NBER Papers in JEL Code N1: Economic History - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics • Industrial Structure • Growth • Fluctuations

2022
w29950 Thomas Philippon
Additive Growth
w29938 Marco Del Angel
Gary Richardson

Independent Regulators and Financial Stability: Evidence from Gubernatorial Campaigns and a Progressive Era Policy Experiment
w29837 Gustavo S. Cortes
Angela Vossmeyer
Marc D. Weidenmier

Stock Volatility and the War Puzzle
w29812 Marco Del Angel
Gregory D. Hess
Marc D. Weidenmier

European Recessions and Native American Conflict
w29751 W. Walker Hanlon
The Rise of the Engineer: Inventing the Professional Inventor During the Industrial Revolution
w29718 Michael Coury
Toru Kitagawa
Allison Shertzer
Matthew Turner

The Value of Piped Water and Sewers: Evidence from 19th Century Chicago
2021
w29617 Daniel E. Sichel
The Price of Nails since 1695: A Window into Economic Change
w29482 Nancy Qian
Marco Tabellini

Discrimination and State Capacity: Evidence from WWII U.S. Army Enlistment
w29480 Matthew J. Delventhal
Jesús Fernández-Villaverde
Nezih Guner

Demographic Transitions Across Time and Space
w29416 Hugh Rockoff
O.M.W. Sprague (the Man Who "Wrote the Book" on Financial Crises) meets the Great Depression
w29415 Lee A. Craig
Julianne Treme
Thomas J. Weiss

Licence to Dine: 007 and the Real Exchange Rate
w29114 Michael D. Bordo
Catherine R. Schenk

"Unusual, Unstable, Complicated, Unreliable and Temporary" Reinterpreting the Ebb and Flow of Globalization
w29089 Andrei Markevich
Natalya Naumenko
Nancy Qian

The Political-Economic Causes of the Soviet Great Famine, 1932-33
w29007 Daron Acemoglu
James A. Robinson

Non-Modernization: Power-Culture Trajectories and the Dynamics of Political Institutions
w28767 Kilian Huber
Are Bigger Banks Better? Firm-Level Evidence from Germany
w28623 Paul Bouscasse
Emi Nakamura
Jón Steinsson

When Did Growth Begin? New Estimates of Productivity Growth in England from 1250 to 1870
w28598 Kris James Mitchener
Christoph Trebesch

Sovereign Debt in the 21st Century: Looking Backward, Looking Forward
w28405 Howard Bodenhorn
Bad Men, Good Roads, Jim Crow, and the Economics of Southern Chain Gangs
2020
w28291 Michael Lokshin
Vladimir Kolchin
Martin Ravallion

Scarred but Wiser: World War 2's COVID Legacy
w28243 Eoin F. McGuirk
Nathan Nunn

Transhumant Pastoralism, Climate Change, and Conflict in Africa
w28230 Charlotte Bartels
Simon Jäger
Natalie Obergruber

Long-Term Effects of Equal Sharing: Evidence from Inheritance Rules for Land
w28224 Ted Fertik
Naomi R. Lamoreaux

World War I and the Restructuring of International Business
w28167 Michael Leeds
Hugh Rockoff

Jim Crow in the Saddle: The Expulsion of African American Jockeys from American Racing
w28090 Gary D. Hansen
Lee E. Ohanian
Fatih Ozturk

Dynamic General Equilibrium Modeling of Long and Short-Run Historical Events
w28078 Marcella Alsan
Katherine Eriksson
Gregory Niemesh

Understanding the Success of the Know-Nothing Party
w28055 Joshua K. Hausman
Paul W. Rhode
Johannes F. Wieland

Farm Product Prices, Redistribution, and the Early U.S. Great Depression
w27970 D. Mark Anderson
Kerwin Kofi Charles
Daniel I. Rees

The Federal Effort to Desegregate Southern Hospitals and the Black-White Infant Mortality Gap
w27968 Brandon Dupont
Joshua L. Rosenbloom

Wealth Mobility in the 1860s
w27918 Sara Lowes
Ethnographic and Field Data in Historical Economics
w27852 Daron Acemoglu
Georgy Egorov
Konstantin Sonin

Institutional Change and Institutional Persistence
w27851 Tania Babina
Asaf Bernstein
Filippo Mezzanotti

Crisis Innovation
w27805 Vellore Arthi
John Parman

Disease, Downturns, and Wellbeing: Economic History and the Long-Run Impacts of COVID-19
w27716 Taylor Jaworski
Ian Keay

Openness to Trade and the Spread of Industrialization: Evidence from Canada during the First Era of Globalization
w27706 Nathan Nunn
History as Evolution
w27703 Eric Hilt
Matthew S. Jaremski
Wendy Rahn

When Uncle Sam Introduced Main Street to Wall Street: Liberty Bonds and the Transformation of American Finance
w27691 Michael D. Bordo
Joseph G. Haubrich

Low Interest Rates, Policy, and the Predictive Content of the Yield Curve
w27689 Anna Aizer
Ryan Boone
Adriana Lleras-Muney
Jonathan Vogel

Discrimination and Racial Disparities in Labor Market Outcomes: Evidence from WWII
w27586 Martin Ellison
Sang Seok Lee
Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke

The Ends of 30 Big Depressions
w27558 Wolfgang Keller
Carol H. Shiue

China's Foreign Trade and Investment, 1800-1950
w27530 Carl T. Kitchens
Luke P. Rodgers

The Impact of the WWI Agricultural Boom and Bust on Female Opportunity Cost and Fertility
w27495 Howard Bodenhorn
Business in a Time of Spanish Influenza
w27372 Ran Abramitzky
Leah Platt Boustan
Dylan Connor

Leaving the Enclave: Historical Evidence on Immigrant Mobility from the Industrial Removal Office
w27369 Michael D. Bordo
Andrew T. Levin
Mickey D. Levy

Incorporating Scenario Analysis into the Federal Reserve's Policy Strategy and Communications
w27343 Sebastian Horn
Carmen M. Reinhart
Christoph Trebesch

Coping with Disasters: Two Centuries of International Official Lending
w27291 Keith Meyers
Paul Rhode

Yield Performance of Corn under Heat Stress: A Comparison of Hybrid and Open-Pollinated Seeds during a Period of Technological Transformation, 1933-1955
w27153 William Easterly
Steven Pennings

Leader Value Added: Assessing the Growth Contribution of Individual National Leaders
w27067 Michael D. Bordo
Christopher M. Meissner

Original Sin and the Great Depression
w27053 Alberto F. Alesina
Marlon Seror
David Y. Yang
Yang You
Weihong Zeng

Persistence Despite Revolutions
w26939 James S. Cloyne
Òscar Jordà
Alan M. Taylor

Decomposing the Fiscal Multiplier
w26934 Òscar Jordà
Sanjay R. Singh
Alan M. Taylor

Longer-run Economic Consequences of Pandemics
w26895 Hugh Rockoff
Off to a Good Start: The NBER and the Measurement of National Income
w26865 Wolfgang Keller
Markus Lampe
Carol H. Shiue

International Transactions: Real Trade and Factor Flows between 1700 and 1870
w26781 Carolyn Moehling
Melissa A. Thomasson

Votes For Women: An Economic Perspective on Women's Enfranchisement
w26770 Fabian Eckert
Andrés Gvirtz
Jack Liang
Michael Peters

A Method to Construct Geographical Crosswalks with an Application to US Counties since 1790
w26754 Davide Cantoni
Noam Yuchtman

Historical Natural Experiments: Bridging Economics and Economic History
w26710 Christoffer Koch
Gary Richardson
Patrick Van Horn

