Howard N. Bodenhorn

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“Antebellum Banking.” In EH.net Online Encyclopedia of Economic History .  Edited by Robert Whaples.     [entry]

“Entry, Rivalry and Free Banking in Antebellum America,” Review of Economics and Statistics 72, no. 4 (November 1990), pp. 682-86.      [RePEc]  [JSTOR]

“Capital Mobility and Financial Integration in Antebellum America,” Journal of Economic History 52, no. 3 (September 1992), pp. 585-610     [JSTOR]

“Regional Interest Rates in Antebellum America.”  In Strategic Factors in American Economic History: A Volume to Honor Robert W. Fogel, pp. 159-87.  Edited by Claudia Goldin and Hugh Rockoff.  Chicago: University of Chicago Press for NBER, 1992.  [With Hugh Rockoff]

“The Business Cycle and Entry in Early American Banking Markets,” Review of Economics and Statistics 75, no. 3 (August 1993), pp. 531-35. [abstract]  [JSTOR]

“Small Denomination Banknotes in Antebellum America,” Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking 25, no. 4 (November 1993), pp. 812-27. [RePEc]  [JSTOR]

“Was There a Note Issue Conundrum in the Free Banking Era?” Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking 27, no. 3 (August 1995), pp. 702-12.   [With Michael Haupert]  [RePEc]  [JSTOR]

“A More Perfect Union: Regional Interest Rates in the Twentieth Century United States.”  In Anglo-American Financial Systems: Institutions and Markets in the Twentieth Century, pp. 415-53.  Edited by Michael Bordo and Richard Sylla.  Burr Ridge, Illinois: Irwin, 1996.    [data]

“Zombie Banks and the Demise of New York’s Safety Fund,” Eastern Economic Journal 22, no.1 (Winter 1996), pp. 21-33.

“The Note Issue Paradox in the Free Banking Era,” Journal of Economic History 56, no. 3 (September 1996), pp. 687-93.      [with Michael Haupert]   [JSTOR]

“Private Banking in Antebellum Virginia: Thomas Branch & Sons of Petersburg,” Business History Review 71, no. 4 (Winter 1997), pp. 513-42. [abstract]  [data] [JSTOR]

“Teachers, and Scholars Too: Economic Scholarship at Elite Liberal Arts Colleges,” Journal of Economic Education 28, no. 4 (Fall 1997), pp. 323-36. [abstract]  [JSTOR]

“Quis Custodiet Ipsos Custodiet?,” Eastern Economic Journal 24, no. 1 (Winter 1998), pp. 7-24. [abstract]

“Free Banking and Financial Entrepreneurship in Nineteenth Century New York: The Black River Bank of Watertown,” Business and Economic History 27, no. 1 (Fall 1998), pp. 102-114. [PDFat h-net]

“An Engine of Growth: Real Bills and Schumpeterian Banking in Antebellum New York,” Explorations in Economic History 36, no.3 (July 1999), pp. 278-302. [abstract]

 “A Troublesome Caste: Height and Nutrition of Antebellum Virginia’s Rural Free Blacks,” Journal of Economic History 59:4 (December 1999), pp. 972-96. [data] [JSTOR]

 “The Mulatto Advantage: The Biological Consequences of Complexion among Free Blacks in Antebellum Virginia,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 33:1 (Summer 2002), pp. 21-46. [abstract]  [data]

 “Making the Little Guy Pay: Payments System Networks, Cross-Subsidization, and the Collapse of the Suffolk System,” Journal of Economic History 62:1 (March 2002), pp. 147-169. [abstract]

“The Complexion Gap: The Economic Consequences of Color among Free African-Americans in the Rural Antebellum South.”   Advances in Agricultural Economic History 2 (2003), pp. 41-73.

“Tractors, Trains and Trolleys: Comment on Grove, Schiffman and Smith.” Journal of Economic History 62:2 (June 2002), pp. 560-65.

“Short-Term Loans and Long-Term Relationships: Relationship Lending in Early America.”  Journal of Money, Credit, and Banking 35:4 (August 2003) [abstract]  [JSTOR] [data]

“Economic Scholarship at Elite Liberal Arts Colleges: A Citations Analysis with Rankings.” Journal of Economic Education 34:4 (Fall 2003), pp. 341-59. [abstract]   [article]

“ Unemployment Risk and Compensating Differentials in Late-Nineteenth Century New Jersey Manufacturing.” Economic Inquiry (October 2005), pp.734-49. [ with Susan Averett and Justas Staisiunas.]  [abstract]

“Bank Chartering and Political Corruption in Antebellum New York: Free Banking as Reform.” In Corruption and Reform: Lessons from America’s History, pp. 231-257.  Edited by Edward Glaeser and Claudia Goldin. University of Chicago Press, 2006.  [RePEc]

“Financial Intermediaries and Their Regulation.” In Historical Statistics of the United States: Millennial Edition, Volume 3: pp. 589-592; 632-730. Edited by Susan B. Carter, Scot Garner, Michael R. Haines, Alan L. Olmstead, Richard Sutch, and Gavin Wright. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2006. [with Eugene N. White]  [online]

“Colorism, Complexion Homogamy and Household Wealth: Some Historical Evidence.” American Economic Review, 96, no. 2 (May 2006), pp. 256-260. [AER]

“Usury Ceilings and Bank Lending Behavior: Evidence from Nineteenth-Century New York.” Explorations in Economic History 44:2 (April 2007), 179-202.  [abstract] [sciencedirect]

“Single Parenthood and Childhood Outcomes in the Mid-Nineteenth Century Urban South,” Journal of Interdisciplinary History 38:1 (Summer 2007), 33-64. [abstract]  [article-PDF]

“Colourism and African-American Wealth: Evidence from the Nineteenth-Century South.” Journal of Population Economics 20:3 (April 2007), 599-620 [with Christopher S. Ruebeck.] [abstract]

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