explained by the historical local conception of women’s role in society, which we measure with the share of women in guild …

ties with masters or guild members influenced both entry into apprenticeship and the probability of attaining mastership …

dissolution of the guild system in 18th-century Rhineland, which is usually understood as a regime shift effect of the Napoleonic … that had already begun in the early 18th century and which had substantially undermined guild regulations. I suggest that … entrepreneurship helps understand and explain this process: Institutional entrepreneurs found loopholes and bent or broke the guild …

significant economic and social developments, using the abolition of the guild system in two neighbouring states of the …

Using hand-collected data on merchant guild culture and a sample over 2003-2019, this study examines the effect of … merchant guild culture on the cost of debt. Our findings reveal that merchant guild culture is negatively associated with the … cost of debt, suggesting that merchant guild culture rooted in ancient China continuously affects corporate behaviour …