Report NEP-HIS-2026-07-20

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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• Claudia Goldin, 2026, "The Rise of Female Autonomy and the Decline of Fertility: The Role of Mismatch," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 35425, Jul.
• Henn, Soeren & Robinson, James A., 2026, "Africa as a Success Story: Political Organization in Pre-Colonial Africa," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21115, Feb.
• David Deming & Christopher Ong & Lawrence H. Summers, 2024, "Technological Disruption in the US Labor Market," Working Papers, The Aspen Institute Economic Strategy Group, number technological-disruption-, Oct.
• Mary-Frances Styczynski, 2026, "Retail Sweep Behavior Since the Elimination of Reserve Requirements," FEDS Notes, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.), number 2026-06-22-2, Jun, DOI: 10.17016/2380-7172.4087.
• Bazzi, Samuel, 2025, "How to Build a Diverse Nation: Lessons from the Indonesian Experience," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20897, Dec.
• Thomas Palley, 2026, "Capitalism and the polycrisis: bad apples or bad barrel?," FMM Working Paper, IMK at the Hans Boeckler Foundation, Macroeconomic Policy Institute, number 125-2026.
• Bergant, Katharina & Fernández Martin, Andrés & Teoh, Ken & Uribe, Martín, 2026, "Expanding the Landscape of Cross-Border Flow Restrictions: Modern Tools and Historical Perspectives," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21045, Jan.
• Lukas Boehnert, 2026, "The Regional Specialization Trade-off," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 12798.
• Edith Archambault & Murat Cizakça, 2026, "Legal, Political And Religious Frameworks For Philanthropy In The West And In Islam," Université Paris1 Panthéon-Sorbonne (Post-Print and Working Papers), HAL, number halshs-05652836.
• Becker, Sascha O. & Bentzen, Jeanet & Chee Kok, Chun, 2025, "Gender and Religion: A Survey," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20869, Nov.
• Bagues, Manuel & Villa, Carmen, 2026, "Sex, Lies and Birth Statistics: The Mysterious Case of the Spanish Missing Women," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21227, Feb.
• Cosimo Petracchi & Luca Riva & Marco Stenborg Petterson, 2026, "Exchange-Rate Regimes and the Behaviour of Exporters," CSEF Working Papers, Centre for Studies in Economics and Finance (CSEF), University of Naples, Italy, number 789, Jul.
• Richard N. Langlois, 2026, "The Corporation as an Evolved Organizational Design," Working papers, University of Connecticut, Department of Economics, number 2026-03, Jul.
• Kevin L. Kliesen & David C. Wheelock, 2026, "Guiding Monetary Policy during a Productivity Boom: Evidence from the 1990s," On the Economy, Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis, number 103527, Jul.
• Bignon, Vincent & Jobst, Clemens, 2025, "Eligibility to the Central Bank in Times of Crises: Evidence from France, 1863–1890," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20974, Dec.
• Phillips, Anne, 2025, "Resisting inequality: the turn towards history," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library, number 126300, Jan.
• Daron Acemoglu & David Autor & Keelan Beirne & Andrew Scott, 2026, "Baby Busts and Growth Booms: Demographic Change and the Macroeconomy," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 35401, Jul.
• Fohlin, Caroline & Gehrig, Thomas, 2025, "Liquidity Crises in Opaque Markets: The NYSE in the Panic of 1907," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20864, Nov.
• Stuart, Rebecca & Kaufmann, Daniel, 2026, "Private Money and Money Market Integration: The Role of Payments Infrastructure in 19th Century Switzerland," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21151, Feb.
• Joern Kleinert & Wiltrud Moelzer, 2026, "Emergence of the Austrian Labor Market: A Historical Perspective on Recruitment Channels and Newspaper Job Advertisements," Graz Economics Papers, University of Graz, Department of Economics, number 2026-12, Jul.
• Xue, Melanie Meng, 2025, "Crowd-Sourced Chinese Genealogies as Data for Demographic and Economic History," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20815, Nov.
• Matthew Jaremski & Kris James Mitchener & Kilian Rieder, 2026, "Banking on a Corporate Rebrand," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 12795.
• Antonello Cincotta, 2026, "Aveva ragione Ortensia? Ovvero sul “consenso†alla tassazione: no taxation without representation. Il singolare caso dell'IMU. Spunti per una discussione," Public Finance Research Papers, Istituto di Economia e Finanza, DSGE, Sapienza University of Rome, number 85, Jun.
• Bernardo Ribeiro, 2026, "Growth with New and Old Technologies," Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University, number 2515, Apr.
• Marzian, Johannes & Trebesch, Christoph, 2026, "Guns and Butter: The Fiscal Consequences of Rearmament and War," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21193, Feb.
