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Welcome to our archive of working papers, articles and monographs written by CEPH members. 

This collection encompasses an array of themes and represents the cutting edge of the economic history discipline. 

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Procuring Promising Provisions: the British Patent System and the Navy Proviso, 1794–1831
Abstract: In 1794, the British State intervened in the patent system by introducing the Navy proviso, a legal proviso targeted at select patents compelling the patentee to...
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Why are corporations terminated? A century of evidence from the Netherlands
Abstract: We identify all 196 Dutch exchange-listed corporations that halted their operations and ceased to exist between 1903 and 1996. We then explain these terminations...
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The CEO: The Rise and Fall of Britain's Captains of Industry
The CEOs of Britain’s largest companies wield immense power, but we know very little about them. How did they get to the top? Why do they have so much power? Are they...
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The Short- and Long-Run Effects of Affirmative Action: Evidence from Imperial China
Abstract: We study the short- and long-term effects of affirmative action policies in the context of China. During imperial China, official positions were awarded to the most...
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Precolonial Elites and Colonial Redistribution of Political Power
Abstract: Studies of colonialism often associate indirect colonial rule with continuity of the precolonial institutions. Yet, we know less about how colonialism affected the...
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The Demand for Extraterritoriality: Religious Minorities in Nineteenth-Century Egypt
Abstract: The transplantation of European legal systems in the periphery often occurred via semi-colonial institutions, where Europeans were subject to their own jurisdictions...
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