Publications

by members of

Department of Economic History
London School of Economics (LSE)
University of London
London, United Kingdom

Working papers

2009

1. Alexander, Apostolides, 2009. "Economic growth or stagnation during the interwar Period: reconstruction of Cypriot GDP 1921-1938," MPRA Paper 17051, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]
2. Pooyan Amir Ahmadi & Albrecht Ritschl, 2009. "Depression Econometrics: A FAVAR Model of Monetary Policy During the Great Depression," SFB 649 Discussion Papers SFB649DP2009-054, Sonderforschungsbereich 649, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. [Downloadable!]
3. Ahmadi, Pooyan Amir & Ritschl, Albrecht, 2009. "Depression Econometrics: A FAVAR Model of Monetary Policy During the Great Depression," CEPR Discussion Papers 7546, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
4. Neil J. Cummins, 2009. "Marital fertility and wealth in transition era France, 1750-1850," PSE Working Papers 2009-16, PSE (Ecole normale supérieure). [Downloadable!]

2008

1. Apostolides, Alexander, 2008. "The Good the Bad and the Ugly: Lessons learnt in estimating the value added of the island’s primary sector and Results," MPRA Paper 9969, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]
2. Alexander Apostolides, 2008. "How Similar to South-Eastern Europe were the Islands of Cyprus and Malta in terms of Agricultural Output and Credit? Evidence during the Interwar Period," Working Papers 80, Bank of Greece. [Downloadable!]
3. Apostolides, Alexander, 2008. "“How Similar to South-Eastern Europe were the Islands of Cyprus and Malta in terms of Agricultural Output and Credit? Evidence during the Interwar Period”," MPRA Paper 9968, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]
4. Monique Ebell & Albrecht Ritschl, 2008. "Real Origins of the Great Depression: Monopoly Power, Unions and the American Business Cycle in the 1920s," CEP Discussion Papers dp0876, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE. [Downloadable!]
5. Barry Eichengreen & Albrecht Ritschl, 2008. "Understanding West German Economic Growth in the 1950s," SFB 649 Discussion Papers SFB649DP2008-068, Sonderforschungsbereich 649, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. [Downloadable!]
6. Albrecht Ritschl & Samad Sarferaz & Martin Uebele, 2008. "The U.S. Business Cycle, 1867-1995: Dynamic Factor Analysis vs. Reconstructed National Accounts," SFB 649 Discussion Papers SFB649DP2008-066, Sonderforschungsbereich 649, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. [Downloadable!]
7. Ritschl, Albrecht & Sarferaz, Samad & Uebele, Martin, 2008. "The U.S. Business Cycle, 1867-1995: A Dynamic Factor Approach," CEPR Discussion Papers 7069, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2007

1. J.Humphries & T. Leunig, 2007. "Cities, Market Integration and Going to Sea: Stunting and the standard of living in early nineteenth-century England and Wales," Oxford University Economic and Social History Series _066, Economics Group, Nuffield College, University of Oxford. [Downloadable!]
2. Colvin, Chris, 2007. "Universal Banking Failure? An Analysis of the Contrasting Responses of the Amsterdamsche Bank and the Rotterdamsche Bankvereeniging to the Dutch Financial Crisis of the 1920s," MPRA Paper 2238, University Library of Munich, Germany. [Downloadable!]
3. Monique Ebell & Albrecht Ritschl, 2007. "Real Origins of the Great Depression: Monopolistic Competition, Union Power, and the American Business Cycle in the 1920s," SFB 649 Discussion Papers SFB649DP2007-006, Sonderforschungsbereich 649, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. [Downloadable!]
4. Ebell, Monique & Ritschl, Albrecht, 2007. "Real Origins of the Great Depression: Monopolistic Competition, Union Power, and the American Business Cycle in the 1920s," CEPR Discussion Papers 6146, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
5. Oliver Volckart, 2007. "Rules, Discretion or Reputation? Monetary Policies and the Efficiency of Financial Markets in Germany, 14th to 16th Centuries," SFB 649 Discussion Papers SFB649DP2007-007, Sonderforschungsbereich 649, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. [Downloadable!]
6. Roman Studer, 2007. "India and the Great Divergence: Assessing the Efficiency of Grain Markets in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century India," Oxford University Economic and Social History Series _068, Economics Group, Nuffield College, University of Oxford. [Downloadable!]