• Anelli, Massimo & Pinotti, Paolo & Porreca, Zachary, 2025, "The Departed: Italian Migration and the American Mafia," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20972, Dec.
• Fouka, Vasiliki & Serlin, Theo, 2026, "Migration and the Making of the English Middle Class," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21051, Jan.
• Arthi, Vellore & Richardson, Gary & Van Orden, Mark, 2025, "Ordinary Life Insurance: The Best-Performing Financial Asset of the 1930s," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20779, Oct.
• Bergeaud, Antonin & Nur Gozen, Ruveyda & Van Reenen, John, 2026, "Mapping Technological Trajectories: Evidence from Two Centuries of Patent Data," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21066, Jan.
• Gregor Semieniuk, 2026, "Industrialization and Energy Demand: Implications for Climate Change Mitigation," IMK Working Paper, IMK at the Hans Boeckler Foundation, Macroeconomic Policy Institute, number 228-2026.
• Arellano-Bover, Jaime & San, Shmuel, 2026, "The Role of Firms and Job Mobility in the Assimilation of Immigrants: Former Soviet Union Jews in Israel 1990–2019," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21185, Feb.
• Fabio Cerina & Elisa Dienesch & Alexander Monge-Naranjo & Alessio Moro, 2026, "The Anatomy of Polarization: Evidence from Worker Flows," FRB Atlanta Working Paper, Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta, number 2026-7, Jun, DOI: 10.29338/wp2026-07.
• Voth, Hans-Joachim, 2026, "Culture and the Great Escape," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21114, Feb.
• Escamilla-Guerrero, David & Peri, Giovanni, 2026, "The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Railroads on Mexico-US Migration," IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER, number 18736, Jun.
• Kaya, Tresor, 2026, "Reconstituer 25 ans de SMIC (2001-2026) : série harmonisée des revalorisations du salaire minimum français
  [25-Year SMIC Reconstruction (2001–2026): Harmonized series of French minimum wage adjustments]," MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany, number 130013, Jul.
• Fohlin, Caroline & MacDonald, Noah, 2025, "Crony Capitalism and Insider Trading: Insights from the Teapot Dome Scandal," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20816, Nov.
• Tricaud, Clemence & Wacziarg, Romain, 2025, "Electoral Margins and Political Competition," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20934, Dec.
• Reka Juhasz & Dávid Krisztián Nagy & Claudia Steinwender & Woan Foong Wong, 2026, "Ports, Technology and Inter-City Trade: The Economics and Geopolitics of Evolving Maritime Transport Networks," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 12793.
• Becker, Ann-Kristin & Hornung, Erik, 2025, "Industrialization and the Return to Labor: Evidence from Prussia," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20810, Nov.
• Quinn, William & Turner, John & Walker, Clive, 2025, "Speculation in the UK, 1785-2019," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20904, Dec.
• Steven Yamarik & Florian Horky & Jarko Fidrmuc, 2026, "Is There a Resource Curse in the US and Canada? Evidence from the Shale Revolution," Working and Discussion Papers, Research Department, National Bank of Slovakia, number WP 8/2026, Jul.
• Callum J. Jones & David López-Salido & Thomas Philippon, 2026, "Is Growth Additive?," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 35415, Jul.
• Carsten Colombier, 2026, "Government size and economic growth over 140 years: Evidence from a historical dataset," MENDELU Working Papers in Business and Economics, Mendel University in Brno, Faculty of Business and Economics, number 2026-112, Jul.
• Lutz Kilian & Michael D. Plante & Alexander W. Richter, 2026, "U.S. economy less vulnerable to geopolitical oil price shocks than in the past," Dallas Fed Economics, Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, number 103434, Jun.
• Van Coppenolle, Brenda & Vanden Eynde, Oliver, 2026, "Random Connections and Violence in the French Revolution," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21171, Feb.
• Chapman, Jonathan, 2026, "Democracy, Redistribution, and Inequality: Evidence from the English Poor Law," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21119, Feb.
• Jia, Ruixue & Strömberg, David, 2025, "Moral Regulation and Cultural Production: Evidence from Hollywood," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20905, Dec.
• Luetticke, Ralph & Meyer, Timothy & Müller, Gernot & Schularick, Moritz, 2025, "The Great Leveler According to HANK," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20943, Dec.
• Acharya, Viral & Hillenbrand, Sebastian & Venkateswaran, Venky & Underwood, Margaret, 2025, "Inflation Uncertainty: Measurement, Causes, and Consequences," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20921, Dec.
