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Eric Hilt

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(50%) Department of Economics
Wellesley College

Wellesley, Massachusetts (United States)
http://www.wellesley.edu/Economics/
RePEc:edi:dewelus (more details at EDIRC)

(50%) National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER)

Cambridge, Massachusetts (United States)
http://www.nber.org/
RePEc:edi:nberrus (more details at EDIRC)

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Working papers

  1. Gillian Brunet & Eric Hilt & Matthew S. Jaremski, 2025. "‘Invest!’: Liberty Bonds and Stock Ownership over the Twentieth Century," NBER Working Papers 33541, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  2. Asaf Bernstein & Carola Frydman & Eric Hilt, 2023. "The Value of Ratings: Evidence from their Introduction in Securities Markets," NBER Working Papers 31064, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  3. Gillian Brunet & Eric Hilt & Matthew S. Jaremski, 2023. "Inflation, War Bonds, and the Rise of Republicans in the 1950s," NBER Working Papers 31969, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  4. Eric Hilt & Matthew S. Jaremski & Wendy Rahn, 2020. "When Uncle Sam Introduced Main Street to Wall Street: Liberty Bonds and the Transformation of American Finance," NBER Working Papers 27703, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  5. Eric Hilt & Wendy M. Rahn, 2018. "Financial Asset Ownership and Political Partisanship: Liberty Bonds and Republican Electoral Success in the 1920s," NBER Working Papers 24719, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  6. Richard B. Baker & Carola Frydman & Eric Hilt, 2018. "Political Discretion and Antitrust Policy: Evidence from the Assassination of President McKinley," NBER Working Papers 25237, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  7. Eric Hilt, 2018. "Banks, Insider Connections, and Industrialization in New England: Evidence from the Panic of 1873," NBER Working Papers 24792, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  8. Eric Hilt, 2015. "Corporation Law and the Shift toward Open Access in the Antebellum United States," NBER Working Papers 21195, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  9. Eric Hilt, 2014. "Corporate Governance and the Development of Manufacturing Enterprises in Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts," NBER Working Papers 20096, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  10. Eric Hilt, 2014. "History of American Corporate Governance: Law, Institutions, and Politics," NBER Working Papers 20356, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  11. Carola Frydman & Eric Hilt, 2014. "Investment Banks as Corporate Monitors in the Early 20th Century United States," NBER Working Papers 20544, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  12. Carola Frydman & Eric Hilt & Lily Y. Zhou, 2012. "Economic Effects of Runs on Early 'Shadow Banks': Trust Companies and the Impact of the Panic of 1907," NBER Working Papers 18264, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  13. Eric Hilt & Jacqueline Valentine, 2011. "Democratic Dividends: Stockholding, Wealth and Politics in New York, 1791-1826," NBER Working Papers 17147, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  14. Eric Hilt, 2009. "Wall Street's First Corporate Governance Crisis: The Panic of 1826," NBER Working Papers 14892, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  15. Eric Hilt & Katharine E. O'Banion, 2008. "The Limited Partnership in New York, 1822-1853: Partnerships without Kinship," NBER Working Papers 14412, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  16. Eric Hilt, 2007. "When did Ownership Separate from Control? Corporate Governance in the Early Nineteenth Century," NBER Working Papers 13093, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  17. Eric Hilt, 2006. "The Negative Trade-off Between Risk and Incentives: Evidence from the American Whaling Industry," NBER Working Papers 11960, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  18. Eric Hilt, 2004. "Incentives in Corporations: Evidence from the American Whaling Industry," NBER Working Papers 10403, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

