Economic History Working Paper Series

Working papers by QUCEH Research Associates, Research Affiliates and Research Students are distributed from this page. They are also available through Econstor, a RePEc-compatible Open Access server which provides a platform for the free distribution of academic literature in economics. Please contact Chris Colvin (chris.colvin@qub.ac.uk) for more information about the series.

2018

No. 18-08: 
Alan de Bromhead, Alan Fernihough and Enda Hargaden
'Representation of the People: Franchise Extension and the 'Sinn Féin Election' in Ireland, 1918'
June 2018
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No. 18-07: 
Seán Kenny and John D. Turner
'Wildcat Bankers or Political Failure? The Irish Financial Pantomime, 1797-1826'
June 2018
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No. 18-06: 
Stephen D. Billington and Alan J. Hanna
'That's Classified! Inventing a New Patent Taxonomy'
June 2018
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No. 18-05: 
Graeme G. Acheson, Christopher Coyle and John D. Turner
'Prices and Informed Trading: Evidence from an Early Stock Market'
April 2018
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No. 18-04: 
Graeme G. Acheson, Christopher Coyle, David P. Jordan and John D. Turner
'Share Trading Activity and the Rise of the Rentier in the UK before 1920'
March 2018
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No. 18-03: 
Christopher L. Colvin, Stuart Henderson and John D. Turner
'The Origins of the (Cooperative) Species: Raiffeisen Banking in the Netherlands, 1898–1909'
February 2018
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No. 18-02: 
Alan de Bromhead, Alan Fernihough, Markus Lampe and Kevin O'Rourke
'The Anatomy of a Trade Collapse: The UK, 1929-33'
February 2018
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No. 18-01:
Rowena Gray
'Selection Bias in Historical Housing Data'
January 2018

2017

No. 17-09:
Seán Kenny, Jason Lennard and John D. Turner
'The Macroeconomic Effects of Banking Crises: Evidence from the United Kingdom, 1750-1938'
October 2017

No. 17-08:
Matthias Blum, Christopher L. Colvin and Eoin McLaughlin
'Scarring and Selection in the Great Irish Famine'
September 2017

No. 17-07:
Alan Fernihough
'Less is More? The Child Quantity-Quality Trade-Off in Early 20th Century England and Wales'
September 2017

No. 17-06:
Alan J. Hanna, John D. Turner and Clive B. Walker
'News Media and Investor Sentiment over the Long Run'
August 2017

No. 17-05: 
Matthias Blum and Karl-Peter Krauss
'Age Heaping and Numeracy: Looking Behind the Curtain'
June 2017

No. 17-04: 
Matthias Blum and Alan de Bromhead
'Rise and Fall in the Third Reich: Social Mobility and Nazi Membership'
April 2017

No. 17-03: 
Christopher L. Colvin
'Banking on a Religious Divide: Accounting for the Success of the Netherlands’ Raiffeisen Cooperatives in the Crisis of the 1920s'
March 2017

No. 17-02: 
Alan de Bromhead, Alan Fernihough, Markus Lampe and Kevin O'Rourke
'When Britain Turned Inward: Protection and the Shift towards Empire in Interwar Britain'
February 2017. Appendix.

No. 17-01: 
John D. Turner
'The Development of English Company Law Before 1900'
January 2017

2016

No. 16-06: 
William Quinn
'Technological Revolutions and Speculative Finance: Evidence from the British Bicycle Mania'
November 2016

No. 16-05: 
William Quinn
'Squeezing the Bears: Cornering Risk and Limits on Arbitrage during the ‘British Bicycle Mania’, 1896-1898'
October 2016

No. 16-04: 
Graeme G. Acheson, Gareth Campbell and John D. Turner 
'Common Law and the Origin of Shareholder Protection'
August 2016

No. 16-03: 
Gareth Campbell, Meeghan Rogers and John D. Turner 
'The Rise and Decline of the UK’s Provincial Stock Markets, 1869-1929'
May 2016

No. 16-02: 
John D. Turner, Qing Ye and Clive B. Walker
'Media Coverage and Stock Returns on the London Stock Exchange, 1825-70'
May 2016

No. 16-01: 
Stuart Henderson
'Religion and Development in Post-Famine Ireland'
April 2016

2015

No. 15-09: 
Matthias Blum, Christopher L. Colvin, Laura McAtackney and Eoin McLaughlin
'Quantifying Human Capital Accumulation in Rural Ireland in the Nineteenth Century'
December 2015

No. 15-08: 
Matthias Blum and Claudia Rei
'Escaping the Holocaust: Human and Health Capital of Refugees to the United States, 1940-42'
November 2015

No. 15-07: 
Graeme G. Acheson, Gareth Campbell and John D. Turner
'Who Financed the Expansion of the Equity Market? Shareholder Clienteles in Victorian Britain'
October 2015

No. 15-06: 
Gareth Campbell, William Quinn, John D. Turner and Qing Ye
'What Moved Share Prices in the Nineteenth-Century London Stock Market?'
September 2015

No. 15-05: 
Christopher L. Colvin
'The Past, Present and Future of Banking History'
July 2015

No. 15-04: 
Graziella Bertocchi and Arcangelo Dimico
'The Long-Term Determinants of Female HIV Infection in Africa: The Slave Trade, Polygyny, and Sexual Behavior'
June 2015

No. 15-03: 
Alan de Bromhead
'Women Voters and Trade Protectionism in the Interwar Years'
June 2015

No. 15-02: 
Liam Kennedy
'Nationalism and Unionism in Ireland: Economic Perspectives'
May 2015

No. 15-01: 
Graeme G. Acheson, Christopher Coyle and John D. Turner
'Happy Hour Followed by Hangover: Financing the UK Brewery Industry, 1880-1913'
March 2015

2014

No. 14-09: 
Graham Brownlow
'Soft Budget Constraints and Regional Industrial Policy: Reinterpreting the Rise and Fall of De Lorean'
October 2014

No. 14-08: 
Graham Brownlow
'Back to the Failure: An Analytic Narrative of the De Lorean Debacle'
September 2014

No. 14-07: 
Arcangelo Dimico
'Poverty Trap and Educational Shock: Evidence from Missionary Fields'
September 2014

No. 14-06: 
Nathan Foley-Fisher and Eoin McLaughlin
'State Dissolution, Sovereign Debt and Default: Lessons from the UK and Ireland'
August 2014

No. 14-05: 
Qing Ye and John D. Turner
'The Cross-Section of Stock Returns in an Early Stock Market'
June 2014

No. 14-04: 
Christopher L. Colvin, Abe de Jong, and Philip T. Fliers
'Predicting the Past: Understanding the Causes of Bank Distress in the Netherlands in the 1920s'
May 2014

No. 14-03: 
John D. Turner
'Financial History and Financial Economics'
April 2014

No. 14-02: 
Arcangelo Dimico
'Size Matters: The Effect of the Scamble for Africa on Informal Institutions and Development'
April 2014

No. 14-01: 
Graeme G. Acheson, Gareth Campbell, John D. Turner, and Nadia Vanteeva
'Corporate Ownership and Control in Victorian Britain'
April 2014