• Berniell, Inés & Fernández, Raquel & Menduiña, Azul & Onofri, Milagros, 2026, "Understanding Latin America’s Fertility Decline: Age, Education, and Cohort Dynamics," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21071, Jan.
• Andreas Ferrara, 2026, "A Practitioner's Guide to Using Large Language Models and Generative AI in Economic History," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 35374, Jun.
• Matteo Deleidi & Enrico Sergio Levrero & Antonino Lofaro, 2026, "Income Distribution and the Cost Channel of Monetary Policy: Evidence from Japan, the UK, and the US," FMM Working Paper, IMK at the Hans Boeckler Foundation, Macroeconomic Policy Institute, number 124-2026.
• Curtis, Matthew & De La Croix, David & Manfredini, Filippo & Vitale, Mara, 2026, "Academic Human Capital in European Countries and Regions, 1200–1793," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21158, Feb.
• Drakopoulos, Stavros A. & Katselidis, Ioannis, 2026, "The Role of Psychology in the Post War II Non-Mainstream tradition: George Katona, Harvey Leibenstein, and Tibor Scitovsky," MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany, number 129729, Jun.
• Kevin Leportier, 2026, "Will Mechanism Design Set Us Free? Algorithmic Institutions and Hayekian Liberty," Post-Print, HAL, number hal-05676848, May.
• Michaillat, Pascal, 2025, "Recession Detection Using Classifiers on the Anticipation-Precision Frontier," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20933, Dec.
• Howes, Cooper & Dordal i Carreras, Marc & Coibion, Olivier & Gorodnichenko, Yuriy, 2025, "How Monetary Policy Is Made: Lessons from Historical FOMC Discussions," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20968, Dec.
• Hansen, Casper Worm & Jensen, Peter Sandholdt, 2026, "Left in Charge: Political Rule and the Rise of Local Welfare," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21047, Jan.
• Wolfgang Keller & Carol H. Shiue & Karen Eggleston, 2026, "New Evidence on the Health-Status Gradient from Imperial China," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 35396, Jul.
• Gallardo Albarrán, Daniel, 2025, "Mitigating the Impact of Extreme Temperatures: The Role of Public Health Interventions in Germany, 1888-1913," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20903, Dec.
• Sergio A. Correia & Stephan Luck & Emil Verner, 2026, "What Do Over 3,000 Bank Runs Teach Us About Banking Crises?," Liberty Street Economics, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, number 20260707b, Jul, DOI: 10.59576/lse.20260707b.
• Reis, Ricardo, 2026, "Financial Repression in the XXIst Century," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21072, Jan.
• Lumbanraja, Alvin & Mouabbi, Sarah & Passari, Evgenia & Rousset Planat, Adrien, 2026, "Beyond Oil: The Origins of Commodity Price Fluctuations," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21244, Mar.
• Mitchener, Kris James & Pedemonte, Mathieu, 2026, "The Price of Protection: Tariff Incidence and Import Collapse under the Infamous Smoot-Hawley Tariff," IDB Publications (Working Papers), Inter-American Development Bank, number 14631, Jun, DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0014083.
• Bhishma Bhusal & Michael Callen & Rohini Pande & Soledad Artiz Prillaman & Deepak Singhania & Apurva Subedi, 2026, "From People's War to People's Rule: Rebel Governance and the Foundations of Inclusive Democracy," Cowles Foundation Discussion Papers, Cowles Foundation for Research in Economics, Yale University, number 2529, May.
• Posch, Max & Raz, Itzchak Tzachi, 2025, "Doux Commerce: Markets, Culture, and Cooperation in 1850-1920 U.S," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20960, Dec.
• Huang, Yujing & Ma, Chicheng & Valencia Caicedo, Felipe, 2026, "Religion and Conflict: Evidence from China, 1860–1911," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21266, Mar.
• Esteves, Rui, 2025, "Debt and Taxes. Deferred Obligations and Immediate Demands in Fiscal History," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20821, Nov.
• Armand, Alex & Richard, Marion & Schenk, Yannik, 2025, "The Family According to the State: Modernization Ideals and Fertility Decline," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20852, Nov.
• Becker, Sascha O., 2026, "Religion and the Wealth of Nations after 250 Years," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21196, Feb.
• d’Este, Rocco & Yuchtman, Noam, 2026, "DNA Laws and the Pursuit of Racial Justice: Access to Forensic DNA Technology and the Exoneration of the Wrongfully Convicted," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21309, Mar.
• Atkeson, Andy & Heathcote, Jonathan & Perri, Fabrizio, 2026, "A Macroeconomic Perspective on Stock Market Valuation Ratios," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21061, Jan.
