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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.

Submit content for consideration to ceph@tcd.ie.

Featured research:

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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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How Has the Gender Earnings Gap in Ireland Changed in Thirty Years?

01/08/2022

Abstract: Since 1987, the wages of women in Ireland have been growing faster than those of men. This, coupled with a decrease in the average

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