1.
Housing Markets in a Pandemic: Evidence from Historical Outbreaks
Number of pages: 54
Posted: 07 Apr 2020
Last Revised: 27 Jan 2021
Working Paper Series
University of Amsterdam - Faculty of Economics and Business (FEB) and Erasmus School of Economics
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2,622
2.
Causality in the Time of Cholera: John Snow As a Prototype for Causal Inference
Number of pages: 86
Posted: 30 Oct 2018
Last Revised: 15 Mar 2019
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy
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1,713
3.
Salomon vs Salomon
Chapter 1 of Landmark Cases in Company Law by V. Barnes and S. Wheeler (eds), Hart Publishing, Forthcoming , Faculty of Laws University College London Law Research Paper No. 19/2023
Number of pages: 19
Posted: 13 Oct 2023
Working Paper Series
University College London - Faculty of Laws
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653
4.
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 Reading - ICMA Centre and University of Reading
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579
5.
Limited Growth: 500 Years of Urban Rents
Number of pages: 77
Posted: 12 Jul 2019
Last Revised: 08 May 2023
Working Paper Series
Maastricht University, Erasmus School of Economics and University of Cambridge
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537
6.
Ancient Colonialism and the Economic Geography of the Mediterranean
Number of pages: 48
Posted: 21 Jul 2017
Last Revised: 09 Aug 2019
Working Paper Series
University of St. Andrews - School of Management, Cardiff University, Universidad Pablo de Olavide and University of St. Andrews
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520
7.
The Heavy Plough and the Agricultural Revolution in Medieval Europe
Discussion Papers on Business and Economics, University of Southern Denmark, 6/2013
Number of pages: 69
Posted: 05 Dec 2013
Working Paper Series
University of Southern Denmark - Department of Business and Economics, 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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420
8.
The Hanseatic League and the Concept of Functional Overlapping Competing Jurisdictions
Kyklos, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 03 Nov 2011
Last Revised: 19 Mar 2012
Accepted Paper Series
University of Leipzig
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418
9.
What Does It Take for a Roving Bandit to Settle Down? Theory and an Illustrative History of the Visigoths
Number of pages: 52
Posted: 18 May 2015
Last Revised: 17 Jun 2016
Working Paper Series
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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418
10.
Time for Growth
LSE Economic History Working Paper No. 222/2015
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 30 Aug 2015
Working Paper Series
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Economic History and Copenhagen Business School - Department of Economics
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412
11.
Trade and information shocks, and market development: Evidence from early modern Europe
Number of pages: 50
Posted: 24 Jul 2017
Last Revised: 30 Aug 2021
Working Paper Series
Indian Institute of Management (IIMB), Bangalore
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410
12.
A Modern Statistical Re-Analysis of John Snow’s 1854 South London ‘Grand Experiment’
Number of pages: 61
Posted: 05 Dec 2020
Last Revised: 06 Feb 2024
Working Paper Series
University of Chicago - Harris School of Public Policy
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392
13.
Reaching for Yield and the Housing Market: Evidence from 18th-century Amsterdam
Number of pages: 81
Posted: 17 Mar 2021
Last Revised: 05 Apr 2023
Working Paper Series
Erasmus School of Economics
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379
14.
Convergence among Italian Regions, 1861-2011
Bank of Italy Economic History Working Paper No. 22
Number of pages: 93
Posted: 26 Mar 2013
Working Paper Series
Bank of Italy, Sapienza University of Rome and University of Bari "Aldo Moro"
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312
15.
Emergence of Modern Impersonal Exchange: Role of Formalization in the Rise of Modern Capitalism
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 19 Sep 2017
Last Revised: 15 Apr 2019
Working Paper Series
Indian Institute of Management (IIMB), Bangalore
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308
16.
From Caesar to Tacitus: Changes in Early Germanic Governance Circa 50 BC-50 AD
Public Choice, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 42
Posted: 11 Nov 2014
Last Revised: 01 Aug 2015
Accepted Paper Series
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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271
17.
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
There are 2 versions of this paper
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
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270
The Wheels of Change: Technology Adoption, Millwrights, and Persistence in Britain&Apos;S Industrialization
CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP14138
Number of pages: 80
Posted: 04 Dec 2019
Last Revised: 06 May 2020
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270
18.
At the Centre of the Old World: Reinterpreting Venetian Economic History
University Ca' Foscari of Venice, Dept. of Economics Research Paper No. 50/06
Number of pages: 42
Posted: 30 Nov 2006
Working Paper Series
Ca Foscari University of Venice - Department of Management
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248
19.
