This paper surveys the causes and consequences of late 19th century globalization, as well as the anti-globalization backlash of that period.

Dans le numéro précédent de la revue, Claire Silvant défend l’idée que les bimétallistes de la fin du XIX^e siècle s’identifiaient plus étroitement au projet d’unification monétaire européenne que les monométallistes. Dans ce commentaire, je conteste cette thèse et je défends...

type="short" <p>This symposium item belongs to a section headed: SYMPOSIUM: THE GREAT DEPRESSION AND THE EUROZONE CRISIS: LEARNING FROM THE PAST, which also includes The Interwar Gold Standard in Light of the Present by David Bholat (DOI: <url href="http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/jcms.12144/abstract">10.1 111/jcms.12144</url>), What Does the 1930s' Experience Tell...</p>

Relying on dynamic factor business cycle indices for five South-East European countries (Austria(-Hungary), Bulgaria, Greece, Romania, Serbia/Yugoslavia), we document steadily increasing synchronisation as part of a pan-European business cycle before 1913 and the emergence of a regional business...

This paper asks why the Classical Gold Standard (1870s - 1914) emerged: Why did the vastmajority of countries tie their currencies to gold in the late 19th century, while there was onlyone country – the UK – on gold in 1850? The literature distinguishes a number of theories...

Drawing on a new data set of monthly observations, this paper investigates similarities and differences in discount rate policy of 12 European countries under the Classical Gold Standard; it asks, in particular, whether bank rate policy followed different patterns in core and peripheral...

This paper constructs business cycle indices for the South-East European (SEE) countries from 1899 to 1989 in order to address two questions: to what extent has there been a common SEE business cycle, and to what extent has there been synchronisation of business cycles with England, France and...

This paper surveys the recent empirical literature on emerging stock markets of the last quarter of the 20th century and elaborates on its theoretical insights and empirical methods to design a research agenda on the “emergence†of equity markets in European peripheries before 1913. We...