Report NEP-HIS-2013-12-29

This is the archive for NEP-HIS, a report on new working papers in the area of Business, Economic and Financial History. Bernardo Batiz-Lazo issued this report. It is usually issued weekly.

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• Carl Kitchens & Price Fishback, 2013, "Flip the Switch: The Spatial Impact of the Rural Electrification Administration 1935-1940," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 19743, Dec.
• Hugh Rockoff, 2013, "O.M.W. Sprague (the Man who "Wrote the Book" on Financial Crises) and the Founding of the Federal Reserve," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 19758, Dec.
• PARYS, Wilfried, 2013, "All but one: How pioneers of linear economics overlooked Perron-Frobenius mathematics," Working Papers, University of Antwerp, Faculty of Business and Economics, number 2013030, Dec.
• Cormac Ó Gráda, 2013, "'Because She Never Let Them In': Irish Immigration a Century Ago and Today," Working Papers, School of Economics, University College Dublin, number 201319, Dec.
• Bresser-Pereira, Luiz Carlos, 2013, "Development, progress and economic growth," Textos para discussão, FGV EESP - Escola de Economia de São Paulo, Fundação Getulio Vargas (Brazil), number 350, Dec.
• Mejía Cubillos, Javier, 2013, "Fuentes y métodos para la reconstrucción de PIBs regionales en Colombia. Siglos XIX y XX
  [Sources and methods for the reconstruction of regional GDPs in Colombia. 19th and 20th centuries]," MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany, number 52394, Dec.
• Pamfili Antipa, 2013, "Fiscal Sustainability and the Value of Money: Lessons from the British Paper Pound, 1797-1821," Working papers, Banque de France, number 466.
• Kay, Neil M, 2013, "QWERTY and the search for optimality," SIRE Discussion Papers, Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE), number 2013-103.
• Robert Allen, 2013, "American Exceptionalism as a Problem in Global History," Economics Series Working Papers, University of Oxford, Department of Economics, number 689, Dec.
• Emanuele Felice, 2013, "Regional income inequality in Italy in the long run (1871–2001). Patterns and determinants," UHE Working papers, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Departament d'Economia i Història Econòmica, Unitat d'Història Econòmica, number 2013_08, Dec.
• Philipp Ager & Antonio Ciccone, 2013, "Rainfall Risk and Religious Membership in the Late Nineteenth-Century US," Working Papers, FEDEA, number 2013-17, Dec.
• Emiko Higami & Kenichi Tomobe & Makoto Hanashima, 2013, "Urban laboring poor against Infant Mortality at Osaka city of the early 20th century : Who saved babies?," Discussion Papers in Economics and Business, Osaka University, Graduate School of Economics, number 13-30, Nov.
• Grosfeld, Irena & Zhuravskaya, Ekaterina, 2013, "Persistent effects of empires: Evidence from the partitions of Poland," CEPREMAP Working Papers (Docweb), CEPREMAP, number 1311, Dec.
• François Facchini & Mickaël Melki, 2013, "Political Ideology and Economic Growth: Evidence from the French Democracy," Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers), HAL, number halshs-00917617, Nov.
• Jeffrey Clemens, 2013, "The Effect of U.S. Health Insurance Expansions on Medical Innovation," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 19761, Dec.
• Grieve, Roy H, 2013, "Did Keynes in the General Theory significantly misrepresent J S Mill?," SIRE Discussion Papers, Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE), number 2013-102.
• Milanovic, Branko, 2013, "The return of “patrimonial capitalism”: review of Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st century," MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany, number 52384, Oct.
• Philipp Ager & Fabrizio Spargoli, 2013, "Bank Deregulation, Competition and Economic Growth: The US Free Banking Experience," Working Papers, European Historical Economics Society (EHES), number 0050, Dec.
• Colin, Jennings, 2013, "Institutions and prosperity," SIRE Discussion Papers, Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE), number 2013-61.
• Mongin, Philippe, 2013, "Le Paradoxe d'Allais: Comment lui rendre sa signification perdue? (Allais's Paradox: How to Give It Back Its Lost Meaning?)," HEC Research Papers Series, HEC Paris, number 1021, Jun.
• Carles Sanchis Ibor, 2013, "Las instituciones horizontales de gestión colectiva del riego. El fracaso del Sindicato General de Riegos del Turia (1850-1883)," Documentos de Trabajo de la Sociedad de Estudios de Historia Agraria, Sociedad de Estudios de Historia Agraria, number 1309, Dec.
• De Feo, Giuseppe & De Luca, Giacomo, 2013, "Mafia in the ballot box," SIRE Discussion Papers, Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE), number 2013-104.
• Neil M., Kay, 2013, "Lock-in, path dependence, and the Internationalization of QWERTY," SIRE Discussion Papers, Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE), number 2013-41.
• Sriwannawit, Pranpreya & Sandström, Ulf, 2013, "Review of Diffusion Research," INDEK Working Paper Series, Royal Institute of Technology, Department of Industrial Economics and Management, number 2013/1, Dec.
• John Anyanwu & Andrew E. O. Erhijakpor, 2013, "Working Paper 184 - Does Oil Wealth Affect Democracy in Africa?," Working Paper Series, African Development Bank, number 988, Dec.
• Antonio M. Linares Luján & Francisco M. Parejo, 2013, "Crisis agraria y desigualdad nutricional en Extremadura: una primera aproximación antropométrica a los efectos de la guerra y la posguerra," Documentos de Trabajo (DT-AEHE), Asociación Española de Historia Económica, number 1311, Dec.