Report NEP-HIS-2014-12-29

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

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• Baten, Jörg & Sohn, Kitae, 2014. "Impoverished, but Numerate? Early Numeracy in East Asia (1550–1800) and its Impact on 20th and 21st Century Economic Growth," CEPR Discussion Papers 9991, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
• Sahle, Esther, 2014. "Quakers, coercion and pre-modern growth: why friends’ formal institutions for contract enforcement did not matter for early Atlantic trade expansion," Economic History Working Papers 60452, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History.
• Bonfatti, Roberto & O'Rourke, Kevin Hjortshøj, 2014. "Growth, Import Dependence and War," CEPR Discussion Papers 10073, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
• Pauline Grosjean & Rose Khattar, 2014. "It's Raining Men! Hallelujah?," Discussion Papers 2014-29A, School of Economics, The University of New South Wales.
• Felix Butschek, 2014. "The Performance of the European Economy in Historical Perspective," WIFO Working Papers 484, WIFO.
• Estrada, Fernando, 2014. "Thomas Piketty’s Capital in the 21st Century," MPRA Paper 60682, University Library of Munich, Germany.
• Michalopoulos, Stelios & Papaioannou, Elias, 2014. "Further Evidence on the Link between Pre-Colonial Political Centralization and Comparative Economic Development in Africa," CEPR Discussion Papers 10258, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
• Voigtländer, Nico & Voth, Hans-Joachim, 2014. "Highway To Hitler," CEPR Discussion Papers 9983, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
• Jordà, Òscar & Schularick, Moritz & Taylor, Alan M., 2014. "The Great Mortgaging: Housing Finance, Crises, and Business Cycles," CEPR Discussion Papers 10161, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
• Bertocchi, Graziella & Bozzano, Monica, 2014. "Family Structure and the Education Gender Gap: Evidence from Italian Provinces," CEPR Discussion Papers 10091, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
• Mario J. Crucini & Gregor W. Smith, 2014. "Geographic Barriers to Commodity Price Integration: Evidence from US Cities and Swedish Towns, 1732 - 1860," CAMA Working Papers 2014-75, Centre for Applied Macroeconomic Analysis, Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University.
• Mary Eschelbach Hansen, 2014. "Sources of Credit and the Extent of the Credit Market: A View from Bankruptcy Records, Mississippi 1929-1936," Working Papers 2014-09, American University, Department of Economics.
• Michalopoulos, Stelios & Papaioannou, Elias, 2014. "On the Ethnic Origins of African Development: Chiefs and Pre-colonial Political Centralization," CEPR Discussion Papers 10257, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
• Jun, Bogang & Lee, Joongho, 2014. "The tradeoff between fertility and education: Evidence from the Korean development path," FZID Discussion Papers 92-2014, University of Hohenheim, Center for Research on Innovation and Services (FZID).
• Fabian Wahl, 2014. "Origins of Political Change Ñ The Case of Late Medieval Guild Revolts," Working Papers 0069, European Historical Economics Society (EHES).
• Giavazzi, Francesco & Petkov, Ivan & Schiantarelli, Fabio, 2014. "Culture: Persistence and Evolution," CEPR Discussion Papers 10024, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
• Rafael González-Val & Julio Martínez-Galarraga & Daniel A. Tirado-Fabregat, 2014. "Market Potential and Regional Economic Growth in Spain, 1860-1930," ERSA conference papers ersa14p635, European Regional Science Association.
• B. Zorina Khan, 2014. "Inventing in the Shadow of the Patent System: Evidence from 19th-Century Patents and Prizes for Technological Innovations," NBER Working Papers 20731, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
• Neil Cummins, 2014. "Longevity and the Rise of the West: Lifespans of the European Elite, 800-1800," Working Papers 0064, European Historical Economics Society (EHES).
• Kota Kitagawa, 2014. "An Analysis of J.R. Commons’s Changing Views on the Role of Sovereignty in the Political Economy," Discussion papers e-14-013, Graduate School of Economics Project Center, Kyoto University.
• Sofia Teives Henriques & Karol J. Borowiecki, 2014. "The Drivers of Long-run CO2 Emissions: A Global Perspective since 1800," Working Papers 0062, European Historical Economics Society (EHES).
• Marchionatti, Roberto & Mornati, Fiorenzo, 2014. "Economic Theories in Competition. A New Narrative of the Debate on General Economic Equilibrium Theory in the 1930s," Department of Economics and Statistics Cognetti de Martiis. Working Papers 201436, University of Turin.
