During the French Revolution, more than 100,000 individuals, predominantly supporters of the Old Regime, fled France …

Under the classical gold standard (1880-1914), the Bank of France maintained a stable discount rate while the Bank of …, differ so much? How did the Bank of France manage to keep a stable rate and continuously violate the "rules of the game …"? This paper tackles these questions and shows that the domestic asset portfolio of the Bank of France played a crucial role …

This paper presents a synopsis of recent NBER studies of the history of corporate governance in Canada, China, France …

evidence from France in the 1930s. In 1936, France departed from the gold standard and implemented mandatory wage increases and …

in industrial fairs and prize-granting institutions in Britain, France and the United States, compared to parallel …

industrialization. The empirical evidence indicates that middle-class women in France were extensively engaged in entrepreneurship and …

but not others became colonies and why many colonies that were initially profitable subsequently become unprofitable and … productive and appropriative activities, and the distribution of income in colonies …