Countercyclical Capital Buffers: A Cautionary Tale
w26695 Pooyan Amir-Ahmadi
Gustavo S. Cortes
Marc D. Weidenmier

Regional Monetary Policies and the Great Depression
w26637 Efraim Benmelech
Nitish Kumar
Raghuram Rajan

The Decline of Secured Debt
2019
w26435 Josh Davis
Alan M. Taylor

The Leverage Factor: Credit Cycles and Asset Returns
w26414 William J. Collins
Ariell Zimran

Working Their Way Up? US Immigrants' Changing Labor Market Assimilation in the Age of Mass Migration
w26410 Jeremy Greenwood
Nezih Guner
Karen A. Kopecky

The Wife's Protector: A Quantitative Theory Linking Contraceptive Technology with the Decline in Marriage
w26333 Sebastian Edwards
On Latin American Populism, And Its Echoes Around the World
w26262 Òscar Jordà
Alan M. Taylor

Riders on the Storm
w26085 Sebastian Edwards
Change of Monetary Regime, Contracts, and Prices: Lessons from the Great Depression, 1932-1935
w26061 Enrico Spolaore
Commanding Nature by Obeying Her: A Review Essay on Joel Mokyr's A Culture of Growth
w25997 Nicholas Z. Muller
Time Preference and the Great Depression: Evidence from Firewood Prices in Portland, Oregon
w25992 Federico Droller
Martin Fiszbein

Staple Products, Linkages, and Development: Evidence from Argentina
w25957 Enrico Spolaore
Romain Wacziarg

Fertility and Modernity
w25846 Shari Eli
Trevon D. Logan
Boriana Miloucheva

Physician Bias and Racial Disparities in Health: Evidence from Veterans' Pensions
w25805 Prottoy A. Akbar
Sijie Li
Allison Shertzer
Randall P. Walsh

Racial Segregation in Housing Markets and the Erosion of Black Wealth
w25790 Felipe Benguria
Alan M. Taylor

After the Panic: Are Financial Crises Demand or Supply Shocks? Evidence from International Trade
w25768 Christina D. Romer
David H. Romer

Fiscal Space and the Aftermath of Financial Crises: How It Matters and Why
w25741 Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke
Ahmed Rahman
Alan M. Taylor

Trade, Technology, and the Great Divergence
w25700 Philipp Ager
Leah Platt Boustan
Katherine Eriksson

The Intergenerational Effects of a Large Wealth Shock: White Southerners After the Civil War
w25629 Margaret M. Jacobson
Eric M. Leeper
Bruce Preston

Recovery of 1933
w25543 Josefin Meyer
Carmen M. Reinhart
Christoph Trebesch

Sovereign Bonds since Waterloo
w25523 Timothy J. Kehoe
Carlos Gustavo Machicado
José Peres-Cajías

The Monetary and Fiscal History of Bolivia, 1960-2017
w25490 Guillaume Blanc
Romain Wacziarg

Change and Persistence in the Age of Modernization: Saint-Germain-d'Anxure 1730-1895
w25480 Dora Costa
Noelle Yetter
Heather DeSomer

Wartime Health Shocks and the Postwar Socioeconomic Status and Mortality of Union Army Veterans and their Children
w25461 Michael Leeds
Hugh Rockoff

Beating the Odds: Black Jockeys in the Kentucky Derby, 1870-1911
2018
w25409 Michael D. Bordo
The Imbalances of the Bretton Woods System 1965 to 1973: U.S. Inflation, The Elephant in the Room
w25405 Sanjiv R. Das
Kris James Mitchener
Angela Vossmeyer

Bank Regulation, Network Topology, and Systemic Risk: Evidence from the Great Depression
w25278 Stelios Michalopoulos
Elias Papaioannou

Historical Legacies and African Development
w25266 Bryan Kelly
Dimitris Papanikolaou
Amit Seru
Matt Taddy

Measuring Technological Innovation over the Long Run
w25260 Cory Cutsail
Farley Grubb

The Paper Money of Colonial North Carolina, 1712-74: Reconstructing the Evidence
w25246 Price Fishback
Sebastián Fleitas
Jonathan Rose
Kenneth Snowden

Collateral Damage: The Impact of Foreclosures on New Home Mortgage Lending in the 1930s
w25237 Richard B. Baker
Carola Frydman
Eric Hilt

Political Discretion and Antitrust Policy: Evidence from the Assassination of President McKinley
w25197 Richard C. Sutch
The Economics of African American Slavery: The Cliometrics Debate
w24868 C. Jara Figueroa
Bogang Jun
Edward L. Glaeser
César Hidalgo

The Role of Industry, Occupation, and Location-Specific Knowledge in the Survival of New Firms
w24815 Ariell Zimran
Sample-Selection Bias and Height Trends in the Nineteenth-Century United States
w24792 Eric Hilt
Banks, Insider Connections, and Industrialization in New England: Evidence from the Panic of 1873
w24758 Giorgio Chiovelli
Stelios Michalopoulos
Elias Papaioannou

Landmines and Spatial Development
w24727 Klaus Desmet
Avner Greif
Stephen Parente

Spatial Competition, Innovation and Institutions: The Industrial Revolution and the Great Divergence
w24725 Brian Beach
Joseph P. Ferrie
Martin H. Saavedra

Fetal Shock or Selection? The 1918 Influenza Pandemic and Human Capital Development
w24719 Eric Hilt
Wendy M. Rahn

Financial Asset Ownership and Political Partisanship: Liberty Bonds and Republican Electoral Success in the 1920s
w24695 Karen Clay
Margarita Portnykh

The Short-Run and Long-Run Effects of Resources on Economic Outcomes: Evidence From the United States 1936-2015
w24677 Òscar Jordà
Moritz Schularick
Alan M. Taylor
Felix Ward

Global Financial Cycles and Risk Premiums
w24659 James Cloyne
Nicholas Dimsdale
Natacha Postel-Vinay

Taxes and Growth: New Narrative Evidence from Interwar Britain
w24624 Jose A. Lopez
Kris James Mitchener

Uncertainty and Hyperinflation: European Inflation Dynamics after World War I
w24495 Camilo García-Jimeno
Angel Iglesias
Pinar Yildirim

Women, Rails and Telegraphs: An Empirical Study of Information Diffusion and Collective Action
w24431 Charles W. Calomiris
Elliot S.M. Oh

Who Owned Citibank? Familiarity Bias and Business Network Influences on Stock Purchases, 1925-1929
w24367 Sebastian Edwards
Keynes on the Sequencing of Economic Policy: Recovery and Reform in 1933
w24235 James Bessen
AI and Jobs: the role of demand
2017
w24154 Michael D. Bordo
An Historical Perspective on the Quest for Financial Stability and the Monetary Policy Regime
w24145 Barry Eichengreen
Arnaud J. Mehl
Livia Chitu

Mars or Mercury? The Geopolitics of International Currency Choice
w24112 Òscar Jordà
Katharina Knoll
Dmitry Kuvshinov
Moritz Schularick
Alan M. Taylor

The Rate of Return on Everything, 1870-2015
w24106 Gregori Galofré-Vilà
Christopher M. Meissner
Martin McKee
David Stuckler

Austerity and the Rise of the Nazi party
w24016 Michael Bordo
Eric Monnet
Alain Naef

The Gold Pool (1961-1968) and the Fall of the Bretton Woods System. Lessons for Central Bank Cooperation.
w23992 Gojko Barjamovic
Thomas Chaney
Kerem A. Coşar
Ali Hortaçsu

Trade, Merchants, and the Lost Cities of the Bronze Age
w23936 Raphaël Franck
Stelios Michalopoulos

