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1.

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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2.

Halal Tourism Industry in Indonesia: Potential and Prospects

International Review of Management and Marketing, Vol. 7, No. 3, 2017
Number of pages: 20 Posted: 19 Jan 2017 Last Revised: 17 Jul 2017
Accepted Paper Series
IAIN Syekh Nurjati Cirebon (State Islamic Institute Syekh Nurjati Cirebon)
Downloads 2,008
3.

Jewish Persecutions and Weather Shocks: 1100-1800

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 13-06
Number of pages: 59 Posted: 06 Feb 2013 Last Revised: 02 Jan 2014
Working Paper Series
University of Michigan at Dearborn, George Mason University - Department of EconomicsState University of New York (SUNY) - Buffalo and George Mason University - Department of Economics
Downloads 1,690
4.

Witchcraft, Weather and Economic Growth in Renaissance Europe

Journal of Economic Perspectives, Winter 2004
Number of pages: 23 Posted: 30 Mar 2004
Accepted Paper Series
University of Chicago - Department of Economics
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5.

Persistent Inefficiency: Adam Smith’s Theory of Slavery and Its Abolition in Western Europe

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 27 Jul 2015 Last Revised: 09 Dec 2016
Working Paper Series
Stanford University, Department of Political Science
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6.

Property Rights and Contract Form in Medieval Europe

11 Am. L. & Econ. Rev. 399 (2009), Georgetown Law and Economics Research Paper No. 969797
Number of pages: 52 Posted: 31 Jan 2007 Last Revised: 25 Jun 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Emory University School of Law
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7.

Risk, Cooperation and the Economic Origins of Social Trust: An Empirical Investigation

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 25 Mar 2010
Working Paper Series
Catalan Institution of Research and Advanced Studies (ICREA)
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8.

How Blackstone Became a Blackstonian

Theoretical Inquiries in Law, vol. 10, 103-126 (2009) http://www7.tau.ac.il/ojs/index.php/til/article/view/704
Number of pages: 24 Posted: 07 Dec 2007 Last Revised: 23 Nov 2020
Accepted Paper Series
Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law
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9.

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

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 26 Mar 2018
Working Paper Series
University of Reading - ICMA Centre, University of Bristol - School of Economics, Finance and Management and University of Reading
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10.

International Law, Ground Water Resources, and the Danube Dam Case

GAMBLING WITH GROUNDWATER-PHYSICAL, CHEMICAL, AND BIOLOGICAL ASPECTS OF AQUIFER-STREAM RELATIONS, John Van Brahana, ed., 1998
Number of pages: 6 Posted: 10 Aug 2005
Accepted Paper Series
Texas A&M University School of Law and Kent State University
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11.

The Stolypin Reform and Agricultural Productivity in Late Imperial Russia

Number of pages: 76 Posted: 01 Dec 2013 Last Revised: 16 Jan 2018
Working Paper Series
University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Helsinki - Faculty of Social Sciences
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12.

The Expansion of Trade and the Development of European Industry to 1600

Dartmouth Economics Working Paper No. 00-20
Number of pages: 65 Posted: 20 Mar 2001
Working Paper Series
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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13.

Application of International Water Law to Transboundary Groundwater Resources, and the Slovak-Hungarian Dispute Over Gabcikovo-Nagymaros

Suffolk Transnational Law Review, Vol. 19, p. 67, 1995
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 02 Nov 2004 Last Revised: 13 Feb 2012
Accepted Paper Series
Texas A&M University School of Law
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14.

The Effects of Land Redistribution: Evidence from the French Revolution

GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 17-29
Number of pages: 49 Posted: 07 Sep 2017
Working Paper Series
Susquehanna University, Hebrew University of Jerusalem - Department of Economics and George Mason University - Department of EconomicsState University of New York (SUNY) - Buffalo

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15.

The Expansion of Trade and the Transformation of Agriculture in Pre-Industrial Europe

Dartmouth Economics Working Paper No. 00-13
Number of pages: 58 Posted: 25 Feb 2001
Working Paper Series
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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16.

Endogenous Matching and the Empirical Determinants of Contract Form

Number of pages: 31 Posted: 25 Aug 2001
Working Paper Series
University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) - Department of Economics and Bocconi University - Department of Economics

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17.

Malthus Meets Luther: The Economics Behind the German Reformation

CESifo Working Paper Series No. 6010
Number of pages: 54 Posted: 25 Aug 2016
Working Paper Series
Tilburg University - Department of Economics and Tilburg University - Tilburg University School of Economics and Management
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18.

