Report NEP-HIS-2026-08-10

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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• Papaioannou, Elias, 2025, "Institutions, History, Antagonisms, and Development The Contributions of Daron Acemoglu, Simon Johnson, and James Robinson," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20198, May.
• Basco, Sergi & Rosés, Joan R., 2025, "Pandemics, Capital Allocation and Structural Change," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20232, May.
• Broadberry, Stephen & Harrison, Mark, 2025, "Do Economic Warfare and Sanctions Work? Three Centuries of Evidence," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20022, Mar.
• Giommoni, Tommaso & Loumeau, Gabriel & Tabellini, Marco, 2025, "Extractive Taxation and the French Revolution," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20110, Apr.
• Anderson, Siwan & Du Plessis, Sophia & Parsa, Sahar & Robinson, James A., 2025, "The Persistence of Female Political Power in Africa," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20235, May.
• Fouka, Vasiliki & Tabellini, Marco, 2025, "Culture and Contemporary Political Preferences," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20194, May.
• Becker, Sascha O. & Panin, Amma & Pfaff, Steven & Rubin, Jared, 2025, "Religion and Economic Development: Past, Present, and Future," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20027, Mar.
• Allen, Robert, 2025, "From the Sand Up: An Environmental and Demographic Explanation of the Economic, Legal, and Political Structure of Arabia," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20279, May.
• Alfani, Guido & Di Tullio, Matteo & Fochesato, Mattia, 2025, "Wealth Inequality and Epidemics in the Republic of Venice (1400-1800)," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20029, Mar.
• Robinson, James A., 2025, "Paths to the Periphery," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20148, Apr.
• Xue, Melanie Meng & Zhang, Boxiao, 2025, "The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Affirmative Action: Evidence from Imperial China," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20187, May.
• Francisco José Pérez Torres, 2025, "Repercusión de los booms exportables en la formación social colombiana entre 1890 y 1921," Econógrafos, Escuela de Economía, Universidad Nacional de Colombia, FCE, CID, number 023147, Nov.
• Mohr, Cathrin & Trebesch, Christoph, 2025, "Geoeconomics," Open Access Publications from Kiel Institute for the World Economy, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, number 341876, DOI: 10.1146/annurev-economics-092424-11.
• Cantoni, Davide & Yuchtman, Noam, 2025, "Acemoglu, Johnson, and Robinson: The Identification of Historically Contingent Causal Effects," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20233, May.
• Colin Caines & Florian Hoffmann & Gueorgui Kambourov, 2026, "Occupational Complexity, Capital-Skill Complementarity, and the Evolution of U.S. Wage Inequality: A Quantitative Analysis," Working Papers, University of Toronto, Department of Economics, number tecipa-825, Jul.
• Chakraborty, Adrij & Singhal, Karan, 2026, "Refugee Absorption and Electoral Change: Evidence from the Indian Partition," GLO Discussion Paper Series, Global Labor Organization (GLO), number 1795.
• Ben Malinga John & Souza Emmanuel & Jiaxin Shi, 2026, "From laggard to leader: Malawi’s life expectancy transformation in Sub-Saharan African context, 1950–2023," MPIDR Working Papers, Max Planck Institute for Demographic Research, Rostock, Germany, number WP-2026-036, DOI: 10.4054/MPIDR-WP-2026-036.
• de Pleijt, Alexandra & Frankema, Ewout, 2025, "The Deeper Roots of Human Capital Formation and Economic Development in Southeast Asia, 1900 – 2000," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20079, Mar.
• Jahongir Begmatov & Guanie Lim, 2026, "From Fields to Factories: Reform Sequencing and Structural Transformation in China, Vietnam, and Uzbekistan," GRIPS Discussion Papers, National Graduate Institute for Policy Studies, number 26-5, Jul.
• Kyiohiro Ikeda & Hiroki Aizawa & Jos'e M. Gaspar, 2026, "Bifurcation mechanism at a sustain point of a long narrow economy," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2607.10204, Jul.
• O'Rourke, Kevin & Vicquery, Roger, 2025, "How Fixed are Global Exchange Rates?," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20138, Apr.
• Luetticke, Ralph & Müller, Gernot & Müller, Gernot & Antonova, Anastasiia, 2025, "The Military Multiplier," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20220, May.
