Articles and book chapters

Ancient Rome

Abatino, Barbara, Giuseppe Dari-Mattiacci, and Enrico C. Perotti. “Depersonalization of business in ancient Rome.” Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 31, no. 2 (2011): 365-389. https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqr001

Malmendier, Ulrike. “Law and Finance” at the Origin”.” Journal of Economic Literature 47, no. 4 (2009): 1076-1108. https://doi.org/10.1257/jel.47.4.1076

Brazil

Abramitzky, Ran, Zephyr Frank, and Aprajit Mahajan. “Risk, incentives, and contracts: partnerships in rio de janeiro, 1870–1891.” The Journal of Economic History 70, no. 3 (2010): 686-715. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050710000586

Pargendler, Mariana. “Politics in the Origins: The Making of Corporate Law in Nineteenth-Century Brazil.” The American Journal of Comparative Law 60, no. 3 (2012): 805-850. https://doi.org/10.5131/AJCL.2011.0013

China

Lin Lin and Umakant Varottil.  “Venture Capital in China and India: Does Business Form Matter?” Vanderbilt Journal of Transnational Law 53 (2020): 949-987. https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.3451627

Zelin, Madeleine. “The firm in early modern China.” Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization 71, no. 3 (2009): 623-637. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jebo.2009.03.002

Zelin, Madeleine. “A deep history of Chinese shareholding.” Law and History Review 37, no. 2 (2019): 325-351. https://doi.org/10.1017/S073824801800038X

Egypt

Artunç, Cihan. "Legal origins of corporate governance: Choice of law in Egypt, 1887–1914." The Economic History Review, 2023, 1- 38. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13247 

Artunç, Cihan. "The Impact of Business Cycle Conditions on Firm Dynamics and Composition." The Journal of Economic History, 2023, 1-33. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050723000086 

France

Chandler Jr, Alfred D. “What is a firm?: A historical perspective.” European Economic Review 36, no. 2-3 (1992): 483-492. https://doi.org/10.1016/0014-2921(92)90106-7

Freedeman, Charles E. “Joint-stock business organization in France, 1807–1867.” Business History Review 39, no. 2 (1965): 184-204. https://doi.org/10.2307/3112696

Guinnane, Timothy W., and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal. “Making do with imperfect law: small firms in France and Germany, 1890-1935.” Entreprises et histoire 4 (2009): 79-95. https://doi.org/10.3917/eh.057.0079

Guinnane, Timothy, Ron Harris, Naomi R. Lamoreaux, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal. “Putting the Corporation in its Place.” Enterprise & Society 8, no. 3 (2007): 687-729. https://doi.org/10.1093/es/khm067

Guinnane, Timothy W., Ron Harris, Naomi R. Lamoreaux, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal. “Pouvoir et propriété dans l’entreprise. Pour une histoire internationale des sociétés à responsabilité limitée.” In Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales, vol. 63, no. 1, pp. 73-110. https://doi.org/10.1017/S03952649000238

Hautcoeur, Pierre-Cyrille (ed.).  « Justice commerciale et histoire économique », special issue, Histoire et Mesure, 22, no. 1 (2008). https://doi.org/10.4000/histoiremesure.2973

Hautcoeur, Pierre-Cyrille, and Paolo Di Martino. “The functioning of bankruptcy law and practices in European perspective (ca. 1880–1913), Enterprise & Society, 14, no. 3 (2013) : 579-605. https://doi.org/10.1093/es/kht037

Hautcoeur, Pierre-Cyrille, and Nadine Levratto. “Legal vs economic explanations of the rise of bankruptcies in 19th century France”, Revue d’économie industrielle , 160, no. 4 (2017): 23-46.    https://doi.org/10.4000/rei.6630

Lamoreaux, Naomi R., and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal. “Entity Shielding and the Development of Business Forms: A Comparative Perspective.” Harv. L. Rev. F. 119 (2005): 238. 

Lamoreaux, Naomi R., and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal. “Legal regime and contractual flexibility: A comparison of business’s organizational choices in France and the United States during the era of industrialization.” American law and economics review 7, no. 1 (2005): 28-61. https://doi.org/10.1093/aler/ahi003

Rochat, Jean. “Change for continuity: the making of the société anonyme in nineteenth century france.” In Research handbook on the history of corporate and company law. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784717667.00015

Germany

Chandler Jr, Alfred D. “What is a firm?: A historical perspective.” European Economic Review 36, no. 2-3 (1992): 483-492. https://doi.org/10.1016/0014-2921(92)90106-7

Guinnane, Timothy W. “German company law 1794–1897.” In Research handbook on the history of corporate and company law. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784717667.00015