Emigration during the French Revolution: Consequences in the Short and Longue Durée
w23934 Davide Cantoni
Jeremiah Dittmar
Noam Yuchtman

Religious Competition and Reallocation: The Political Economy of Secularization in the Protestant Reformation
w23932 Barry Eichengreen
Michael R. Haines
Matthew S. Jaremski
David Leblang

Populists at the Polls: Economic Factors in the 1896 Presidential Election
w23931 Christina D. Romer
David H. Romer

Why Some Times Are Different: Macroeconomic Policy and the Aftermath of Financial Crises
w23897 Trevor Burnard
Laura Panza
Jeffrey G. Williamson

The Social Implications of Sugar: Living Costs, Real Incomes and Inequality in Jamaica c1774
w23827 Michael R. Haines
Ethnic Differences in Demographic Behavior in the United States: What Can We Learn from Vital Statistics about Inequality?
w23794 Joseph E. Stiglitz
Structural Transformation, Deep Downturns, and Government Policy
w23788 Matthew Jaremski
Gabriel Mathy

How was the Quantitative Easing Program of the 1930s Unwound?
w23786 Michael D. Bordo
The Second Era of Globalization is Not Yet Over: An Historical Perspective
w23783 Cory Cutsail
Farley Grubb

The Paper Money of Colonial North Carolina, 1712-1774
w23629 Erik Heitfield
Gary Richardson
Shirley Wang

Contagion During the Initial Banking Panic of the Great Depression
w23617 Paola Giuliano
Nathan Nunn

Understanding Cultural Persistence and Change
w23516 Brantly Callaway
William J. Collins

Unions, Workers, and Wages at the Peak of the American Labor Movement
w23477 Taylor Jaworski
World War II and the Industrialization of the American South
w23440 Maurice Obstfeld
Alan M. Taylor

International Monetary Relations: Taking Finance Seriously
w23416 Laura Panza
Jeffrey G. Williamson

Australian Squatters, Convicts, and Capitalists: Dividing Up a Fast-Growing Frontier Pie 1821-1871
w23397 William J. Collins
Michael Q. Moody

Racial Differences in American Women's Labor Market Outcomes: A Long-Run View
w23343 Stephen Broadberry
John Joseph Wallis

Growing, Shrinking, and Long Run Economic Performance: Historical Perspectives on Economic Development
w23220 Michael D. Bordo
Harold James

Partial Fiscalization: Some Lessons on Europe's Unfinished Business
w23208 Melissa Dell
Nathaniel Lane
Pablo Querubin

The Historical State, Local Collective Action, and Economic Development in Vietnam
w23199 Quamrul H. Ashraf
Oded Galor

The Macrogenoeconomics of Comparative Development
w23189 Michael D. Bordo
The Operation and Demise of the Bretton Woods System; 1958 to 1971
w23183 Martin Fiszbein
Agricultural Diversity, Structural Change and Long-run Development: Evidence from the U.S.
w23172 Joshua K. Hausman
Paul W. Rhode
Johannes F. Wieland

Recovery from the Great Depression: The Farm Channel in Spring 1933
w23137 Ufuk Akcigit
John Grigsby
Tom Nicholas

Immigration and the Rise of American Ingenuity
w23075 Robert J. Shiller
Narrative Economics
w23047 Ufuk Akcigit
John Grigsby
Tom Nicholas

The Rise of American Ingenuity: Innovation and Inventors of the Golden Age
w23042 B. Zorina Khan
Prestige and Profit: The Royal Society of Arts and Incentives for Innovation, 1750-1850
2016
w22992 Philipp Ager
Leonardo Bursztyn
Hans-Joachim Voth

Killer Incentives: Status Competition and Pilot Performance during World War II
w22921 W. Walker Hanlon
Coal Smoke and the Costs of the Industrial Revolution
w22844 Kris James Mitchener
Gonçalo Pina

Pegxit Pressure: Evidence from the Classical Gold Standard
w22779 Mara P. Squicciarini
Nico Voigtländer

Knowledge Elites and Modernization: Evidence from Revolutionary France
w22690 David M. Cutler
Wei Huang
Adriana Lleras-Muney

Economic Conditions and Mortality: Evidence from 200 Years of Data
w22619 Gary Gorton
Tyler Muir

Mobile Collateral versus Immobile Collateral
w22581 Michael Bordo
Arunima Sinha

A Lesson from the Great Depression that the Fed Might have Learned: A Comparison of the 1932 Open Market Purchases with Quantitative Easing
w22553 Brian Beach
Werner Troesken
Nicola Tynan

Who Should Own and Control Urban Water Systems? Historical Evidence from England and Wales
w22497 Dora L. Costa
Heather DeSomer
Eric Hanss
Christopher Roudiez
Sven E. Wilson
Noelle Yetter

Union Army Veterans, All Grown Up
w22426 Brandon Dupont
Drew Keeling
Thomas Weiss

First Cabin Fares from New York to the British Isles, 1826-1914
w22380 David Aikman
Oliver Bush
Alan M. Taylor

Monetary Versus Macroprudential Policies: Causal Impacts of Interest Rates and Credit Controls in the Era of the UK Radcliffe Report
w22295 Emmanuel Farhi
Matteo Maggiori

A Model of the International Monetary System
w22254 Carl T. Kitchens
Taylor Jaworski

Ownership and the Price of Residential Electricity: Evidence from the United States, 1935-1940
w22211 John Komlos
Growth of income and welfare in the U.S, 1979-2011
w22192 Farley Grubb
Colonial American Paper Money and the Quantity Theory of Money: An Extension
w22184 Brandon Dupont
Joshua Rosenbloom

The Impact of the Civil War on Southern Wealth Holders
w22140 Jérémie Cohen-Setton
Joshua K. Hausman
Johannes F. Wieland

Supply-Side Policies in the Depression: Evidence from France
w22131 David de la Croix
Matthias Doepke
Joel Mokyr

Clans, Guilds, and Markets: Apprenticeship Institutions and Growth in the Pre-Industrial Economy
w22108 Jason Long
Henry E. Siu

Refugees From Dust and Shrinking Land: Tracking the Dust Bowl Migrants
w22073 Taylor Jaworski
Carl T. Kitchens

National Policy for Regional Development: Historical Evidence from Appalachian Highways
w22059 Michael D. Bordo
Christopher M. Meissner

Fiscal and Financial Crises
w21958 Carmen M. Reinhart
Vincent Reinhart
Christoph Trebesch

Global Cycles: Capital Flows, Commodities, and Sovereign Defaults, 1815-2015
w21932 Daron Acemoglu
Jacob Moscona
James A. Robinson

State Capacity and American Technology: Evidence from the 19th Century
w21886 Wolfgang Keller
Javier Andres Santiago
Carol H. Shiue

Foreigners Knocking on the Door: Trade in China During the Treaty Port Era
w21882 Ran Abramitzky
Leah Platt Boustan

Immigration in American Economic History
w21881 Farley Grubb
Colonial Virginia's Paper Money Regime, 1755-1774: Value Decomposition and Performance
w21856 Joseph Davis
Marc D. Weidenmier

America's First Great Moderation
2015
w21813 Jeffrey Frankel
The Plaza Accord, 30 Years Later
w21807 Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke
Economic Impossibilities for our Grandchildren?
w21785 Farley Grubb
Colonial Virginia's Paper Money Regime, 1755-1774: a Forensic Accounting Reconstruction of the Data
w21728 Farley Grubb
Common Currency versus Currency Union: The U.S. Continental Dollar and Denominational Structure, 1775-1776
w21672 Yaguang Zhang
Guo Fan
John Whalley

