialization
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 13 Nov 1998
Working Paper Series
Emory University
There are 2 versions of this paper
Relationship Banking, Liquidity, and Investment in the German Industrialization
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 13 Nov 1998
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472
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472
9.
The Origins of Limited Liability in Great Britain, the First 'Panic', and Their Implications for Limited Liability and Corporate Governance Today
Number of pages: 25
Posted: 15 Jan 2004
Working Paper Series
Nottingham Trent University
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464
10.
Business Organization in Pre-Industrial Europe
Number of pages: 63
Posted: 04 Aug 2003
Working Paper Series
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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445
11.
The Case Against 'Outsider Reverse' Veil Piercing in Company Law
U. of Edinburgh School of Law Working Paper No. 2010/03
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 08 Feb 2010
Last Revised: 31 Jan 2012
Accepted Paper Series
University of Edinburgh - School of Law
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435
12.
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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362
13.
The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism the Haugian Way
NHH Dept. of Economics Discussion Paper No. 1/2012
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 04 Apr 2012
Working Paper Series
Institutt for samfunnsøkonomi / Department of Economics Norges Handelshøyskole / Norwegian School of Economics
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330
14.
German Codetermination and German Securities Markets
Mark J. Roe, Political Determinants of Corporate Governance, Oxford, 2003, Columbia Business Law Review, Vol. 167, 1998, Columbia Journal of European Law
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 25 Sep 1998
Last Revised: 14 May 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School
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285
15.
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
16.
Financial Markets and the Political Center of Gravity
Journal of Law, Finance & Accounting, Vol. 2, No. 1, 2017
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 02 Nov 2015
Last Revised: 27 Jun 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School and Harvard Law School
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274
17.
Fraud and Financial Scandals: A Historical Analysis of Opportunity and Impediment
Leeds University Business School Working Paper No. 16-01
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 24 Nov 2015
Last Revised: 27 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
University of Leeds - Leeds University Business School (LUBS)
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268
18.
Contested Boundaries: Ambiguity and Creativity in the Evolution of German Codetermination
RIETI Discussion Paper No. 04-E-022
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 28 Jul 2004
Working Paper Series
Freie Universität Berlin
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264
19.
Business Management in Pre-Industrial Europe
Number of pages: 69
Posted: 03 Sep 2003
Working Paper Series
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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237
20.
Microinsurance: Insights from a Historical Approach
UNSW Australian School of Business Research Paper No. 2010ACTL06
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 28 Jun 2010
Last Revised: 11 Jan 2018
Working Paper Series
affiliation not provided to SSRN and Macquarie University - Department of Actuarial Studies
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219
21.
Lord Eldon Redux: Information Asymmetry, Accountability and Fiduciary Loyalty
Oxford Journal of Legal Studies (Forthcoming), European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 348/2017
Number of pages: 48
Posted: 28 Nov 2016
Last Revised: 03 Mar 2017
Accepted Paper Series
Interdisciplinary Center (IDC) Herzliyah - Radzyner School of Law
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209
22.
Family Firms in European Economic History
DOING SUCCESSION IN EUROPE: GENERATIONAL TRANSFERS IN FAMILY BUSINESSES IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE, Isabell Stamm, Peter Breitschmid, Martin Kohli, eds., Schulthess Verlag, 2010
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 05 Apr 2010
Last Revised: 14 Apr 2010
Accepted Paper Series
Bocconi University - Department of Policy Analysis and Public Management
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205
23.
Calculating Profit: A Historical Perspective on the Development of Capitalism
Accounting, Organizations and Society, Vol. 35, No. 2, pp. 205-221, February 2010
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 21 Nov 2010
Accepted Paper Series
University of Leeds - Leeds University Business School (LUBS)
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204
24.
Agency Problems and Organizational Costs in Slave-Run Businesses
Amsterdam Law School Research Paper No. 2011-40, Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics Working Paper No. 2011-13
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 13 Oct 2011
Last Revised: 31 Oct 2013
Working Paper Series
University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics (ACLE) and University of Amsterdam - University of Amsterdam Faculty of Law
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201
25.
Business Elites, Political Connections, and Economic Entrenchment: Evidence from Belgium 1858-1909
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 07 Jan 2010
Working Paper Series
University of Antwerp, affiliation not provided to SSRN and University of Antwerp
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173
26.
Italian Firms in History: Size, Technology and Entrepreneurship
Bank of Italy Economic History Working Paper No. 13
Number of pages: 53
Posted: 23 Mar 2013
Working Paper Series
Bocconi University - Department of Policy Analysis and Public Management, Bank of Italy and Bocconi University - Department of Policy Analysis and Public Management
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169
27.
Turnaround at William Morrison Supermarkets PLC, 2004-2007
Leeds University Business School Working Paper No. 16-05
Number of pages: 17
Posted: 11 Dec 2015
Working Paper Series
University of Leeds - Leeds University Business School (LUBS)
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163
28.
Entrepreneurship and Market Order: Some Historical Evidence
Number of pages: 17
Posted: 19 Dec 2006
Working Paper Series
Athens University of Economics and Business - Department of Economics and Athens University of Economics and Business - Department of Economics
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145
29.
Capital Market Efficiency in the British Industrial Revolution: The Case of the Lancashire Cotton Industry, 1760-1840
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 01 Mar 2013
Working Paper Series
University of Leeds - Leeds University Business School (LUBS)
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141
30.
The English Legacy of the Second Amendment — History and Myth
Number of pages: 57
Posted: 30 Aug 2016
Last Revised: 31 Aug 2016
Working Paper Series
John Marshall Law School University of Illinois Chicgo
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137
31.