2006

1. Albrecht Ritschl, 2006. "The Anglo-German Industrial Productivity Paradox, 1895-1938: A Restatement and a Possible Resolution," SFB 649 Discussion Papers SFB649DP2006-048, Sonderforschungsbereich 649, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. [Downloadable!]
2. Lars Boerner & Albrecht Ritschl, 2006. "Making Financial Markets: Contract Enforcement and the Emergence of Tradable Assets in Late Medieval Europe," 2006 Meeting Papers 884, Society for Economic Dynamics. [Downloadable!]
3. Chris Minns & Mary MacKinnon, 2006. "The Costs Of Doing Hard Time: A Penitentiary-Based Regional Price Index For Canada, 1883-1923," Departmental Working Papers 2006-09, McGill University, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
4. Jerven, Morten, 2006. "Social Capital as a Determinant of Economic Growth in Africa," Ratio Working Papers 108, The Ratio Institute. [Downloadable!]
5. Oliver Volckart, 2006. "The Influence of Information Costs on the Integration of Financial Markets: Northern Europe, 1350-1560," SFB 649 Discussion Papers SFB649DP2006-049, Sonderforschungsbereich 649, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. [Downloadable!]

2005

1. Albrecht Ritschl & Martin Uebele, 2005. "Stock Markets and Business Cycle Comovement in Germany before World War I: Evidence from Spectral Analysis," SFB 649 Discussion Papers SFB649DP2005-056, Sonderforschungsbereich 649, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. [Downloadable!]
2. Ritschl, Albrecht & Uebele, Martin, 2005. "Stock Markets and Business Cycle Comovement in Germany Before World War I: Evidence from Spectral Analysis," CEPR Discussion Papers 5370, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Chris Minns & Alan Green, Mary MacKinnon, 2005. "Conspicuous by their Absence: French Canadians and the Settlement of the Canadian West," The Institute for International Integration Studies Discussion Paper Series iiisdp065, IIIS. [Downloadable!]
4. Chris Minns, 2005. "Immigration policy and the skills of Irish immigrants: evidence and implications," The Institute for International Integration Studies Discussion Paper Series iiisdp068, IIIS. [Downloadable!]
5. Michael Huberman & Chris Minns, 2005. "Hours of Work in Old and New Worlds: The Long View, 1870-2000," The Institute for International Integration Studies Discussion Paper Series iiisdp95, IIIS. [Downloadable!]
6. Chris Minns & Mary Mackinnon, 2005. "The Costs of Doing Hard Time: A penitentiary-based regional price index for Canada, 1883-1923," Trinity Economics Papers 200051, Trinity College Dublin, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]
7. Chris Minns & Mary Mackinnon, 2005. "The Costs of Doing Hard Time: A penitentiary-based regional price index for Canada, 1883-1923," Trinity Economics Papers tep1, Trinity College Dublin, Department of Economics. [Downloadable!]

2004

1. Ritschl, Albrecht, 2004. "Spurious Growth in German Output Data, 1913-1938," CEPR Discussion Papers 4429, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2003

1. Ritschl, Albrecht & Wolf, Nikolaus, 2003. "Endogeneity of Currency Areas and Trade Blocs: Evidence from the Inter-war Period," CEPR Discussion Papers 4112, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Chris Minns, & Mariyan Rizov, 2003. "The spirit of capitalism? Immigration, religion, and self-employment in early 20th century Canada," The Institute for International Integration Studies Discussion Paper Series iiisdp08, IIIS. [Downloadable!]

2000

1. Ritschl, Albrecht & Woitek, Ulrich, 2000. "Did Monetary Forces Cause the Great Depression?," CEPR Discussion Papers 2547, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Albrecht Ritschl & Ulrich Woitek, 2000. "Did Monetary Forces Cause the Great Depression? A Bayesian VAR Analysis for the U.S. Economy," Working Papers 2000_07, Department of Economics, University of Glasgow. [Downloadable!]

