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Julia Cagé, Thomas Piketty
Data, Figures and Tables related to Julia Cagé's and Thomas Piketty's eponymous book.
Une histoire du conflit politique. Élections et inégalités sociales en France, 1789-2022, Seuil, 2023, 864p.
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Denis Cogneau
Data, Figures, Tables, and Statistical Series related to Denis Cogneau's eponymous book on the economic history of the French colonialism.
Un Empire bon marché. Histoire et économie politique de la colonisation française, XIXe-XXIe siècle, Seuil, "Eco-Histoires", 2023, 512p
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Facundo Alvaredo, Lucas Chancel, Thomas Piketty, Emmanuel Saez, Gabriel Zucman & al.
The World Inequality Database (WID.world) aims to provide open and convenient access to the most extensive available database on the historical evolution of the world distribution of income and wealth, both within countries and between countries.
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Guillaume Bazot, Eric Monnet, Matthias Morys
Monthly balance sheets of all central banks in the world (i.e. 21) over 1891-1913
Bazot, G., Monnet, E., & Morys, M. (2022). Taming the global financial cycle: central banks as shock absorbers in the first era of globalization. The Journal of Economic History, 82(3), 801-839.
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Jérôme Bourdieu, Lionel Kesztenbaum, Gilles Postel-Vinay, Akiko Suwa-Eisenmann
The 3000 families survey was launched in the early 1980s. It is based on the systematic reconstitution of the trajectories and the descendants of all individuals whose last name begins with the letters "TRA".
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Antoine Bozio, Institut des Politiques publiques
The IPP tax and benefit tables collect information on the French tax and benefit system in an historical perspective.
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Denis Cogneau, Yannick Dupraz, Sandrine Mesplé-Somps
New dataset on colonial states under the second French colonial empire (1830-1962), using archival sources.
Cogneau, Denis, Dupraz, Yannick, and Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine. Fiscal Capacity and Dualism in Colonial States: The French Empire 1830-1962. Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2021-02-26, https://doi.org/10.3886/E133361V1
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Amory Gethin, Clara Martínez-Toledano, Thomas Piketty
The World Political Cleavages and Inequality Database (WPID) is the result of a collaborative research program involving about twenty researchers all around the world. The central aim is to provide open and convenient access to the most extensive available dataset on the structure of political cleavages and social inequalities in electoral democracies, located on the five continents, from the mid-20th century to the present.
Clivages politiques et inégalités sociales. Une étude de 50 démocraties (1948-2020) (co-dirigé avec A. Gethin et C. Martinez-Toledano), EHESS/Gallimard/Seuil, 2021, 624p
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Pierre-Cyrille Hautcœur, Angelo Riva
The DFIH database collects data on firms and securities prices listed on the Paris stock exchange from 1795 to 1976.
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Pierre-Cyrille Hautcœur
This collection provides statistics and documents relative to bankruptcy in France.
Hautcoeur, Pierre-Cyrille "Origines et usages de la statistique des faillites en France au 19e siècle : histoire d'un échec", Histoire et Mesure, XXIII, 1, 2008, pp. 85-136
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Pierre-Cyrille Hautcœur
This collection provides statistics on life assurance companies in France and the USA between the middle of the 18th century and the interwar period.
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Jean Heffer, Jacques Mairesse, Jean-Marie Chanut, Gilles Postel-Vinay
This dataset fully resumes the data from two large surveys conducted by the Statistique Générale de la France on industry in the 19th century. It contains data on production, values, work and machines.
doi:10.25721/fcs5-6324 ; Jean-Marie Chanut, Jean Heffer, Jacques Mairesse, Gilles Postel-Vinay, L'industrie française au milieu du XIXe siècle. Les enquêtes de la Statistique générale de la France, Paris, Ed. de l'EHESS, 2000, 215p.
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Philip Hoffman, Gilles Postel-Vinay, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal
This datasat stems from a research project on credit markets in Paris over two centuries. It contains mensual series of the number of different loan types realised by parisian notaries between 1660 and 1870.
