Stalin’s genocides
Nationalities Papers, Volume 0, Issue 0, Page 1-2, Ahead of Print.
Archiv für Oktober 2012
The kings and the pawns: collaboration in Byelorussia during World War II
Nationalities Papers, Volume 0, Issue 0, Page 1-3, Ahead of Print.
A reflection of history: fluctuations in Greek sovereign risk between 1914 and 1929
Time series of daily data for Greek sovereign risk have been compiled and analysed statistically to shed light on the way that historical events, including political and institutional changes, determined the creditworthiness of the Greek government on…
Spain’s development of rural credit cooperatives from 1900 to 1936: the role of financial resources and formal education
This paper analyzes the role of financial resources, formal education, and other factors in explaining the presence and spread of rural credit cooperatives (RCCs) across Spanish provinces in the first third of the twentieth century. We first provide d…
Commons, social capital, and the emergence of agricultural cooperatives in early twentieth century Spain
The emergence of Spanish agricultural cooperatives from the end of the nineteenth century was a narrative of uneven regional development. It has been argued that the cooperative movement developed in areas where small and middle-sized farms were relat…
The political economy of Swedish absolutism, 1789-1809
This article examines the connections between struggles over fiscal institutions and political change in Sweden during the period 1789–1809. The political situation was characterized by a divided fiscal authority: the absolute king controlled ho…
The speed of ships and shipping productivity in the age of sail
A sample of vessels from the transatlantic slave trade is used as source for a quantitative analysis of the transit speed of ocean-going ships during the early modern period. In contrast to influential previous studies, the results show that the speed…
Early modern copper money: multiple currencies and trimetallism in Sweden 1624-1776
In 1624–1776, Sweden implemented a complicated trimetallic monetary system. Five different copper, silver, and gold currencies circulated. The heaviest copper coins weighed 20 kg. Gresham’s law worked differently for various coins. Swedish trime…
The Swedish economy in the early modern period: constructing historical national accounts
A new GDP series per capita for Sweden during 1560–1800 is presented, linked to slightly revised data for 1800–2000. Long-term stagnation up to the nineteenth century is revealed but with secular changes. Growth characterized much of the s…
The "Thin film of gold": monetary rules and policy credibility
We ask whether developing countries reap credibility gains from submitting policy to a strict monetary rule. We look at the gold standard era, 1880–1914, to test whether adoption of a rule-based monetary framework such as the gold standard incre…