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1.

New Evidence on the First Financial Bubble

Journal of Financial Economics, Volume 108, Issue 3, June 2013, Pages 585-607
Number of pages: 81 Posted: 01 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 10 Sep 2019
Working Paper Series
Tilburg University - Department of Finance, Yale School of Management - International Center for Finance and Yale School of Management - International Center for Finance

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2.

The Economic Effects of the Abolition of Serfdom: Evidence from the Russian Empire

American Economic Review
Number of pages: 124 Posted: 27 Oct 2014 Last Revised: 20 Sep 2023
Accepted Paper Series
University of Helsinki - Faculty of Social Sciences and Paris School of Economics (PSE)

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3.

Medieval and Early Modern Coinage and its Problems

Dartmouth College, Department of Economics Working Paper No. 99-02
Number of pages: 37 Posted: 09 Mar 1999
Working Paper Series
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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4.

The Economic Impact of the Black Death

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 20-45
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 27 Oct 2020 Last Revised: 02 May 2021
Working Paper Series
George Washington University - Department of Economics, George Mason University - Department of EconomicsState University of New York (SUNY) - University at Buffalo and George Mason University - Department of Economics

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5.

Culture and Institutions: Economic Development in the Regions of Europe

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 1492, IGIER Working Paper No. 292
Number of pages: 78 Posted: 09 Jul 2005
Working Paper Series
Bocconi University - Department of Economics
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6.

Cultural and Institutional Bifurcation: China and Europe Compared

American Economic Review, May 2010
Number of pages: 13 Posted: 09 Jan 2010
Working Paper Series
Stanford University - Department of Economics and Bocconi University - Department of Economics

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7.

The Impact of Institutions on Innovation

Number of pages: 116 Posted: 31 Jul 2016 Last Revised: 13 Jan 2022
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University of Mannheim - Department of Economics, University of Texas at Dallas - Naveen Jindal School of Management and Nova School of Business and Economics

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8.

Persistence and Historical Evidence: The Example of the Rise of the Nazi Party

CESifo Working Paper No. 10095
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 28 Nov 2022
Working Paper Series
Yale University - Department of Economics and California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
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9.

A Regional Perspective on the Economic Development of the late Russian Empire

Number of pages: 90 Posted: 26 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 24 May 2019
Working Paper Series
University of Helsinki - Faculty of Social Sciences
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10.

A New Understanding of the History of Limited Liability: An Invitation for Theoretical Reframing

Number of pages: 50 Posted: 23 Aug 2019 Last Revised: 13 May 2020
Working Paper Series
Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law
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11.

The Three Horsemen of Riches: Plague, War and Urbanization in Early Modern Europe

Review of Economic Studies (2013), Forthcoming
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 12 Nov 2007 Last Revised: 13 May 2013
Accepted Paper Series
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management and University of Zurich - UBS International Center of Economics in Society

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12.

Did Science Cause the Industrial Revolution?

Number of pages: 32 Posted: 13 Nov 2014
Working Paper Series
University College Dublin (UCD)
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13.

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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14.

The Rise of Europe: Atlantic Trade, Institutional Change and Economic Growth

Number of pages: 104 Posted: 29 Nov 2002
Working Paper Series
Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics, Harvard University - Department of Government and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Entrepreneurship Center

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15.

Inequality, Foreign Investment, and Imperialism

Stone Center Working Paper, 2017
Number of pages: 53 Posted: 21 Dec 2017
Accepted Paper Series
CUNY - The Graduate Center, World Bank - Development Research Group (DECRG) and Columbia University
Downloads 1,144
16.

The Tocqueville Paradox: When Does Reform Provoke Rebellion?

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 16 Jul 2018 Last Revised: 05 Nov 2018
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Johns Hopkins SAIS and University of Chicago
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17.

Muhammad and the Umayyad Dynasty's Conversion to Islam

Number of pages: 57 Posted: 20 Apr 2015
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Independent
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18.