1998

1. Tim Leunig, 1998. "New Answers to Old Questions: Transport Costs and the Slow Adoption of Ring Spinning in Lancashire," Oxford University Economic and Social History Series _022, Economics Group, Nuffield College, University of Oxford. [Downloadable!]
2. Eichengreen, Barry & Ritschl, Albrecht, 1998. "Winning the War, Losing the Peace? Britain's Post-War Recovery in a West German Mirror," CEPR Discussion Papers 1809, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1996

1. Ritschl, Albrecht, 1996. "Sustainability of High Public Debt: What the Historical Record Shows," CEPR Discussion Papers 1357, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1994

1. Ritschl, Albrecht, 1994. "An Exercise in Futility: East German Economic Growth and Decline, 1945-89," CEPR Discussion Papers 984, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

Undated

1. Albrecht Ritschl & Ulrich Woitek, . "Did Monetary Forces Cause the Great Depression? A Bayesian VAR Analysis for the U.S. Economy," IEW - Working Papers iewwp050, Institute for Empirical Research in Economics - IEW. [Downloadable!]
2. Albrecht Ritschl, . "Deficit Spending in the Nazi Recovery, 1933-1938: A Critical Reassessment," IEW - Working Papers iewwp068, Institute for Empirical Research in Economics - IEW. [Downloadable!]

Journal articles

2009

1. Humphries, Jane & Leunig, Timothy, 2009. "Was Dick Whittington taller than those he left behind? Anthropometric measures, migration and the quality of life in early nineteenth century London?," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 46(1), pages 120-131, January. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Jane Humphries & Tim Leunig, 2009. "Cities, market integration, and going to sea: stunting and the standard of living in early nineteenth-century England and Wales -super-1," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 62(2), pages 458-478, 05. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Lars Boerner & Albrecht Ritschl, 2009. "The Economic History of Sovereignty: Communal Responsibility, the Extended Family, and the Firm," Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, vol. 165(1), pages 99-112, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
4. Uebele, Martin & Ritschl, Albrecht, 2009. "Stock markets and business cycle comovement in Germany before World War I: Evidence from spectral analysis," Journal of Macroeconomics, Elsevier, vol. 31(1), pages 35-57, March. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
5. Barry Eichengreen & Albrecht Ritschl, 2009. "Understanding West German economic growth in the 1950s," Cliometrica, Journal of Historical Economics and Econometric History, Association Française de Cliométrie (AFC), vol. 3(3), pages 191-219, October. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
6. Gregory Clark & Neil Cummins, 2009. "Urbanization, Mortality, and Fertility in Malthusian England," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 99(2), pages 242-47, May. [Downloadable!]
7. Studer, Roman, 2009. "The New Comparative Economic History: Essays in Honor of Jeffrey G. Williamson. Edited by Timothy J. Hatton, Kevin H. O'Rourke, and Alan M. Taylor. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2007. Pp. x, 417. $40, clo," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 69(03), pages 898-899, September. [Downloadable!]

2008

1. Tim Leunig & Henry Overman, 2008. "Spatial patterns of development and the British housing market," Oxford Review of Economic Policy, Oxford University Press, vol. 24(1), pages 59-78, spring. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Nicholas Crafts & Timothy Leunig & Abay Mulatu, 2008. "Were British railway companies well managed in the early twentieth century? -super-1," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 61(4), pages 842-866, November. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Virginie Vial, 2008. "How Much Does Turnover Matter? Evidence from Indonesian Manufacturing Total Factor Productivity Growth, 1975-95," Oxford Development Studies, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 36(3), pages 295-322. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
4. Albrecht Ritschl, 2008. "Eichengreen, B: Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods," Journal of Economics, Springer, vol. 94(2), pages 195-197, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
5. Ritschl, Albrecht, 2008. "The Anglo-German Industrial Productivity Puzzle, 1895?1935: A Restatement and a Possible Resolution," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 68(02), pages 535-565, June. [Downloadable!]
6. Studer, Roman, 2008. "India and the Great Divergence: Assessing the Efficiency of Grain Markets in Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century India," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 68(02), pages 393-437, June. [Downloadable!]