The Rise and Decline of Hegemonic Systems of Scientific Creativity
EXCEPTIONAL CREATIVITY, A. Robinson, ed., Templeton Press, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 20
Posted: 10 Jun 2012
Accepted Paper Series
University of Wisconsin - Madison - Department of History and University of Wisconsin - Madison Department of History
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246
20.
Poverty and Crime in 19th Century Germany: A Reassessment
MPI Collective Goods Preprint, No. 2010/35
Number of pages: 25
Posted: 27 Aug 2010
Working Paper Series
Hertie School and Max Planck Institute for Research on Collective Goods
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244
21.
A Spatial Diffusion Model with Common Factors and an Application to Cigarette Consumption
CEIS Working Paper No. 381
Number of pages: 29
Posted: 31 May 2016
Working Paper Series
University of Rome Tor Vergata - Faculty of Economics and University of Groningen - Faculty of Economics and Business
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228
22.
Participative Political Institutions in Pre-Modern Europe. Introducing a New Database
Number of pages: 58
Posted: 20 Sep 2014
Last Revised: 12 May 2015
Working Paper Series
University of Hohenheim - Department of Economics
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213
23.
When Roving Bandits Settle Down: Club Theory and the Emergence of Government
Number of pages: 33
Posted: 30 Jun 2018
Working Paper Series
Texas Tech University - Rawls College of Business
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200
24.
Poor, Hungry and Stupid: Numeracy and the Impact of High Food Prices in Industrializing Britain, 1780-1850
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 06 Apr 2009
Working Paper Series
University of Zurich - UBS International Center of Economics in Society
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197
25.
Borders, Market Size and Urban Growth, the Case of Saxon Towns and the Zollverein in the 19th Century
Yale Economics Department Working Paper No. 55, Yale University Economic Growth Center Discussion Paper No. 966
Number of pages: 63
Posted: 17 Dec 2008
Working Paper Series
Yale University
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186
26.
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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186
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
Working Paper Series
University of Reading - ICMA Centre, University of Reading - ICMA Centre and University of Reading
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183
28.
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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179
29.
Wer zuerst kommt, mahlt zuerst – Einblicke in grundherrschaftliche Verhältnisse aus der Perspektive einer Mühle (He who Comes First, Grinds First - Insights in the Relations between Landlords and Peasants from the Perspective of a Mill)
Number of pages: 10
Posted: 12 Dec 2017
Working Paper Series
European Legal Studies Institute Osnabrueck / Radboud University Nijmegen
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178
30.
When Do Rulers Delegate Powers to Jurisdictions? The Independence of Medieval European Cities
Number of pages: 39
Posted: 01 Jan 2012
Working Paper Series
University of Leipzig
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178
31.
Regional Industrialisation Without National Growth: The Catalan Industrialization and the Growth of Spanish Economy (1830-1861)
UPF Economics and Business Working Paper No. 716
Number of pages: 36
Posted: 11 Jul 2004
Working Paper Series
London School of Economics
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174
32.
Authoritarian Repression and Electoral Opposition: Mobilization Under Germany's Antisocialist Law
Forthcoming at Comparative Politics, https://doi.org/10.5129/001041522X16346476699950
Number of pages: 40
Posted: 12 Aug 2021
Last Revised: 18 Nov 2021
Accepted Paper Series
Arizona State University (ASU) - Arizona State University School of Politics and Global Studies
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173
33.
Real Contracts and Mistaken Wages: The Organisation of Work and Pay in London Building Trades 1650-1800
Number of pages: 44
Posted: 29 Jan 2016
Working Paper Series
UCL Bartlett School of Construction and Project Management
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168
34.
The Next World and the New World: Relief, Migration, and the Great Irish Famine
Number of pages: 46
Posted: 26 Dec 2018
Working Paper Series
University College Dublin (UCD)
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165
35.
Bank Capital Structure and Financial Innovation: Antagonists or Two Sides of the Same Coin?
Higher School of Economics Research Paper No. WP BRP 66/LAW/2016
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 21 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
MGIMO University
There are 2 versions of this paper
Bank Capital Structure and Financial Innovation: Antagonists or Two Sides of the Same Coin?
Higher School of Economics Research Paper No. WP BRP 66/LAW/2016
Number of pages: 32
Posted: 21 Apr 2016
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157
Bank Capital Structure and Financial Innovation: Antagonists or Two Sides of the Same Coin?
J Financ Regul (2016) 2 (2): 225-263
Posted: 07 Oct 2016
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157
36.
Real Wages, Labour Conditions and the Standard of Living in Denmark: 1500–1900
Discussion Papers on Business and Economics, University of Southern Denmark, 2/2019
Number of pages: 41
Posted: 17 Feb 2019
Working Paper Series
University of Southern Denmark
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150
37.
