CURRENT RESEARCH

Chronological

• Why did Countries Adopt the Gold Standard? Lessons from Japan (with Masato Shizume & Marc Weidenmier) Forthcoming Journal of Economic History and NBER Working Paper 15195.

• Trading Silver for Gold: Nineteenth-century Asian Exports and thePolitical Economy of Currency Unions (with Hans Joachim Voth)

• Are Hard Pegs Credible in Emerging Markets? Lessons from the Gold Standard (with Marc Weidenmier). Latest version: September 2008

• Branch Banking as a Device for Discipline: Competition and Bank Survivorship during the Great Depression (with Mark Carlson). Journal of Political Economy (April 2009, Lead Article) and NBER Working Paper 12938 (February 2007).

• Supersanctions and Sovereign Debt Repyament (with Marc Weidenmier) Forthcoming Journal of International Money and Finance and NBER Working Paper 11472. Discussed in NBER Reporter, Fall 2005.

• Insitutions, Competition, and Capital Market Integration in Japan (with Mari Ohnuki). Published in the Journal of Economic History (March 2009) and NBER Working Paper 14090.

• Trade and Empire (with Marc Weidenmier). NBER Working Paper 13765. Published in Economic Journal (November 2008, Lead Article). Read about this article and related research on trade at the web portal VoxEU.com

• The Baring Crisis and the Great Latin American Meltdown of the 1890s (with Marc Weidenmier). NBER Working Paper 13403. Published in the Journal of Economic History (June 2008).

• Capital Market Integration in Japan (with Mari Ohnuki). Published in Monetary and Economic Studies (Volume 25, No. 2, 2007).

• Are Prudential Supervision and Regulation Pillars of Financial Stability? Evidence from the Great Depression Published in the Journal of Law and Economics, 2007; NBER Working Paper 12074; and Leavey Business School Working Paper WP 2003/4-06.

• Branch Banking, Bank Competition, and Financial Stability (with Mark Carlson), Published in the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking; NBER Working Paper 11291; and Federal Reserve Board, Finance and Economics Discussion Series WP 2005-20.

• Empire, Public Goods, and the Roosevelt Corollary (with Marc Weidenmier) Published in the Journal of Economic History; NBER Working Paper 10729 & Leavey Business School Working Paper WP 2003/4-02. Discussed in NBER Reporter, Fall 2005.

• The Productivity of U.S. States (with Ian McLean) Published in the Journal of Economic Growth; NBER Working Paper 9445.

• U.S. Regional Growth and Convergence, 1880 - 1980 (with Ian McLean) Published in the Journal of Economic History.

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• Bank Supervision, Regulation, and Instability During the Great Depression Published Journal of Economic History; NBER Working Paper 10475.

• The Great Depression as Credit Boom Gone Wrong (with Barry Eichengreen) Published in Research in Economic History and as BIS Working Paper No. 137.

By Topic

Financial Markets, Bank Regulation, Supervision & Financial Stability

• Branch Banking as a Device for Discipline: Competition and Bank Survivorship during the Great Depression (with Mark Carlson). Journal of Political Economy (April 2009, Lead Article) and NBER Working Paper 12938 (February 2007).

• Are Prudential Supervision and Regulation Pillars of Financial Stability? Evidence from the Great Depression Published in the Journal of Law and Economics, 2007; NBER Working Paper 12074; and Leavey Business School Working Paper WP 2003/4-06.

• Branch Banking, Bank Competition, and Financial Stability (with Mark Carlson), Published in the Journal of Money, Credit and Banking; NBER Working Paper 11291; and Federal Reserve Board, Finance and Economics Discussion Series WP 2005-20.

• Bank Supervision, Regulation, and Instability During the Great Depression Published Journal of Economic History; NBER Working Paper 10475.

• Insitutions, Competition, and Capital Market Integration in Japan (with Mari Ohnuki). NBER Working Paper 14090. Forthcoming Journal of Economic History.