2007

1. Chris Minns & Mary MacKinnon, 2007. "The costs of doing hard time: a penitentiary-based regional price index for Canada, 1883-1923," Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Economics Association, vol. 40(2), pages 528-560, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Huberman, Michael & Minns, Chris, 2007. "The times they are not changin': Days and hours of work in Old and New Worlds, 1870-2000," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 44(4), pages 538-567, October. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2006

1. Leunig, Timothy, 2006. "Time is Money: A Re-Assessment of the Passenger Social Savings from Victorian British Railways," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 66(03), pages 635-673, September. [Downloadable!]
2. Timothy Leunig & Hans-Joachim Voth, 2006. "Comment on 'Seat of Death and Terror' -super-1," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 59(3), pages 607-616, 08. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Virginie Vial, 2006. "New Estimates Of Total Factor Productivity Growth In Indonesian Manufacturing," Bulletin of Indonesian Economic Studies, Taylor and Francis Journals, vol. 42(3), pages 357-369, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
4. Volckart, Oliver & Wolf, Nikolaus, 2006. "Estimating Financial Integration in the Middle Ages: What Can We Learn from a TAR Model?," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 66(01), pages 122-139, March. [Downloadable!]

2005

1. Albrecht Ritschl, 2005. "Der späte Fluch des Dritten Reichs: Pfadabhängigkeiten in der Entstehung der bundesdeutschen Wirtschaftsordnung," Perspektiven der Wirtschaftspolitik, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 6(2), pages 151-170, 05. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Minns, Chris & Rizov, Marian, 2005. "The spirit of capitalism? Ethnicity, religion, and self-employment in early 20th century Canada," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 42(2), pages 259-281, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
3. Green, Alan & Mackinnon, Mary & Minns, Chris, 2005. "Conspicuous by their Absence: French Canadians and the Settlement of the Canadian West," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 65(03), pages 822-849, September. [Downloadable!]
4. Gerben Bakker, 2005. "The decline and fall of the European film industry: sunk costs, market size, and market structure, 1890-1927 -super-1 ," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 58(2), pages 310-351, 05. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2004

1. Ritschl, Albrecht, 2004. "J. Adam Tooze, Statistics and the German State, 1900 1945: the Making of Modern Economic Knowledge (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2001. 332. pp. $65.00)," Financial History Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 11(01), pages 129-133, April. [Downloadable!]
2. Ritschl, Albrecht, 2004. "Spurious growth in German output data, 1913 1938," European Review of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 8(02), pages 201-223, August. [Downloadable!]
3. Oliver Volckart, 2004. "Village Communities as Cartels: Problems of Collective Action and their Solutions in Medieval and Early Modern Central Europe," Homo Oeconomicus, Institute of SocioEconomics, vol. 21, pages 21-40.
4. Volckart, Oliver, 2004. "The economics of feuding in late medieval Germany," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 41(3), pages 282-299, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
5. Oliver Volckart, 2004. "In Introduction: Explaining History – Neo-Institutionalism in Perspective," Homo Oeconomicus, Institute of SocioEconomics, vol. 21, pages 1-20.

2003

1. Timothy Leunig, 2003. "A British industrial success: productivity in the Lancashire and New England cotton spinning industries a century ago," Economic History Review, Economic History Society, vol. 56(1), pages 90-117, 02. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

2002

1. Ritschl, Albrecht, 2002. "Deficit Spending in the Nazi Recovery, 1933-1938: A Critical Reassessment," Journal of the Japanese and International Economies, Elsevier, vol. 16(4), pages 559-582, December. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Volckart, Oliver, 2002. "Central Europe's way to a market economy, 1000 1800," European Review of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 6(03), pages 309-337, December. [Downloadable!]
3. Oliver Volckart, 2002. "No Utopia: Government Without Territorial Monopoly in Medieval Central Europe," Journal of Institutional and Theoretical Economics (JITE), Mohr Siebeck, Tübingen, vol. 158(2), pages 325-, June. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
4. Oliver Volckart, 2002. "Why Did the German Bourgeoisie Imitate the Nobility?: a Rational-Choice-Analysis of Bourgeois Behavior in Wilhelmine Germany," Homo Oeconomicus, Institute of SocioEconomics, vol. 18, pages 501-521.

