1.
Learning to Disclose: Disclosure Dynamics in the 1890s Streetcar Industry
Number of pages: 113
Posted: 18 Feb 2021
Last Revised: 06 Apr 2023
Working Paper Series
Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Accounting, Business Law & Taxation, Columbia University - Columbia Business School, Accounting, Business Law & Taxation and ESSEC Business School
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933
2.
Information Networks and Collective Action: Evidence from the Women’s Temperance Crusade
Number of pages: 94
Posted: 16 Aug 2021
Working Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania and University of Pennsylvania - The Wharton School
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708
3.
Trade Disputes Between China and the United States: Growing Pains so Far, Worse Ahead?
Peterson Institute for International Economics Working Paper No. 10-17
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 14 Dec 2010
Last Revised: 28 Jan 2011
Working Paper Series
Peterson Institute for International Economics and Peterson Institute for International Economics
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609
4.
A Mark of Distinction: Branding and Trade Mark Law in the UK from the 1860s
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 27 Jul 2009
Last Revised: 22 Oct 2009
Working Paper Series
Independent
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526
5.
Newspapers and Parties: How Advertising Revenues Created an Independent Press
Number of pages: 57
Posted: 03 Apr 2007
Last Revised: 17 Aug 2011
Working Paper Series
Institute for Political Economy and Governance, Barcelona
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462
6.
The Quasi War Cases—And Their Relevance to Whether Letters of Marque and Reprisal Constrain Presidential War Powers
Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, Vol. 28, No. 2, pp. 465-500, Spring 2005
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 17 Aug 2004
Last Revised: 02 Nov 2009
Accepted Paper Series
Criterion Economics, LLC
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396
7.
The Origins of U.S. Total Factor Productivity Growth in the Golden Age
Cliometrica, No. 1, pp. 63-90, April 2007
Number of pages: 48
Posted: 22 Feb 2008
Accepted Paper Series
Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business - Economics Department
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355
8.
The Pro-Trade Effect of Immigration on American Exports During the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 14 Oct 2001
Working Paper Series
Miami University and Vanderbilt University - College of Arts and Science - Department of Economics
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355
9.
The Right of Publicity's Intellectual Property Turn
Columbia Journal of Law & the Arts, Vol. 42, No. 3, 2019, Loyola Law School, Los Angeles Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2019-21
Number of pages: 43
Posted: 31 Jul 2019
Last Revised: 07 Feb 2024
Accepted Paper Series
University of Pennsylvania Law School
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352
10.
The Legal History of Federally Granted Railroad Rights of Way and the Myth of Congress's '1871 Shift'
University of Colorado Law Review, Vol. 82, No. 1, 2011
Number of pages: 80
Posted: 09 Mar 2010
Last Revised: 30 Dec 2010
Accepted Paper Series
U.S. Attorney's Office
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332
11.
The Economics of Speed: The Electrification of the Streetcar System and the Decline of Mom-and-Pop Stores in Boston, 1885-1905
Number of pages: 65
Posted: 16 Jul 2020
Working Paper Series
Peking University
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300
12.
Economic Consequences of the U.S. Convict Labor System
Institute for New Economic Thinking Working Paper Series No. 91 (2019), Columbia Business School Research Paper Forthcoming
Number of pages: 90
Posted: 14 Mar 2019
Working Paper Series
University of Texas at Austin - Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs
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258
13.
America's Toll Roads Heritage: The Achievements of Private Initiative in the 19th Century
Scandinavian Economics Working Paper No. 30, Chap. 12, pp. 305-325 in Gabriel Roth, ed., Street Smart: Competition, Entrepreneurship, and the Future of Roads (Transaction Publishers, 2006).
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 19 Jan 2004
Last Revised: 30 Aug 2021
Working Paper Series
George Mason University - Department of Economics and University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB) - Department of Economics
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253
14.
American Shipping Cartels in the Pre-World War I Era
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 24 May 1999
Working Paper Series
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Economics, Drexel University and University of Vermont - Department of Economics
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248
15.
The Past and Future of Work: How History Can Inform the Age of Automation
CESifo Working Paper No. 10766
Number of pages: 35
Posted: 27 Nov 2023
Working Paper Series
Oslo Metropolitan University and London School of Economics
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236
16.
Antitrust Energy
Southern California Law Review, Vol. 85, 2012, Arizona Legal Studies Discussion Paper No. 12-15
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 17 May 2012
Accepted Paper Series
University of Arizona and USC Gould School of Law
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226
17.
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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215
18.
