Report NEP-HIS-2026-08-17

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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• McLaughlin, Eoin & Sharp, Paul & Skovsgaard, Christian & Vedel, Christian, 2024, "Milk Wars: Cooperation, Contestation, Conflict and the Irish War of Independence," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19714, Nov.
• Ma, Debin & Rubin, Jared, 2024, "Ideology and Economic Change: The Contrasting Paths to the Modern Economy in late 19th Century China and Japan," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19573, Oct.
• Lagakos, David & Michalopoulos, Stelios & Voth, Hans-Joachim, 2025, "American Life Histories," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19885, Jan.
• Goodhart, C. A. E. & Postel-Vinay, Natacha, 2026, "The case for tiered liability: evidence from the City of Glasgow Bank failure," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library, number 138733, Jul.
• Klein, Alexander & Meissner, Christopher, 2024, "Did Tariffs Make American Manufacturing Great? New Evidence from the Gilded Age," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19619, Oct.
• Campbell, Gareth & Gallagher, Ã ine & Grossman, Richard, 2024, "Remote Investing in Latin America, 1869-1929," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19799, Dec.
• Airoldi, Anna & Moser, Petra, 2024, "Inequality in Science: Who Becomes a Star?," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19572, Oct.
• Ma, Debin, 2024, "The Lone Scream in the Dark: Cultural Change and Institutional Transformation in Modern China as seen through Lu Xun’s Novel," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19577, Oct.
• Guiso, Luigi & Sapienza, Paola & Zingales, Luigi, 2024, "Embedded Culture as a Source of Comparative Advantage," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19798, Dec.
• Colantone, Italo & Ottaviano, Gianmarco & Takeda, Kohei, 2024, "Trade and Intergenerational Income Mobility: Theory and Evidence from the U.S," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19770, Dec.
• Abramitzky, Ran & Greska, Lena & Pérez, Santiago & Price, Joseph & Schwarz, Carlo & Waldinger, Fabian, 2024, "Climbing the Ivory Tower: How Socio-Economic Background Shapes Academia," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19814, Dec.
• Romain Capliez & Carl Grekou & Emmanuel Hache & Valérie Mignon, 2026, "What Drives Mineral Commodity Prices? A Historical Perspective on Demand and Supply Dynamics," Working Papers, CEPII research center, number 2026-06, Jul.
• Beltrán Tapia, Francisco & Marco-Gracia, Francisco J., 2024, "What was in a Name? Culture, Naming Practices and Literacy in the Past," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19625, Oct.
• David Card & Ciprian Domnisoru & Seth Sanders & Lowell Taylor & Victoria Udalova, 2026, "The Impact of Female Teachers on Female Students’ Lifetime Well-Being," Working Papers, Center for Economic Studies, U.S. Census Bureau, number 26-39, Jun.
• Braghieri, Luca & Eichmeyer, Sarah, 2024, "Learning from the Past: How History Education Shapes Support for Extreme Ideology," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19575, Oct.
• Bonadio, Barthelemy & Levchenko, Andrei & Rohner, Dominic & Thoenig, Mathias, 2024, "Feeding the Tigers: Remittances and Conflict in Sri Lanka," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19618, Oct.
• Bühler, Jonas & Davis, Jonathan & Häner-Müller, Melanie & Mazumder, Bhashkar & Schaltegger, Christoph, 2026, "Inequality of Opportunity in Times of Rising Global Inequality: USA vs. Switzerland," IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER, number 18764, Jun.
• Jacks, David & Meissner, Christopher & Wolf, Nikolaus, 2024, "Suez," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19758, Dec.
• Baleyte, Jules & Bazot, Guillaume & Monnet, Eric & Morys, Matthias, 2024, "High Temperature Shocks are Supply Shocks. Evidence from One Century of Monthly Data," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19682, Nov.
• Toporowski, Jan, 2026, "Victoria Chick on the monetary foundations of macroeconomics," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library, number 140320, Jul.
• Maravall Buckwalter, Laura & Panza, Laura, 2024, "The Colonial State in the Middle East and North Africa," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19736, Dec.
• Olmstead Rumsey, Jane & Ravalli, Giorgio, 2026, "Country banks and the Panic of 1825," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library, number 140167, Jul.
• Hecken, Kevin, 2026, "In a state of debt: The imperial debt commissions in Hesse-Homburg (1716-1742)," IBF Paper Series, IBF – Institut für Bank- und Finanzgeschichte / Institute for Banking and Financial History, Frankfurt am Main, number 03-26.
• Adriano Lenaz Zenteno & Laura Elena Bustos Quitón, 2025, "Bolivian culture. Ch’ixi and abigarrado. Decoloniality through semiotic interpretation," Investigación & Desarrollo, Universidad Privada Boliviana, number 0525, DOI: http://10.0.93.73/idupbo.025.2-11e.
• Guo, Yuchen & Jackson, Matthew O. & Jia, Ruixue, 2024, "Comrades and Cause: Peer Influence on West Point Cadets' Civil War Allegiances," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19707, Nov.
