David Le Bris

Toulouse Business School

20, bd Lascrosses

Toulouse, 31068

France

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Scholarly Papers (27)

1.

Family Characteristics and Economic Development

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 18 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 27 Nov 2023
David Le Bris
Toulouse Business School
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Economic development, Family model, Cultural economics, Reversal of fortune

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Wars, Inflation and Stock Market Returns in France, 1870-1945

Financial History Review, 19.3, 2012, pp. 337-361
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 08 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 12 Dec 2012
David Le Bris
Toulouse Business School
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Paris Stock exchange, war, rare event, inflation, stock return, long term performances, 19th century, 20th century

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What Is a Market Crash?

Economic History Review, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 15 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 24 Mar 2017
David Le Bris
Toulouse Business School
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Market crash, Risk, stock crashes, volatility, rare events, 19th century, 20th century

What is a Market Crash?

Paris December 2010 Finance Meeting EUROFIDAI - AFFI
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 21 Oct 2010 Last Revised: 12 Nov 2010
David Le Bris
Toulouse Business School
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Market Crashes, Volatility, Rare Events, 19th Century, 20th Century

Testing Asset Pricing Theory on Six Hundred Years of Stock Returns: Prices and Dividends for the Bazacle Company from 1372 to 1946

Journal of Financial Economics (JFE), Forthcoming, Paris December 2014 Finance Meeting EUROFIDAI - AFFI Paper
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 29 May 2014 Last Revised: 14 Nov 2018
Toulouse Business School, Yale School of Management - International Center for Finance and Toulouse School of Economics
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asset pricing, history of finance, consumption risk

Testing Asset Pricing Theory on Six Hundred Years of Stock Returns: Prices and Dividends for the Bazacle Company from 1372 to 1946

NBER Working Paper No. w20199
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 11 Jun 2014 Last Revised: 12 Mar 2023
Toulouse Business School, Yale School of Management - International Center for Finance and Toulouse School of Economics
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A Challenge to Triumphant Optimists? A Blue Chips Index for the Paris Stock-Exchange (1854-2007)

Financial History Review, Vol. 17, No..2, p. 141-183, 2010
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 08 Jan 2009 Last Revised: 14 Sep 2010
David Le Bris and Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur
Toulouse Business School and Paris School of Economics
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Paris Stock exchange, stock index, survivor bias, sample bias, weighting problems, stock return, long term performances, equity premium, 19th century, 20th century

The Development of Corporate Governance in Toulouse 1372-1946

Number of pages: 61 Posted: 16 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 03 Mar 2016
Toulouse Business School, Yale School of Management - International Center for Finance and Toulouse School of Economics
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Corporate Governance, Economic History

The Development of Corporate Governance in Toulouse: 1372-1946

NBER Working Paper No. w21335
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 13 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 19 Apr 2023
Toulouse Business School, Yale School of Management - International Center for Finance and Toulouse School of Economics
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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
David Le Bris
Toulouse Business School
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Law and Finance, Legal origins, Financial development, France

The Stock-Bond Comovements in the Paris Bourse: Historical Evidence

Paris December 2011 Finance Meeting EUROFIDAI - AFFI
Number of pages: 17 Posted: 12 Oct 2011
Amir Rezaee and David Le Bris
ISG BUSINESS SCHOOL and Toulouse Business School
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Stock-Bond Return Correlation, DCC GARCH Model, Cointegration, Causality

Stock-Bond Comovements During Non-Inflationary Period: Natural Experience from the Paris Bourse

Number of pages: 24 Posted: 05 Oct 2011 Last Revised: 01 Oct 2012
Amir Rezaee and David Le Bris
EDHEC Business School and Toulouse Business School
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Stock-Bond Return Correlation, DCC GARCH Model, Cointegration, Causality, Paris Bourse

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Stock Returns and Government, France 1871-2008

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 07 May 2011 Last Revised: 08 Nov 2015
David Le Bris
Toulouse Business School
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Political puzzle, political impact, information uncertainty, stock returns, 19th century, 20th century

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The Great Divergence: French Equity Premium is Lower and Riskier than the US Since WWI

Bankers, Markets& Investors, 118, 2012, p. 9-17
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 29 Dec 2008 Last Revised: 28 Sep 2012
Sandrine Tobelem and David Le Bris
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) and Toulouse Business School
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Our Current 'Secular Stagnation' as Expected by Jean Fourastié, 1949

History of Political Economy (Forthcoming)
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 22 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 13 Sep 2019
Alain Alcouffe and David Le Bris
University of Toulouse-Capitole and Toulouse Business School
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Secular stagnation, Productivity gains, Economic growth, Technological progress, Fourastié

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Testing the Tax-Loss Selling Explanation of the January Effect: Evidence from a 'Confiscatory' Tax Implemented in France in 1921

Paris December 2017 Finance Meeting EUROFIDAI - AFFI
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 07 Jun 2017
David Le Bris and Sandrine Tobelem
Toulouse Business School and London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE)
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Market efficiency, Calendar anomalies, historical finance

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The French Paradox: A Financial Crisis During the Golden Age of the 1960s

Business History, 56.3, 2014, pp. 391-413
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 24 Nov 2013 Last Revised: 24 May 2014
Bertrand Blancheton, Hubert Bonin and David Le Bris
University of Bordeaux - Montesquieu University - Bordeaux IV, Institut d'Etudes Politiques de Bordeaux and Toulouse Business School
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Stock market, 1960s, France, stock market crisis, growth, financial structure, stock return and economic growth.