• Capital Market Integration in Japan (with Mari Ohnuki). Published in Monetary and Economic Studies (Volume 25, No. 2, 2007).

• The Great Depression as Credit Boom Gone Wrong (with Barry Eichengreen) Published in Research in Economic History and as BIS Working Paper No. 137.

Economic Growth

• The Productivity of U.S. States (with Ian McLean) Published in the Journal of Economic Growth; NBER Working Paper 9445.

• U.S. Regional Growth and Convergence, 1880 - 1980 (with Ian McLean) Published in the Journal of Economic History.

  READ THE NEW YORK TIMES ARTICLE, "ECONOMICS SCENE" BY VIRGINIA POSTREL CITING THESE PAPERS

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International Trade and Finance

• Trading Silver for Gold: Nineteenth-century Asian Exports and thePolitical Economy of Currency Unions (with Hans Joachim Voth)

• Why did Countries Adopt the Gold Standard? Lessons from Japan (with Masato Shizume & Marc Weidenmier). Latest version: March 2008

• Are Hard Pegs Credible in Emerging Markets? Lessons from the Gold Standard (with Marc Weidenmier). Latest version: June 2007

• Supersanctions and Sovereign Debt Repyament (with Marc Weidenmier) Forthcoming Journal of International Money and Finance. NBER Working Paper 11472 (July 2005). Discussed in NBER Reporter, Fall 2005.

• Trade and Empire (with Marc Weidenmier). NBER Working Paper 13765. Published in Economic Journal (November 2008, Lead Article). Read about this article and related research on trade at the web portal VoxEU.com

• The Baring Crisis and the Great Latin American Meltdown of the 1890s (with Marc Weidenmier). NBER Working Paper 13403. Forthcoming Journal of Economic History.

• Empire, Public Goods, and the Roosevelt Corollary (with Marc Weidenmier) Published in the Journal of Economic History; NBER Working Paper 10729 & Leavey Business School Working Paper WP 2003/4-02. Discussed in NBER Reporter, Fall 2005.

Asia

• Trading Silver for Gold: Nineteenth-century Asian Exports and thePolitical Economy of Currency Unions (with Hans Joachim Voth)

• Why did Countries Adopt the Gold Standard? Lessons from Japan (with Masato Shizume & Marc Weidenmier). Latest version: March 2008

• Insitutions, Competition, and Capital Market Integration in Japan (with Mari Ohnuki). NBER Working Paper 14090. Forthcoming Journal of Economic History (March 2009).

• Capital Market Integration in Japan (with Mari Ohnuki). Published in Monetary and Economic Studies (Volume 25, No. 2, 2007).

Latin America

• Empire, Public Goods, and the Roosevelt Corollary (with Marc Weidenmier) Published in the Journal of Economic History; NBER Working Paper 10729 & Leavey Business School Working Paper WP 2003/4-02. Discussed in NBER Reporter, Fall 2005.

• The Baring Crisis and the Great Latin American Meltdown of the 1890s (with Marc Weidenmier). NBER Working Paper 13403. Published in the Journal of Economic History (June 2008).

Book Reviews

• Review of Edward S. Miller’s Bankrupting the Enemy: The U.S. Financial Siege of Japan before Pearl Harbor. (forthcoming, Journal of Economic History).

• Review of Jeffry A. Frieden's Global Capitalism: Its Fall and Rise in the Twentieth Century (publisned in the Journal of Economic History).

• Review of Richard C.K. Burdekin & Pierre L. Siklos's (eds.), Deflation: Current and Historical Perspectives (published on EH.NET)

• Review of Alan Meltzer's A History of the Federal Reserve (published in the Journal of Economic History)

• Review of Makoto Kasuya (ed.), Coping with Crisis: International Financial Institutions in the Interwar Period (published on EH.NET)

• Review of Daniel Verdier's Moving Money: Banking and Finance in the Industrialized World (published in the Journal of Economic Literature)

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