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Religion, Longevity, and Cooperation: The Case of the Craft Guild, Journal of Economic Behavior and Organization (2009)

Whenthe mortality rate is high, repeated interaction alonemaynot sustain cooperation, and religion may play an...

 

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Intensified Regulatory Scrutiny and Bank Distress in New York City during the Great Depression,” with Patrick Van Horn, Journal of Economic History (2009)

Bank distress peaked in New York City, at the center of the United States money...

 

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Making Property Productive: Reorganizing Rights to Real and Equitable Estates in Britain, 1660 to 1830, European Review of Economic History (2009)

Between 1660 and 1830, Parliament passed thousands of Acts restructuring rights to real and equitable...

 

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Quarterly Data on the Categories and Causes of Bank Distress during the Great Depression, Research in Economic History (2008)
 

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Distress during the Great Depression: The Illiquidity-Insolvency Debate Revisited, Explorations in Economic History (2007)

During the contraction from 1929 to 1933, the Federal Reserve System tracked changes in the...

 

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Check is in the Mail: Correspondent Clearing and the Banking Panics of the Great Depression, Journal of Economic History (2007)

Weaknesses within the check-clearing system played a hitherto unrecognized role in the banking crises of...

 

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Deposit Insurance and Moral Hazard: Capital, Risk, Malfeasance, and Mismanagement. A Comment on ‘Deposit Insurance and Moral Hazard: Evidence from Texas Banking During the 1920s, Economic Journal Watch (2007)

A Journal of Economic History article by Linda Hooks and Kenneth Robinson, “Deposit Insurance and...

 

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Deposit Insurance Altered the Composition of Bank Suspensions during the 1920s: Evidence from the Archives of the Board of Governors (with Ching-Yi Chung), The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (2007)

Eight states established deposit insurance systems between 1908 and 1917. All abandoned the systems between...

 

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The Origins of Anti-Immigrant Sentiments: Evidence from the Heartland in the Age of Mass Migration, The B.E. Journal of Economic Analysis & Policy (2007)

The Kansas Bureau of Labor and Industry surveyed attitudes towards immigration during the 1890s. The...

 

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Bank Distress During the Great Contraction, 1929 to 1933, New Data From the Archives of the Board of Governors, NBER Working Paper (2006)

During the contraction from 1929 through 1933, the Federal Reserve System tracked changes in the...

 

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The Records of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors in the National Archives of the United States, Financial History Review (2006)

The archives of the Federal Reserve System are found in Record Group 82 at the...

 

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The Prudent Village: Risk Pooling Institutions in Medieval English Agriculture, Journal of Economic History (2005)

The prudent peasant mitigated the risk of crop failures by scattering his arable land throughout...

 

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Christianity and Craft Guilds in Late Medieval England: A Rational Choice Analysis, Rationality and Society (2005)

In late-medieval England, craft guilds simultaneously pursued piety and profit. Why did guilds pursue those...

 

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Guilds, Laws, and Markets for Manufactured Merchandise in Late-Medieval England, Explorations in Economic History (2004)

The prevailing paradigm of medieval manufacturing presumes guilds monopolized markets for durable goods in late-medieval...

 

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A Tale of Two Theories: Monopolies and Craft Guilds in Medieval England and Modern Imagination, Journal of the History of Economic Thought (2001)
 

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Estate Acts, 1600 to 1830: A New Source for British History, NBER Working Papers (2008)

A new database demonstrates that between 1600 and 1830, Parliament passed thousands of acts restructuring...