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The Big Railroad Push: How Policies Change Coordinated Expectations This paper presents new evidence on how catalyst policies can overcome coordination and financial
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The Big Railroad Push: How Policies Change Coordinated Expectations This paper presents new evidence on how catalyst policies can overcome coordination and financial
Unequal Protection? Trade Policy in the Interwar Dutch Empire Kevin O’Rourke is Directeur de Recherche, CNRS and Professor of Economics, Sciences Po. https://kevinhorourke.com/
Professor Kevin O’Rourke gave the Alice Murray Distinguished Scholar Lecture on Thursday 19th February 2026 at 17:00 in the Neill Lecture Theatre of
Do Oil Booms have Persistent Local Impacts? Historical Evidence Does history matter for urbanization? This paper examines whether short-run shocks to urban population
Coercive Assimilation Policy Across Generations: Evidence from American Indian Boarding Schools Abstract: Throughout history, governments, colonial powers, and other state actors have sought to
Professor Jane Humphries will give the Alice Murray Distinguished Scholar Lecture on Thursday 27th February 2025 at 17:00 in the Neill Lecture Theatre
Climate Politics in the United States Abstract: We study the effects of climate change and mitigation on U.S. politics. We combine 2000-2020 precinct-level voting
Commodity Spot-Future Spreads and Inflation Expectations, 1877-2020 Elissa Iorgulescu is a PhD candidate at the University of Hohenheim
Reactionary Utopia: Radicalization and Violence in the Russian Empire Abstract: We examine the influence of left-wing terrorism in imperial Russia between the 1880s and
Macartan Humphreys is the director of the Institutions and Political Inequality group at the WZB Berlin Social Science Center and honorary professor of social
Abstract: Economic societies emerged during the late eighteenth-century. We argue that these institutions reduced the costs of accessing useful knowledge by adopting, producing, and
Monetary policy at the periphery during the classical gold standard: Italy (1894-1913) Abstract: Focusing on the dominant bank of issue of the time (the
`Evil´ Speculators? Evidence from Grain Futures Trading in Chicago During the Interwar Period
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