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View article: Convergent Evolution Toward the Joint-Stock Company
Convergent Evolution Toward the Joint-Stock Company Open
The origin of the modern publicly-held joint-stock company is typically traced to large-scale maritime trading companies in England and the Netherlands in the early 17th century.Highlighting medieval cases in southern Europe, we claim that…
View article: Distance to innovations, kinship intensity, and psychological traits
Distance to innovations, kinship intensity, and psychological traits Open
Psychological traits display substantial variation worldwide. These psychological variations could be explained by the intensity of kinship ties which, we hypothesize, depends on the reception of innovations that gradually complexified fam…
View article: Replication Data for: Distance to Innovations, Kinship Intensity, and Psychological Traits
Replication Data for: Distance to Innovations, Kinship Intensity, and Psychological Traits Open
This dataset provides the reproduction material for Le Bris and Gay (2023).
View article: Georges d'Avenel: an economic historian ahead of its time
Georges d'Avenel: an economic historian ahead of its time Open
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View article: Did French stock markets support firms of the second industrial revolution?
Did French stock markets support firms of the second industrial revolution? Open
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View article: The Damage Inflicted by French Rent Controls Between 1914 and 1948
The Damage Inflicted by French Rent Controls Between 1914 and 1948 Open
Most economists believe that strict rent controls deter the production and maintenance of rental housing. In a Metropolitiques essay, Loic Bonneval challenged this consensus. Bonneval claimed that France’s severe interwar rent controls had…
View article: Equity Risk Premium and Time Horizon: what do the French secular data say ?
Equity Risk Premium and Time Horizon: what do the French secular data say ? Open
We consider a representative investor whose wealth is shared between a replica of the equity market portfolio and the riskless asset, and who maximizes the expected utility of their future wealth. For a given time-horizon, the solution of …
View article: US Crashes of 2008 and 1929 How did the French market react? An empirical study
US Crashes of 2008 and 1929 How did the French market react? An empirical study Open
We compare the reaction of the Paris bourse to the US crashes during both the 2008 and the 1929 crises. We constitute a new dataset of daily French stock prices from February 1929 to March 1930 that we combine to the already existing daily…
View article: The Development of Corporate Governance in Toulouse: 1372-1946
The Development of Corporate Governance in Toulouse: 1372-1946 Open
We document a sequence of institutional innovations associated with the corporate form over the course of several centuries in Toulouse.Shareholding companies that began in the 11th century formally incorporated themselves into two large-s…
View article: The Development of Corporate Governance in Toulouse: 1372-1946
The Development of Corporate Governance in Toulouse: 1372-1946 Open
We document a sequence of institutional innovations associated with the corporate form over the course of several centuries in Toulouse. Shareholding companies that began in the 11th century formally incorporated themselves into two large-…