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1.

Facts and Fantasies about Commodity Futures

Yale ICF Working Paper No. 04-20

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 29 Jun 2004

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Gary B. Gorton and K. Geert Rouwenhorst

Yale School of Management and Yale School of Management - International Center for Finance

There are 3 versions of this paper

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2.

The Golden Dilemma

Financial Analysts Journal, vol. 69, no. 4 (July/August 2013) 10-42.

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 06 Jun 2012 Last Revised: 28 Aug 2015

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Claude B. Erb and Campbell R. Harvey

TR and Duke University - Fuqua School of Business

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 22,000

3.

The Worldwide Equity Premium: A Smaller Puzzle

Chapter 11 of R Mehra (Ed), Handbook of the Equity Risk Premium. Elsevier, 2008, pages 467–514, AFA 2008 New Orleans Meetings Paper; EFA 2006 Zurich Meetings Paper,

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 17 Mar 2006 Last Revised: 20 Mar 2016

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Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton

University of Cambridge - Judge Business School, London Business School - Institute of Finance and Accounting and London Business School - Institute of Finance and Accounting

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4.

Theodore Levitt's 'The Globalization of Markets': An Evaluation after Two Decades

Harvard NOM Working Paper No. 03-20; Harvard Business School Working Paper No. 03-082

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 26 Feb 2003

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Rawi Abdelal and Richard S. Tedlow

Harvard University - Business, Government and the International Economy Unit and Harvard University - Entrepreneurial Management Unit

Downloads 7,821

5.

The Global Multi-Asset Market Portfolio 1959-2012

Financial Analysts Journal, Forthcoming

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 12 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 03 Dec 2014

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Ronald Q. Doeswijk, Trevin Lam and Laurens Swinkels

Independent, Rabobank and Erasmus University Rotterdam (EUR)

Downloads 5,857

6.

Irrational Optimism

Financial Analysts Journal, Vol. 60, No. 1, 2004, pages 16–25, LBS Accounting Subject Area Working Paper No. IFA397,

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 21 Dec 2003 Last Revised: 20 Mar 2016

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Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton

University of Cambridge - Judge Business School, London Business School - Institute of Finance and Accounting and London Business School - Institute of Finance and Accounting

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 5,681

7.

A Literature Review of Risk Perception Studies in Behavioral Finance: The Emerging Issues

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 25 May 2007

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Victor Ricciardi

Goucher College - Department of Business Management

Downloads 5,571

8.

Challenging the Empirical Contribution of Thomas Piketty's Capital in the 21st Century

Journal of Private Enterprise, Spring 2015, GMU School of Public Policy Research Paper No. 15-2

Number of pages: 43 Posted: 28 Dec 2014 Last Revised: 13 Feb 2015

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Phillip W. Magness and Robert P. Murphy

George Mason University - School of Policy, Government, and International Affairs and Institute for Energy Research

Downloads 5,184

9.

Three Centuries of Asset Pricing

Journal of Banking and Finance, Vol. 23, No. 12, 1999, pages 1745–1769, LBS Institute of Finance and Accounting Working Paper No. IFA 385,

Number of pages: 22 Posted: 11 Jan 2000 Last Revised: 20 Mar 2016

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Elroy Dimson and Massoud Mussavian

University of Cambridge - Judge Business School and Cantab Capital Partners

There are 2 versions of this paper

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10.

The Rise of Independent Directors in the United States, 1950-2005: Of Shareholder Value and Stock Market Prices

ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 74/2006, Columbia Law and Economics Working Paper No. 301, Stanford Law Review, Vol. 59, p. 1465, 2007

Number of pages: 111 Posted: 04 Sep 2006 Last Revised: 04 Mar 2008

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Jeffrey N. Gordon

Columbia Law School

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 4,952

11.