Guinnane, Timothy W. “New Law for New Enterprises: Cooperative Law in Germany, 1867–1889.” Jahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte/Economic History Yearbook 61, no. 2 (2020): 377-401. https://doi.org/10.1515/jbwg-2020-0016

Guinnane, Timothy W. “Creating a new legal form: the GmbH.” Business History Review 95, no. 1 (2021): 3-32. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007680520000707

Guinnane, Timothy W., and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal. “Making do with imperfect law: small firms in France and Germany, 1890-1935.” Entreprises et histoire 4 (2009): 79-95. https://doi.org/10.3917/eh.057.0079

Guinnane, Timothy, Ron Harris, Naomi R. Lamoreaux, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal. “Putting the Corporation in its Place.” Enterprise & Society 8, no. 3 (2007): 687-729. https://doi.org/10.1093/es/khm067

Guinnane, Timothy W., Ron Harris, Naomi R. Lamoreaux, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal. “Pouvoir et propriété dans l’entreprise. Pour une histoire internationale des sociétés à responsabilité limitée.” In Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales, vol. 63, no. 1, pp. 73-110. https://doi.org/10.1017/S03952649000238

Hannah, Leslie. “Weimar’s Capitalist Spring: A Liberal Exception to Corporate Germany’s Sonderweg.” In The Impact of the First World War on International Business, pp. 237-255. Routledge, 2016. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315680750

Lehmann-Hasemeyer, Sibylle, and Andreas Neumayer. "The limits of control: corporate ownership and control of German joint-stock firms, 1869–1945." Financial History Review 29, no. 2 (2022): 152-197  https://doi.org/10.1017/s0968565022000075

Röder, Erik. “Die Kommanditgesellschaft im Rechtsvergleich: Hintergründe der unterschiedlichen Karriere einer Rechtsform.” Rabels Zeitschrift für ausländisches und internationales Privatrecht/The Rabel Journal of Comparative and International Private Law H. 1 (2014): 109-154.

Great Britain

Acheson, Graeme, Michael Aldous, and William Quinn. "The anatomy of a bubble company: The London Assurance in 1720." The Economic History Review 77, no. 1 (2024): 160-184. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13256

Acheson, Graeme G., Gareth Campbell, John D. Turner, and Nadia Vanteeva. "Corporate ownership, control, and firm performance in Victorian Britain." The Journal of Economic History 76, no. 1 (2016): 1-40. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0022050716000450

Acheson, Graeme G., Charles R. Hickson, and John D. Turner. “Does limited liability matter? Evidence from nineteenth-century British banking.” Review of Law & Economics 6, no. 2 (2010): 247-273. https://doi.org/10.2202/1555-5879.1444

Acheson, Graeme G., Charles R. Hickson, and John D. Turner. “Organisational flexibility and governance in a civil-law regime: Scottish partnership banks during the Industrial Revolution.” Business History 53, no. 4 (2011): 505-529. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2011.574690

Acheson, Graeme, Eoin McLaughlin, Gill Newton, and Linda Perriton. "The incidence and persistence of partnerships in a British industrial city: Glasgow, 1861–81." The Economic History Review (2024), forthcoming. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13356

Acheson, Graeme G., and John D. Turner. “The death blow to unlimited liability in Victorian Britain: The City of Glasgow failure.” Explorations in Economic History 45, no. 3 (2008): 235-253. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2007.10.001

Aldous, Michael, and Stefano Condorelli. “An Incomplete Revolution: Corporate Governance Challenges of the London Assurance Company and the Limitations of the Joint-Stock Form, 1720–1725.” Enterprise & society 21, no. 1 (2020): 239-270. https://doi.org/10.1017/eso.2019.34

Aldous, Michael, Philip T. Fliers, and John D. Turner. "Was Marshall Right? Managerial Failure and Corporate Ownership in Edwardian Britain." The Journal of Economic History 83, no. 1 (March 2023): 131-165. https://doi.org/10.1017/S002205072200047X

Bennett, Robert J. “Interpreting business partnerships in late Victorian Britain.” The Economic History Review 69, no. 4 (2016): 1199-1227. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.12327

Bogle, David A., Gareth Campbell, Christopher Coyle, and John D. Turner. "Why Did Shareholder Liability Disappear?" Journal of Financial Economics 152 (February 2024): 103761. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2023.103761

Braggion, Fabio, Rik Frehen, and Emiel Jerphanion. "Credit provision and stock trading: evidence from the South Sea Bubble." Journal of Financial and Quantitative Analysis (2023): 1-31. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022109023001163

Bubb, Ryan. “Choosing the partnership: English business organization law during the industrial revolution.” Seattle UL Rev. 38 (2014): 337.