Collusive Investments in Technological Compatibility: Lessons from U.S. Railroads in the Late 19th Century
Harvard Business School Strategy Unit Working Paper No. 17-044
Number of pages: 80
Posted: 23 Mar 2016
Last Revised: 24 Sep 2019
Working Paper Series
Duke University - Fuqua School of Business
There are 2 versions of this paper
Collusive Investments in Technological Compatibility: Lessons from U.S. Railroads in the Late 19th Century
Harvard Business School Strategy Unit Working Paper No. 17-044
Number of pages: 80
Posted: 23 Mar 2016
Last Revised: 24 Sep 2019
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213
Collusive Investments in Technological Compatibility: Lessons from U.S. Railroads in the Late 19th Century
NBER Working Paper No. w26261
Number of pages: 79
Posted: 18 Sep 2019
Last Revised: 03 Apr 2023
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21
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213
19.
Farming Output, Concentration, and Market Access: Evidence from the Nineteenth Century American Railroad Expansion
Number of pages: 51
Posted: 17 Mar 2022
Last Revised: 17 Mar 2022
Working Paper Series
Wilfrid Laurier University
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210
20.
Reinvigorating Innovation: Lessons Learned from the Wright Brothers
Contract Management, Volume 56, Page 46 (April 2016), GWU Law School Public Law Research Paper No. 2016-8, GWU Legal Studies Research Paper No. 2016-8
Number of pages: 11
Posted: 06 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
George Washington University - Law School and Arnold & Porter
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206
21.
The Electric Telegraph, News Coverage and Political Participation
Number of pages: 56
Posted: 19 May 2020
Working Paper Series
University of Pittsburgh - Department of Economics
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202
22.
The Role of Natural Gas in the Clean Power Plan
John Marshall Law Review, Vol. 49, pp. 325-375, 2016, University of Utah College of Law Research Paper No. 192
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 17 Nov 2016
Last Revised: 07 Jan 2017
Accepted Paper Series
University of Utah and University of Utah - S.J. Quinney College of Law
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195
23.
Federalism, Free Trade within Canada, and the British North America Act, S.121
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 04 Oct 2017
Working Paper Series
Independent
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174
24.
The Antebellum Tariff on Cotton Textiles Revisited
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 26 Sep 2000
Working Paper Series
Dartmouth College - Department of Economics and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) - Department of Economics
There are 2 versions of this paper
The Antebellum Tariff on Cotton Textiles Revisited
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 26 Sep 2000
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170
The Antebellum Tariff on Cotton Textiles Revisited
NBER Working Paper No. w7825
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 01 Aug 2000
Last Revised: 20 Nov 2022
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53
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170
25.
The 'Confederate' Blockade of the South
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 02 Jun 2012
Working Paper Series
Senior FellowAuburn University, College of Business,Department of Economics and Auburn University - Department of Economics
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167
26.
New Bank and Transportation Stock Indexes from 1793 to 1871, with Comparisons Across Region and Sector, and Against Prior Indexes
Number of pages: 140
Posted: 12 Nov 2019
Last Revised: 18 Mar 2021
Working Paper Series
Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business
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160
27.
Does the Conquest Explain Quebec’s Historical Poverty? The Economic Consequences of 1760
GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 22-42
Number of pages: 38
Posted: 15 Sep 2022
Last Revised: 21 Nov 2022
Working Paper Series
George Mason University - Department of Economics
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157
28.
Monetary Policy and the Copper Price Bust: A Reassessment of the Causes of the Panic of 1907
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 14 Nov 2017
Last Revised: 22 Nov 2017
Working Paper Series
State University of New York at Oswego and Benedictine University - Office of Academic Affairs
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155
29.
Modern Business Enterprise as a Capital Saving Innovation
Journal of Economic History, Vol. 47, pp. 473-485, June 1987
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 19 Mar 2008
Accepted Paper Series
Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business - Economics Department
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144
30.
The US Railroads - Their Evolution, Structure and Operations Part II
IRT Journal Vol XXI No III, July-September 2012
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 10 Sep 2013
Accepted Paper Series
Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
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142
31.
Not What it Used to Be: The Cambridge Economic History of the United States, Volumes II and III
Journal of Economic History, No. 61, pp. 806-818, September 2001
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 30 Apr 2008
Accepted Paper Series
Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business - Economics Department
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136
32.
Oliver Evans and the Framing of American Patent Law
Case Western Reserve Law Review, Vol. 71, No. 2, 2020, Brooklyn Law School, Legal Studies Paper No. 690
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 07 Oct 2021
Last Revised: 02 Nov 2021
Accepted Paper Series
Brooklyn Law School
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133
33.
No Wheat Crisis: Agricultural Trade Liberalization in Quebec during the 1830s and 1840s
GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 22-05
Number of pages: 25
Posted: 10 Jan 2022
Last Revised: 28 Jan 2022
Working Paper Series
George Mason University - Department of Economics, West Virginia University and George Mason University - Center for Study of Public Choice
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121
34.
Does America Really Need More Infrastructure? Lessons from the Debate About the Role of the Railroads in the Development of the American West
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 04 Feb 2008
Working Paper Series
University of Canberra
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119
35.