Innovation Concepts and Typology – An Evolutionary Discussion

Higher School of Economics Research Paper No. WP BRP 05/STI/2013

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 21 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 08 May 2013

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Maxim Nikolaevich Kotsemir, Alexander Abroskin and Dirk Meissner

National Research University - Higher School of Economics, Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration and National Research University Higher School of Economics

Downloads 4,942

12.

What is Corruption?: A History of Corruption Studies and the Great Definitions Debate

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 15 Jan 2011

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Mark J. Farrales

University of California, San Diego (UCSD) - Division of Social Sciences

Downloads 4,760

13.

The Origins of Mutual Funds

Yale ICF Working Paper No. 04-48

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 16 Dec 2004

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K. Geert Rouwenhorst

Yale School of Management - International Center for Finance

Downloads 4,727

14.

Political Institutions and China's Early Industrial Revolution, 1000 - 1300 A.D.

APSA 2010 Annual Meeting Paper

Number of pages: 90 Posted: 19 Jul 2010 Last Revised: 10 Jun 2012

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Ronald A. Edwards

Tamkang University

Downloads 4,464

15.

Inequality and Institutions in 20th Century America

MIT Department of Economics Working Paper No. 07-17

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 07 May 2007

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Frank S. Levy and Peter Temin

Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Urban Studies & Planning and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 4,409

16.

A New Historical Database For The NYSE 1815 To 1925: Performance And Predictability

Yale ICF Working Paper No. 00-13; Yale SOM Working Paper No. ICF - 00-13

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 14 Aug 2000

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William N. Goetzmann, Roger G. Ibbotson and Liang Peng

Yale School of Management - International Center for Finance, Yale School of Management and Smeal College of Business, The Pennsylvania State University

Downloads 4,185

17.

The Islamic Commercial Crisis: Institutional Roots of Economic Underdevelopment in the Middle East

USC CLEO Research Paper No. C01-12

Number of pages: 51 Posted: 25 Jul 2001

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Timur Kuran

Duke University - Department of Economics

There are 2 versions of this paper

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18.

A Research Starting Point for the New Scholar: A Unique Perspective of Behavioral Finance

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 24 Mar 2005

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Victor Ricciardi

Goucher College - Department of Business Management

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 3,798

19.

Austerity and Anarchy: Budget Cuts and Social Unrest in Europe, 1919-2008

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 01 Aug 2011 Last Revised: 06 Dec 2011

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Jacopo Ponticelli and Hans-Joachim Voth

Kellogg School of Management - Department of Finance and University of Zurich - UBS International Center of Economics in Society

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 3,755

20.

Chapter 1: Investor Behavior: An Overview

Investor Behavior: The Psychology of Financial Planning and Investing. H. Kent Baker and Victor Ricciardi, editors, 3-24. Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2014.

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 27 Jan 2014 Last Revised: 11 Feb 2014

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H. Kent Baker and Victor Ricciardi

American University - Kogod School of Business and Goucher College - Department of Business Management

Downloads 3,748

21.

Political Determinants of Corporate Governance

Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 451

Number of pages: 19 Posted: 14 Jan 2004

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Mark J. Roe

Harvard Law School

Downloads 3,538

22.

The Rise and Fall of the First American Patent Thicket: The Sewing Machine War of the 1850s

Arizona Law Review, Vol. 53, pp. 165-211, 2011, George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 09-19

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 06 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 10 Jun 2012

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Adam Mossoff

George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School, Faculty

Downloads 3,449

23.

Global Evidence on the Equity Risk Premium

Journal of Applied Corporate Finance, Vol 15, No 4, pages 27–34, LBS Accounting Subject Area Working Paper No. IFA 385,

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 11 Aug 2003 Last Revised: 20 Mar 2016

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Elroy Dimson, Paul Marsh and Mike Staunton

University of Cambridge - Judge Business School, London Business School - Institute of Finance and Accounting and London Business School - Institute of Finance and Accounting

There are 2 versions of this paper

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24.