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Why did French Savers buy Foreign Assets before 1914? A Decomposition of the Benefits from Diversification

Louvain Economic Review, 79.3, 2013, pp. 71-89.
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 22 Mar 2009 Last Revised: 24 May 2014
David Le Bris
Toulouse Business School
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Paris Stock exchange, correlation, portfolio management, Russia, 19th century, 20th century

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Is the Portfolio Effect Ending? Idiosyncratic and Market Risk Over the Long Run

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 13 Dec 2010 Last Revised: 12 Dec 2012
David Le Bris
Toulouse Business School
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volatility, diversification, idiosyncratic risk, correlation, 19th century, 20th century

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The European Marriage Pattern and its Positive Consequences Montesquieu-Volvestre, 1660-1789

Number of pages: 49 Posted: 19 Mar 2018 Last Revised: 15 Jan 2021
David Le Bris and Ronan Tallec
Toulouse Business School and Universite de Toulouse 1 Capitole
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European Marriage Pattern, Economic Development, Family System, Population, Gender Gap, Fertility

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Les 'Bulles' sur les Actions Françaises, 1719-2009 (Bubbles on the French Stock Market, 1719-2009)

Entreprises et Histoire, 67, 2012, pp. 10-23
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 27 Oct 2012
David Le Bris
Toulouse Business School
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stock market bubbles, dividend yield, interest rate, Austrian theory, bulle, taux de dividende, théorie autrichienne

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Constraints on the Executive: A Reappraisal of the French and English Old Regimes through Parliamentary Activities

Number of pages: 44 Posted: 17 Dec 2019 Last Revised: 29 Jan 2020
David Le Bris and Ronan Tallec
Toulouse Business School and Universite de Toulouse 1 Capitole
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Parliament, constraint on the executive, taxation, economic take-off, Old Regime, property rights

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Les Krachs Boursiers En France Depuis 1854 (The Stock Market Crashes in France Since 1854)

Revue Economique, 61.3, 2010, p. 421-430
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 29 Sep 2012
David Le Bris
Toulouse Business School
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Distance to Innovations, Kinship Intensity, and Psychological Traits

Plos One, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 18 Oct 2021 Last Revised: 17 Jan 2023
David Le Bris and Victor Gay
Toulouse Business School and Toulouse School of Economics
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WEIRD, kinship, psychology, Church, family models

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Gouvernance, Banque, Histoire, Theorie de L'Agence, Immobilier

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La Volatilité Des Actions Françaises Sur Le Long Terme (The Stock Market Volatility in France for the Long Run)

Revue Economique, 63.3, 2012, pp. 569-580
Number of pages: 10 Posted: 29 Sep 2012
David Le Bris
Toulouse Business School
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The Farmer, the Blue-Collar, and the Monk: Understanding Economic Development Through Saturations of Demands and Non-Homothetic Productivity Gains

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 19 Mar 2018
Elie Gray, Andre Grimaud and David Le Bris
Université de Toulouse - Toulouse Business School, GREMAQ, IDEI and LEERNA - University of Toulouse 1 and Toulouse Business School
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Growth Model, Structural Change, Unified Growth, Economic Development, Saturation of Demands

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Another Path to the Joint-Stock Company

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 12 Sep 2019
David Le Bris and Sebastien Pouget
Toulouse Business School and Toulouse School of Economics
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Joint-Stock Company, Business Organizations, Medieval Institutions, Little Divergence

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US Crashes of 2008 and 1929: How Did the French Market React? An Empirical Study

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 28 Aug 2015
Raphaël Hekimian and David Le Bris
Université Paris Ouest - Nanterre, La Défense - EconomiX and Toulouse Business School
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Financial history, Financial crisis, Stock market, Contagion, Crash

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Ethnic Fractionalization Is Associated with Higher Fertility Rates

Number of pages: 15 Posted: 22 Dec 2022
David Le Bris
Toulouse Business School
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fertility, ethnic fractionalization, demographic transition

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Georges d'Avenel. An Economic Historian ahead of his Time

European Journal of the History of Economic Thought
Number of pages: 38 Posted: 21 Jul 2023
David Le Bris and Alain Alcouffe
Toulouse Business School and University of Toulouse-Capitole
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cliometrics, price history, top 1%, inequalities, mentalities