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How have three years of war changed the Russian economy?

Korhonen, Iikka; Parviainen, Sinikka; Simola, Heli; … - 2025

Russia's war of aggression, which has brought wide destruction and loss to Ukraine, has also transformed the Russian economy in significant ways. The Russian government's role in the economy has grown, with an ever-increasing amount of economic resources allocated to the war effort. The...

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The Industrial Revolution reconsidered : Hard Steps, the Great Filter, and Doomsday

Naudé, Wim - 2026

The Hard Steps model is applied to argue that the Industrial Revolution (IR) heralded a terminal phase of human existence. Assuming six hard steps, the Kolmogorov-Smirnov method is used to pinpoint the start of the IR to ≈ year 1700. Once these hard steps were cleared, the global economy...

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Moral capital in economic history : a brief survey of ideas and relevance to Africa

Tewari, Devi D.; Greyling, Lorraine - 2026

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What happens in Paris, does not stay in Paris : trade fairs and search and matching frictions

Békés, Gábor; Molnár, Mátyás; Steinwender, Claudia - 2026

Search and matching frictions prevent firms from forming international trade linkages. Despite trade fairs being a common and often subsidized tool to overcome these frictions, we lack causal evidence on how they facilitate link formation. We exploit a unique feature of Hungarian firms'...

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What happens in Paris, does not stay in Paris : trade fairs and search and matching frictions

Békés, Gábor; Molnár, Mátyás; Steinwender, Claudia - 2026

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What happens in Paris, does not stay in Paris : trade fairs and search and matching frictions

Békés, Gábor; Molnár, Mátyás; Steinwender, Claudia - 2026

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Histories that matter : the case for applied economic history

Colvin, Christopher L.; Fourie, Johan - 2026

We define applied economic history as the systematic use of historical reasoning to address economic policy problems. Building on work in applied history, we argue that economic history contributes to policy not by offering ready-made lessons, but by disciplining the narratives and analogies...

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What does finance do? : a comparative and historical perspective, 1850-2020

Bua, Krystian; Dosi, Giovanni; Virgillito, Maria Enrica - 2026

This paper develops a functional and historical appraisal of finance. We start by proposing a taxonomy of three core, theory-driven functions of the financial system - intermediation, entrepreneurial, and accumulative - that coevolve throughout the history of capitalism. We build an empirical...

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Random connections and violence in the French Revolution

Coppenolle, Brenda van; Vanden Eynde, Oliver - 2026

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Random connections and violence in the french revolution

Coppenolle, Brenda van; Vanden Eynde, Oliver - 2026

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Is British Columbia headed towards another lost decade?

Di Matteo, Livio - 2026

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(Male) wages in Switzerland, 1750-1860

Baltensperger, Michael; Chambru, Cédric; Metzler, Jakob; … - 2026

We estimate daily wage rates for skilled and unskilled construction workers and agricultural laborers in Switzerland from 1750 to 1860, a period of profound political and economic transformations. Our analysis is based on 17,700 newly collected wage quotes from primary sources and 23,300 price...

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From paddy to port : the role of Northwestern Korean rice cultivation in interwar Japan

Maeda, Kiyotaka; Kahm, Howard - 2026

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Altruism and self-interest in constitutional reform : the case of the British abolition of slavery and the slave trade

Meadowcroft, John - 2026

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Disparate treatment of the Irish in 19th century English courtrooms

Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi; Machin, Stephen; … - 2026

This paper studies how and why anti-Irish sentiment in 19th century England spills over onto jury decisions at London’s Old Bailey Central Criminal Court. We classify the (perceived) ethnicity of courtroom participants according to whether they have distinctly Irish or English surnames based...

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Disparate treatment of the Irish in 19th century English courtrooms

Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi; Machin, Stephen; … - 2026

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Disparate treatment of the Irish in 19th century English courtrooms

Bindler, Anna; Hjalmarsson, Randi; Machin, Stephen; … - 2026

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Mapping technological trajectories : evidence from two centuries of patent data

Bergeaud, Antonin; Gozen, Ruveyda Nur; Van Reenen, John - 2026

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Mapping technological trajectories : evidence from two centuries of patent data

Bergeaud, Antonin; Gozen, Ruveyda Nur; Van Reenen, John - 2026

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Sustainable entrepreneurship and the Global South : resolving the energy, economy, and environment trilemma in India

Haldar, Stuti - 2026

"This book contributes to the emerging global discourse on sustainable entrepreneurship by highlighting its transformative potential to harmonize economic growth with environmental sustainability. It emphasizes the role of innovative, sustainability-driven entrepreneurs in reshaping production...

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Applied economic history as practical historicism : encouraging policymakers to reason with the past

Colvin, Christopher L.; Dorman, Andrew; Jordan, David P.; … - 2026

This paper examines how applied history can contribute to policymaking when understood as a way of structuring judgement under uncertainty rather than as a source of policy lessons or predictions. It argues that economic history is particularly well suited to facilitating this role because it...

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Poverty relief policies in pre- and post-transformation Poland : a Polanyian perspective

Lüpnitz, Jonas - 2026

This working paper investigates the tension between market forces and welfare policies by applying Karl Polanyi's "double movement" study to pre- and posttransformation Poland. The analysis aims at providing a comprehensive perspective on how poverty relief policies impacted and have been...