Fibonacci and the Financial Revolution

Yale ICF Working Paper No. 03-28

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 27 Oct 2003

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William N. Goetzmann

Yale School of Management - International Center for Finance

There are 2 versions of this paper

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25.

Not What They Had in Mind: A History of Policies that Produced the Financial Crisis of 2008

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 18 Sep 2009

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Arnold Kling

George Mason University

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26.

Congress and the Stock Market

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 21 Mar 2005

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Michael F. Ferguson and Hugh Douglas Witte

University of Cincinnati - Department of Finance - Real Estate and University of Missouri at Columbia - Department of Finance

Downloads 3,122

27.

Technological Revolutions and Stock Prices

CRSP Working Paper No. 606, EFA 2006 Zurich Meetings, AFA 2007 Chicago Meetings Paper

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 24 May 2006 Last Revised: 04 Oct 2014

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Lubos Pastor and Pietro Veronesi

University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and University of Chicago - Booth School of Business

There are 3 versions of this paper

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28.

Natural Selection and the Origin of Economic Growth

Brown University Working Paper No. 2000-18

Number of pages: 58 Posted: 16 Nov 2000

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Oded Galor and Omer Moav

Brown University - Department of Economics and University of Warwick - Department of Economics

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,888

29.

Law and the Rise of the Firm

ECGI - Law Working Paper No. 57/2006, Yale Law & Economics Research Paper No. 326

Number of pages: 69 Posted: 03 Jan 2006

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Henry Hansmann, Reinier Kraakman and Richard Squire

Yale Law School, Harvard Law School and Fordham University School of Law

There are 3 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,762

30.

The State of Macro

MIT Department of Economics Working Paper No. 08-12

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 20 Aug 2008 Last Revised: 26 Aug 2008

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Olivier J. Blanchard

National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

There are 4 versions of this paper

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31.

What One Can Learn from the Initial Public Offering of Google? A Twenty-Year Excursion to the Venture Capital Industry

PIER Working Paper No. 04-041

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 25 Oct 2004

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Yochanan Shachmurove and Emanuel Shachmurove

City University of New York, CUNY City College of New York - Department of Economics and Independent

Downloads 2,478

32.

From Physical to Human Capital Accumulation: Inequality in the Process of Development

Brown University Working Paper No. 99-27

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 14 Nov 2000

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Oded Galor and Omer Moav

Brown University - Department of Economics and University of Warwick - Department of Economics

Downloads 2,413

33.

Legal Origins and Modern Stock Markets

Harvard Law Review, Vol. 120, pp. 460-527, 2006, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 563

Number of pages: 68 Posted: 16 Jun 2006 Last Revised: 16 Jan 2011

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Mark J. Roe

Harvard Law School

Downloads 2,410

34.

The Transformation of the U.S. Financial Services Industry, 1975-2000: Competition, Consolidation and Increased Risks

University of Illinois Law Review, Vol. 2002, No. 2, 2002

Number of pages: 262 Posted: 20 Jan 2005

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Arthur E. Wilmarth Jr.

George Washington University Law School

Downloads 2,398

35.

Financial Vergangenheitsbewaeltigung: The 1953 London Debt Agreement

Yale University Economic Growth Center Discussion Paper No. 880

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 29 Jan 2004 Last Revised: 06 Aug 2015

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Timothy W. Guinnane

Yale University - Department of Economics

Downloads 2,252

36.

Was There Too Little Entry During the Dot Com Era?

Robert H. Smith School Research Paper No. RHS 06-029

Number of pages: 59 Posted: 20 Dec 2005

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Brent D. Goldfarb, David Kirsch and David A. Miller

University of Maryland - Robert H. Smith School of Business, University of Maryland and University of California, San Diego - Department of Economics

Downloads 2,236

37.

Paradox, Natural Mathematics, Relativity and Twentieth-Century Ideas

Number of pages: 35 Posted: 18 Apr 2006 Last Revised: 24 Aug 2009

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John Ryskamp

Independent

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38.

