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1.

The Origins of Mutual Funds

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 16 Dec 2004
Working Paper Series
Yale School of Management - International Center for Finance
Downloads 8,581
2.

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
Working Paper Series
Yale University - Law School, Harvard Law School and Fordham University School of Law

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3.

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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4.

Collective Hallucinations and Inefficient Markets: The British Railway Mania of the 1840s

Number of pages: 322 Posted: 18 Jan 2010
Working Paper Series
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Mathematics and Digital Technology Center
Downloads 2,225
5.

Riding the South Sea Bubble

American Economic Review, Vol. 94, No. 5, 2004
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 12 Jan 2004 Last Revised: 10 Oct 2012
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics and University of Zurich - UBS International Center of Economics in Society

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6.

Bills of Exchange and the Money Market to 1600

Dartmouth College, Department of Economics Working Paper No. 99-04
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 09 Mar 1999
Working Paper Series
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
Downloads 1,806
7.

Merchant Banking in the Medieval and Early Modern Economy

Dartmouth College, Department of Economics Working Paper No. 99-05
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 09 Mar 1999
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Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
Downloads 1,702
8.

Economists, Crises and Cartoons

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 06 Feb 2010
Working Paper Series
George Mason University - Center for Study of Public Choice and University of Richmond - Jepson School of Leadership Studies
Downloads 1,578
9.

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
Downloads 1,519
10.

The Origins of the German Corporation - Finance, Ownership and Control

ECGI - Finance Working Paper No. 110/2005, AFA 2006 Boston Meetings Paper, EFA 2005 Moscow Meetings Paper, Review of Finance, Vol. 10, No. 4, pp. 537-585, 2006
Number of pages: 60 Posted: 23 Mar 2005 Last Revised: 25 Jun 2008
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London Business School - Institute of Finance and Accounting, University of Oxford - Said Business School and Bocconi University - Department of Finance
Downloads 1,511
11.

Financial Asset Holdings and Political Attitudes: Evidence from Revolutionary England

Quarterly Journal of Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 91 Posted: 05 Oct 2006 Last Revised: 14 Mar 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Stanford Graduate School of Business
Downloads 1,395
12.

Law and the Rise of the Firm

Harvard Law Review, Vol. 119, No. 5, pp. 1333-1403, March 2006, Harvard Law and Economics Discussion Paper No. 546
Number of pages: 70 Posted: 31 Jul 2006
Accepted Paper Series
Yale University - Law School, Harvard Law School and Fordham University School of Law

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13.

Risk Instruments in the Medieval and Early Modern Economy

Dartmouth College, Department of Economics Working Paper No. 99-07
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 09 Mar 1999
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Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
Downloads 1,330
14.

Early Deposit Banking

Dartmouth College, Department of Economics Working Paper No. 99-03
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 09 Mar 1999
Working Paper Series
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
Downloads 1,288
15.

This Time is Different: An Example of a Giant, Wildly Speculative, and Successful Investment Mania

B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy, Vol. 10, Issue 1, Article 60, 2010
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 23 Mar 2010 Last Revised: 27 Feb 2012
Accepted Paper Series
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Mathematics and Digital Technology Center
Downloads 1,208
16.

The Capital Market Before 1600

Dartmouth College, Department of Economics Working Paper No. 99-06
Number of pages: 27 Posted: 09 Mar 1999
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Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
Downloads 1,187
17.

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
Downloads 1,162
18.

A Unified Italy? - Sovereign Debt and Investor Scepticism

Number of pages: 40 Posted: 20 Mar 2012 Last Revised: 17 May 2017
Working Paper Series
Leibniz Institute for Financial Research SAFE
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19.

From St. Ives to Cyberspace: The Modern Distortion of the Medieval 'Law Merchant'

American University International Law Review, Vol. 21, No. 5, pp. 685-812, 2006
Number of pages: 128 Posted: 02 Nov 2005
Accepted Paper Series
Harvard Law School
Downloads 1,130
20.

Classical Influences on the Law and Politics of the French Revolution

THE CLASSICAL TRADITION, Anthony Grafton, Glenn Most, Salvatore Settis, eds., Harvard, 2009
Number of pages: 15 Posted: 23 Jul 2009
Accepted Paper Series
University of Baltimore - School of Law
Downloads 1,095
21.

Those Dishonest Goldsmiths

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 14 Apr 2010 Last Revised: 03 Apr 2011
Working Paper Series
The Cato Institute
Downloads 1,034
22.

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
Downloads 1,016
23.

Law, Politics and the Rise and Fall of German Stock Market Development, 1870-1938

European Corporate Governance Institute (ECGI) - Law Working Paper No. 283/2015, University of Cambridge Faculty of Law Research Paper No. 4/2015
Number of pages: 51 Posted: 13 Jan 2015 Last Revised: 12 Jun 2017
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Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods, University of Cambridge - Judge Business School and University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
Downloads 1,013
24.

The Extralegal Development of Securities Trading in Seventeenth Century Amsterdam

Quarterly Review of Economics and Finance, Vol. 43, No. 2, p. 321, 2003
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 16 Sep 2010
Accepted Paper Series
Trinity College
Downloads 998
25.