• José M. Menudo & José Mª O’Kean, 2014. "The Market for Entrepreneurs: The Story of a Failure," Working Papers 14.09, Universidad Pablo de Olavide, Department of Economics.
• Reinhart, Carmen M. & Trebesch, Christoph, 2014. "A Distant Mirror of Debt, Default, and Relief," CEPR Discussion Papers 10195, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
• Paul David, 2014. "The Republic of Open Science - The institution’s Historical Origins and Prospects for Continued Vitality," Discussion Papers 13-037, Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research.
• Michael Pflüger, 2014. "Services, Comparative Advantage and Agglomeration of Economic Activity: A Ricardo-Marshall Model," ERSA conference papers ersa14p1347, European Regional Science Association.
• Francesco Sergi, 2014. "Quelle méthodologie pour une étude des modèles DSGE ? Suggestions à partir d'un état des lieux des recherches sur la modélisation," Documents de travail du Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne 14067, Université Panthéon-Sorbonne (Paris 1), Centre d'Economie de la Sorbonne.
• Wickens, Michael R., 2014. "How did we get to where we are now? Reflections on 50 years of macroeconomic and financial econometrics," CEPR Discussion Papers 10197, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
• Valeria Gattai & Piergiovanna Natale, 2014. "Joint Ventures and the Property Rights Theory of the Firm: a Review of the Literature," Working Papers 287, University of Milano-Bicocca, Department of Economics, revised Dec 2014.
• Roger Backhouse & Beatrice Cherrier, 2014. "Becoming Applied: The Transformation of Economics after 1970," Discussion Papers 14-11, Department of Economics, University of Birmingham.
• Vicini, Andrea, 2011. "On the origins and main consequences of fiscal illusion. a short tribute to a big Economist: James Buchanan," MPRA Paper 60240, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised Oct 2014.
• Philipp Ager & Casper Worm Hansen & Lars Lønstrup, 2014. "Church Membership and Social Insurance: Evidence from the American South," Discussion Papers 14-29, University of Copenhagen. Department of Economics.
• Gerlach, Stefan & Lydon, Raemonn & Stuart, Rebecca, 2014. "The Phillips Curve in Ireland: 1935 - 2012," CEPR Discussion Papers 10010, C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers.
• Wojciech Kopczuk, 2014. "What Do We Know About Evolution of Top Wealth Shares in the United States?," NBER Working Papers 20734, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
• Hervas Oliver,Jose Luis & Gonzalez,Gregorio & Caja,Pedro, 2014. "Clusters and industrial districts: where is the literature going? Identifying emerging sub-fields of research," INGENIO (CSIC-UPV) Working Paper Series 201409, INGENIO (CSIC-UPV).
• Maren Duvendack & Richard W. Palmer-Jones & W. Robert Reed, 2014. "Replications in Economics: A Progress Report," Working Papers in Economics 14/26, University of Canterbury, Department of Economics and Finance.
• Eichhorst, Werner & Kendzia, Michael J., 2014. "Workforce Segmentation in Germany: From the Founding Era to the Present Time," IZA Discussion Papers 8648, Institute of Labor Economics (IZA).
• Silves J.C. Moreira & Pedro Cosme Vieira & Aurora A.C. Teixeira, 2014. "Estimating the human capital stock for Cape Verde, 1950-2012," FEP Working Papers 547, Universidade do Porto, Faculdade de Economia do Porto.
• Luciana Lazzeretti & Francesco Capone, 2014. "Cluster evolution in mature Industrial cluster. The case of Prato Marshallian ID after the entrance of Chinese firm populations (1945-2011)," ERSA conference papers ersa14p745, European Regional Science Association.
• Edward N. Wolff, 2014. "Household Wealth Trends in the United States, 1962-2013: What Happened over the Great Recession?," NBER Working Papers 20733, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
• Jan Kregel, 2014. "US Financial Regulation: The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act in Current and Historical Perspective," Working papers wpaper69, Financialisation, Economy, Society & Sustainable Development (FESSUD) Project.
• John B. Taylor, 2013. "International Monetary Coordination and the Great Deviation," Economics Working Papers 13101, Hoover Institution, Stanford University.
• Henri Busson, 2014. "Does History Fully Determine the Spatial Distribution of Human Capital ?," ERSA conference papers ersa14p1448, European Regional Science Association.