A Finance Approach to Understanding Patterns of Land Tenure

Dartmouth College Economics Working Paper No. 01-12
Number of pages: 22 Posted: 24 Sep 2001
Working Paper Series
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics
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19.

Property Rights, Land Liquidity and Internal Migration

Number of pages: 63 Posted: 25 Dec 2010 Last Revised: 08 Mar 2013
Working Paper Series
National Research University Higher School of Economics, University of Wisconsin-Madison and University of Helsinki - Faculty of Social Sciences
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20.

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 - Faculty of Business
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21.

Understanding Adam Smith’s 'General Principles of Law and Politics': A Linear Reconstruction of Istvan Hont's Contribution

Number of pages: 42 Posted: 24 Oct 2017 Last Revised: 24 Sep 2018
Working Paper Series
Stanford University, Department of Political Science
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22.

The Wheels of Change: Technology Adoption, Millwrights, and Persistence in Britain’s Industrialization

Number of pages: 77 Posted: 02 Dec 2019 Last Revised: 17 Nov 2020
Working Paper Series
Northwestern University - Department of Economics, University of Haifa and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

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23.

Anaerobic Digestion as a Renewable Energy Source and Waste Management Technology: What Must Be Done for this Technology to Realize Success in the United States?

University of Massachusetts Law Review, Vol. 9, 2014
Number of pages: 29 Posted: 07 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 12 Dec 2014
Accepted Paper Series
University of North Dakota School of Law
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24.

Advance Contracts for the Sale of Wool in Medieval England: An Undeveloped and Inefficient Market?

ISMA Centre Discussion Paper in Finance No. 05-01
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 09 Jun 2005
Working Paper Series
University of Reading - ICMA Centre, University of Bristol - School of Economics, Finance and Management and King’s College London
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25.

Colonel William Fullarton of Fullarton

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 05 Nov 2019
Working Paper Series
University of the Witwatersrand, LINK Centre
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26.

The Downton Abbey Effect: 18th and 19th Century British Aristocratic Marriages and Agricultural Prices

Number of pages: 21 Posted: 07 Jun 2021
Working Paper Series
Washington University in St. Louis - John M. Olin Business School

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27.

A Reappraisal of the Freehold Property Market in Late Medieval England

Number of pages: 45 Posted: 21 Jul 2017 Last Revised: 06 Mar 2018
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University of Reading - ICMA Centre, University of Bristol - School of Economics, Finance and Management and University of Reading
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28.

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
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29.

Gender Discrimination in Property Rights

IZA Discussion Paper No. 7938
Number of pages: 32 Posted: 15 Feb 2014
Working Paper Series
University of Bologna - Department of Economics and LUMSA University
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30.

Lessons of the Spanish Empire, or the Curse of Resource Abundance

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 27 Jul 2012
Working Paper Series
Russian Presidential Academy of National Economy and Public Administration
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31.

The Economic Consequences of Population Growth in Italy: From the 13th Century to 1900: A Discussion on the Mathusian Dynamics

Number of pages: 29 Posted: 05 Oct 2007
Working Paper Series
University of Naples, Parthenope
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32.

Business Rivalry in the Colonial Atlantic: A Five Forces Analysis

Number of pages: 39 Posted: 29 Mar 2013
Working Paper Series
Mount Royal University - Bissett School of Business
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33.

What Drives Long-Term Biodiversity Change? New Insights from Combining Economics, Paleo-Ecology, and Environmental History

RFF Discussion Paper No. 07-23
Number of pages: 28 Posted: 07 Aug 2007 Last Revised: 15 Oct 2008
Working Paper Series
University of Glasgow - Department of Economics, Athens University of Economics and Business - Department of International and European Economic Studies, University of Stirling - Economics Department, University of Stirling - AHRC Centre for Environmental History, University of Dundee - History Department and Colorado State University, Fort Collins - Department of Economics
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34.

Economy as Empire: Dutch Disease and the Decline of Imperial Spain

Number of pages: 17 Posted: 09 Jul 2019
Working Paper Series
Liberty University, Department of History
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35.

Κράτος και Οικονομία Στην Ελλάδα.Μια Ιστορική Τυπολογία (State and Economy in Greece.A Historical Typology)

in Theodoros Sakellaropoulos(ed),(1993),Neoelliniki Koinonia.Historikes kai Koinonikes Proseggises (Neohellenic Society.Historical and Critical Aspects),Krtiki Pub.,Athens,pp. 189-246.
Number of pages: 72 Posted: 24 May 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Panteion University of Athens
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36.