Will History Rhyme? The Past as Financial Future

Number of pages: 23 Posted: 29 Jun 2004
Working Paper Series
Yale School of Management - International Center for Finance
Downloads 906
26.

'Running in the Family': The Evolution of Ownership, Control, and Performance in German Family-Owned Firms, 1903-2003

Swiss Finance Institute Research Paper No. 06-13
Number of pages: 45 Posted: 16 Mar 2006
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Swiss Finance Institute, University of Applied Sciences Stralsund and Elephant Equity
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27.

Charles Mackay's Own Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Railway Mania

Number of pages: 48 Posted: 14 Sep 2011 Last Revised: 27 Feb 2012
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University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Mathematics and Digital Technology Center
Downloads 818
28.

Law, Finance and the First Corporations

GLOBAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE RULE OF LAW, James J. Heckman, Robert L. Nelson, L. Cabatingan, eds., Abingdon: Routledge-Cavendish, 2009
Number of pages: 43 Posted: 21 Jan 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law
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29.

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
Accepted Paper Series
Toulouse Business School
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30.

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
Downloads 769
31.

The Railway Mania of the 1860s and Financial Innovation

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 14 Jan 2022 Last Revised: 09 Sep 2024
Working Paper Series
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Mathematics and Digital Technology Center
Downloads 746
32.

Finance Before the Industrial Revolution: An Introduction

Dartmouth College, Department of Economics Working Paper No. 99-01
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 04 Mar 1999
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Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
Downloads 743
33.

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
Downloads 733
34.

Early Development of the Romania's Banking System and the Role of Foreign Banks

Universita Degli Studi di Milano Working Paper No. 2008-35
Number of pages: 19 Posted: 13 Nov 2008
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Università Degli Studi di Milano and Universitatea Spiru Haret
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35.

Financial Intermediation in the Early Roman Empire

Number of pages: 36 Posted: 06 Nov 2002
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics
Downloads 663
36.

Newton's Financial Misadventures in the South Sea Bubble

Number of pages: 33 Posted: 13 Nov 2017 Last Revised: 28 Mar 2018
Working Paper Series
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Mathematics and Digital Technology Center
Downloads 663
37.

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
Downloads 622
38.

The History of Interbank Settlement Arrangements: Exploring Central Banks’ Role in the Payment System

Bank of England Working Paper No. 412
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 13 Jun 2011
Working Paper Series
Bank of England - Monetary Analysis, Bank of England and Bank of England
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39.

From Competition to Cartel: Bank Mergers in the U.K. 1885 to 1925

Number of pages: 54 Posted: 06 Feb 2010 Last Revised: 13 Apr 2011
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University of Montreal - Department of Economics, University of Bonn - Institute for Financial Economics and Statistics and Tilburg University - Tilburg University School of Economics and Management
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40.

Securitization of Sovereign Debt: Corporations as a Sovereign Debt Restructuring Mechanism in Britain, 1694-1750

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 11 Jun 2007 Last Revised: 12 Mar 2008
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Texas Christian University - Department of Economics
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41.

The Profitability of Imperialism: The British Experience in the West Indies 1768-1772

"The Profitability of Imperialism: The British Experience in the West Indies," Explorations in Economic History, Vol. 10, No. 3 (Spring 1973), pp. 253-280.
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 14 Nov 2015
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Ball State University - Department of Economics
Downloads 601
42.

Fatalistically Flawed: A Review Essay on Fragile by Design, by Charles W. Calomiris and Stephen H. Haber

Number of pages: 27 Posted: 04 Feb 2015 Last Revised: 10 Feb 2015
Working Paper Series
The Cato Institute
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43.

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
Downloads 580
44.

The Road to Debt Deflation, Debt Peonage, and Neofeudalism

Levy Economics Institute of Bard College Working Paper No. 708
Number of pages: 31 Posted: 18 Feb 2012
Working Paper Series
University of Missouri at Kansas City - Department of Economics
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45.

Credit Provision and Stock Trading: Evidence From the South Sea Bubble

Number of pages: 47 Posted: 28 Jun 2019 Last Revised: 10 Jul 2023
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Tilburg University - Tilburg University School of Economics and Management, Tilburg University - Department of Finance and The University of Manchester - Division of Accounting and Finance

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46.

On Limited Liability and the Development of Capital Markets: An Historical Analysis

Number of pages: 25 Posted: 09 Dec 1996
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University of Toronto - Department of Economics
Downloads 564
47.

Banking as an Emerging Technology: Hoare's Bank 1702-1742

Number of pages: 41 Posted: 12 Jan 2004
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University of Zurich - UBS International Center of Economics in Society and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics
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Investor Sentiment and Antitrust Law as Determinants of Corporate Ownership Structure: The Great Merger Wave of 1897 to 1903

Number of pages: 55 Posted: 15 Jan 2003
Working Paper Series
University of Cambridge - Faculty of Law
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49.

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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50.

Financialization of the Early Victorian Economy and the London Stock Exchange

Number of pages: 62 Posted: 01 Jun 2016
Working Paper Series
University of Minnesota - Twin Cities - School of Mathematics and Digital Technology Center
Downloads 526