Railroads, Reallocation, and the Rise of American Manufacturing
University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper No. 2019-146
Number of pages: 76
Posted: 02 Jan 2020
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago - Booth School of Business and New York University (NYU)
There are 2 versions of this paper
Railroads, Reallocation, and the Rise of American Manufacturing
University of Chicago, Becker Friedman Institute for Economics Working Paper No. 2019-146
Number of pages: 76
Posted: 02 Jan 2020
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119
Railroads, Reallocation, and the Rise of American Manufacturing
NBER Working Paper No. w26594
Number of pages: 76
Posted: 31 Dec 2019
Last Revised: 02 Mar 2023
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36
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119
36.
The Relative Productivity of American Distribution, 1869-1992
Research in Economic History, Vol. 16, pp. 1-37, 1996
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 20 Mar 2008
Accepted Paper Series
Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business - Economics Department
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118
37.
U.S. and Canadian Federalism: Implications for International Trade Regulation
West Virginia Law Review, Vol. 114, No. 3, 2012, WVU Law Research Paper No. 2012-06
Number of pages: 47
Posted: 18 Apr 2012
Last Revised: 23 Aug 2014
Accepted Paper Series
Roger Williams University School of Law
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118
38.
The Magnetic Telegraph, Price and Quantity Data, and the New Management of Capital
Journal of Economic History, Vol. 52, pp. 401-413, June 1992
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 20 Mar 2008
Accepted Paper Series
Santa Clara University - Leavey School of Business - Economics Department
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117
39.
The Local Effects of the First Golden Age of Globalization: Evidence from American Ports, 1870-1900
Number of pages: 53
Posted: 19 Apr 2023
Last Revised: 12 Jul 2024
Working Paper Series
Wilfrid Laurier University
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115
40.
America’s First Culinary Revolution, or How a Girl from Gopher Prairie Came to Dine on Eggs Fooyung
ECONOMIC EVOLUTION AND REVOLUTIONS IN HISTORICAL TIME, pp. 419-445, Paul Rhode, Joshua Rosenbloom, David Weiman, eds., Stanford University Press, 2011
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 10 Apr 2011
Accepted Paper Series
University of California, Riverside
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107
41.
The Farm Debut of the Gasoline Engine
GMU Working Paper in Economics No. 11-20
Number of pages: 31
Posted: 06 May 2011
Working Paper Series
George Mason University - Department of Economics
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106
42.
Rust Buckets: How the Jones Act Undermines U.S. Shipbuilding and National Security
Cato Institute Policy Analysis No. 882
Number of pages: 24
Posted: 05 Dec 2019
Accepted Paper Series
Cato Institute
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101
43.
Storage Under Backwardation: A Direct Test of the Wright-Williams Conjecture
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 07 Jan 2009
Working Paper Series
Motu Economic and Public Policy Research Trust
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95
44.
Viking's 'Semantic Gaps': Law and the Political Economy of Convergence in the EU
In Bill Davies and Fernanda Nicola, eds., EU Law Stories: Critical and Contextual Histories of European Jurisprudence (Cambridge University Press 2017)
Number of pages: 13
Posted: 11 May 2015
Last Revised: 25 Jun 2017
Accepted Paper Series
University of Connecticut School of Law
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93
45.
Historical Perspective (of the Chesapeake Bay)
Prof. Garrett Power, CHESAPEAKE BAY IN LEGAL PERSPECTIVE, Part 1, pp. 5-80, Washington, DC: U.S. Dept. of the Interior, March 1970
Number of pages: 110
Posted: 29 Oct 2009
Accepted Paper Series
University of Baltimore - School of Law
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89
46.
Enterprise Forms and Accounting Conventions in Two 18th-Century Newfoundland Mercantile Concerns
Number of pages: 22
Posted: 06 Mar 2012
Last Revised: 11 Mar 2012
Working Paper Series
Mount Royal University - Bissett School of Business
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88
47.
Cartel Organization, Price Discrimination and the Trans-Atlantic Passage, 1899-1911
Number of pages: 57
Posted: 12 Sep 2012
Working Paper Series
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign - Department of Economics and University of Vermont - Department of Economics
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87
48.
The long-run effects of childhood exposure to market access shocks: Evidence from the US railroad network expansion
Number of pages: 68
Posted: 17 Mar 2022
Last Revised: 18 Dec 2022
Working Paper Series
Wilfrid Laurier University
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87
49.
Determinants of Profitability of US Class I Freight Railroads
Number of pages: 16
Posted: 20 Oct 2013
Working Paper Series
Indian Institute of Management Calcutta
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86
50.
Let the Preseason Begin: Want to Play?
Green Bag 2d, Vol. 12, No. 2, pp. 235-243, Winter 2009, George Mason Law & Economics Research Paper No. 09-16
Number of pages: 12
Posted: 09 Mar 2009
Last Revised: 12 Dec 2012
Accepted Paper Series
George Mason University - Antonin Scalia Law School
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85
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