This paper presents a synopsis of recent NBER studies of the history of corporate governance in Canada, China, France …, Germany, Japan, India, Italy, the Netherlands, Sweden, the United Kingdom, and the United States. Together, the studies …

. The analysis includes a set of multivariate time series models that relate measures of banking and equity market activity …

The "Federalist financial revolution" may have jump-started the U.S. economy into modern growth, but the Free Banking … System (1837-1862) did not play a direct role in sustaining it. Despite lowering entry barriers and extending banking into …

This paper examines the relationship between the structure of banking markets and economic growth using a new dataset … on manufacturing industry-level growth rates and banking market concentration for U.S. states during 1899-1929--a period … when the manufacturing sector was expanding rapidly and restrictive branching laws segmented the U.S. banking system …

rate among these children. Because not all of the take-up of public insurance among eligible children is accounted for by … children who transfer from being uninsured to having public insurance, our results suggest that there may be some crowd-out of … private insurance coverage; the upper bound crowd-out rate we calculate is 46 percent …

religious organization are able to insure their consumption stream against income shocks and find strong insurance effects for … services are able to insure their stream of happiness against income shocks and find strong happiness insurance effects for … alternative form of insurance for both whites and blacks though the mechanism by which religious organizations provide insurance …