• Antonie, Luiza & Foxcroft, Jeremy & Inwood, Kris & Minns, Chris & Summerfield, Fraser & Zhu, Tianning, 2026, "Mobility and marriage: preliminary findings from a new longitudinal dataset of Canadian women, 1871-1901," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library, number 139043, Jul.
• Corneo, Giacomo, 2024, "Economic Growth and Imperialism," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19680, Nov.
• Jänicke, Christin & Gunzelmann, Hans Jonas & Völker, Teresa Sophie & Hutter, Swen, 2026, "Resisting the far right. A systematic analysis of civil society strategies," Discussion Papers, Research Unit: Center for Civil Society Research, WZB Berlin Social Science Center, number ZZ 2026-602.
• Martinez, Marco & Nuvolari, Alessandro & Vasta, Michelangelo, 2024, "Rails of Progress? Exploring the Nexus between Railroad Access and Innovation in Italy (19th-20th Centuries)," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19812, Dec.
• Kumhof, Michael, 2024, "The Chicago Plan Revisited - Debt-Free Money, Growth, and Stability," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19603, Oct.
• Salima Chafiki & Kaoutar El Menzhi, 2026, "Entrepreneurship as a discipline: Outline of a reflection
  [L'entrepreneuriat en tant que discipline : Ébauche d'une réflexion]," Post-Print, HAL, number hal-05642012, Jun, DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.20356599.
• Schneider, Eric B., 2026, "Born in smog: immediate and persistent health consequences of acute air pollution exposure in historical London, 1892–1919," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library, number 140269, Jul.
• Gilles Paché, 2026, "Sacred Stewardship-Theological Reflections on Materials Management in the Rule of St. Benedict," Post-Print, HAL, number hal-05683298, Jun, DOI: 10.7176/JPCR/60-05.
• Mehrotra, Santosh, 2026, "Why the Dragon and the Elephant Diverged: State Capability, Structural Transformation & Inclusive Development in China and India," IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER, number 18779, Jul.
• Barwick, Panle & Kalouptsidi, Myrto & Zahur, Nahim Bin, 2024, "Industrial Policy: Lessons from Shipbuilding," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19557, Oct.
• Rippley, Samantha, 2026, "Early Dairy Regulation: Raw Milk Laws and Child Mortality in the United States," 2026 Annual Meeting, July 26 - 28, 2026, Kansas City, Missouri, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, number 404546, DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.404546.
• Alvaredo, Facundo & Berman, Yonatan & Morelli, Salvatore, 2025, "Evidence from the Dead: New Estimates of Wealth Inequality based on the Distribution of Estates," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19832, Jan.
• Gordon, Robert J. & Sayed, Hassan, 2024, "A New Interpretation of U.S. Productivity Growth Dynamics, 1950-2023," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19569, Oct.
• Harrison, Ann, 2024, "What Makes Industrial Policy Work?," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19693, Nov.
• Boris Hofmann & Aaron Mehrotra & Jan Paulick, 2026, "Dollarisation and monetary control: what lessons for the rise of stablecoins?," BIS Working Papers, Bank for International Settlements, number 1370, Jul.
• Bergeaud, Antonin & Deter, Max & Greve, Maria & Wyrwich, Michael, 2025, "Migration and Innovation: The Impact of East German Inventors on West Germany’s Technological Development," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19837, Jan.
• Lovenheim, Michael F. & van Egeraat, Eppie & Willén, Alexander, 2026, "Dynastic Capital and the Inheritance of Social Advantage," Discussion Paper Series in Economics, Norwegian School of Economics, Department of Economics, number 9/2026, Aug.
• de Zwarte, Ingrid & Moret, Helmi & de Zwart, Pim, 2024, "Between Famine and Freedom: Food Prices and Hunger during the Indonesian War of Independence," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19797, Dec.
• Saka, Orkun & Ji, Yuemei & Minaudier, Clement, 2026, "Political accountability during crises: evidence from 40 years of financial policies," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library, number 140385, Jul.
• Zakharov, Alexei & Sonin, Konstantin, 2024, "The Anatomy of the Great Terror: A Quantitative Analysis of the 1937-38 Purges in the Red Army," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19772, Dec.
• Roy, Tirthankar, 2024, "Breaking the mold: India's untraveled path to prosperity by Raghuram G. Rajan and Rohit Lamba, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2024, xxxii + 298 pp," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library, number 124596, Dec.
• Cavalcanti, Tiago & Fernandes, Leticia & Santos, Cezar & Rachter, Laisa, 2025, "Women at Work: Fertility, Occupational Choice and Income," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19886, Jan.
• Shiue, Carol & Keller, Wolfgang, 2024, "Elite Strategies for Big Shocks: The Case of the Fall of the Ming," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19642, Nov.
• Fang, Jo & Speer, Jessie, 2026, "Migration and housing policy in England: rethinking narratives of crisis," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library, number 140441, Jul.
• David Philippy, 2026, "Miriam Bankovsky, Economics and the Family: A Social and Political History," Post-Print, HAL, number hal-05690969.
• Bai, Ying & Jia, Ruixue & Yang, Jiaojiao, 2024, "Knowledge Suppression and Resilience under Censorship: Three-century Book Publications in China," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19803, Dec.