Through the Magnifying Glass: Provincial Aspects of Industrial Growth in Post-Unification Italy
Bank of Italy Economic History Working Paper No. 4
Number of pages: 69
Posted: 15 Mar 2013
Working Paper Series
University of Rome Tor Vergata - Faculty of Economics and Dipartimento di Economia e Statistica
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141
38.
Old and New Ceramics: Manufacturers, Products and Markets in the Venetian Republic in the 17th and 18th Centuries
University Ca' Foscari of Venice, Dept. of Economics Research Paper Series No. 05/06
Number of pages: 49
Posted: 07 Nov 2006
Working Paper Series
Ca Foscari University of Venice - Department of Management
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139
39.
Does Medieval Trade Still Matter? Historical Trade Centers, Agglomeration and Contemporary Economic Development
Number of pages: 96
Posted: 20 Sep 2014
Last Revised: 19 Apr 2016
Working Paper Series
University of Hohenheim - Department of Economics
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137
40.
Demography and Productivity in the Italian Manufacturing Industry: Yesterday and Today
CEIS Working Paper No. 457
Number of pages: 34
Posted: 16 May 2019
Working Paper Series
University of Rome Tor Vergata - Faculty of Economics, Bank of Italy and Bank of Italy
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135
41.
Internal Geography and External Trade: Regional Disparities in Italy, 1861-2011
Bank of Italy Economic History Working Paper No. 12
Number of pages: 57
Posted: 23 Mar 2013
Working Paper Series
Pembroke College, Oxford and University of Oxford
There are 2 versions of this paper
Internal Geography and External Trade: Regional Disparities in Italy, 1861-2011
Bank of Italy Economic History Working Paper No. 12
Number of pages: 57
Posted: 23 Mar 2013
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134
Internal Geography and External Trade: Regional Disparities in Italy, 1861-2011
CEPR Discussion Paper No. DP8655
Number of pages: 48
Posted: 24 Nov 2011
Downloads
6
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134
42.
Class, Social Mobility, and Voting: Evidence from Historical Voting Records
Number of pages: 60
Posted: 18 Feb 2021
Working Paper Series
London School of Economics & Political Science (LSE) - Department of Government, University of British Columbia (UBC) - Department of Political Science, ITAM, Centro de Investigación Económica and University of Turku - Turku School of Business - Department of EconomicsVATT Institute for Economic Research
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130
43.
‘Let Her Be Burned etc.’: A Consideration of Husband-killing and ‘Petty Treason’ in Medieval England
Number of pages: 16
Posted: 14 Jan 2022
Working Paper Series
University of Bristol Law School
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124
44.
Urban Growth Shadows
Number of pages: 48
Posted: 21 Nov 2019
Working Paper Series
University of Sheffield, Southern Methodist University (SMU) and Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City
There are 3 versions of this paper
Urban Growth Shadows
NBER Working Paper No. w28476
Number of pages: 53
Posted: 22 Feb 2021
Last Revised: 23 Apr 2023
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16
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118
45.
Multinomial Choice with Social Interactions: Occupations in Victorian London
Documento CEDE No. 2017-47
Number of pages: 30
Posted: 26 Jul 2017
Working Paper Series
Universidad de los Andes, Colombia - Department of Economics and University of Ottawa - Department of Economics
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114
46.
Social Capital and Family Control
Explorations in Economic History, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 23
Posted: 14 Oct 2016
Working Paper Series
Bocconi University - Department of Management and Technology
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99
47.
Free Riding in the Monastery: Club Goods, the Cistercian Order and Agricultural Investment in Ancien Regime France
GMU Working Paper in Economics, Forthcoming
Number of pages: 45
Posted: 13 May 2017
Working Paper Series
Susquehanna University
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97
48.
Urban Autonomy: Fiefs, Communities and King Owned Towns in South Italy (1000-1806)
BAFFI CAREFIN Centre Research Paper No. 2022-183
Number of pages: 57
Posted: 29 Jun 2022
Last Revised: 04 Jul 2022
Working Paper Series
Bocconi University
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96
49.
Medieval Property Investors, C. 1300-1500
Number of pages: 37
Posted: 09 Mar 2018
Working Paper Series
University of Reading - ICMA Centre, University of Reading - ICMA Centre and University of Reading
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95
50.
The Legacy of Classical Natural Law in Russian Dogmatic Jurisprudence in the Late 19th Century
Higher School of Economics Research Paper No. WP BRP 20/LAW/2013
Number of pages: 21
Posted: 28 Jun 2013
Working Paper Series
National Research University Higher School of Economics (Moscow)
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95
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