Political Fragmentation and Technology Adoption: Watermill Construction in Feudal France
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 05 Dec 2006
Working Paper Series
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
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136
32.
How Do Electoral Systems Affect Fiscal Policy? Evidence from State and Local Governments, 1890 to 2005
CESifo Working Paper Series No. 2958
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 28 Feb 2010
Working Paper Series
University of Lugano and Alfred-Weber Institut
There are 2 versions of this paper
How Do Electoral Systems Affect Fiscal Policy? Evidence from State and Local Governments, 1890 to 2005
CESifo Working Paper Series No. 2958
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 28 Feb 2010
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134
How Do Electoral Systems Affect Fiscal Policy? Evidence from State and Local Governments, 1890 to 2005
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 03 Sep 2008
Last Revised: 25 May 2017
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127
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134
33.
Real Contracts and Mistaken Wages: The Organisation of Work and Pay in London Building Trades 1650-1800
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 29 Jan 2016
Working Paper Series
University of Oxford - Wadham College
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115
34.
Private Contracting, Law and Finance
Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming, QMS Research Paper 2019/05
Number of pages: 60
Posted: 18 Mar 2019
Working Paper Series
University of Stirling, Queen's University Belfast - Queen's Management School and Queen's University Belfast
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111
35.
Paper Conspiracies and the End of All Good Order: Perceptions and Speculation in Early Capital Markets
Entrepreneurial Business Law Journal, Vol. 1, No. 2, p. 282, January 2007
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 21 Nov 2006
Accepted Paper Series
Syracuse University - College of Law
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108
36.
Incentives and Innovation? R&D Management in Germany's High-Tech Industries During the Second Industrial Revolution
MPI Collective Goods Preprint, No. 2008/38
Number of pages: 27
Posted: 26 Nov 2008
Working Paper Series
Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences - Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods and Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences - Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
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106
37.
Managerial Inefficiency and the British Climacteric, 1860-1914
Number of pages: 55
Posted: 08 Jun 2004
Working Paper Series
Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
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104
38.
The Dual Origin of the Duty to Disclose in Roman Law
Amsterdam Law School Research Paper No. 2013-76, Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics Working Paper No. 2013-14
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 21 Dec 2013
Last Revised: 17 Jul 2015
Working Paper Series
University of Amsterdam - Amsterdam Center for Law & Economics (ACLE) and University of Amsterdam - University of Amsterdam Faculty of Law
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103
39.
Lessons of the Spanish Empire, or the Curse of Resource Abundance
Number of pages: 18
Posted: 27 Jul 2012
Working Paper Series
Gaidar Institute for Economic Policy
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101
40.
Cyclicality and Other Features of German Firms' Investing Behavior: 1880-1913
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 25 Nov 1999
Working Paper Series
University of Leipzig
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99
41.
Could the Crown Credibly Commit to Respecting its Charters? England, 1558-1640
Number of pages: 28
Posted: 17 Jan 2013
Working Paper Series
Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law
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97
42.
Internal Auditing in Mid-Nineteenth Century Railroad Companies: Comparing the Practices of American and British Railroads
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 03 Sep 2015
Working Paper Series
Hokkaido University - Graduate School of Economics & Business Administration, Osaka Sangyo University and Hokkaido University
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90
43.
A Tale of Two Theories: Monopolies and Craft Guilds in Medieval England and Modern Imagination
Journal of the History of Economic Thought, Vol. 23, No. 2, pp. 217-242, 2001
Number of pages: 26
Posted: 18 Nov 2009
Accepted Paper Series
University of California at Irvine
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89
44.
Economic History and Business History: Mutual Contributions and Future Prospects
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 15 Jun 2011
Working Paper Series
University of Leeds - Leeds University Business School (LUBS) and University of Newcastle
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85
45.
Old and New Ceramics: Manufacturers, Products and Markets in the Venetian Republic in the 17th and 18th Centuries
University Ca' Foscari of Venice, Dept. of Economics Research Paper Series No. 05/06
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 07 Nov 2006
Working Paper Series
Ca Foscari University of Venice - Department of Management
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81
46.
Producer Cooperatives and Economic Efficiency: Evidence from the Nineteenth Century Cotton Textile Industry
The York Management School Working Paper No. 63
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 15 Oct 2011
Working Paper Series
University of Leeds - Leeds University Business School (LUBS)
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81
47.
Old and New Italian Multinational Firms
Bank of Italy Economic History Working Paper No. 15
Number of pages: 61
Posted: 23 Mar 2013
Working Paper Series
Bocconi University - Department of Policy Analysis and Public Management and Bocconi University - Department of Economics
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69
48.
Accessing Capital Markets: Aristocrats and New Share Issues in the Cycle and Pneumatic Tyre Industries, 1892-1898
Leeds University Business School Working Paper No. 16-10
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 25 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
University of Leeds, Independent and University of Leeds - Leeds University Business School (LUBS)
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67
49.
Mixed Marriages in Ireland a Century Ago
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 22 Mar 2014
Working Paper Series
Queen's University Management School, University College Dublin (UCD) and University College Dublin (UCD) - Department of Economics
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67
50.
Pharmaceutical Research in Wilhelmine Germany: The Case of E. Merck
MPI Collective Goods Preprint, No. 2008/3
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 04 Mar 2008
Working Paper Series
Max Planck Society for the Advancement of the Sciences - Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
There are 2 versions of this paper
Pharmaceutical Research in Wilhelmine Germany: The Case of E. Merck
MPI Collective Goods Preprint, No. 2008/3
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 04 Mar 2008
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67
Pharmaceutical Research in Wilhelmine Germany: The Case of E. Merck
Business History Review, Vol. 83, No. 3
Posted: 09 Dec 2009
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67
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