Report NEP-HIS-2026-08-31

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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• Alessandro Roncaglia, 2026, "Adam Smith and the Moral Foundations of Political Economy," Working Papers Series, Institute for New Economic Thinking, number inetwp251, May, DOI: 10.36687/inetwp251.
• Oded Galor, 2026, "Engines of Growth and Inequality in the Wealth of Nations," RFBerlin Discussion Paper Series, ROCKWOOL Foundation Berlin (RFBerlin), number 26173, Jun.
• Machielsen, Bas & Vicq de Cumptich, Amaury de, 2026, "Borders of Belief: Protestantism and Social Mobility," EconStor Preprints, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, number 342596.
• Sergi, Francesco & Cherrier, Beatrice & Saïdi, Aurélien & Duarte, Pedro & Goutsmedt, Aurélien & Renault, Matthieu & Acosta, Juan, 2026, "A History of Macroeconomics," SocArXiv, Center for Open Science, number 2suyd_v1, Aug, DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/2suyd_v1.
• Arthi, Vellore & Richardson, Gary & Van Orden, Mark, 2024, "Traumatic Financial Experiences and Persistent Changes in Financial Behavior: Evidence from the Freedman's Savings Bank," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19304, Jul.
• James J. Feigenbaum & Andrew B. Hall & Daniel M. Thompson & Jesse Yoder, 2026, "Fortunate Sons: Elite Political Selection in American History," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 35569, Aug.
• Juhász, Réka & Sakabe, Shogo & Weinstein, David, 2024, "Codification, Technology Absorption, and the Globalization of the Industrial Revolution," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19208, Jul.
• Ager, Philipp & Malein, Viktor, 2024, "The Long-term Effects of Charity Nurseries: Evidence from Early 20th Century New York," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19317, Jul.
• Kaja, Fatjon, 2026, "The asking price of incorporation: State leverage and the evolution of corporate purpose," LawFin Working Paper Series, Goethe University, Center for Advanced Studies on the Foundations of Law and Finance (LawFin), number 61.
• Voth, Hans-Joachim & Yanagizawa-Drott, David, 2024, "Image(s)," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19219, Jul.
• Romain Baeriswyl, 2026, "Yesterday's controversies for tomorrow's money," Working Papers, Swiss National Bank, number 2026-10.
• Brey, Bjorn & Facchini, Giovanni, 2024, "The consequences of a trade collapse: Economics and politics in Weimar Germany," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19383, Aug.
• Cermeño, Alexandra L. & Quintigliano, Alessandra & Weisdorf, Jacob, 2026, "Development Interventions in Africa's Historical Borderlands: Evidence from Colonial Missions," CAGE Online Working Paper Series, Competitive Advantage in the Global Economy (CAGE), number 822.
• Pujadas Mora, Joana Maria & Santiago Caballero, Carlos, 2026, "When Growth Reached the Poor: Occupational and Marriage Mobility in the Balearic Islands, 1841-1870," IFCS - Working Papers in Economic History.WH, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Instituto Figuerola, number 50617, Aug.
• Philipp Barteska & Oliver Kim & Nathan Lane & Seung Joo Lee, 2026, "Geopolitics and Export Miracles: Firm-Level Evidence from U.S. War Procurement in Korea," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 12926.
• Carmona, Juan & Rosés, Joan R., 2026, "Financing Property Rights: Fee-Financed Registration and Unequal Formalisation in Spain, 1845-1935," IFCS - Working Papers in Economic History.WH, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Instituto Figuerola, number 50618, Aug.
• Fernihough, Alan & Colvin, Chris & McLaughlin, Eoin, 2024, "Mind Your Language: Explaining the Retreat of the Irish Language Frontier," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19300, Jul.
• Graf von Luckner, Clemens & Meyer, Josefin & Reinhart, Carmen & Trebesch, Christoph, 2024, "Sovereign haircuts: 200 years of creditor losses," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19246, Jul.
• Quoc-Anh Do & Sebastian Ellingsen & Gedeon Lim, 2026, "Communities of Commerce: The Legacy of Chinese Immigration on Java," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 12893.
• Jha, Saumitra & Koudijs, Peter & Salgado, Marcos, 2024, "Markets under Siege: How Political Beliefs Move Financial Markets," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19220, Jul.
• Fieles-Ahmad, Omar Martin & Kvasnicka, Michael, 2026, "Western TV and crimes against foreigners in East Germany," Ruhr Economic Papers, RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Ruhr-University Bochum, TU Dortmund University, University of Duisburg-Essen, number 1213, DOI: 10.4419/96973398.
• Chawla, Parth, 2026, "Local Human Capital Development and Firm Resilience: Evidence from the 1997 Indonesian Crisis," 2026 Annual Meeting, July 26 - 28, 2026, Kansas City, Missouri, Agricultural and Applied Economics Association, number 404651, DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.404651.
• Dieter F. Kogler & Keungoui Kim, 2026, "Evolutionary Economic Geography," Papers in Evolutionary Economic Geography (PEEG), Utrecht University, Department of Human Geography and Spatial Planning, Group Economic Geography, number 2619, Aug, revised Aug 2026.
• Oded Galor & Marc Klemp & Daniel C. Wainstock, 2026, "Cultural Evolution," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 12928.
• Rasmussen, Ulrik Vachet, 2026, "Population Development In The Roman Empire," SocArXiv, Center for Open Science, number ys9nu_v1, Aug, DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/ys9nu_v1.
• Ryan Gallagher & Allison Shertzer & Tate Twinam, 2026, "Zoning and the American Suburb," Working Papers, Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia, number 26-37, Aug, DOI: 10.21799/frbp.wp.2026.37.
• Caroline Namubiru & Jörg Baten & Alberto Batinti & Joan Costa-i-Font, 2026, "Compulsory Schooling Mitigates Health Inequality: Anthropometric Evidence from Two Centuries of Height Data," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 12919.
• Radim Boháček & Michał Myck, 2026, "Economic Consequences of Political Persecution," Working Papers, Institute of Economics, Polish Academy of Sciences, number 61, Jul.
• Auer, Raphael & Pedemonte, Mathieu & Schoenle, Raphael, 2024, "Sixty Years of Global Inflation: A Post-GFC Update," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19226, Jul.
• Remy Levin & Daniela Vidart, 2026, "The Yeoman's Portfolio: Measuring Historical Risk Preferences Using Crop Choice," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2608.15876, Aug.
• Andrew Sharpe & Stephen Tapp, 2025, "Can a Lack of Pro-Productivity Policies Explain the Secular Decline in Canada's Productivity Growth?," CSLS Research Reports, Centre for the Study of Living Standards, number 2025-04, Nov.
• Colin C. Caines & Florian Hoffmann & Gueorgui Kambourov, 2026, "Occupational Complexity, Capital-Skill Complementarity, and the Evolution of U.S. Wage Inequality: A Quantitative Analysis," International Finance Discussion Papers, Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System (U.S.), number 1443, Aug, DOI: 10.17016/IFDP.2026.1443.
• Andrew Sharpe & Paul Pietraru, 2025, "Trends in Well-Being in Canada and the Provinces Through the Lens of the Index of Economic Well-Being," CSLS Research Reports, Centre for the Study of Living Standards, number 2025-05, Nov.
• Vidal, Florian & Halloy, José, 2026, "Age of Planetarity: A Deep Dive Assessment on Empire of Zombie Technologies," SocArXiv, Center for Open Science, number q53np_v1, May, DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/q53np_v1.
• Julien Labonne & Pablo Querubín & Martín Rossi & Sebastian M. Saiegh & Ivan San Miguel & Shanker Satyanath, 2026, "Social Clubs and Political Office," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 35611, Aug.
• Haas, Armin & Reimer, Friederike & Guter-Sandu, Andrei & Murau, Steffen, 2024, "Das Mefo-Verfahren: Eine makrofinanzielle Analyse der verschleierten staatlichen Kreditaufnahme durch bilanzexterne Fiskalagenturen, 1933-1945," SocArXiv, Center for Open Science, number sf378_v1, Aug, DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/sf378_v1.
• Choi, Jaedo & Levchenko, Andrei & Ruzic, Dimitrije & Shim, Younghun, 2024, "Superstars or Supervillains? Large Firms in the South Korean Growth Miracle," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19207, Jul.
• Haelim Anderson & Charles W. Calomiris & Jennifer S. Rhee, 2026, "Choosing To Fail: Managerial Liability, Risk Management and Voluntary Exits of Banks," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 35598, Aug.
• Paul Gregg & Yuyan Jiang & Lindsey Macmillan & Nikki Shure & Gill Wyness, 2026, "Intergenerational income persistence in the Millennial generation," CEP Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE, number dp2206, Aug.
• Engel, Charles & Wu, Steve Pak Yeung, 2024, "Exchange Rate Models are Better than You Think, and Why They Didn't Work in the Old Days," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19328, Aug.
• Johan Fourie, 2026, "The Price of Submission," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2608.14760, Aug.
• Funk, Patricia & Iriberri, Nagore & Venus, Nicole, 2024, "Women in Editorial Boards: An Investigation of Female Representation in Top Economic Journals," CEPR Discussion Papers, Centre for Economic Policy Research, number 19303, Jul.
• Yoto V. Yotov & Gabriel Felbermayr & Heider Kariem & Aleksandra Kirilakha & Ohyun Kwon & Constantinos Syropoulos & Erdal Yalcin, 2026, "Financial Sanctions and International Trade: Insights from New Data," Working Papers, Center for Global Policy Analysis, LeBow College of Business, Drexel University, number 202614, Aug.
• Johan Fourie, 2026, "AI and the Research Team," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2608.08437, Aug.

Report NEP-HIS-2026-08-31

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.

Subscribe to this report: email, RSS, or Mastodon, or Bluesky.

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