Coyle Christopher, Aldo Musacchio, and John D. Turner. “Law and finance in Britain c. 1900.” Financial History Review 26, no. 3 (2019): 267-293.  https://doi.org/10.1017/S0968565019000179

Fjesme, Sturla, Leslie Hannah, and Lyndon Moore. "Informed investors, screening, and sorting on the London capital market, 1891-1913." Explorations in Economic History 91 (2024): 101515. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eeh.2023.101515

Foreman‐Peck, James, and Leslie Hannah. "Extreme divorce: the managerial revolution in UK companies before 1914 1." The Economic History Review 65, no. 4 (2012): 1217-1238. DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0289.2011.00637.x 

Foreman-Peck, James, and Leslie Hannah. "Some consequences of the early twentieth-century British divorce of ownership from control." Business History 55, no. 4 (2013): 543-564.  http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2012.741970

Freeman, Mark, Robin Pearson, and James Taylor. “‘Different and Better?’ Scottish Joint-Stock Companies and the Law, c. 1720–1845.” The English Historical Review 122, no. 495 (2007): 61-81 https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/cel373

Freeman, Mark, Robin Pearson, and James Taylor. “Law, politics and the governance of English and Scottish joint-stock companies, 1600-1850.” Business History 55, no. 4 (2013): 636-652 https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2012.741971

French, E. A. “The origin of general limited liability in the United Kingdom.” Accounting and Business Research 21, no. 81 (1990): 15-34. https://doi.org/10.1080/00014788.1990.9729400

Guinnane, Timothy W., Ron Harris, and Naomi R. Lamoreaux. “Contractual freedom and corporate governance in Britain in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.” Business History Review 91, no. 2 (2017): 227-277. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007680517000733

Guinnane, Timothy, Ron Harris, Naomi R. Lamoreaux, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal. “Putting the Corporation in its Place.” Enterprise & Society 8, no. 3 (2007): 687-729. https://doi.org/10.1093/es/khm067

Guinnane, Timothy W., Ron Harris, Naomi R. Lamoreaux, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal. “Pouvoir et propriété dans l’entreprise. Pour une histoire internationale des sociétés à responsabilité limitée.” In Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales, vol. 63, no. 1, pp. 73-110. https://doi.org/10.1017/S03952649000238

Harris, Ron. “The Bubble Act: Its passage and its effects on business organization.” The Journal of Economic History 54, no. 3 (1994): 610-627. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700015059

Harris, Ron. “The private origins of the private company: Britain 1862–1907.” Oxford Journal of Legal Studies 33, no. 2 (2013): 339-378. https://doi.org/10.1093/ojls/gqt001

Harris, Ron, and Naomi R. Lamoreaux. “Opening the black box of the common-law legal regime: Contrasts in the development of corporate law in Britain and the United States in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.” Business history 61, no. 7 (2019): 1199-1221. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2018.1501027

Hunt, C. “The joint-stock company in England, 1830-1844.” Journal of Political Economy 43, no. 3 (1935): 331-364. https://doi.org/10.1086/254785

Pearson, Robin. “Shareholder democracies? English stock companies and the politics of corporate governance during the Industrial Revolution.” The English Historical Review 117, no. 473 (2002): 840-866. https://doi.org/10.1093/ehr/117.473.840

Pearson, Robin. “Escaping from the State? Historical Paths to Public and Private Insurance.” Enterprise & Society (2020): 1-30. https://doi.org/10.1017/eso.2020.26

Rutterford, Janette, and Leslie Hannah. "The unsung activists: UK shareholder investigation committees, 1888–1940." Business History Review 96, no. 4 (2022): 741-775. https://doi.org/10.1017/s0007680522000551

Turner, John D. “‘The last acre and sixpence’: views on bank liability regimes in nineteenth-century Britain.” Financial History Review 16, no. 2 (2009): 111-127. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0968565009990047

Turner, John D. “The development of English company law before 1900.” In Research Handbook on the History of Corporate and Company Law. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784717667.00015

Turner, John D. "Three Centuries of Corporate Governance in the United Kingdom." Economic History Review 77, no. 1 (2024): 123-145. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.13326.

Italy

Carmona, Maurice. “Aspects du capitalisme toscan aux XVIe et XVIIe siècles: Les sociétés en commandite à Florence et à Lucques.” Revue d’histoire moderne et contemporaine (1954-) 11, no. 2 (1964): 81-108.

Trivellato, Francesca. “Renaissance Florence and the Origins of Capitalism: A Business History Perspective.” Business History Review 94, no. 1 (2020): 229-251. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007680520000033

Ireland

Acheson, Graeme G., and John D. Turner. “The impact of limited liability on ownership and control: Irish banking, 1877–1914 1.” The Economic History Review 59, no. 2 (2006): 320-346. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0289.2006.00348.x

Japan

Baum, Harald, and Takahashi, Eiji. “Commercial and Corporate Law in Japan. ” In History of Law in Japan Since 1868, edited by Röhl, Wilhelm, 330–401. Leiden and Boston: Brill Academic Publishers, 2005.