Articles

  1. Brunet, Gillian & Hilt, Eric & Jaremski, Matthew, 2025. "War bonds and household saving in WWII," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 97(C).
  2. Brunet, Gillian & Hilt, Eric & Jaremski, Matthew, 2025. "‘Invest!’: Liberty bonds and stock ownership over the twentieth century," Journal of Financial Intermediation, Elsevier, vol. 64(C).
  3. Richard B. Baker & Carola Frydman & Eric Hilt, 2023. "Political Discretion and Antitrust Policy: Evidence from the Assassination of President McKinley," Journal of Law and Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 66(4), pages 837-873.
  4. Hilt, Eric & Jaremski, Matthew & Rahn, Wendy, 2022. "When Uncle Sam introduced Main Street to Wall Street: Liberty Bonds and the transformation of American finance," Journal of Financial Economics, Elsevier, vol. 145(1), pages 194-216.
  5. Hilt, Eric & Rahn, Wendy, 2020. "Financial Asset Ownership and Political Partisanship: Liberty Bonds and Republican Electoral Success in the 1920s," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 80(3), pages 746-781, September.
  6. Hilt, Eric, 2019. "American Fair Trade: Proprietary Capitalism, Corporatism, and the “New Competition,” 1890–1940. ByLaura Phillips Sawyer. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018. xvi + 376 pp. Bibliography, index.," Business History Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 93(1), pages 189-192, April.
  7. Carola Frydman & Eric Hilt, 2018. "La surveillance des entreprises par les banques d’investissement au début du xx e siècle aux États-Unis," Revue d'économie financière, Association d'économie financière, vol. 0(2), pages 309-316.
  8. Carola Frydman & Eric Hilt, 2017. "Investment Banks as Corporate Monitors in the Early Twentieth Century United States," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 107(7), pages 1938-1970, July.
  9. Hilt, Eric, 2017. "Economic History, Historical Analysis, and the “New History of Capitalism”," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 77(2), pages 511-536, June.
  10. Hilt, Eric, 2017. "A History of Financial Crises: Dreams and Follies of Expectations. By Cihan Bilginsoy. New York: Routledge, 2015. Pp. 500. $189.98, hardcover; $58.60, paper," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 77(2), pages 649-650, June.
  11. Carola Frydman & Eric Hilt & Lily Y. Zhou, 2015. "Economic Effects of Runs on Early "Shadow Banks": Trust Companies and the Impact of the Panic of 1907," Journal of Political Economy, University of Chicago Press, vol. 123(4), pages 902-940.
  12. Eric Hilt, 2014. "History of American Corporate Governance: Law, Institutions, and Politics," Annual Review of Financial Economics, Annual Reviews, vol. 6(1), pages 1-21, December.
  13. Hilt, Eric, 2014. "Richard S Grossman. Unsettled Account: The Evolution of Banking in the Industrialized World Since 1800. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2010. 408 pp. ISBN 9781400835256, $46.95 (cloth)," Enterprise & Society, Cambridge University Press, vol. 15(2), pages 385-387, June.
  14. Eric Hilt, 2013. "Shareholder voting rights in early American corporations," Business History, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 55(4), pages 620-635, June.
  15. Hilt, Eric & Valentine, Jacqueline, 2012. "Democratic Dividends: Stockholding, Wealth, and Politics in New York, 1791–1826," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 72(2), pages 332-363, May.
  16. Hilt, Eric, 2010. "The Market Revolution in America: Liberty, Ambition, and the Eclipse of the Common Good. By John Lauritz Larson. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009. Pp. 222. $20.99, paper," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 70(3), pages 780-782, September.
  17. Hilt, Eric, 2009. "Rogue Finance: The Life and Fire Insurance Company and the Panic of 1826," Business History Review, Cambridge University Press, vol. 83(1), pages 87-112, April.
  18. Hilt, Eric & O'Banion, Katharine, 2009. "The Limited Partnership in New York, 1822–1858: Partnerships Without Kinship," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 69(3), pages 615-645, September.
  19. Hilt, Eric, 2008. "The negative trade-off between risk and incentives: Evidence from the american whaling industry," Explorations in Economic History, Elsevier, vol. 45(4), pages 424-444, September.
  20. Hilt, Eric, 2008. "When did Ownership Separate from Control? Corporate Governance in the Early Nineteenth Century," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 68(3), pages 645-685, September.
  21. Hilt, Eric, 2007. "Investment and Diversification in the American Whaling Industry," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 67(2), pages 292-314, June.
  22. Hilt, Eric, 2006. "The Global Economy in the 1990s: A Long-Run Perspective. Edited by Paul W. Rhode and Gianni Toniolo. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. Pp. xiv, 319. $80, cloth; $34.99, paper," The Journal of Economic History, Cambridge University Press, vol. 66(4), pages 1107-1109, December.
  23. Hilt, Eric, 2006. "Incentives in Corporations: Evidence from the American Whaling Industry," Journal of Law and Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 49(1), pages 197-227, April.
  24. Pastor, Manuel Jr. & Hilt, Eric, 1993. "Private investment and democracy in Latin America," World Development, Elsevier, vol. 21(4), pages 489-507, April.

Chapters

  1. Gillian Brunet & Eric Hilt & Matthew Jaremski, 2024. "War Bonds and Household Saving in WWII," NBER Chapters, in: The Economic Impacts of World War II, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  2. Eric Hilt, 2016. "Corporation Law and the Shift toward Open Access in the Antebellum United States," NBER Chapters, in: Organizations, Civil Society, and the Roots of Development, pages 147-177, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
  3. Eric Hilt, 2014. "Corporate Governance and the Development of Manufacturing Enterprises in Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts," NBER Chapters, in: Enterprising America: Businesses, Banks, and Credit Markets in Historical Perspective, pages 73-102, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.

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NEP is an announcement service for new working papers, with a weekly report in each of many fields. This author has had 18 papers announced in NEP. These are the fields, ordered by number of announcements, along with their dates. If the author is listed in the directory of specialists for this field, a link is also provided.
  1. NEP-HIS: Business, Economic and Financial History (18) 2004-06-07 2006-01-24 2007-05-19 2008-10-28 2009-04-18 2011-06-25 2012-08-23 2014-05-17 2014-08-09 2014-12-19 2015-05-30 2018-08-13 2018-08-27 2018-12-10 2020-09-07 2023-04-17 2024-01-15 2025-05-12. Author is listed
  2. NEP-LAW: Law and Economics (6) 2007-05-19 2008-10-28 2011-06-25 2014-08-09 2015-05-30 2018-12-10. Author is listed
  3. NEP-HPE: History and Philosophy of Economics (2) 2009-04-18 2024-01-15
  4. NEP-POL: Positive Political Economics (2) 2011-06-25 2018-08-27
  5. NEP-CDM: Collective Decision-Making (1) 2018-08-27
  6. NEP-COM: Industrial Competition (1) 2018-12-10
  7. NEP-CSE: Economics of Strategic Management (1) 2014-05-17
  8. NEP-DES: Economic Design (1) 2023-04-17
  9. NEP-FDG: Financial Development and Growth (1) 2018-08-13
  10. NEP-FLE: Financial Literacy and Education (1) 2025-05-12
  11. NEP-FMK: Financial Markets (1) 2023-04-17
  12. NEP-HME: Heterodox Microeconomics (1) 2014-08-09
  13. NEP-MAC: Macroeconomics (1) 2023-04-17

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