Riparian Rights in Lower Canada and Canada East: Inter-Imperial Legal Influences

in Imperial Co-operation and Transfer, 1870-1930: Empires and Encounters 107-125 (Roland Cvetkovski & Volker Barth eds., Bloomsbury, 2015)
Number of pages: 26 Posted: 05 Apr 2014 Last Revised: 04 Dec 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Tel Aviv University - Buchmann Faculty of Law
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37.

The Georgian and Victorian Houses of Troon

Number of pages: 18 Posted: 05 Nov 2019
Working Paper Series
University of the Witwatersrand, LINK Centre
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38.

Ploughs, Fairs and Skills: the Volga Germans and Technology Adoption in Late Imperial Russia

Higher School of Economics Research Paper No. WP BRP 220/EC/2019
Number of pages: 47 Posted: 12 Sep 2019 Last Revised: 22 May 2020
Working Paper Series
National Research University Higher School of Economics and National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow)
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39.

Law and Peace: Contracts and the Success of the Danish Dairy Cooperatives

Univ. of Copenhagen Dept. of Economics Discussion Paper No. 11-11
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 13 Apr 2011
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University of Copenhagen - Department of Economics, University of East Anglia - Centre for Competition Policy (CCP) and University of Southern Denmark - Department of Business and Economics
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The Next World and the New World: Relief, Migration, and the Great Irish Famine

Number of pages: 46 Posted: 26 Dec 2018
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University College Dublin (UCD)
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41.

Is Cartelisation Profitable? A Case Study of the Rhenish Westphalian Coal Syndicate, 1893-1913

MPI Collective Goods Preprint, No. 2009/9
Number of pages: 40 Posted: 10 May 2017
Working Paper Series
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
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Cartels, Managerial Incentives, and Productive Efficiency in German Coal Mining, 1881-1913

MPI Collective Goods Preprint, No. 2008/13
Number of pages: 33 Posted: 15 Jul 2008
Working Paper Series
Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods and Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
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43.

'Getting to Denmark': The Role of Elites for Development

Discussion Papers on Business and Economics, University of Southern Denmark, 5/2020
Number of pages: 50 Posted: 12 May 2020
Working Paper Series
University of Southern Denmark, University of Southern Denmark - Department of Business and Economics, Vienna University of Economics and Business, University of Southern Denmark - Department of Business and Economics and University of Southern Denmark, Department of Public Health, Danish Centre for Health Economics

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44.

Forecast Based Pricing of Weather Derivatives

SFB 649 Discussion Paper 2012-027
Number of pages: 25 Posted: 07 Jan 2017
Working Paper Series
Blockchain Research Center Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, Humboldt University of Berlin and Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Department of Agricultural Economics
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45.

Medieval Property Investors, C. 1300-1500

Number of pages: 37 Posted: 09 Mar 2018
Working Paper Series
University of Reading - ICMA Centre, University of Bristol - School of Economics, Finance and Management and University of Reading
Downloads 84
46.

Challenges of Formal Social Security Systems in Sudan

Global Journal of Human Social Science, Vol. 11, No. 2, March 2011
Number of pages: 11 Posted: 12 Aug 2011
Accepted Paper Series
Al-Neelain University - Department of Economics

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The Councilwoman’s Tale. Countering Intimate Partner Homicides by Electing Women in Local Councils

Number of pages: 64 Posted: 26 Jan 2022 Last Revised: 15 Sep 2022
Working Paper Series
GSSI and Gran Sasso Science Institute
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The Portuguese Concelhos and Forais: A Case in Institutional History from the Eleventh to the Mid Thirteenth Centuries

Number of pages: 30 Posted: 18 Mar 2012
Working Paper Series
Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies (IHEID)
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The 'Transaction Cost Approach' and the Performance of the Belgian Dairy Co-Operatives Before 1940

Working Papers on Social and Co-operative Entrepreneurship WP-SCE 09-02
Number of pages: 41 Posted: 10 Apr 2009 Last Revised: 14 Apr 2009
Working Paper Series
KU Leuven - Faculty of Business and Economics (FEB)
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50.

The Portuguese Agriculture, 1703-1820: Extensive Growth and Market Expansion.

Chapter in: Dulce Freire and Pedro Lains (eds), An Agrarian History of Portugal, 1000-2000: Economic Development on the European Frontier. Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2017 (e-book 2016), pp. 132-171
Number of pages: 30 Posted: 21 Apr 2017
Accepted Paper Series
University Institute of Lisbon (ISCTE-IUL)
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