2001

1. Leunig, Timothy, 2001. "NEW ANSWERS TO OLD QUESTIONS: EXPLAINING THE SLOW ADOPTION OF RING SPINNING IN LANCASHIRE, 1880 l913," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 61(02), pages 439-466, June. [Downloadable!]
2. Ritschl, Albrecht, 2001. "Fifty fears of the Deutsche Mark: Central Bank and the Currency in Germany since 1948. Edited by the Deutsche Bundesbank. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. Pp. xxvi, 836. $90.00," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 61(01), pages 198-199, March. [Downloadable!]
3. Bakker, Gerben, 2001. "Edwin J. Perkins, Wall Street to Main Street. Charles Merrill and Middle Class Investors (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. xiv + 283 pp.)," Financial History Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 8(02), pages 231-243, October. [Downloadable!]

2000

1. Minns, Chris, 2000. "Income, Cohort Effects, and Occupational Mobility: A New Look at Immigration to the United States at the Turn of the 20th Century," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 37(4), pages 326-350, October. [Downloadable!] (restricted)
2. Volckart, Oliver, 2000. "State Building by Bargaining for Monopoly Rents," Kyklos, Blackwell Publishing, vol. 53(3), pages 265-91.
3. Volckart, Oliver, 2000. "The open constitution and its enemies: competition, rent seeking, and the rise of the modern state," Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization, Elsevier, vol. 42(1), pages 1-17, May. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1999

1. Leunig, Tim, 1999. "The Prothictivity Race: BritishManifacturingin International Perspective, 1850?1990. By S. N. Broadberry. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997. Pp. xxv, 451. ?45.00, $74.95," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 59(01), pages 215-216, March. [Downloadable!]
2. Albrecht Ritschl, 1999. "Les reparations allemandes, 1920-1933 : une controverse revue par la theorie des jeux," Economie Internationale, CEPII research center, issue 2Q, pages 129-154. [Downloadable!]
3. Ritschl, Albrecht, 1999. "Modern Europe Hitler's Economy: Nazi Work Creation Programs, 1933?1936. By Dan P. Silverman. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1998. Pp. 384. $45.00," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 59(04), pages 1104-1105, December. [Downloadable!]

1998

1. Leunig, Tim, 1998. "The People and the British Economy, 1830?1914. By Roderick Floud. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1997. Pp. x, 218. $15.95, paper," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 58(03), pages 881-882, September. [Downloadable!]
2. Ritschl, Albrecht, 1998. "Reparation transfers, the Borchardt hypothesis and the Great Depression in Germany, 1929 32: A guided tour for hard-headed Keynesians," European Review of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 2(01), pages 49-72, April. [Downloadable!]

1997

1. Leunig, Tim, 1997. "The Lancashire Cotton Industry: A History Since 1700. Edited by Mary Rose. Preston: Lancashire County Books, 1996. Pp. xii, 404. ?24.95, cloth; ?14.95, paper," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 57(04), pages 964-965, December. [Downloadable!]

1996

1. Ritschl, Albrecht, 1996. "Gerald D. Feldman, The Great Disorder. Politics, Economics, and Society in the German Inflation, 1914?1924 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1993. 1,011 pp. ?75/$125)," Financial History Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 3(01), pages 107-108, April. [Downloadable!]

1995

1. Broadberry S. N. & Ritschl A., 1995. "Real Wages, Productivity, and Unemployment in Britain and Germany during the 1920's," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 32(3), pages 327-349, July. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

1992

1. Borchardt, Knut & Ritschl, Albrecht, 1992. "Could bruening have done it? : A Keynesian model of interwar Germany, 1925-1938," European Economic Review, Elsevier, vol. 36(2-3), pages 695-701, April. [Downloadable!] (restricted)

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