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Debt and deficits: fiscal analysis with stationary ratios

Campbell, John Y.; Gao, Can; Martin, Ian - 2026

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Debt and Deficits : Fiscal Analysis with Stationary Ratios

Campbell, John Y.; Gao, Can; Martin, Ian - 2023

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Debt and deficits : fiscal analysis with stationary ratios

Campbell, John Y.; Gao, Can; Martin, Ian - 2023

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Debt and Deficits : Fiscal Analysis with Stationary Ratios

Campbell, John Y.; Gao, Can; Martin, Ian - 2023

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Crowd-sourced Chinese genealogies as data for demographic and economic history

Xue, Melanie Meng - 2026

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Crowd-sourced chinese genealogies as data for demographic and economic history

Xue, Melanie Meng - 2025

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A land of sages : a legacy of former elites and university professors in Vietnam

Luu Duc Toan Huynh; Duong, Kiet Tuan - 2026

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Mothers, schools, and the making of American human capital mobility

Althoff, Lukas; Brookes Gray, Harriet; Reichardt, Hugo - 2026 - Original version: March 2025, this version: Januar 2026

How did the US become a land of opportunity? Previous historical research on intergenerational mobility has focused on father-son income correlations, masking the role of mothers. We introduce a new mobility measure that incorporates both parents’ human capital, develop a latent variable...

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Mapping the Grandes Gabelles in early modern France

Davoine, Eva; Enguehard, Joseph; Gay, Victor; … - 2026

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Historical social tables : advantages, methodology, and problems

Erfurth, Philipp; Gómez León, María; Gabbuti, Giacomo; … - 2026

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A golden age for all? : income inequality and social classes in Italy, 1951-1973

Gabbuti, Giacomo; Rappa, Edoardo - 2026 - This draft: April 1, 2026

This paper presents the first reconstruction of income inequality in Italy during the so-called "Golden Age", by building Dynamic Social Tables (DSTs) from 1951 to 1973. The resulting estimates show increasing income inequality between 1951 and 1961 - that is, during the so-called "Economic...

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Marshall at the times of Marshall

Boeri, Filippo; Silva, Olmo - 2026

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Services-led development in Tunisia : reclaiming an interrupted trajectory

Dinh, Hinh-truong - 2026

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Hysteresis and selection in the rise of fascism : the "ordinary men" of the Nazi party

Bosshart, Luis; Deter, Max; Heldring, Leander; Mohr, Cathrin - 2026

We digitize and analyze the near-universe of National Socialist German Workers’ Party (NSDAP) membership records and link them to population and industrial censuses. Four findings emerge. First, as the party expanded, its membership came to resemble the broader population more closely in...

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Hysteresis and selection in the rise of fascism : the "ordinary men" of the Nazi party

Bosshart, Luis; Deter, Mex; Heldring, Leander; Mohr, Cathrin - 2026 - Latest version: April 24, 2026

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The civil war reduced slave owners' economic power but increased their political influence

Bellani, Luna; Hager, Anselm; Maurer, Stephan - 2026

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The Civil War reduced slave owners' economic power but increased their political influence

Bellani, Luna; Hager, Anselm; Maurer, Stephan - 2026

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The civil war reduced slave owners' economic power but increased their political influence

Bellani, Luna; Hager, Anselm; Maurer, Stephan - 2026 - This version: May 2026

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On the origins of modern East Asia : knowledge and the economic transformation of Japan and China in the late 19th century

Ma, Debin; Rubin, Jared; Yin, Weiwen - 2026

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On the origins of modern East Asia : knowledge and the economic transformation of Japan and China in the late 19th century

Ma, Debin; Rubin, Jared; Weiwen, Yin - 2026

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Income inequality and structural transformation : evidence from Swedish micro data, 1870–1970

Bengtsson, Erik; Molinder, Jakob; Prado, Svante - 2026

We study the relationship between the structural transformation of the economy and the income distribution, focusing on the case of Sweden from 1870 to 1970, with extra attention paid to the 1870-1950 period, for which we produce extensive new data. Average income increased fivefold between 1870...

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The republic of letters and the rise of the west

Melillo, Andrea; Pascali, Luigi; Prem, Mounu; Trento, … - 2026

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The republic of letters and the rise of the West

Melillo, Andrea; Pascali, Luigi; Prem, Mounu; Trento, … - 2026

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A practitioner's guide to using large language models and generative ai in economic history

Ferrara, Andreas - 2026

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Inclusion économique des femmes au Maroc : obstacles structurels, déterminants empiriques et implications pour les politiques publiques

Ibourk, Aomar; Ghazi, Tayeb - 2026

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Egypt's services led development : navigating the knowledge gap and the Suez paradox

Dinh, Hihn T. - 2026

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Climate and prehistoric migration

Huybers, Peter; Tabellini, Marco; Taylor, Charles A.; … - 2026

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Climate and prehistoric migration

Huybers, Peter; Tabellini, Marco; Taylor, Charles A.; … - 2026

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What did workers do? : using job ads to analyze the task content of work in an industrializing economy

Hellberg, Erik; Molinder, Jakob - 2026

Ever since Smith and Marx there has been a debate about the impact of industrialization on the content of work. While shifts in the occupational structure associated with industrialization are well charted, we lack systematic evidence on the tasks workers actually performed during this period of...

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Integrated power markets : how European market design reforms could shape Nordic electricity markets towards 2035

Schemde, Arndt von - 2026

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The implementation of CBAM in the Nordic countries : Finland, Sweden and Denmark

Fischer-Bogason, Rikke; Rootzén, Johan; Kuusi, Tero; … - 2026

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26th International Joint Conference : Central and Eastern Europe in the changing business environment : proceedings : 21 - 22 May 2026, Bratislava, Slovakia - Prague, Czech Republic

2026

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Russia's regional economies in wartime : fiscal divergence, defence windfalls and transfer pressures

Parviainen, Sinikka - 2026

Russia's regions bear a rapidly growing share of the fiscal costs of war. Since showing surpluses as recently as 2021, the collective regional deficit quadrupled in a single year. Using five years of budget execution reports from the Russian Federal Treasury across all 85 Russian regions...

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