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Ewout H.P. Frankema, Editor's Choice: The origins of formal education in sub-Saharan Africa: was British rule more benign?, p. 335
Marc Flandreau, Juan H. Flores, Bondholders versus bond-sellers? Investment banks and conditionality lending in the London market for foreign government debt, 1815–1913, p. 356
Niall Ferguson, Moritz Schularick, The "Thin film of gold": monetary rules and policy credibility, p. 384
Rodney Edvinsson, Early modern copper money: multiple currencies and trimetallism in Sweden 1624–1776, p. 408
Patrik Winton, The political economy of Swedish absolutism, 1789–1809, p. 430
Angel Pascual Martinez-Soto, Susana Martinez-Rodriguez, Ildefonso Mendez, Spain's development of rural credit cooperatives from 1900 to 1936: the role of financial resources and formal education, p. 449
Klas Rönnbäck, The speed of ships and shipping productivity in the age of sail, p. 469
Kim Abildgren, Financial structures and the real effects of credit-supply shocks in Denmark 1922–2011, p. 490
Francisco J. Beltrán Tapia, Commons, social capital, and the emergence of agricultural cooperatives in early twentieth century Spain, p. 511
Lennart Schön, Olle Krantz, The Swedish economy in the early modern period: constructing historical national accounts, p. 529
Olga Christodoulaki, Haeran Cho, Piotr Fryzlewicz, A reflection of history: fluctuations in Greek sovereign risk between 1914 and 1929, p. 550

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Marc Klemp, Jacob Weisdorf, Editor's Choice: The lasting damage to mortality of early-life adversity: evidence from the English famine of the late 1720s, p. 233
Otto Gernandt, Thomas Palm, Daniel Waldenström, Liquidity premia during the industrial breakthrough: evidence from the Stockholm Stock Exchange, 1901–1919, p. 247
Karol Jan Borowiecki, Are composers different? Historical evidence on conflict-induced migration (1816–1997), p. 270
Martin Dribe, Mats Olsson, Patrick Svensson, Was the manorial system an efficient insurance institution? Economic stress and demographic response in Sweden, 1749–1859, p. 292
Kris Inwood, Ian Keay, Diverse paths to industrial development: evidence from late-nineteenth-century Canada, p. 311

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William Hynes, David S. Jacks, Kevin H. O'rourke, Editor's Choice: Commodity market disintegration in the interwar period, p. 119
Pablo Martín-Aceña, Elena Martínez Ruiz, María A. Pons, War and economics: Spanish civil war finances revisited, p. 144
Giovanni Federico, The Corn Laws in continental perspective, p. 166
Giovanni B. Pittaluga, Elena Seghezza, The role of Rentiers in the stabilization processes of the 1920s, p. 188
Sergio Espuelas, Are dictatorships less redistributive? A comparative analysis of social spending in Europe, 1950–1980, p. 211

Gregory Clark, Jaime Reis, Hans-Joachim Voth, Editorial, p. 1

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Jan Luiten van Zanden, Jaco Zuijderduijn, Tine De Moor, Editor's Choice: Small is beautiful: the efficiency of credit markets in the late medieval Holland, p. 3
Sue Bowden, David Clayton, Alvaro Pereira, Extending broadcast technology in the British Colonies during the 1950s, p. 23
Stefano Ugolini, The origins of foreign exchange policy: the National Bank of Belgium and the quest for monetary independence in the 1850s, p. 51
Juan Carmona, Joan R. Rosés, Land markets and agrarian backwardness (Spain, 1904–1934), p. 74
Tamás Vonyó, The bombing of Germany: the economic geography of war-induced dislocation in West German industry, p. 97

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Nina Boberg-Fazlic, Paul Sharp, Jacob Weisdorf, Survival of the richest? Social status, fertility and social mobility in England 1541-1824, p. 365
Steven Nafziger, Did Ivan's vote matter? The political economy of local democracy in Tsarist Russia, p. 393
Rui Esteves, David Khoudour-Castéras, Remittances, capital flows and financial development during the mass migration period, 1870-1913, p. 443
Ingrid Henriksen, Markus Lampe, Paul Sharp, The role of technology and institutions for growth: Danish creameries in the late nineteenth century, p. 475
Marc Flandreau, Norbert Gaillard, Frank Packer, To err is human: US rating agencies and the interwar foreign government debt crisis, p. 495
Henry Ohlsson, The legacy of the Swedish gift and inheritance tax, 1884-2004, p. 539

Announcement, p. 570

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Paolo Malanima, The long decline of a leading economy: GDP in central and northern Italy, 1300-1913, p. 169
Bert De Munck, Gilding golden ages: perspectives from early modern Antwerp on the guild debate, c . 1450 - c . 1650, p. 221
Metin Cosgel, Bogac A. Ergene, Intergenerational wealth accumulation and dispersion in the Ottoman Empire: observations from eighteenth-century Kastamonu, p. 255
Matthias Zehetmayer, The continuation of the antebellum puzzle: stature in the US, 1847-1894, p.
Kerstin Enflo, The institutional roots of post-war European economic underperformance: a regional approach, p. 313
Tim Leunig, Measuring economic performance and social progress, p. 329

European Review of Economic History / Volume 15 / Issue 02, p. 357

Leonor Freire Costa, Maria Manuela Rocha, Tanya Araújo, Social capital and economic performance: trust and distrust in eighteenth-century gold shipments from Brazil , p. 1
Sibylle Lehmann, Oliver Volckart, The political economy of agricultural protection: Sweden 1887 , p. 29
Michael D. Bordo, Christopher M. Meissner, Foreign capital, financial crises and incomes in the first era of globalization , p. 61
Giovanni Federico, When did European markets integrate? , p. 93
Ian Gazeley, Andrew Newell And Peter Scott, Why was urban overcrowding much more severe in Scotland than in the rest of the British Isles? Evidence from the first (1904) official household expenditure survey , p. 127
Nicholas Crafts, Explaining the first Industrial Revolution: two views , p.153