Financial neoliberalism: British insurance and the revolution in the...
by Thomas Gould (University of Bristol) What has been the relationship between the growth of finance and ‘neoliberalism’ in post-war Britain? My research shows that the drive towards popular...
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by Kilian Rieder (University of Oxford) What drives a central bank’s decision to grant or refuse liquidity provision during a financial crisis? How does the central bank manage counterparty risk during...
View ArticleIs committing to a free trade policy enough? Evidence from colonial Africa
by Federico Tadei (Department of Economic History, University of Barcelona) Recent Brexit negotiations have led to intense debate on the type of trade agreements that should be put in place between...
View ArticleSqueezing blood from a stone: eighteenth century debtors’ prisons worked
by Alex Wakelam (University of Cambridge) While it is often assumed that debtors’ prisons were illogical and ineffective, my research demonstrates that they were extremely economically effective for...
View ArticleNineteenth century savings banks, their ledgers and depositors
by Linda Perriton (University of Stirling) If you look up as you walk along the streets of British towns and cities, you will see the proud and sometimes colourful traces of nineteenth century...
View ArticleGlobal trade imbalances in the classical and post-classical world
by Jamus Jerome Lim (ESSEC Business School and Center for Analytical Finance) In 2017, the bilateral trade deficit between China and the United States amounted to $375 billion, a staggering amount...
View ArticleAsia’s ‘little divergence’ in the twentieth century: evidence from PPP-based...
by Jean-Pascal Bassino (ENS Lyon) and Pierre van der Eng (Australian National University) This blog is part of a larger research paper published in the Economic History Review. In the ‘great...
View ArticleAll quiet before the take-off? Pre-industrial regional inequality in Sweden...
by Anna Missiaia and Kersten Enflo (Lund University) This research is due to be published in the Economic History Review and is currently available on Early View. For a long time, scholars have...
View ArticleIt is only cheating if you get caught – Creative accounting at the Bank of...
by Alain Naef (Postdoctoral fellow at the University of California, Berkeley) This research was presented at the EHS conference in Keele in 2018 and is available as a working paper here. It is also...
View ArticleDid efficient options pricing lead or follow the development of the Black...
by David Chambers and Rasheed Saleuddin (Judge Business School, University of Cambridge) This research is due to be published in the Economic History Review and is currently available on Early View...
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Loans of the Revolution: How Mexico Borrowed as the State Collapsed in 1912–13
by Leonardo Weller (São Paulo School of Economics – FGV) Read the full article on The Economic History Review – published in Augus 2018, available here Mexico borrowed £6 million abroad in 1913,...
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Turkey’s Experience with Economic Development since 1820
by Sevket Pamuk, University of Bogazici (Bosphorus) This research is part of a broader article published in the Economic History Review. A podcast of Sevket’s Tawney lecture can be found here. New...
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A Silver Transformation: Chinese Monetary Integration in Times of Political...
by Debin Ma (London School of Economics and Hitotsubashi University) and Liuyan Zhao (Peking University) The full article for this blog post will be published on The Economic History Review. Two...
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Taxation, fiscal capacity and credible commitment in eighteenth-century...
by Max Hao (Peking University) and Kevin Liu (The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology). In premodern Europe, famine relief was inadequately provided until the late 19th century. In...
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Business bankruptcies: learning from historical failures
by Philip Fliers (Queen’s University Belfast), Chris Colvin (Queen’s University Belfast), and Abe de Jong (Monash University). This blog is part of our EHS 2020 Annual Conference Blog Series. The...
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Pandemics and macro-economic consequences
John Turner, Professor of Finance and Financial History at Queen’s University Belfast, tells about what History can teach us about the effects of Covid-19 on the financial system
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The Great Depression as a saving glut
by Victor Degorce (EHESS & European Business School) & Eric Monnet (EHESS, Paris School of economics & CEPR). This blog is part of our EHS 2020 Annual Conference Blog Series. Crowd at New...
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UK investment trust portfolio strategies before the first world war
by Janette Rutterford and Dimitris P. Sotiropoulos (The Open University Business School) The full article from this blog is forthcoming in the Economic History Review Mary Evans Picture Library UK...
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Are university endowments really long-term investors?
by David Chambers, Charikleia Kaffe & Elroy Dimson (Cambridge Judge Business School) This blog is part of our EHS 2020 Annual Conference Blog Series. Flags of the Ivy League fly at Columbia’s...
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How JP Morgan Picked Winners and Losers in the Panic of 1907: The Importance...
by Jon Moen (University of Mississippi) & Mary Rodgers (SUNY, Oswego). This blog is part of our EHS 2020 Annual Conference Blog Series. A cartoon on the cover of Puck Magazine, from 1910, titled:...
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