Money and Prices in the Early Roman Empire

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 20 Apr 2005
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Harvard University and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics
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19.

Why England? Demographic Factors, Structural Change and Physical Capital Accumulation During the Industrial Revolution

Journal of Economical Growth, Vol. 11, No. 4, 2006
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 08 Aug 2006 Last Revised: 12 Oct 2012
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University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Anderson School of Management and University of Zurich - UBS International Center of Economics in Society
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20.

Money Creation: Genesis 2: Goldsmith-Bankers and Bank Notes

Number of pages: 10 Posted: 06 Apr 2013
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Rhodes University
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21.

Pandemics, Places, and Populations: Evidence from the Black Death

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 19-04
Number of pages: 69 Posted: 12 Feb 2019
Working Paper Series
George Washington University - Department of Economics, George Mason University - Department of EconomicsState University of New York (SUNY) - University at Buffalo and George Mason University - Department of Economics

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22.

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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23.

The Size of the Economy and the Distribution of Income in the Roman Empire

Number of pages: 34 Posted: 14 Nov 2008 Last Revised: 25 Jan 2009
Working Paper Series
affiliation not provided to SSRN and Stanford University
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24.

An Economic Explanation of the Early Bank of Amsterdam, Debasement, Bills of Exchange, and the Emergence of the First Central Bank

FRB of Atlanta Working Paper No. 2006-13
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 05 Oct 2006
Working Paper Series
Texas Christian University - Department of Economics and Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
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25.

Chaos in the Markets - Moral, Legal & Economic Signals in Three Fantastic Bubbles

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 03 Aug 2004
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Syracuse University - College of Law
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26.

Ενα Περίγραμμα για την Κατανόηση Της Οικονομικής Και Κοινωνικής Ιστορίας Της Ελλάδας Του 19ου Αιώνα (An Outline for Understanding the Economic and Social History of 19th Century Greece)

Α. Μωυσίδης, Σ. Σακελλαρόπουλος, (επιμ.),(2010) Η Ελλάδα στον 19ο και 20ο αιώνα : Εισαγωγή στην ελληνική κοινωνία, (Greece in 19th and 20th centuries: Introduction in the Greek Society) Αθήνα, Τόπος, σσ 71-86, ISBN 978-960-6863-72-1)
Number of pages: 14 Posted: 12 May 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Panteion University of Athens
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27.

Government Equity and Money: John Law's System in 1720 France

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 16 Mar 2004
Working Paper Series
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago
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28.

History of Banking in Romania: First Part

UNIMI Economics Working Paper No.18.2002
Number of pages: 73 Posted: 15 Feb 2005
Working Paper Series
Università Degli Studi di Milano and Università degli Studi di Milano
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29.

International Finance and Economy of Bulgaria (In Bulgarian)

International Finance and Economy of Bulgaria (in Bulgarian), 2010
Number of pages: 342 Posted: 01 Jan 2011 Last Revised: 12 Jan 2011
Working Paper Series
University of Economics - Varna
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30.

Patents as Promoters of Competition: The Guild Origins of Patent Law in the Venetian Republic

San Diego Law Review, Vol. 49, 2012
Number of pages: 16 Posted: 10 Aug 2012 Last Revised: 02 Jul 2014
Accepted Paper Series
University of San Diego School of Law and George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School
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31.

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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32.

Pandemics, Places, and Populations: Evidence from the Black Death

CESifo Working Paper No. 7524
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 28 Feb 2019
Working Paper Series
George Washington University - Department of Economics, George Mason University - Department of EconomicsState University of New York (SUNY) - University at Buffalo and George Mason University - Department of Economics

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33.

The First Real Estate Bubble? Land Prices and Rents in Medieval England C. 1300-1500

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 26 Mar 2018
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University of Reading - ICMA Centre, University of Reading - ICMA Centre and University of Reading
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34.

Family Structure, Institutions, and Growth: The Origins and Implications of Western Corporations

American Economic Review, May 2006
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 17 Jan 2006
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford University - Department of Economics
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35.