• Li Kathrin Kaja Rupieper & Stephan Thomsen, 2026, "Adult Education and Political Participation: Evidence from East German Volkshochschulen," SOEPpapers on Multidisciplinary Panel Data Research, DIW Berlin, The German Socio-Economic Panel (SOEP), number 1240.
• Markevich, Andrei & Santavirta, Torsten, 2025, "The Effect of Western Technology on Soviet Industrial Development," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20811, Nov.
• Consolo, Agostino & Foroni, Claudia & Hjelm, Linnéa, 2026, "The Labour Market in the Euro Area: And yet, it Moves!," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21306, Mar.
• Gobbi, Paula Eugenia & Hannusch, Anne & Rossi, Pauline, 2025, "Family Institutions and the Global Fertility Transition," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20827, Nov.
• Costas Arkolakis & Sun Kyoung Lee & Michael Peters, 2026, "Immigration, Innovation, and the Geography of Growth," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 35392, Jun.
• Ã lvarez-Nogal, Carlos & Prados de la Escosura, Leandro, 2025, "Top Income Concentration in Early Modern Spain, 1574-1799," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20858, Nov.
• Bingley, Paul & Kreiner, Claus & Serena, Benjamin Ly, 2025, "Socioeconomic Inequality in Longevity: A Multidimensional Approach," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20836, Nov.
• Eriksson, Katherine & Niemesh, Gregory T. & Rashid, Myera & Craig, Jacqueline, 2026, "Marriage and the Intergenerational Mobility of Women: Evidence from Marriage Certificates 1850-1920," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21099, Jan.
• Quincy, Sarah & Xu, Chenzi, 2025, "Branching Out: Capital Mobility and Long-Run Growth," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20912, Dec.
• Raimi, Daniel & Cilento, Christina & Kaufman, Noah, 2026, "A Tale of Three Cities: Lessons on Economic Development from the Birthplace of the Oil Industry," RFF Reports, Resources for the Future, number 26-10, Jul.
• Sergio A. Correia & Stephan Luck & Emil Verner, 2026, "Using AI to Let History Speak About Bank Runs," Liberty Street Economics, Federal Reserve Bank of New York, number 20260707a, Jul, DOI: 10.59576/lse.20260707a.
• Ã lvarez-Nogal, Carlos & Prados de la Escosura, Leandro, 2025, "State Capacity and Subjective Well-Being in Early Modern Spain," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20830, Nov.
• Francis, Joseph, 2026, "Did Slavery Impede the Growth of American Capitalism? Two Failed Natural Experiments," MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany, number 129902, Jul.
• Yeva Nersisyan & L. Randall Wray, 2026, "Plutonomy--the AI Edition--and the Coming Crisis," Economics Working Paper Archive, Levy Economics Institute, number wp_1122, Jul.
• Kersting, Felix, 2025, "Bismarck’s Welfare State and the Socialists," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20883, Dec.
• McGuirk, Eoin & Trebesch, Christoph, 2026, "Geoeconomics and Conflict: A Review and Open Questions," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21192, Feb.
• Monnet, Eric, 2026, "Persistence in a Changing World. Gold Backing and Monetary Policy Autonomy Under Bretton Woods," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21215, Feb.
• Ha Nguyen, 2026, "Persistent Temperature, Capital Structure, and the Long-Run Level of Output," IMF Working Papers, International Monetary Fund, number 2026/115, Jun.
• Bursztyn, Leonardo & Rawcliffe, Ewan & Voth, Hans-Joachim, 2026, "Never Enough: Dynamic Status Incentives in Organizations," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21121, Feb.
• Cervellati, Matteo & Esposito, Elena & Plevani, Giacomo & Saia, Alessandro, 2025, "WHEN WE REBEL: Clashing Narratives and the Making of Subversive Identities," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20808, Nov.
• Ulrike Malmendier & Stefan Nagel, 2026, "Seemingly Anchored Inflation Expectations," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 35395, Jul.
• Gorin, Clement & Combes, Pierre-Philippe & Duranton, Gilles & Gobillon, Laurent, 2025, "Measuring Land Use Changes by (Machine) Learning from Historical Maps," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20946, Dec.
• Cermeño, Alexandra L. & Salvo, Carla & Weisdorf, Jacob, 2025, "The Geographical Origins of the Wealth of Regions," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20919, Dec.
• Ma, Debin & Rubin, Jared & Weiwen, Yin, 2026, "On the Origins of Modern East Asia: Knowledge and the Economic Transformation of Japan and China in the late 19th century," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 21273, Mar.
• Faia, Ester & Glaeser, Edward & Viarengo, Martina & Simonelli, Saverio, 2025, "Agglomeration, Segregation and Imperial Origins," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20926, Dec.