• Orphanides, Athanasios, 2024, "The Federal Reserve’s Evolving Interpretation and Implementation of Its Mandate," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19697, Nov.
• Mitchener, Kris & Wandschneider, Kirsten, 2025, "Currency Wars and Trade," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19839, Jan.
• Patterson, Joel, 2026, "The Stale Will: Event-driven review as a testamentary discipline — how a valid will goes wrong without being touched, and why the family may read a document the testator never wrote," LawArchive, Center for Open Science, number rtzks_v1, Jul, DOI: 10.31228/osf.io/rtzks_v1.
• Bosker, Maarten & Haasbroek, Megan, 2024, "Domestic Infrastructure and the Regional Effects of Trade Liberalization," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19780, Dec.
• Rosillo-Rodes, Pablo & Lamata-Otín, Santiago & Soriano-Paños, David & Hébert-Dufresne, Laurent & Dodds, Peter Sheridan, 2026, "Dynastic dynamics: Modelling powerful naming choices with stochastic prestige," SocArXiv, Center for Open Science, number n8cs2_v1, Jul, DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/n8cs2_v1.
• Wilp, Susanne Bleier, 2026, "The Machine at Home. Carceral Feminism, FOSTA-SESTA, and the Suppression of the Sex Worker Rights Movement in the United States. A Theoretical Synthesis," SocArXiv, Center for Open Science, number 7b58a_v1, Jul, DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/7b58a_v1.
• Mohr, Cathrin & Trebesch, Christoph, 2025, "Geoeconomics," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19856, Jan.
• Steiner, Julia, 2026, "Evidence from wages and prices on the limited utility of Germany's first paper money (1772-1873)," Economic History Working Papers, London School of Economics and Political Science, Department of Economic History, number 140541, May.
• Müller, Dana & Vom Berge, Philipp, 2026, "Stabilität und Veränderungen in Erwerbsverläufen: Nur ein Arbeitgeber war schon immer die Ausnahme (Stability and Change in Employment Histories: Having Only One Employer Has Always Been the Exception)," IAB-Kurzbericht, Institut für Arbeitsmarkt- und Berufsforschung (IAB), Nürnberg [Institute for Employment Research, Nuremberg, Germany], number 202614, Aug, DOI: 10.48720/IAB.KB.2614.
• D'Amico, Leonardo & Glaeser, Edward & Gyourko, Joseph & Kerr, William & Ponzetto, Giacomo, 2024, "Why Has Construction Productivity Stagnated? The Role of Land-Use Regulation," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19711, Nov.
• Richard S. J. Tol, 2026, "The neglected contributions of Thomas C. Schelling to the economics of climate change," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2607.04322, Jul.
• Advani, Arun & Ash, Elliott & Boltachka, Anton & Cai, David & Rasul, Imran, 2025, "Race-Related Research in Economics," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19898, Jan.
• Hong, Sehyun & Mo, Zhexun & Yang, Jiwei, 2026, "The Great Unleveling: Long-Run Wealth Inequality in South Korea, 1970–2021," SocArXiv, Center for Open Science, number n9ta8_v1, Jul, DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/n9ta8_v1.
• Federle, Jonathan & Mohr, Cathrin & Schularick, Moritz, 2024, "Inflation Surprises and Election Outcomes," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19741, Dec.
• Novosad, Paul & Asher, Sam & Farquharson, Catriona & Iljazi, Eni, 2024, "Access to Opportunity in the Sciences: Evidence from the Nobel Laureates," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19551, Oct.
• Mr. Luis Ignacio Jácome & Mr. Nicolas E Magud & Samuel Pienknagura & Martin Uribe, 2026, "Fiscal Populism and Monetary Policy Rules," IMF Working Papers, International Monetary Fund, number 2026/167, Aug.
• Federle, Jonathan & Rohner, Dominic & Schularick, Moritz, 2025, "Does Money Win Wars?," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19841, Jan.
• Klein, Alexander & Matthews, Peter, 2024, "Transportation Costs in the Antebellum U.S.: A New County-Level Dataset with Time, Region, and Direction Specific Freight Rates," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19735, Dec.
• Bazot, Guillaume & Monnet, Eric & Morys, Matthias, 2024, "Central Banks and the Absorption of International Shocks (1891-2019)," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19646, Nov.
• Michael J. Callen & Gregory Levy & Saipremnath Muthukumaran & Jonathan Weigel & Noam Yuchtman, 2026, "Detecting Critical Junctures as They Unfold: Foundations, Measurement, and Applications from 120 Years of Reporting," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 12842.
• Galor, Oded & Klemp, Marc & Wainstock, Daniel C., 2024, "Roots of Cultural Diversity," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19718, Nov.
• Wilp, Susanne Bleier, 2026, "Die Maschine im eigenen Haus. Carceral Feminism, FOSTA-SESTA und die Unterdrückung der Sexarbeitsbewegung in den Vereinigten Staaten. Eine theoretische Synthese," SocArXiv, Center for Open Science, number qtjn4_v1, Jul, DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/qtjn4_v1.