Research

Publications

  • Financing Long-Distance Trade: the Joint Liability Rule and Bills of Exchange in 18th-century France, Journal of Economic History , 2015.
  • Politics, Instability, and International Investment Flows (with Art Durnev, Ruben Enikolopov, and Maria Petrova), Journal of Corporate Finance , 2015.
  • Radio and the Rise of Nazis in Pre-War Germany (with Maja Adena, Ruben Enikolopov, Maria Petrova, and Katia Zhuravskaya), Quarterly Journal of Economics , 2015.
  • The Legal Construction of Early Financial Markets: Lessons from the History of an Eighteenth-Century Legal Innovation, in Recht und Sozialtheorie, Law in the Context of Disciplines , Mohr Siebeck, 2015.
  • Don’t Cry for Argentina (or other Sovereign Borrowers): Lessons from a Previous Era of Sovereign Debt Contract Enforcement (with Ben Chabot), Capital Markets Law Journal , 2017.
  • Beyond the personal-anonymous divide: Agency relations in powers of attorney in France, 18th–19th centuries (with Fabien Eloire and Claire Lemercier), The Economic History Review , 2018.

Work in Progress

  • Pre-Banking Financial Intermediation: Evidence from a Brokerage Law Reform in 18th Century Marseille, Working Paper.