Hoffman, Philip T., Postel-Vinay, Gilles & Rosenthal, Jean-Laurent, Des marchés sans prix. Une économie politique du crédit à Paris, 1660-1870 Paris, Éd. de l’EHESS, 2001, 446 p.
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Philip Hoffman, Gilles Postel-Vinay, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal
The data on display here derived from a research project on credit markets in France. The data that was gathered makes it possible to analyze how medium and long term credit markets developed and functioned. Each observation in the data set is a loan, with information about the type of loan; the amount lent; the year and month it was arranged; its interest rate and duration; and, when indicated in the loan documents, the purpose of the loan. The data base also contains information about the individuals involved in the loan.
doi:10.25721/a27d-9d13
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Nicolas Krakovitch
Quantitative data on construction, investment and housing prices in France.
Nicolas Krakovitch, Cement and Long-term Credits Housing finance and housing capital in France since 1945, mémoire de Master 2, Ecole d'économie de Paris & EHESS, 2019.
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Emmanuel Le Roy Ladurie, Madeleine Roux-Merlin, Gilles Postel-Vinay, Michel Demonet
This dataset contains the number of conscripts in France between 1818 and 1830, alongside with the characteristics of this masculine population aged 20: height, profession, instruction degree, health.
doi:10.25721/httx-2029
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Vivien Levy-Garboua, Eric Monnet
Monthly and annual series on interest rate in France 1800-2015
Levy-Garboua, Vivien, and Éric Monnet. "Les taux d’intérêt en France: une perspective historique." Revue d'économie financière 1 (2016): 35-58.
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Eric Monnet, Damien Puy
doi:10.25721/r55j-2b94 ; Monnet, Eric, and Damien Puy. “Do Old Habits Die Hard? Central Banks and the Bretton Woods Gold Puzzle”, Journal of International Economics, 2021
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Eric Monnet
Données sur les guichets bancaires et sur les bilans bancaires des banques françaises dans l'entre-deux-guerres.
doi:10.25721/8dg3-tw38 ; Bonhoure, E., Clausse H., Monnet E. and Riva, A. (2021). "The Great Expansion. The Exceptional Spread of Bank Branches in Interwar France", CEPR Discussion Paper n°16698 ; Baubeau, P., Monnet, E., Riva, A., & Ungaro, S. (2021). "Flight‐to‐safety and the credit crunch: a new history of the banking crises in France during the Great Depression". The Economic History Review, 74(1), 223-250.
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Eric Monnet, Damien Puy
The dataset consists of five variables, available for a large cross section of countries since 1950, at quarterly frequency: (i) Real GDP (ii) Credit, (iii) Consumer Prices, (iv) Stock Prices, and (v) Sovereign Bond Yields . It currently covers (i) 37 countries for real GDP (ii) 45 countries for credit (iii) 48 countries for consumer prices (iv) 26 countries for stock prices and (v) 18 countries for bond yields.
Monnet, Eric, and Damien Puy (2019), "One Ring to Rule Them All? New Evidence on World Cycles". International Monetary Fund working paper n° 19/202
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Thomas Piketty
Data, Figures, Tables, and Statistical Series related to Thomas Piketty's eponymous book.
A Brief History of Equality, Harvard University Press, 2022, 274p
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Thomas Piketty
Data, Figures, Tables, and Statistical Series related to Thomas Piketty's eponymous book.
Capital and ideology, Harvard University Press, 2020, 1093p
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Thomas Piketty
Data, Figures, Tables, and Statistical Series related to Thomas Piketty's eponymous book.
Capital in the 21st century, Harvard University Press, 2014, 698p
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Thomas Piketty
Data, Figures, Tables, and Statistical Series related to Thomas Piketty's eponymous book.
Top Incomes in France in the 20th century. Inequality and redistribution, 1901-1998, Harvard University Press, 2018, 1280p.
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Gilles Postel-Vinay, Jean-Laurent Rosenthal
This dataset summarizes the diffusion of banks in France. It stems from the Annuaires du Commerce Bottin, published around every five years between 1800 and 1910. For each year, it establishes the list of bank offices and their town of implantation.