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• Getting and spending: European and American consumer societies in the twentieth century. AI翻译
  作者：Loyola University Chicago; Northwestern University
• Food supplies and the Japanese occupation in south-east Asia. AI翻译
  作者：Australian National University
• Mortgage credit: A proto-capital market in the early stages of economic development: Massachusetts, 1642-1770 AI翻译
  作者：Tufts University
• The economic impact of postbellum political revolutions: Reconstruction, redemption, and Texas cotton merchants, 1865-1880 AI翻译
  作者：Texas A&M University System; Texas A&M University Kingsville
• Decades of crisis: Central and Eastern Europe before World War II. AI翻译
  作者：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
• The rabassa morta in Catalan viticulture: The rise and decline of a long-term sharecropping contract, 1670s-1920s AI翻译
  作者：Universidad Carlos III de Madrid
  摘要：For long periods, and in line with recent theoretical literature, the rabassa morta sharecropping contract successfully reduced problems of moral hazard and opportunistic behavior, and provided incentives for sharecroppers to respond to market opportunities. However, from the late nineteenth century, technical change, rising wages, and weak wine prices all increased the incentives for postcontractual opportunistic behavior on the part of the sharecropper, leading to conflicts and loss of trust...
• The late medieval crisis as an integration crisis AI翻译
  作者：University of London; London School Economics & Political Science
• Politics and property rights: The closing of the open range in the postbellum South. AI翻译
  作者：University of Illinois System; University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
• Property rights and transaction costs in marriage: Evidence from prenuptial contracts AI翻译
  作者：University of Toronto
  摘要：I examine prenuptial contracting behavior in early-nineteenth-century Quebec to explore property rights within families and the efficacy of marital property laws. Drawing on a transaction cost framework, I examine the decision to sign a contract and couples' property rights choices. I find, for example, that couples signing contracts tended to choose joint ownership of property when wives were particularly important to the household. These findings illustrate the potential effects of legal ins...
• An analysis of Japanese corporate structure, 1915-1937 AI翻译
  作者：Williams College
  摘要：Corporate groups have been very important in the economies of many developing countries, including prewar Japan, where zaibatsu controlled approximately one-third of the capital stock. Regression analysis of a new firm-lever financial data set distinguishes the economic behavior of zaibatsu member firms from independent firms. The only significant difference between old-zaibatsu member firms and independent firms is that some measures of earnings of old zaibatsu were less stable. The earnings ...