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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3,728
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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1,092
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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693
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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601
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
Faculty of Law, University of Oxford and University of Oxford
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597
6.
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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470
Relationship Banking, Liquidity, and Investment in the German Industrialization
Journal of Finance, Vol. 53, No. 1737-1758, October 1998
Posted: 21 Dec 1998
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470
7.
Banking as an Emerging Technology: Hoare's Bank 1702-1742
MIT Economics Working Paper No. 04-01
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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468
8.
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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455
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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454
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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419
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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389
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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348
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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313
14.
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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279
15.
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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261
16.
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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257
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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247
18.
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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226
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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223
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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214
21.
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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199
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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197
23.
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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194
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 Amsterdam Law School
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179
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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161
26.
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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142
27.
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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135
28.
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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134
29.
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 - Department of Economics
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133
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
The John Marshall Law School
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129
31.
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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128
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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124
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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122
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124
33.
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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103
34.
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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103
35.
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
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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98
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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96
38.
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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93
39.
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 Amsterdam Law School
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85
40.
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 Newcastle University (UK)
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82
41.
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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80
42.
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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77
43.
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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75
44.
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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74
45.
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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72
46.
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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62
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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62
47.
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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61
48.
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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59
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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58
50.
Private Contracting, Law and Finance
Review of Financial Studies, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 60
Posted: 18 Mar 2019
Working Paper Series
University of Stirling, Queen's University Belfast and Queen's University Belfast
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58
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