Economic Cycles in Ancient China
w21664 Carmen M. Reinhart
Christoph Trebesch

The Pitfalls of External Dependence: Greece, 1829-2015
w21572 Qian Lu
John Joseph Wallis

Banks, Politics, and Political Parties: From Partisan Banking to Open Access in Early Massachusetts
w21559 Peter F. Basile
Sung Won Kang
John Landon-Lane
Hugh Rockoff

Towards a History of the Junk Bond Market, 1910-1955
w21536 Dan Bogart
The East Indian Monopoly and the Transition from Limited Access in England, 1600-1813
w21486 Òscar Jordà
Moritz Schularick
Alan M. Taylor

Leveraged Bubbles
w21397 Anton Cheremukhin
Mikhail Golosov
Sergei Guriev
Aleh Tsyvinski

The Economy of People's Republic of China from 1953
w21380 Sebastian Edwards
Academics as Economic Advisers: Gold, the 'Brains Trust,' and FDR
w21349 Wolfgang Keller
Carol H. Shiue
Xin Wang

Capital Markets in China and Britain, 18th and 19th Century: Evidence from Grain Prices
w21341 Eugene N. White
Protecting Financial Stability in the Aftermath of World War I: The Federal Reserve Bank of Atlanta's Dissenting Policy
w21287 Michael D. Bordo
Christopher M. Meissner

Growing Up to Stability? Financial Globalization, Financial Development and Financial Crises
w21280 Jaume Ventura
Hans-Joachim Voth

Debt into Growth: How Sovereign Debt Accelerated the First Industrial Revolution
w21254 Jacob T. Levy
Corps Intermédiaires, Civil Society, and the Art of Association
w21249 Howard Bodenhorn
Timothy W. Guinnane
Thomas A. Mroz

Sample-selection biases and the "industrialization puzzle"
w21221 Hugh Rockoff
War and Inflation in the United States from the Revolution to the First Iraq War
w21153 Ruth H. Bloch
Naomi R. Lamoreaux

Voluntary Associations, Corporate Rights, and the State: Legal Constraints on the Development of American Civil Society, 1750-1900
w21152 Farley Grubb
Colonial New Jersey's Provincial Fiscal Structure, 1709-1775: Spending Obligations, Revenue Sources, and Tax Burdens in War and in Peace
w21074 David M. Byrne
Stephen D. Oliner
Daniel E. Sichel

How Fast are Semiconductor Prices Falling?
w21039 Alan M. Taylor
Credit, Financial Stability, and the Macroeconomy
w21035 Owen M. Zidar
Tax Cuts For Whom? Heterogeneous Effects of Income Tax Changes on Growth and Employment
w21021 Christina D. Romer
David H. Romer

New Evidence on the Impact of Financial Crises in Advanced Countries
w21017 Michael Bordo
Harold James

Capital Flows and Domestic and International Order: Trilemmas from Macroeconomics to Political Economy and International Relations
w21011 Victoria Johnson
Walter W. Powell

Poisedness and Propagation: Organizational Emergence and the Transformation of Civic Order in 19th-Century New York City
w21006 Chang-Tai Hsieh
Zheng (Michael) Song

Grasp the Large, Let Go of the Small: The Transformation of the State Sector in China
w20945 B. Zorina Khan
'To Have and Have Not': Are Rich Litigious Plaintiffs Favored in Court?
w20944 B. Zorina Khan
The Impact of War on Resource Allocation: 'Creative Destruction' and the American Civil War
w20915 Jeffrey G. Williamson
Latin American Inequality: Colonial Origins, Commodity Booms, or a Missed 20th Century Leveling?
w20854 B. Zorina Khan
Invisible Women: Entrepreneurship, Innovation and Family Firms in France during Early Industrialization
w20853 B. Zorina Khan
Knowledge, Human Capital and Economic Development: Evidence from the British Industrial Revolution, 1750-1930
w20852 Christopher M. Meissner
The Limits of Bimetallism
w20844 Gianni Toniolo
Eugene N. White

The Evolution of the Financial Stability Mandate: From Its Origins to the Present Day
w20836 Barry Eichengreen
Secular Stagnation: The Long View
w20824 Michael D. Bordo
Pierre L. Siklos

Central Bank Credibility: An Historical and Quantitative Exploration
2014
w20790 Marc Badia-Miró
Anna Carreras-Marín
Christopher M. Meissner
Christopher M. Meissner

Geography, Policy, or Productivity? Regional Trade in five South American Countries, 1910-1950
w20771 Òscar Jordà
Moritz HP. Schularick
Alan M. Taylor

Betting the House
w20765 Leah Boustan
Robert A. Margo

Racial Differences in Health in Long-Run Perspective: A Brief Introduction
w20737 Frederic S. Mishkin
Eugene N. White

Unprecedented Actions: The Federal Reserve's Response to the Global Financial Crisis in Historical Perspective
w20732 B. Zorina Khan
Of Time and Space: Technological Spillovers among Patents and Unpatented Innovations during Early U.S. Industrialization
w20731 B. Zorina Khan
Inventing in the Shadow of the Patent System: Evidence from 19th-Century Patents and Prizes for Technological Innovations
w20719 Valerie A. Ramey
Sarah Zubairy

Government Spending Multipliers in Good Times and in Bad: Evidence from U.S. Historical Data
w20693 Michael Bordo
Pierre Siklos

Central Bank Credibility, Reputation and Inflation Targeting in Historical Perspective
w20658 Peter Temin
The Cambridge History of "Capitalism"
w20656 Michael D. Bordo
Owen F. Humpage

Federal Reserve Policy and Bretton Woods
w20635 Douglas A. Irwin
Tariff Incidence: Evidence from U.S. Sugar Duties, 1890-1930
w20603 Kris James Mitchener
Matthew Jaremski

The Evolution of Bank Supervision: Evidence from U.S. States
w20554 Guillaume Bazot
Michael D. Bordo
Eric Monnet

The Price of Stability: The balance sheet policy of the Banque de France and the Gold Standard (1880-1914)
w20544 Carola Frydman
Eric Hilt

Investment Banks as Corporate Monitors in the Early 20th Century United States
w20524 Farley Grubb
Jim Celia

Non-Legal-Tender Paper Money: The Structure and Performance of Maryland's Bills of Credit, 1767-1775
w20507 Julio J. Rotemberg
The Federal Reserve's Abandonment of its 1923 Principles
w20501 Òscar Jordà
Moritz Schularick
Alan M. Taylor

The Great Mortgaging: Housing Finance, Crises, and Business Cycles
w20346 Helios Herrera
Guillermo Ordoñez
Christoph Trebesch

Political Booms, Financial Crises
w20270 Michael D. Bordo
Tales from the Bretton Woods
w20232 Peter H. Lindert
Making the Most of Capital in the 21st Century
w20220 Kris James Mitchener
Kirsten Wandschneider

Capital Controls and Recovery from the Financial Crisis of the 1930s
w20219 Mara P. Squicciarini
Nico Voigtländer

Human Capital and Industrialization: Evidence from the Age of Enlightenment
w20199 David le Bris
William N. Goetzmann
Sébastien Pouget

Testing Asset Pricing Theory on Six Hundred Years of Stock Returns: Prices and Dividends for the Bazacle Company from 1372 to 1946
w20198 Jeremy Atack
Matthew S. Jaremski
Peter L. Rousseau

American Banking and the Transportation Revolution Before the Civil War
w20107 Peter Temin
Economic History and Economic Development: New Economic History in Retrospect and Prospect
w20096 Eric Hilt
Corporate Governance and the Development of Manufacturing Enterprises in Nineteenth-Century Massachusetts
w20087 Christina D. Romer
David H. Romer

Transfer Payments and the Macroeconomy: The Effects of Social Security Benefit Changes, 1952-1991
w20083 Pierre-Cyrille Hautcoeur
Angelo Riva
Eugene N. White

Floating a "Lifeboat": The Banque de France and the Crisis of 1889
w19962 Petra Moser
Alessandra Voena
Fabian Waldinger

German-Jewish Emigres and U.S. Invention
w19926 Gregory Clark
Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke
Alan M. Taylor

The Growing Dependence of Britain on Trade during the Industrial Revolution
w19924 Alan M. Taylor
The Argentina Paradox: Microexplanations and Macropuzzles
w19903 Farley Grubb
A New Approach to Solving the Colonial Monetary Puzzle: Evidence from New Jersey, 1709-1775
w19861 Peter H. Lindert
Jeffrey G. Williamson

American Colonial Incomes, 1650-1774
w19860 Martha J. Bailey
Nicolas J. Duquette

How Johnson Fought the War on Poverty: The Economics and Politics of Funding at the Office of Economic Opportunity
w19823 Carmen M. Reinhart
Kenneth S. Rogoff

Recovery from Financial Crises: Evidence from 100 Episodes
w19802 Alan Fernihough
Kevin Hjortshøj O'Rourke

Coal and the European Industrial Revolution
2013
w19758 Hugh Rockoff
O.M.W. Sprague (the Man who "Wrote the Book" on Financial Crises) and the Founding of the Federal Reserve
w19743 Carl Kitchens
Price Fishback

Flip the Switch: The Spatial Impact of the Rural Electrification Administration 1935-1940
w19710 Farley Grubb
Colonial New Jersey's Paper Money Regime, 1709-1775: A Forensic Accounting Reconstruction of the Data
w19605 Hoyt Bleakley
Louis Cain
Joseph Ferrie

Amidst Poverty and Prejudice: Black and Irish Civil War Veterans
w19585 Michael D. Bordo
John Landon-Lane

Does Expansionary Monetary Policy Cause Asset Price Booms; Some Historical and Empirical Evidence
w19584 Michael D. Bordo
John Landon-Lane

What Explains House Price Booms?: History and Empirical Evidence.
w19580 Olivier Accominotti
Barry Eichengreen

The Mother of All Sudden Stops: Capital Flows and Reversals in Europe, 1919-32
w19577 Farley Grubb
The Continental Dollar: How the American Revolution was Financed with Paper Money--Initial Design and Ideal Performance
w19506 Òscar Jordà
Moritz HP. Schularick
Alan M. Taylor

Sovereigns versus Banks: Credit, Crises, and Consequences
w19493 Martha J. Bailey
Fifty Years of Family Planning: New Evidence on the Long-Run Effects of Increasing Access to Contraception
w19414 Òscar Jordà
Alan M. Taylor

The Time for Austerity: Estimating the Average Treatment Effect of Fiscal Policy
w19405 Barry Eichengreen
Does the Federal Reserve Care About the Rest of the World?
w19348 Hoyt Bleakley
Joseph P. Ferrie

Shocking Behavior : Random Wealth in Antebellum Georgia and Human Capital Across Generations
w19288 Ricardo Reis
The Portuguese Slump and Crash and the Euro Crisis
w19201 Shanker Satyanath
Nico Voigtlaender
Hans-Joachim Voth

Bowling for Fascism: Social Capital and the Rise of the Nazi Party
w19131 Claudia Olivetti
The Female Labor Force and Long-run Development: The American Experience in Comparative Perspective
w19112 Michael D. Bordo
Harold James

The European Crisis in the Context of the History of Previous Financial Crises
w19040 Leah Platt Boustan
William J. Collins

The Origins and Persistence of Black-White Differences in Women's Labor Force Participation
w19026 Michael D. Bordo
Angela Redish

Putting the 'System' in the International Monetary System
w19010 Diego A. Comin
Martí Mestieri Ferrer

If Technology Has Arrived Everywhere, Why has Income Diverged?
w19008 George J. Hall
Thomas J. Sargent

Fiscal Discriminations in Three Wars
w18888 Carmen M. Reinhart
Kenneth S. Rogoff

Shifting Mandates: The Federal Reserve's First Centennial
w18852 Michael Brocker
Christopher Hanes

The 1920s American Real Estate Boom and the Downturn of the Great Depression: Evidence from City Cross Sections
w18828 Michael D. Bordo
Hugh Rockoff

Not Just the Great Contraction: Friedman and Schwartz's A Monetary History of the United States 1867 to 1960
w18823 Harold L. Cole
Lee E. Ohanian

The Impact of Cartelization, Money, and Productivity Shocks on the International Great Depression
w18821 Matthew Chambers
Carlos Garriga
Donald E. Schlagenhauf

Did Housing Policies Cause the Postwar Boom in Homeownership?
w18819 Dan Liu
Christopher M. Meissner

Market Potential and the Rise of US Productivity Leadership
w18816 Todd Neumann
Jason Taylor
Price Fishback

Fluctuations in Weekly Hours and Total Hours Worked Over the Past 90 Years and the Importance of Changes in Federal Policy Toward Job Sharing
w18814 Christopher M. Meissner
Capital Flows, Credit Booms, and Financial Crises in the Classical Gold Standard Era
w18770 Philip Osafo-Kwaako
James A. Robinson

Political Centralization in Pre-Colonial Africa
w18752 Lawrence F. Katz
Robert A. Margo

Technical Change and the Relative Demand for Skilled Labor: The United States in Historical Perspective
w18751 Kathryn M.E. Dominguez
Matthew D. Shapiro

Forecasting the Recovery from the Great Recession: Is This Time Different?
w18746 Christina D. Romer
David H. Romer

The Missing Transmission Mechanism in the Monetary Explanation of the Great Depression
w18673 Barry Eichengreen
Donghyun Park
Kwanho Shin

Growth Slowdowns Redux: New Evidence on the Middle-Income Trap
2012
w18616 Christopher Hanes
Paul W. Rhode

Harvests and Financial Crises in Gold-Standard America
w18612 Daniel B. Jones
Werner Troesken
Randall Walsh

A Poll Tax by any Other Name: The Political Economy of Disenfranchisement
w18606 Alan M. Taylor
External Imbalances and Financial Crises
w18427 Charles W. Calomiris
Joseph R. Mason
Marc Weidenmier
Katherine Bobroff

The Effects of Reconstruction Finance Corporation Assistance on Michigan's Banks' Survival in the 1930s
w18396 Peter H. Lindert
Jeffrey G. Williamson

American Incomes 1774-1860
w18363 Gerardo della Paolera
Alan M. Taylor

Sovereign Debt in Latin America, 1820-1913
w18290 Alan M. Taylor
The Great Leveraging
w18275 Stelios Michalopoulos
Elias Papaioannou

National Institutions and Subnational Development in Africa
w18271 Price V. Fishback
John Joseph Wallis

What Was New About the New Deal?
w18264 Carola Frydman
Eric Hilt
Lily Y. Zhou

Economic Effects of Runs on Early 'Shadow Banks': Trust Companies and the Impact of the Panic of 1907
w18224 Stelios Michalopoulos
Elias Papaioannou

Pre-colonial Ethnic Institutions and Contemporary African Development
w18194 Michael D. Bordo
Joseph G. Haubrich

Deep Recessions, Fast Recoveries, and Financial Crises: Evidence from the American Record
w18162 William Easterly
Ross Levine

The European Origins of Economic Development
w18130 Enrico Spolaore
Romain Wacziarg

How Deep Are the Roots of Economic Development?
w18129 Suresh Naidu
Suffrage, Schooling, and Sorting in the Post-Bellum U.S. South
w18099 Farley Grubb
Chronic Specie Scarcity and Efficient Barter: The Problem of Maintaining an Outside Money Supply in British Colonial America
w18027 Raghuram Rajan
Rodney Ramcharan

The Anatomy of a Credit Crisis: The Boom and Bust in Farm Land Prices in the United States in the 1920s.
w18015 Carmen M. Reinhart
Vincent R. Reinhart
Kenneth S. Rogoff

Debt Overhangs: Past and Present
w17997 Farley Grubb
Is Paper Money Just Paper Money? Experimentation and Variation in the Paper Monies Issued by the American Colonies from 1690 to 1775
w17979 Davide Cantoni
Noam Yuchtman

Medieval Universities, Legal Institutions, and the Commercial Revolution
w17896 Michael D. Bordo
Christopher M. Meissner

Does Inequality Lead to a Financial Crisis?
w17871 Alan de Bromhead
Barry Eichengreen
Kevin H. O'Rourke

Right-Wing Political Extremism in the Great Depression
w17764 Sebastian Edwards
Is Tanzania a Success Story? A Long Term Analysis
w17749 Douglas A. Irwin
The Nixon Shock after Forty Years: The Import Surcharge Revisited
2011
w17700 Timothy J. Kehoe
Felipe Meza

Catch-up Growth Followed by Stagnation: Mexico, 1950-2010
w17621 Òscar Jordà
Moritz HP. Schularick
Alan M. Taylor

When Credit Bites Back: Leverage, Business Cycles, and Crises
w17620 Stelios Michalopoulos
Elias Papaioannou

The Long-Run Effects of the Scramble for Africa
w17597 Douglas A. Irwin
Anticipating the Great Depression? Gustav Cassel's Analysis of the Interwar Gold Standard
w17595 Douglas A. Irwin
Gold Sterilization and the Recession of 1937-38
w17458 William J. Collins
Katharine L. Shester

Slum Clearance and Urban Renewal in the United States
w17437 Gary Richardson
Patrick Van Horn

In the Eye of a Storm: Manhattan's Money Center Banks During the International Financial Crisis of 1931
w17432 Fabrice Murtin
Romain Wacziarg

The Democratic Transition
w17322 Robert W. Fogel
Louis Cain
Joseph Burton
Brian Bettenhausen

Was What Ail'd Ya' What Kill'd Ya'?
w17314 Nico Voigtländer
Hans-Joachim Voth

How the West 'Invented' Fertility Restriction
w17276 Farley Grubb
The Continental Dollar: Initial Design, Ideal Performance, and the Credibility of Congressional Commitment
w17267 Michael D. Bordo
Hugh Rockoff

The Influence of Irving Fisher on Milton Friedman's Monetary Economics
w17216 Quamrul Ashraf
Oded Galor

The "Out of Africa" Hypothesis, Human Genetic Diversity, and Comparative Economic Development
w17215 Joshua L. Rosenbloom
Thomas J. Weiss

Economic Growth in the Mid Atlantic Region: Conjectural Estimates for 1720 to 1800
w17211 Peter H. Lindert
Jeffrey G. Williamson

American Incomes before and after the Revolution
w17209 Farley Grubb
State Redemption of the Continental Dollar, 1779-1790
w17206 Steven C.A. Pincus
James A. Robinson

What Really Happened During the Glorious Revolution?
w17184 Stelios Michalopoulos
Elias Papaioannou

Divide and Rule or the Rule of the Divided? Evidence from Africa
w17132 Daniel Treisman
Income, Democracy, and the Cunning of Reason
w17123 Richard C.K. Burdekin
Kris James Mitchener
Marc D. Weidenmier

Irving Fisher and Price-Level Targeting in Austria: Was Silver the Answer?
w17051 Suresh Naidu
Noam Yuchtman

Coercive Contract Enforcement: Law and the Labor Market in 19th Century Industrial Britain
w17024 Michael D. Bordo
Peter L. Rousseau

Historical Evidence on the Finance-Trade-Growth Nexus
w16993 Ralf Meisenzahl
Joel Mokyr

The Rate and Direction of Invention in the British Industrial Revolution: Incentives and Institutions
w16983 Petra Moser
Paul W. Rhode

Did Plant Patents Create the American Rose?
w16952 Arindrajit Dube
Ethan Kaplan
Suresh Naidu

Coups, Corporations, and Classified Information
w16946 Michael D. Bordo
Owen F. Humpage
Anna J. Schwartz

U.S. Intervention During the Bretton Woods Era: 1962-1973
w16925 Gabriel P. Mathy
Christopher M. Meissner

Trade, Exchange Rate Regimes and Output Co-Movement: Evidence from the Great Depression
w16893 Carmen M. Reinhart
M. Belen Sbrancia

The Liquidation of Government Debt
w16872 Gary Richardson
Michael Gou

Business Failures by Industry in the United States, 1895 to 1939: A Statistical History.
w16827 Carmen M. Reinhart
Kenneth S. Rogoff

A Decade of Debt
w16825 Eugene N. White
"To Establish a More Effective Supervision of Banking": How the Birth of the Fed Altered Bank Supervision
w16769 Robert J. Barro
Rachel M. McCleary

Saints Marching In, 1590-2009
w16754 Assaf Razin
Steven Rosefielde

Currency and Financial Crises of the 1990s and 2000s
w16688 Charles W. Calomiris
Joseph Mason
David Wheelock

Did Doubling Reserve Requirements Cause the Recession of 1937-1938? A Microeconomic Approach
w16665 William J. Collins
Robert A. Margo

Race and Home Ownership from the Civil War to the Present
2010
w16647 Michael D. Bordo
Owen F. Humpage
Anna J. Schwartz

U.S. Foreign-Exchange-Market Intervention and the Early Dollar Float: 1973 - 1981
w16617 Haelim M. Park
Gary Richardson

Retail Trade by Federal Reserve District, 1919 to 1939: A Statistical History
w16567 Òscar Jordà
Moritz Schularick
Alan M. Taylor

Financial Crises, Credit Booms, and External Imbalances: 140 Years of Lessons
w16561 Price V. Fishback
Valentina Kachanovskaya

In Search of the Multiplier for Federal Spending in the States During the Great Depression
w16494 Alan L. Olmstead
Paul W. Rhode

Productivity Growth and the Regional Dynamics of Antebellum Southern Development
w16487 Dave Donaldson
Railroads of the Raj: Estimating the Impact of Transportation Infrastructure
w16477 Price V. Fishback
U.S. Monetary and Fiscal Policy in the 1930s
w16365 Michael D. Bordo
John Landon-Lane

The Lessons from the Banking Panics in the United States in the 1930s for the Financial Crisis of 2007-2008
w16350 Douglas A. Irwin
Did France Cause the Great Depression?
w16345 Michael D. Bordo
Owen F. Humpage
Anna J. Schwartz

U.S. Foreign-Exchange-Market Intervention during the Volcker-Greenspan Era
w16334 Carmen M. Reinhart
Vincent R. Reinhart

After the Fall
w16310 Kathleen M. Kahle
René M. Stulz

Financial Policies and the Financial Crisis: How Important Was the Systemic Credit Contraction for Industrial Corporations?
w16269 Richard S. Grossman
Christopher M. Meissner

International Aspects of the Great Depression and the Crisis of 2007: Similarities, Differences, and Lessons
w16244 Kenneth A. Snowden
The Anatomy of a Residential Mortgage Crisis: A Look Back to the 1930s
w16242 Kenneth A. Snowden
Covered Farm Mortgage Bonds in the Late Nineteenth Century U.S.
w16203 R. Quentin Grafton
Clay Landry
Gary D. Libecap
Sam McGlennon
Robert O'Brien

An Integrated Assessment of Water Markets: Australia, Chile, China, South Africa and the USA
w16190 Peter L. Rousseau
Caleb Stroup

Monetization and Growth in Colonial New England, 1703-1749
w16146 Stefania Albanesi
Claudia Olivetti

Maternal Health and the Baby Boom
w16135 Michael R. Haines
Avery M. Guest

Fertility in New York State in the Civil War Era
w16134 J. David Hacker
Michael R. Haines

The Construction of Life Tables for the American Indian Population at the Turn of the Twentieth Century
w16133 Michael R. Haines
Inequality and Infant and Childhood Mortality in the United States in the Twentieth Century
w16034 Ṣebnem Kalemli-Özcan
Alex Nikolsko-Rzhevskyy
Jun Hee Kwak

Does Trade Cause Capital to Flow? Evidence from Historical Rainfall
w15997 Howard Bodenhorn
David Cuberes

Financial Development and City Growth: Evidence from Northeastern American Cities, 1790-1870
w15834 Robert J. Gordon
Revisiting U. S. Productivity Growth over the Past Century with a View of the Future
w15824 Price V. Fishback
Alfonso Flores-Lagunes
William Horrace
Shawn E. Kantor
Jaret Treber

The Influence of the Home Owners' Loan Corporation on Housing Markets During the 1930s
w15795 Carmen M. Reinhart
Kenneth S. Rogoff

From Financial Crash to Debt Crisis
w15776 Karla Hoff
Joseph E. Stiglitz

Equilibrium Fictions: A Cognitive Approach to Societal Rigidity
w15770 Peter L. Rousseau
The Market for Bank Stocks and the Rise of Deposit Banking in New York City, 1866-1897
w15731 Michael D. Bordo
John Landon-Lane

Exits from Recessions: The U.S. Experience 1920-2007
w15726 Takatoshi Ito
Great Inflation and Central Bank Independence in Japan
w15710 Kris James Mitchener
David C. Wheelock

Does the Structure of Banking Markets Affect Economic Growth? Evidence from U.S. State Banking Markets
w15669 Karen Clay
Werner Troesken

Did Frederick Brodie Discover the World's First Environmental Kuznets Curve? Coal Smoke and the Rise and Fall of the London Fog
w15645 Peter Temin
The Great Recession and the Great Depression
w15639 Carmen M. Reinhart
Kenneth S. Rogoff

Growth in a Time of Debt
2009
w15596 John Landon-Lane
Hugh Rockoff
Richard H. Steckel

Droughts, Floods and Financial Distress in the United States
w15594 Hugh Rockoff
Upon Daedalian Wings of Paper Money: Adam Smith and the Crisis of 1772
w15584 Michael D. Bordo
Harold James

The Great Depression Analogy
w15577 Gilbert Cette
Yusuf Kocoglu
Jacques Mairesse

Productivity Growth and Levels in France, Japan, the United Kingdom and the United States in the Twentieth Century
w15573 Eugene N. White
Lessons from the Great American Real Estate Boom and Bust of the 1920s
w15534 Michael D. Bordo
Christopher M. Meissner
David Stuckler

Foreign Currency Debt, Financial Crises and Economic Growth: A Long Run View
w15524 Miguel Almunia
Agustín S. Bénétrix
Barry Eichengreen
Kevin H. O'Rourke
Gisela Rua

From Great Depression to Great Credit Crisis: Similarities, Differences and Lessons
w15512 Moritz Schularick
Alan M. Taylor

Credit Booms Gone Bust: Monetary Policy, Leverage Cycles and Financial Crises, 1870-2008
w15475 Alan M. Taylor
The Global 1970s and the Echo of the Great Depression
w15411 André C. Martínez Fritscher
Aldo Musacchio

Endowments, Fiscal Federalism, and the Cost of Capital for States: Evidence from Brazil, 1891-1930
w15408 Anthony B. Atkinson
Thomas Piketty
Emmanuel Saez

Top Incomes in the Long Run of History
w15401 Kris James Mitchener
Marc D. Weidenmier

Are Hard Pegs Ever Credible in Emerging Markets? Evidence from the Classical Gold Standard
w15378 Daron Acemoglu
Davide Ticchi
Andrea Vindigni

Persistence of Civil Wars
w15332 Rik G.P. Frehen
William N. Goetzmann
K. Geert Rouwenhorst

New Evidence on the First Financial Bubble
w15305 Jeffrey G. Williamson
Five Centuries of Latin American Inequality
w15258 Lee E. Ohanian
What - or Who - Started the Great Depression?
w15209 Lee J. Alston
Andrés A. Gallo

Electoral Fraud, the Rise of Peron and Demise of Checks and Balances in Argentina
w15195 Kris James Mitchener
Masato Shizume
Marc D. Weidenmier

Why did Countries Adopt the Gold Standard? Lessons from Japan
w15157 Nathan Nunn
Nancy Qian

The Potato's Contribution to Population and Urbanization: Evidence from an Historical Experiment
w15144 Douglas A. Irwin
Revenue or Reciprocity? Founding Feuds over Early U.S. Trade Policy
w15095 Enrico Spolaore
Romain Wacziarg

War and Relatedness
w15066 Eric A. Hanushek
Ludger Woessmann

Schooling, Cognitive Skills, and the Latin American Growth Puzzle
w15061 Ryan L. Lampe
Petra Moser

Do Patent Pools Encourage Innovation? Evidence from the 19th-Century Sewing Machine Industry
w14993 Peter L. Rousseau
Monetary Policy and the Dollar
w14923 Chang-Tai Hsieh
Edward Miguel
Daniel Ortega
Francisco Rodriguez

The Price of Political Opposition: Evidence from Venezuela's Maisanta
w14847 Brandon Dupont
Alka Gandhi
Thomas Weiss

Fluctuations in Overseas Travel by Americans, 1820 to 2000
w14816 Maurice Obstfeld
Time of Troubles: The Yen and Japan's Economy, 1985-2008
w14766 Jeffrey G. Williamson
History without Evidence: Latin American Inequality since 1491
w14694 Sambit Bhattacharyya
Jeffrey G. Williamson

Commodity Price Shocks and the Australian Economy since Federation
w14686 Joseph H. Davis
Christopher Hanes
Paul W. Rhode

Harvests and Business Cycles in Nineteenth-Century America
w14657 Michael D. Bordo
Ronald MacDonald
Michael J. Oliver

Sterling in crisis: 1964-1967
w14640 Jeremy Atack
Fred Bateman
Michael Haines
Robert A. Margo

Did Railroads Induce or Follow Economic Growth? Urbanization and Population Growth in the American Midwest, 1850-60
2008
w14569 Michael D. Bordo
An Historical Perspective on the Crisis of 2007-2008
w14563 Alan S. Blinder
Jeremy B. Rudd

The Supply-Shock Explanation of the Great Stagflation Revisited
w14560 Robert J. Gordon
Did Economics Cause World War II?
w14555 Hugh Rockoff
Great Fortunes of the Gilded Age
w14532 Michael D. Bordo
Barry Eichengreen

Bretton Woods and the Great Inflation
w14499 Angus Deaton
Alan Heston

Understanding PPPs and PPP-based national accounts
w14493 Sibylle H. Lehmann
Kevin H. O'Rourke

The Structure of Protection and Growth in the Late 19th Century
w14484 Kevin H. O'Rourke
Ahmed S. Rahman
Alan M. Taylor

Luddites and the Demographic Transition
w14422 Asaf Bernstein
Eric Hughson
Marc D. Weidenmier

Can a Lender of Last Resort Stabilize Financial Markets? Lessons from the Founding of the Fed
w14393 Dan Bogart
Gary Richardson

Estate Acts, 1600 to 1830: A New Source for British History
w14377 Paul W. Rhode
Koleman Strumpf

Historical Political Futures Markets: An International Perspective
w14362 Marc D. Weidenmier
Joseph H. Davis
Roger Aliaga-Diaz

Is Sugar Sweeter at the Pump? The Macroeconomic Impact of Brazil's Alternative Energy Program
w14334 Peter Mancall
Joshua Rosenbloom
Thomas J. Weiss

Commodity Exports, Invisible Exports and Terms of Trade for the Middle Colonies, 1720 to 1775
w14267 Farley Grubb
The Distribution of Congressional Spending During the American Revolution, 1775-1780: The Problem of Geographic Balance
w14264 Antoni Estevadeordal
Alan M. Taylor

Is the Washington Consensus Dead? Growth, Openness, and the Great Liberalization, 1970s-2000s
w14217 Maurice Obstfeld
Jay C. Shambaugh
Alan M. Taylor

Financial Stability, the Trilemma, and International Reserves
w14154 Barry Eichengreen
Marc Flandreau

The Rise and Fall of the Dollar, or When Did the Dollar Replace Sterling as the Leading International Currency?
w14142 Alan L. Olmstead
Paul W. Rhode

Biological Innovation and Productivity Growth in the Antebellum Cotton Economy
w14141 Richard C. Sutch
Henry Agard Wallace, the Iowa Corn Yield Tests, and the Adoption of Hybrid Corn
w14130 David Y. Albouy
The Colonial Origins of Comparative Development: An Investigation of the Settler Mortality Data
w14120 Gary Richardson
Patrick Van Horn

Intensified Regulatory Scrutiny and Bank Distress in New York City During the Great Depression
w14090 Kris J. Mitchener
Mari Ohnuki

Institutions, Competition, and Capital Market Integration in Japan
w14077 Gregory Clark
Kevin H. O'Rourke
Alan M. Taylor

Made in America? The New World, the Old, and the Industrial Revolution
w14019 Michael D. Bordo
Michael J. Dueker
David C. Wheelock

Inflation, Monetary Policy and Stock Market Conditions
w13974 Farley Grubb
Creating Maryland's Paper Money Economy, 1720-1739: The Role of Power, Print, and Markets
w13930 Gary Richardson
Brand Names Before the Industrial Revolution
w13918 Niall Ferguson
Moritz Schularick

The "Thin Film Of Gold": Monetary Rules and Policy Credibility In Developing Countries
w13915 Daron Acemoglu
Davide Ticchi
Andrea Vindigni

A Theory of Military Dictatorships
w13913 Wolfgang Keller
Carol H. Shiue

Institutions, Technology, and Trade
w13852 Lee Alston
Shannan Mattiace
Tomas Nonnenmacher

Coercion, Culture and Debt Contracts: The Henequen Industry in Yucatan, Mexico, 1870-1915
w13836 Farley Grubb
Testing for the Economic Impact of the U.S. Constitution: Purchasing Power Parity across the Colonies versus across the States, 1748-1811
w13770 Farley Grubb
The Continental Dollar: What Happened to It after 1779?
w13740 Barry Eichengreen
Sui Generis EMU
w13717 Kaivan Munshi
Nicholas Wilson

Identity, Parochial Institutions, and Occupational Choice: Linking the Past to the Present in the American Midwest
2007
w13577 Michael D. Bordo
Christopher M. Meissner

Foreign Capital and Economic Growth in the First Era of Globalization
w13548 Christina D. Romer
David H. Romer

Do Tax Cuts Starve the Beast: The Effect of Tax Changes on Government Spending
w13543 Leah Platt Boustan
Was Postwar Suburbanization "White Flight"? Evidence from the Black Migration
w13489 Michael D. Bordo
Alberto F. Cavallo
Christopher M. Meissner

Sudden Stops: Determinants and Output Effects in the First Era of Globalization, 1880-1913
w13451 Joseph H. Davis
Douglas A. Irwin

The Antebellum U.S. Iron Industry: Domestic Production and Foreign Competition
w13402 Elizabeth Oltmans Ananat
Daniel M. Hungerman

The Power of the Pill for the Next Generation
w13335 Sun Go
Peter H. Lindert

The Curious Dawn of American Public Schools
w13264 Christina D. Romer
David H. Romer

The Macroeconomic Effects of Tax Changes: Estimates Based on a New Measure of Fiscal Shocks
w13223 Sung Won Kang
Hugh Rockoff

After Johnny Came Marching Home: The Political Economy of Veterans' Benefits in the Nineteenth Century
w13208 Daron Acemoglu
María Angélica Bautista
Pablo Querubín
James A. Robinson

Economic and Political Inequality in Development: The Case of Cundinamarca, Colombia
w13171 Randall Morck
Masao Nakamura

Business Groups and the Big Push: Meiji Japan's Mass Privatization and Subsequent Growth
w13057 Kevin H. O'Rourke
Ahmed S. Rahman
Alan M. Taylor

Trade, Knowledge, and the Industrial Revolution
w13047 Farley Grubb
The Continental Dollar: How Much Was Really Issued?
w12983 Gary Richardson
Patrick Van Horn

Fetters of Debt, Deposit, or Gold during the Great Depression? The International Propagation of the Banking Crisis of 1931
w12868 Isaac Ehrlich
The Mystery of Human Capital as Engine of Growth, or Why the US Became the Economic Superpower in the 20th Century
w12835 Peter L. Rousseau
Backing, the Quantity Theory, and the Transition to the U.S. Dollar, 1723-1850
2006
w12719 Gary Richardson
A Comment Concerning Deposit Insurance and Moral Hazard
w12717 Gary Richardson
Bank Distress during the Great Depression: The Illiquidity-Insolvency Debate Revisited
w12716 Gary Richardson
Correspondent Clearing and the Banking Panics of the Great Depression
w12715 Gary Richardson
Quarterly Data on the Categories and Causes of Bank Distress During the Great Depression
w12662 Michael D. Bordo
Owen Humpage
Anna J. Schwartz

The Historical Origins of U.S. Exchange Market Intervention Policy
w12636 Patricia E. Beeson
Werner Troesken

When Bioterrorism Was No Big Deal
w12594 Ching-Yi Chung
Gary Richardson

Deposit Insurance and the Composition of Bank Suspensions in Developing Economies: Lessons from the State Deposit Insurance Experiments of the 1920S
w12591 Gary Richardson
William Troost

Monetary Intervention Mitigated Banking Panics During the Great Depression: Quasi-Experimental Evidence from the Federal Reserve District Border in Mississippi, 1929 to 1933
w12590 Gary Richardson
Bank Distress During the Great Contraction, 1929 to 1933, New Data from the Archives of the Board of Governors
w12580 Christopher M. Meissner
Alan M. Taylor

Losing our Marbles in the New Century? The Great Rebalancing in Historical Perspective
w12572 J. David Hacker
Michael R. Haines

American Indian Mortality in the Late Nineteenth Century: The Impact of Federal Assimilation Policies on a Vulnerable Population
w12558 Chiaki Moriguchi
Emmanuel Saez

The Evolution of Income Concentration in Japan, 1886-2002: Evidence from Income Tax Statistics
w12543 Alan M. Taylor
Janine L. F. Wilson

International Trade and Finance under the Two Hegemons: Complementaries in the United Kingdom 1870-1913 and the United States 1920-30
w12491 Michael Bordo
Thomas Helbling
Harold James

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