Persecution Perpetuated: The Medieval Origins of Anti-Semitic Violence in Nazi Germany

Quarterly Journal of Economics 2012, 127(3): 1339-1392

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 27 Apr 2011 Last Revised: 11 Oct 2012

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Nico Voigtländer and Hans-Joachim Voth

University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management and University of Zurich - UBS International Center of Economics in Society

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 2,188

39.

The Foundations of Securities Law

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 06 Feb 2008 Last Revised: 13 Feb 2009

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Mathias M. Siems

Durham University - Durham Law School

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40.

The Psychology of Risk: The Behavioral Finance Perspective

HANDBOOK OF FINANCE: VOLUME 2: INVESTMENT MANAGEMENT AND FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT, Frank J. Fabozzi, ed., John Wiley & Sons, pp. 85-111, 2008

Number of pages: 28 Posted: 07 Jul 2008 Last Revised: 04 Oct 2013

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Victor Ricciardi

Goucher College - Department of Business Management

Downloads 2,142

41.

Reforming Corporate Governance: What History Can Teach Us

Georgetown Law and Economics Research Paper No. 485663

Number of pages: 67 Posted: 22 Jan 2004

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Margaret M. Blair

Vanderbilt University - Law School

Downloads 2,141

42.

China and the World Financial Markets 1870-1930: Modern Lessons From Historical Globalization (English Version)

Yale ICF Working Paper No. 00-62

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 31 Oct 2001

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William N. Goetzmann, Andrey Ukhov and Ning Zhu

Yale School of Management - International Center for Finance, Cornell University and China Academy of Financial Research (CAFR)

Downloads 2,133

43.

Banking Industry Structure, Competition, and Performance: Does Universality Matter?

California Institute of Technology Social Science Working Paper No. 1078

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 13 Dec 2000

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Caroline Fohlin

Emory University

Downloads 2,095

44.

Conflict and Cooperation within an Organization: A Case Study of the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California

Number of pages: 176 Posted: 08 May 2008 Last Revised: 12 Apr 2012

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David Zetland

Leiden University - Leiden University College

Downloads 2,095

45.

The Vanishing Hand: The Changing Dynamics of Industrial Capitalism

UConn Center for Institutions, Organizations, & Markets Working Paper No. 01-1

Number of pages: 66 Posted: 03 Oct 2001

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Richard N. Langlois

University of Connecticut

There are 2 versions of this paper

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46.

From Stagnation to Growth: Unified Growth Theory

Minerva Center for Economic Growth Working Paper No. 2004-1

Number of pages: 108 Posted: 08 Jul 2004

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Oded Galor

Brown University - Department of Economics

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,958

47.

Art and Money

Yale ICF Working Paper No. 09-26, TILEC Discussion Paper No. 2010-002, CentER Discussion Paper Series No. 2010-08

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 07 Nov 2009 Last Revised: 13 Mar 2013

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William N. Goetzmann, Luc Renneboog and Christophe Spaenjers

Yale School of Management - International Center for Finance, Tilburg University - Department of Finance and HEC Paris - Finance Department

There are 2 versions of this paper

Downloads 1,946

48.

Das Human Kapital

Brown University Working Paper No. 2000-17

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 31 Jul 2003

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Oded Galor and Omer Moav

Brown University - Department of Economics and University of Warwick - Department of Economics

Downloads 1,918

49.

The Price of Wine

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Vol. 118, No. 2, 2015, pages 431–449,

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 07 Sep 2013 Last Revised: 19 Mar 2016

Accepted Paper Series

Elroy Dimson, Peter L. Rousseau and Christophe Spaenjers

University of Cambridge - Judge Business School, Vanderbilt University - Department of Economics and HEC Paris - Finance Department

Downloads 1,912

50.

Long-Term Trends in Personal Given Name Frequencies in the UK

Number of pages: 16 Posted: 10 Feb 2003

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Douglas A. Galbi

Federal Communications Commission

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