Report NEP-HIS-2026-09-28

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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• Rabah Arezki & Van Le Dao, 2026, "Political Rupture and the Origins of Secularization: Evidence from the French Revolution," CESifo Working Paper Series, CESifo, number 12967.
• Kárníková, Lydie, 2026, "Mezi kontinuitou a změnou: Městské názvosloví a postsocialistická transformace v perspektivě kritické toponymie / Between Continuity and Change. Urban Toponymy and Post-Socialist Transformation from the Perspective of Critical Toponymy," SocArXiv, Center for Open Science, number brj6e_v1, Sep, DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/brj6e_v1.
• Federico, Giovanni & Tena Junguito, Antonio, 2026, "Measuring Global Migration, 1800-1938: Gross Flows, Returns, and the Distribution of World Population," IFCS - Working Papers in Economic History.WH, Universidad Carlos III de Madrid. Instituto Figuerola, number 50842, Sep.
• Sergio Cesaratto, 2026, "Social Surplus in Ancient Economies: a Plea for an Alliance Between Ancient Studies and Classical Political Economy?," Department of Economics University of Siena, Department of Economics, University of Siena, number 946, Sep.
• Katherine Eriksson & Peter Zhixian Lin & Gregory Niemesh, 2026, "Immigration and Child Mortality during the Age of Mass Migration," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 35743, Sep.
• Motonori Ishii, 2026, "Hayek and the Restoration of Classical Liberalism: Rethinking Neoliberalism," Working Papers, Waseda University, Faculty of Political Science and Economics, number 2613, Sep.
• Jaadla, Hannaliis & Davenport, Romola, 2026, "Lessons from History: Historical WaSH Programmes and the Decline of Summer Diarrhoeal Mortality," SocArXiv, Center for Open Science, number zb6dn_v1, Sep, DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/zb6dn_v1.
• Matus-Lopez, Mauricio & Pedraza, Camilo Cid, 2026, "Long-Term Health Financing in Chile: A Historical Analysis of the Segmented System, 1981–2024," SocArXiv, Center for Open Science, number prhkv_v1, Sep, DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/prhkv_v1.
• Simon Oluoch Ochieng, 2026, "The Role of Multinational Corporations in the Czechoslovak Economy during the Great Depression The Case of Bata, 1929-1934," Working Papers IES, Charles University Prague, Faculty of Social Sciences, Institute of Economic Studies, number 2026/29, Sep, revised Sep 2026.
• Ichimura, Hidehiko & Sawada, Yasuyuki & Takayasu, Yutaro & Tanaka, Mari, 2026, "The Last or Lasting Samurai? The Impact of Secondary Education Expansion on Elite Attainment and Occupational Sorting after Japan’s Meiji Restoration," IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER, number 18924, Sep.
• Jonas M. Geweke & Niccolò G. Armandola & Paul Goetz, 2026, "300 Years of Housing Wealth Mobility: The City-State of Basel, 1500–1800," Working Papers, European Historical Economics Society (EHES), number 0312, Sep.
• Pawel Janas, 2026, "Integration Without Decentralization: The Financial Geography of U.S. Life Insurance, 1880–1940," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 35771, Sep.
• Michael D. Bordo & Carolyn Wilkins, 2026, "Money and Power: Historical Lessons for Stablecoins and U.S. Dollar Dominance," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 35768, Sep.
• Chiu, Ethan, 2026, "Human Circuits in Cold War Taiwan: RCA, Labour Governance, and the Developmental State," SocArXiv, Center for Open Science, number 3md5a_v1, Sep, DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/3md5a_v1.
• Leander Heldring & Davis Kedrosky & James A. Robinson & Matthias Weigand, 2026, "The Success of the Embedded State in England," Working Papers, Becker Friedman Institute for Research In Economics, number 2026-60.
• Matthew Curtis & Paula Eugenia Gobbi & Marc Goñi & Joanne Haddad, 2026, "Inheritance Customs and the European Marriage Pattern," Working Papers ECARES, ULB -- Universite Libre de Bruxelles, number 2026-30, Sep.
• Nils Herger, 2026, "Why did the industrialization of cotton spinning happen so early in Switzerland (1801-1848)?," Working Papers, Swiss National Bank, Study Center Gerzensee, number 26.04, Sep.
