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Bush, Oliver (2024) Did monetary policymakers step on a rake? A study of monetary-fiscal interactions in the British Great Inflation. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Luo, Xizi (2024) Meritocracy or not: state, elite families, and the examination system in the Qing dynasty. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Soenarjo, Aditya Wirabuana (2024) Essays in macroeconomics and international economics. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Noble, Aurelius (2024) Social capital and elite persistence in late Victorian and Edwardian England. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Koschnick, Julius Johannes (2023) On the shoulders of science – early science as a driver of innovation during the early industrial revolution. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Udale, Charles Warrington (2023) The plague and the state in early modern England 1538-1667. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Cuenda García, Mario (2023) The political economy of taxation in Spain, 1901-1936. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Banerjee, Joshua J. (2023) From Bretton Woods to the Great Moderation: essays in British post-war macroeconomic history. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ramazzotti, Andrea (2023) The legacy of 1969? Essays on the historical roots of Italy’s economic decline: human capital, internal migration and manufacturing firms, 1960s-2000s. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Jaramillo-Echeverri, Juliana (2023) Fertility, education and social mobility in 20th century Colombia. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Rivas Moreno, Juan José (2022) An alternative model for early modern long-distance trade finance: the capital markets of Manila, 1680-1838. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Schaff, Stefan Felix Frederick (2022) Exploring the political economy causes of inequality in preindustrial Germany (c. 1400-1800). PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Qiu, Yitong (2022) Power and identity in the Qing empire: a study of the political and economic life of the elites through confiscation inventories 1700-1912. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Morshed, Safya (2022) The evolutionary empire: demystifying state formation in Mughal South Asia 1556-1707. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Chen, Yuhua (2022) Images of Japan and reflections of the UK in British newspaper coverage of Japan’s ‘miracle’ economic growth between 1952 and 1972. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Deng, Hanzhi (2021) A history of decentralization: fiscal transitions in late imperial China, 1850-1911. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Hinrichsen, Simon (2021) Essays on war reparations and sovereign debt: two hundred years of war debts and default, from the Napoleonic Wars to Iraq. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Liu, Ziang (2021) Quantification and fiscal governance in China, 1400-1800. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Don-Siemion, Thea (2021) 'We'll give up our blood but not our gold': money, debt, and the balance of payments in Poland's Great Depression. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Vicquéry, Roger H. (2021) Essays on currency unions and the international monetary system in historical perspective. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Raman, Alka (2021) Learning from the muse: Indian cotton textiles and British industrialisation. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Luzardo-Luna, Ivan (2021) Essays on labour frictions in interwar Britain. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Cheng, Chung-Tang (2021) The microeconometrics of household behaviour: building the foundations, 1920-1960. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Betteridge, Samuel R. (2021) Rethinking the Bengal connection: opium monopoly and fiscal capacity in British India, 1862-1908. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Hu, Sijie (2020) A micro-demographic analysis of human fertility from Chinese genealogies, 1368-1911. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Nath, Maanik (2020) The state and rural credit markets in south India, 1930-1960. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Seibel, Greta Christine (2020) The role of government policy in Indonesian small and medium enterprise development, 1966 - 2006. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Escamilla-Guerrero, David (2019) Cliometric essays on Mexican migration to the United States. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Bertazzini, Mattia Cosma (2019) The economic impact of Italian colonial investments in Libya and in the Horn of Africa, 1920-2000. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Mandeng, Ousmène Jacques (2019) Central bank reform, spatial diversity and monetary policy in Germany, 1876-1890. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Jorge-Sotelo, Enrique (2019) “Escaping” the Great Depression: monetary policy, financial crises and banking in Spain, 1921-1935. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Albers, Thilo Nils Hendrik (2018) Trade frictions, trade policies, and the interwar business cycle. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Jang, Youngook (2018) Migration and ethnic diversity in the Soviet and post-Soviet space. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Zobl, Franz Xaver (2018) Regional economic development under trade liberalisation, technological change and market access: evidence from 19th century France and Belgium. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kennedy, Francis (2018) Institutional effects: studies from the sterling area in the 1950s-60s. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Harris, Jamesdaniel Adam (2018) A comparative study of late-imperial and early-republican private property rights institutions, as measured by their effects on Shanghai's early financial markets. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Lopez-Uribe, Maria del Pilar (2017) Essays on the political economy of development in Colombia. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Macher, Flóra (2017) The 1931 financial crisis in Austria and Hungary: a critical reassessment. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Arslantaş, Yasin (2017) Confiscation by the ruler: a study of the Ottoman practice of Müsadere, 1700s-1839. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Montaigne, Maxine (2017) The Malthusian and the anti-Malthusian: the use of economic ideas and language in the public discourse of nineteenth-century Britain. MPhil thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Wjuniski, Bernardo Stuhlberger (2017) Multiple exchange rates and industrialization in Brazil, 1953-1961: macroeconomic miracle or mirage? PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Lane, Joseph Peter (2017) Networks, innovation and knowledge: the North Staffordshire Potteries, 1750-1851. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Dowey, James (2017) Mind over matter: access to knowledge and the British industrial revolution. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kukić, Leonard (2017) Economic growth, regional development, and nation formation under socialism: evidence from Yugoslavia. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Papadia, Andrea (2017) Government action under constraints: fiscal development, fiscal policy and public goods provision during the great depression and in 19th and early 20th century Brazil. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Fuder, Katja (2017) No experiments: federal privatisation politics in West Germany 1949-1989. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Simson, Rebecca (2017) (Under)privileged bureaucrats? The changing fortunes of public servants in Kenya, Tanzania and Uganda, 1960–2010. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Varian, Brian (2017) The course and character of late-Victorian British exports. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ceylan, Pinar (2016) Essays on markets, prices, and consumption in the Ottoman Empire (late-seventeenth to mid-nineteenth centuries). PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Geloso, Vincent (2016) The seeds of divergence: the economy of French North America, 1688 to 1760. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Gent, John (2016) Abundance and scarcity: classical theories of money, bank balance sheets and business models, and the British restriction of 1797‐1818. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Sahle, Esther (2016) A faith of merchants: Quakers and institutional change in the early modern Atlantic, c.1660-1800. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Velasco, Gustavo (2016) Natural resources, state formation and the institutions of settler capitalism: the case of Western Canada, 1850-1914. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Nishizaki, Sumiyo (2016) After empire comes home: economic experiences of Japanese civilian repatriates, 1945-1956. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Wu, Meng (2016) Traditions and innovations: an exploration of the governance structure, business strategy and historical development of the Chinese Shanxi piaohao, 1820s to 1930s. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kerby, Edward (2016) The economics of isolation, trade and investment: case studies from Taiwan & apartheid South Africa. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Kobayashi, Kazuo (2016) Indian cotton textiles and the Senegal River Valley in a globalising world: production, trade and consumption, 1750-1850. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Lanata Briones, Cecilia (2016) Constructing public statistics: the history of the Argentine cost of living index, 1918-1943. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Werner, Stephan D. (2016) Endogenous risk in non-life insurance: evidence from the German insurance sector during the Interwar period. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Tang, Jian-Jing (2016) Interest rates and financial market integration: a long-run perspective on China. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Vogelgsang, Tobias (2016) Cognitive artefacts: remaking economies, 1917 - 1947. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Stephenson, Judy (2015) The organisation of work and wages in the London building trades in the long eighteenth century. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Christodoulaki, Olga (2015) The origins of central banking in Greece. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Palma, Nuno Pedro G. (2015) Harbingers of modernity: monetary injections and European economic growth, 1492-1790. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Aldous, Michael (2015) Avoiding 'negligence and profusion': the ownership and organisation of Anglo-Indian trading firms, 1818 to 1870. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Hileman, Garrick (2015) Sovereign debt sustainability, financial repression, and monetary innovation: Britain and currency black markets in the mid-20th century. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Yan, Xun (2015) In search of power and credibility: essays on Chinese monetary history (1851-1945). PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Gao, Pei (2015) Risen from chaos: the development of modern education in China, 1905-1948. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Serra, Gerardo (2015) From scattered data to ideological education: economics, statistics and the state in Ghana, 1948-1966. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Pirohakul, Teerapa (2015) The funeral in England in the long Eighteenth Century. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Caruana Galizia, Paul (2015) Economic development and market potential: European regional income differentials, 1870-1913. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Postel-Vinay, Natacha (2014) Sitting ducks: banks, mortgage lending, and the Great Depression in the Chicago area, 1923-1933. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Gudmundsson, Tryggvi (2014) Principles of crisis management revisited: the Bank of England in the 1970s. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Missiaia, Anna (2014) Industrial location, market access and economic development: regional patterns in post-unification Italy. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Karakoç, Ulaş (2014) Sources of economic growth in interwar Egypt and Turkey: industrial growth, tariff protection and the role of agriculture. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ivings, Steven (2014) Colonial settlement and migratory labour in Karafuto 1905-1941. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Sims, Peter (2014) Social networks and entrepreneurship: the British merchant community of Uruguay, 1830-1875. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Francis, Joseph A. (2013) The terms of trade and the rise of Argentina in the long nineteenth century. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Krieghoff, Niels (2013) Banking regulation in a federal system: lessons from American and German banking history. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Merette, Sarah (2013) Vietnam’s north-south gap in historical perspective: the economies of Cochinchina and Tonkin, 1900-1940. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Brando, Carlos (2012) The political economy of financing late development: credit, capital and industrialisation; Colombia 1940–67. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ling-Fan, Li (2012) Bullion, bills and arbitrage: exchange markets in fourteenth- to seventeenth century Europe. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Mensink, Julia (2012) Poverty measures: from production to use. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Castañeda Valdez, Alejandro (2012) Cronies, rents and import licenses: non-tariff trade controls throughout Import Substitution Industrialisation (ISI) in Mexico. MPhil thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Martin, Marina (2012) An economic history of Hundi, 1858-1978. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Colvin, Christopher Louis (2011) Religion, competition and liability: Dutch cooperative banking in crisis, 1919-1927. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Wood, Andrew B. (2011) The limits of social mobility: social origins and career patterns of British generals, 1688-1815. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Chang, Ting Ting (2011) Re-examination on the role of the state in the development of Taiwan’s small and medium-sized enterprises, 1950- 2000: the state, market and social institution. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Golson, Eric (2011) The economics of neutrality: Spain, Sweden and Switzerland in the Second World War. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Andrews, Michael (2011) Cultures of commerce compared: a comparative study of the ideal of the businessman in China and England, c.1600-1800. MPhil thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Cirenza, Peter (2011) Melting pot or salad bowl?: assessing Irish immigrant assimilation in late nineteenth century America. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Fernández, Raúl Alberto (2011) Financial liberalisation, asymmetric information and inflation: a new perspective on the Argentine financial experiment of 1977-81. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Grinberg, Nicolas (2011) Transformations in the Korean and Brazilian processes of capitalist development between the mid-1950s and the mid-2000s: the political economy of late industrialisation. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Gonzalez, Arish Tatiana (2010) Economic disparity yet resulting similarity: The 'double paradox' of Argentina's and Mexico's electric telegraph and telephone diffusion, 1851-1997. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Apostolides, Alexander (2010) Economic growth or continuing stagnation? Estimating the GDP of Cyprus and Malta, 1921-1938. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Tennent, Kevin (2009) Owned, monitored, but not always controlled: understanding the success and failure of Scottish Free-Standing Companies, 1862-1910. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Fernandes, Felipe Tamega (2009) Institutions, geography and market power: The political economy of rubber in the Brazilian Amazon, c. 1870-1910. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Yi, Jonghyun (2009) The Korean retailing sector since the 1970s: Government, consumers and the rise and fall of the department store. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Santiago Caballero, Carlos (2009) Path to survival: The response to the production crisis of the late 18th century in the Spanish region of Guadalajara. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Cummins, Neil (2009) Why did fertility decline?: an analysis of the individual level economics correlates of the nineteenth century fertility transition in England and France. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Velkar, Aashish (2008) Markets, standards and transactions: measurements in nineteenth-century British economy. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Jerven, Morten (2008) African economic growth reconsidered: measurement and performance in east-central Africa, 1965-1995. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Felis Rota, Marta (2008) Social capital in historical perspective: a principal components approach to international measurement and its economic implications, 1870-2000. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Umemura, Maki (2008) Unrealised potential: Japan's post-war pharmaceutical industry, 1945-2005. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Shimizu, Hiroshi (2007) Competition, knowledge spillover, and innovation: technological development of semiconductor lasers, 1960- 1990. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Khan, Arshi Rasheed (2007) Did zakat deliver welfare and justice? Islamic welfare policy in Pakistan, 1980-1994. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Altorfer-Ong, Stefan (2007) State-building without taxation: The political economy of government finance in the eighteenth-century republic of Bern. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Mitchell, Andrew Hunter (2006) Institutions and endowments: state credibility, fiscal institutions and divergence, Argentina and Australia, c.1880-1980. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Hickson, Kerry (2006) The contribution of improved health to standards of living in twentieth century England and Wales. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Afrifa Taylor, Ayowa (2006) An economic history of the Ashanti Goldfields Corporation, 1895-2004: land, labour, capital and enterprise. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

De Rouvray, Cristel Anne (2005) Economists writing history: American and French experience in the mid 20th century. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Feldman, Roger A. (2005) Recruitment, training and knowledge transfer in the London Dyers’ Company, 1649-1826. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Hopf, Gregor (2004) Saving and investment: the economic development of Singapore 1965-99. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Searles, Patrick James (2004) The measurement of economic and labour market conditions in the late Victorian and Edwardian periods and the use of data from the co-operative movement of Great Britain. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Maielli, Giuliano (2003) Managerial culture and company survival: Technological change and output-mix optimisation at Fiat, 1960-1987. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Domenech, Jordi (2003) Negotiating work in the liberal age. Unions, the state, and labour market reform in restoration Spain, 1875-1923. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Nahum, Andrew (2002) World War to Cold War: formative episodes in the development of the British aircraft industry, 1943-1965. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Rubio Varas, Maria del Mar (2002) Towards environmental historical national accounts for oil producers: methodological considerations and estimates for Venezuela and Mexico over the 20th century. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Calvo-Gonzalez, Oscar (2002) The political economy of conditional foreign aid to Spain, 1950-1963: relief of input bottlenecks, economic policy change and political credibility. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Pegler, Lee J (2000) Workers, unions and the 'politics of modernisation': Labour process change in the Brazilian white goods industry. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Day, William R (2000) The early development of the Florentine economy, c.1100-1275. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Strong, Paul Nicholas (1999) The economic consequences of ethno-national conflict in Cyprus: the development of two siege economies after 1963 and 1974. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Villela, André (1999) The political economy of money and banking in Imperial Brazil, 1850-1870. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Combs, Arthur (1998) Rural economic development as a nation building strategy in South Vietnam, 1968-1972. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Edwards, Roy A (1997) Management information and management practices: Freight train operation in inter-war Britain. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ball, Rajiv (1997) The state and the development of small-scale industry in Ghana since c.1945. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Lamounier, Lucia (1993) Between slavery and free labour: experiments with free labour and patterns of slave emancipation in Brazil and Cuba c.1830-1888. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Minoglou, Ioanna Pepelasis (1993) The Greek state and the international financial community, 1922-1932: Demystifying the 'foreign factor'. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Bartsch, William Henry (1970) Labour supply and employment-creation in the urban areas of Iran, 1956 - 1966. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Earle, Peter (1969) The commercial development of Ancona, 1479-1551. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Conway, Edward Sidney (1957) The institutional care of children: a case history. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.

Ungphakorn, Puey (1949) The economics of tin control. PhD thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science.