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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36.

The Invention of Double-Entry Bookkeeping

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 03 Jun 2021
Working Paper Series
CEMI-Robert de Sorbon / Lycée Germaine Tillon
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37.

The Emergence of English Commercial Law: Analysis Inspired by Ottoman Experience

71 Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization 638-646 (2009), USC CLEO Research Paper No. 08-19, USC Law Legal Studies Paper No. 08-24
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 12 Sep 2008 Last Revised: 17 Dec 2014
Accepted Paper Series
University of Southern California Gould School of Law
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38.

Credit Rationing and Crowding Out During the Industrial Revolution: Evidence from Hoare's Bank, 1702-1862

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 06 Feb 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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39.

Overseas Trade and the Decline of Privateering

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 26 Mar 2008 Last Revised: 23 Nov 2010
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University of Mannheim and Luxembourg Institute for Socio-Economic Research
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40.

The Big Problem of Large Bills: The Bank of Amsterdam and the Origins of Central Banking

FRB Atlanta Working Paper No. 2005-16
Number of pages: 56 Posted: 11 Oct 2005 Last Revised: 23 Feb 2015
Working Paper Series
Texas Christian University - Department of Economics and Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta
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41.

Between Societas and Universitas. The Listed Company in Historical Perspective (Tussen Societas En Universitas. De Beursvennootschap En Haar Aandeelhouders in Historisch Perspectief)

"Tussen societas en universitas. De beursvennootschap en haar aandeelhouders in historisch perspectief" (Between Societas and Universitas. The Listed Company and Its Shareholders in Historical Perspective), Kluwer (Deventer, the Netherlands); ISBN 987-90-13-01042-4, January 2014, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 712 Posted: 18 Dec 2013
Working Paper Series
Amsterdam Court of Appeal
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42.

Interest in Medieval Accounts: Examples from England, 1272-1340

Number of pages: 26 Posted: 21 Dec 2008
Working Paper Series
University of Reading - ICMA Centre, University of Reading - ICMA Centre and University of Reading - ICMA Centre
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43.

Debt into Growth: How Sovereign Debt Accelerated the First Industrial Revolution

University of Zurich, Department of Economics, Working Paper No. 194
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 29 May 2015
Working Paper Series
Universitat Pompeu Fabra - Centre de Recerca en Economia Internacional (CREI) and University of Zurich - UBS International Center of Economics in Society

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Do Patents Weaken the Localization of Innovations? Evidence from World's Fairs

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 01 Nov 2006 Last Revised: 01 Feb 2014
Working Paper Series
NYU Stern Department of Economics
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45.

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
Accepted Paper Series
Toulouse Business School, Yale School of Management - International Center for Finance and Toulouse School of Economics

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46.

Epidemic Trade

Number of pages: 38 Posted: 29 Jul 2011
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London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Economic History and Copenhagen Business School - Department of Economics
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47.

Fiscal Dominance and Money Growth in Italy: The Long Record

Explorations in Economic History,Vol. 38, pp. 252-272, 2001
Number of pages: 34 Posted: 12 Apr 1999
Accepted Paper Series
Indiana University - Kelley School of Business - Department of Business Economics & Public Policy and University of Brescia - Department of Economics
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48.

The Mechanics of the Industrial Revolution

Number of pages: 60 Posted: 07 Jul 2020
Working Paper Series
University College Dublin (UCD)
Downloads 465
49.

The Nasara in the Koran

Number of pages: 7 Posted: 16 Dec 2015 Last Revised: 09 Jan 2016
Working Paper Series
Independent
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50.

An Early Stablecoin? The Bank of Amsterdam and the Governance of Money

De Nederlandsche Bank Working Paper No. 696
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 18 Nov 2020 Last Revised: 09 Dec 2020
Working Paper Series
Bank for International Settlements, Bank for International Settlements (BIS) and Bank for International Settlements (BIS)

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