• Stratton, Ry, 2026, "Can’t Blaine a State for Trying: Writing a Constitutional Blaine Amendment After Carson v. Makin," LawArchive, Center for Open Science, number wpf4c_v1, Sep, DOI: 10.31228/osf.io/wpf4c_v1.
• Docquier, Frédéric & Dominici, Alice & Fernández, Martín & Mariani, Fabio, 2026, "Networks, Diversity, and the Economic Performance of Migrants: Evidence from the Pontine Marshes (1932-1941)," IZA Discussion Papers, IZA Network @ LISER, number 18931, Sep.
• Akren, Mehmet B. & Ertan, Arhan S. & Putterman, Louis G., 2026, "Land, power and population density in the global population shifts of 1500-1960," Ruhr Economic Papers, RWI - Leibniz-Institut für Wirtschaftsforschung, Ruhr-University Bochum, TU Dortmund University, University of Duisburg-Essen, number 1221, DOI: 10.4419/96973406.
• Jesús Fernández-Villaverde & Patrick Norrick, 2026, "Terra Incognita: The Economics of a Shrinking World," PIER Working Paper Archive, Penn Institute for Economic Research, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania, number 26-016, Oct.
• Noame Khaldi, 2026, "La construction institutionnelle d’une place financière offshore : le cas du Luxembourg (1839-2025)," Working Papers of BETA, Bureau d'Economie Théorique et Appliquée, UDS, Strasbourg, number 2026-32.
• Jesús Fernández-Villaverde & Carlos Sanz, 2026, "Social Sorting and Political Cleavages: Evidence from 2.5 Million Electoral Candidates," PIER Working Paper Archive, Penn Institute for Economic Research, Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania, number 26-017, 09.
• Aldous, Michael & Fliers, Philip T. & Turner, John D., 2026, "Professionalization and the CEO effect over the very long run," QBS Working Paper Series, Queen's University Belfast, Queen's Business School, number 2026/08.
• Congregado, Emilio & Esteve, Vicente & Prats, María A. & Rubino, Nicola, 2026, "Optimal public deficit and tax-smoothing in the Spanish Economy, 1850-2024," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library, number 140957, Aug.
• Maksym Nechepurenko, 2026, "From Public Evidence to Contractual Outcome: First and Stable Decidability on Kalshi," Papers, arXiv.org, number 2609.16642, Sep.
• Pawel Janas, 2026, "Diversification as a Process: Geographic Expansion and the Formation of National Insurers," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 35769, Sep.
• Randall Akee & Emilia Simeonova, 2026, "Beyond the Conventional Narrative: Economic Heterogeneity and Human Capital Among American Indians," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 35730, Sep.
• Samson Gebrerufael & Renee van Eyden & Rangan Gupta, 2026, "Exchange Rate and Industrial Policies as a Means of Technological Learning in Africa: Which Institutional Framework to Embrace? Developmental State, Heterogeneous Coalition, or Neoliberal Coalition," Working Papers, University of Pretoria, Department of Economics, number 202625, Sep.
• Viren de Jeu, 2026, "A Cross-National, Historical Analysis of Early Childhood Worker Conditions across North America and Europe," Working Papers, Human Capital and Economic Opportunity Working Group, number 2026-013, Sep.
• Nandagiri, Rishita & Senderowicz, Leigh & Sigle-Rushton, Wendy, 2025, "Global reproductive justice: a new agenda for feminist economics?," LSE Research Online Documents on Economics, London School of Economics and Political Science, LSE Library, number 127175, Mar.
• Jonathan Beynon & Edward Wickstead & Tom Veale, 2026, "A Comparative Analysis of Greenhouse Gas Emissions by Developed and Developing Countries Since 1850," Working Papers, Center for Global Development, number 755, Sep.
• C. Kirabo Jackson, 2026, "The Macroeconomic Returns to School Finance Reforms: Micro-Calibrated Predictions Meet Causal Evidence," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 35755, Sep.
• Jacob Moscona, 2026, "Flowers of Invention: The Economic Impacts of Patent Rights," NBER Working Papers, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc, number 35735, Sep.
• Braun, Benjamin & Baccaro, Lucio & Cova, Joshua, 2026, "Sustaining Imbalance: International Financial Foundations of Growth Models," SocArXiv, Center for Open Science, number q7p2e_v1, Sep, DOI: 10.31235/osf.io/q7p2e_v1.

Report NEP-HIS-2026-09-28

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.

Other reports in NEP-HIS

The following items were announced in this report: