2012

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• London Merchant Banks, the Central European Panic, and the Sterling Crisis of 1931 AI翻译
  作者：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
  摘要：The Central European panic of the spring 1931 is often presented as a cause of the sterling crisis of September. But what was the transmission channel? This article explores how the continent's financial troubles affected Britain's banking system. The freeze of Central European assets created a liquidity strain for London merchant banks because they had accepted (guaranteed) the commercial bills of German merchants. I use new balance sheet data to quantify this shock and explore how the liquid...
• Before the Great Divergence? Comparing the Yangzi Delta and the Netherlands at the Beginning of the Nineteenth Century AI翻译
  作者：Hong Kong University of Science & Technology; Utrecht University
  摘要：This article tests recent ideas about the long-term economic development of China compared with Europe on the basis of a detailed comparison of structure and level of GDP in part of the Yangzi delta and the Netherlands in the 1820s. We find that Dutch GDP per capita was almost twice as high as in the Yangzi delta. Agricultural productivity there was at about the same level as in the Netherlands (and England), but large productivity gaps existed in industry and services. We attempt to explain t...
• Odd Couple: International Trade and Labor Standards in History AI翻译
  作者：University of Kansas; National Bureau of Economic Research
• The Large Landowning Class and the Peasantry in Egypt, 1837-1952 AI翻译
  作者：University of Southern California
• Food, Energy, and the Creation of Industriousness: Work and Material Culture in Agrarian England, 1550-1780 AI翻译
  作者：University System of Ohio; Ohio State University; National Bureau of Economic Research
• Hinterland Dreams: The Political Economy of a Midwestern City AI翻译
  作者：University of Wisconsin System
• Industrialization and Fertility in the Nineteenth Century: Evidence from South Carolina AI翻译
  作者：University of Tennessee System; University of Tennessee Knoxville
  摘要：Economists frequently hypothesize that industrialization contributed to the United States' nineteenth-century fertility decline. I exploit the circumstances surrounding industrialization in South Carolina between 1881 and 1900 to show that the establishment of textile mills coincided with a 6-10 percent fertility reduction. Migrating households are responsible for most of the observed decline. Higher rates of textile employment and child mortality for migrants can explain part of the result, a...
• Wins, Losses, and Empty Seats: How Baseball Outlasted the Great Depression AI翻译
  作者：University of Wisconsin System; University of Wisconsin Madison
• The Reinterpretation of Italian Economic History: From Unification to the Great War AI翻译
  作者：University of Oxford
• Was the Glorious Revolution a Constitutional Watershed? AI翻译
  作者：Stanford University
  摘要：Douglass North and Barry Weingast's seminal account of the Glorious Revolution argued that specific constitutional reforms enhanced the credibility of the English Crown, leading to much stronger public finances. Critics have argued that the most important reforms occurred incrementally before the Revolution; and that neither interest rates on sovereign debt nor enforcement of property rights improved sharply after the Revolution. In this article, I identify a different set of constitutional re...