• Anderson, Siwan, 2025, "Gender Biased Norms," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20211, May.
• Salustri, Andrea, 2026, "L’evoluzione storica della famiglia italiana (1861-2015): mutamenti demografici, nuzialità e radici dell’instabilità coniugale
  [The historical evolution of the Italian family (1861-2015): demographic change, nuptiality, and the roots of marital in," MPRA Paper, University Library of Munich, Germany, number 130369, Aug.
• Francesca Barigozzi & Patrizia Battilani & Maria Elena Bontempi & Petru Calenici, 2026, "Against the Odds: Student Performance under Gender Discrimination in Fascist Italy," Working Papers, Dipartimento Scienze Economiche, Universita' di Bologna, number wp1228, Jul.
• Santiago Caballero, Carlos & Sánchez Alonso, Blanca, 2026, "Who Escapes Conflict? Regional Selection of Spanish Republican Exiles to Mexico," IFCS - Working Papers in Economic History.WH, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Instituto Figuerola, number 50544, Jul.
• Fouka, Vasiliki & Serlin, Theo, 2025, "Industry and Identity: The Migration Linkage Between Economic and Cultural Change in 19th Century Britain," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20193, May.
• Federle, Jonathan-Julian & Greenwood, Robin & Meyer, Josefin & Reinhart, Carmen M. & Trebesch, Christoph, 2026, "Wars, threats, and the sovereign bond market," Kiel Working Papers, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, number 2323.
• Michalopoulos, Stelios & Murard, Elie & Papaioannou, Elias & Sakalli, Seyhun Orcan, 2025, "Uprootedness, Human Capital, and Skill Transferability," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20072, Mar.
• Radoslaw Stefanski, 2026, "Cultural Capital and the Productivity of Ideas: Evidence from Historical Texts," Economics Discussion Papers, Department of Economics, The University of St Andrews Business School, number 2602, Jul.
• Gonzalez, Felipe & Prem, Mounu, 2025, "Government Support in Times of Crisis: Transfers and the Road to Socialism," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20059, Mar.
• Dellas, Harris & Tavlas, George, 2025, "The Great Dollar Shortage Debate: A Modern Perspective," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20073, Mar.
• Dan-Andrei Năfureanu, 2026, "Review of The Greatest of All Plagues: How Economic Inequality Shaped Political Thought From Plato to Marx, by David Lay Williams, Princeton, USA, Princeton University Press, 2024, xv + 403 pages, ISBN Digital (PDF) 9780691255514," Post-Print, HAL, number hal-05511717, Jun, DOI: 10.46298/jpe.17522.
• Hartnett, Allison & Saleh, Mohamed, 2025, "The Other First Wave: Elite Conflict and Democratization in Agrarian Autocracies," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20260, May.
• Gerlach, Stefan & Stuart, Rebecca, 2025, "Have We Under-Estimated Inflation Persistence before WW1? US and International Evidence," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20024, Mar.
• Michalopoulos, Stelios, 2025, "Ethnographic Records, Folklore, and AI," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20137, Apr.
• Braun, Sebastian & Öztürk, Timur, 2026, "From Weimar to West Germany: Confessional cleavages, party fragmentation, and far-right voting," Kiel Working Papers, Kiel Institute for the World Economy, number 2324.
• François Facchini, 2025, "Keynes's eugenics and Buchanan's anti-racism!
  [Rappeler l’eugénisme de Keynes et l’antiracisme de Buchanan]," Post-Print, HAL, number hal-05598689, Oct.
• Saiman, Chaim, 2026, "Why Insurance Needs a Restatement: The Case of Settlement Decision Law," LawArchive, Center for Open Science, number v6d3m_v1, Jul, DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/v6d3m_v1.
• Martijn Boermans & Martin Hodula & Josef Simpartl, 2026, "Economic and Financial Effects of Rising Defense Spending," Research Briefs, Czech National Bank, Research and Statistics Department, number 2026/03, Jul.
• Le Fur, Tanguy & Wasmer, Etienne, 2025, "Fighting for Resources: A Unified Growth Model of the Great Divergence," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19955, Feb.
• Marijn A. Bolhuis & Jakree Koosakul & Mr. Neil Shenai & Jie Yang, 2026, "The Coming Great Repression? New Measures and a Century of Evidence," IMF Working Papers, International Monetary Fund, number 2026/160, Jul.
• Müller, Karsten & Xu, Chenzi & Lehbib, Mohamed & Chen, Ziliang, 2025, "The Global Macro Database: A New International Macroeconomic Dataset," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19937, Feb.
• Magnus Lundgren, 2026, "Mapping Diplomatic Representation in Europe, 1648-1715," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2607.13526, Jul.
• Anjali Adukia & Richard Hornbeck & Daniel Keniston & Ben Lualdi, 2026, "The Social and Statistical Construction of Race," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 12812.
• Melander, Eric, 2026, "Brexit and the Blitz: Conflict, Collective Memory and Populism," CAGE Online Working Paper Series, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE), number 816.
• Bar-Zohar, Barak, 2026, "The Unifier: Journalistic Death Coverage of Helmut Kohl in the Israeli Press," SocArXiv, Center for Open Science, number 6tqg4_v1, Jul, DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/6tqg4_v1.
• Alexander Bertermann, 2026, "The Adolescent Origins of Patience: Global Evidence from Aggregate Instability," ifo Working Paper Series, ifo Institute - Leibniz Institute for Economic Research at the University of Munich, number 428.
• Couttenier, Mathieu & Hatte, Sophie & Laugerette, Lucile & Sonno, Tommaso, 2025, "Dear Brothers and Sisters: Pope's Speeches and the Dynamics of Conflict in Africa," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20108, Apr.
• Caldara, Dario & Iacoviello, Matteo & Yu, David, 2025, "Measuring Shortages since 1900," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20304, May.
• Broner, Fernando & Martín, Alberto & Meyer, Josefin & Trebesch, Christoph & Zhou Wu, Jiaxian, 2025, "Hegemony and International Alignment," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20276, May.
• Vicente Pinilla & Gema Aparicio & María-Isabel Ayuda & Ignacio Belloc & Pablo Delgado & Raúl Serrano, 2026, "Latin American and Caribbean Agri-Food Exports in the Long Run, 1850--2024: New Estimates and Main Findings," Working Papers, European Historical Economics Society (EHES), number 0308, Jul.
• Dorsett, Mark, 2026, "The Suburb Disruption Cycle and Dorsett’s Law of Suburban Succession: A Theoretical Model of Residential Turnover and Suburban Reinvention," SocArXiv, Center for Open Science, number c7ef3_v1, Jun, DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/c7ef3_v1.
• Wahl, Fabian, 2025, "The Long-Run Effects of Popular Uprisings: Evidence from the German Peasants’ War," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20231, May.
• Fenske, James & Gupta, Bishnupriya & Mukhopadhyay, Anwesh, 2025, "Colonial Persistence," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20135, Apr.
• Asher, Twisha & Giangregorio, Luca & Morelli, Salvatore & Schechtl, Manuel & Subioli, Francesca, 2026, "Inheritance Taxation Around the Globe and Over Time: Revenue and Distributional Implications," SocArXiv, Center for Open Science, number a8mzj_v1, Jul, DOI: 10.31219/osf.io/a8mzj_v1.
• Lillie, Karen & Hideg, Luisa, 2026, "Moral and legitimate? Historical, legal, and affective issues around educational privatization in Germany," MPIfG Discussion Paper, Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies, number 26/3, DOI: 10.17617/2.3715792.
• Sven A. Hartmann & Andrea Bernini, 2026, "Opting out of Autocracy: Foreign Media, Institutional Legitimacy, and State-Dependent Human Capital," IAAEU Discussion Papers, Institute of Labour Law and Industrial Relations in the European Union (IAAEU), number 202606, Jul.
• Stanislas Kihm & Adrien Jean-Guy Passant, 2026, "How incumbents navigate a green transition: Organizational ambidexterity, false starts, and strategic reversals in Renault’s electrification efforts (1972–2020)," Post-Print, HAL, number hal-05678896, Jul, DOI: 10.1080/00076791.2026.2688965.
• Gerlach, Stefan & Stuart, Rebecca, 2025, "Missing Persistence: Measurement Errors and US Inflation before WW1," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 20063, Mar.