Frankl, Jennifer L. “An analysis of Japanese corporate structure, 1915–1937.” The Journal of Economic History 59, no. 4 (1999): 997-1015. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700024116

Hannah, Leslie, and Makoto Kasuya. “Twentieth-century enterprise forms: Japan in comparative perspective.” Enterprise & Society 17, no. 1 (2016): 80-115.  https://doi.org/10.1017/eso.2015.51

Jones, Geoffrey. "B Corps: Can It Remake Capitalism in Japan?" Keizaikei [Kanto Gakuin Journal of Economics and Management] 284 (November 2021): 1–12.

Morck, Randall, and Masao Nakamura. “Business groups and the big push: Meiji Japan’s mass privatization and subsequent growth.” Enterprise & Society 8, no. 3 (2007): 543-601. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/es/khm076

Nicholas, Tom. “The Organization of Enterprise in Japan.” The Journal of Economic History 75, no. 2 (2015): 333-363. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050715000649

Onji, Kazuki, and John P. Tang. “Taxes and the choice of organizational form in late nineteenth century Japan.” The Journal of Economic History 77, no. 2 (2017): 440-472. https://doi.org/10.1017/S002205071700047X

Tang, John P. and Sergi Basco. “Banks, credit supply, and the life cycle of firms: evidence from late nineteenth century Japan.” Journal of Banking and Finance, 154(2023): 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jbankfin.2023.106937

Netherlands

Colvin, Christopher L. “Organizational determinants of bank resilience: explaining the performance of SME banks in the Dutch financial crisis of the 1920s.” Business History Review 92, no. 4 (2018): 661-690. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007680519000011

Dari-Mattiacci, Giuseppe, Oscar Gelderblom, Joost Jonker, and Enrico C. Perotti. “The emergence of the corporate form.” The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 33, no. 2 (2017): 193-236. https://doi.org/10.1093/jleo/ewx002

Gelderblom, Oscar, Abe De Jong, and Joost Jonker. "The formative years of the modern corporation: The Dutch East India Company VOC, 1602–1623." The journal of economic history 73, no. 4 (2013): 1050-1076. doi: 10.1017/S0022050713000879

de Vicq, Amaury. “Exploring the Limits of the Limited Partnership: The Case of the Bank of Twente, 1860s–1920s.” Enterprise & Society (2021): 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1017/eso.2021.20

Van Hofstraeten, Bram. “Historiographical Opportunities of Notarized Partnership Agreements Recorded in the Early Modern Low Countries.” In Understanding the Sources of Early Modern and Modern Commercial Law, pp. 119-143. Brill Nijhoff, 2018. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004363144_007

Russia

Gregg, Amanda G. “Shareholder rights and share capital: the effect of the 1901 Russian Corporation Reform, 1890–1905.” The Economic History Review 70, no. 3 (2017): 919-943. https://doi.org/10.1111/ehr.12417

Gregg, Amanda G. “Factory productivity and the concession system of incorporation in late imperial russia, 1894–1908.” American Economic Review 110, no. 2 (2020): 401-27. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.20151656

Gregg, Amanda, and Steven Nafziger. "The Births, Lives and Deaths of Corporations in Late Imperial Russia." The Economic Journal 134.661 (2024): 2041-70. https://doi.org/10.1093/ej/ueae011

Gregg, Amanda G., and Douglas Rogers. "Introduction: The Imperial Russian Corporation in and beyond Economic History." The Russian Review 81, no. 3 (2022): 407-420.  https://doi.org/10.1111/russ.12368 

Spain

Guinnane, Timothy W., and Susana Martínez-Rodríguez. “Cooperatives before cooperative law: business law and cooperatives in Spain, 1869-1936.” Revista de Historia Económica-Journal of Iberian and Latin America Economic History 29, no. 1 (2011): 67-93. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0212610911000012

Guinnane, Timothy W., and Susana Martínez-Rodríguez. “Flexibility in Spanish company law, 1885-1936.” Revista de Historia Industrial (2014): 81-113. https://doi.org/10.1344/rhi.v23i56.21110

Guinnane, Timothy W., and Susana Martínez-Rodríguez. “Choice of Enterprise Form: Spain, 1886–1936.” The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 34, no. 1 (2018): 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1093/jleo/ewx015

Guinnane, Timothy W., and Susana Martínez-Rodríguez. “Instructions not included: Spain’s sociedad de responsabilidad limitada, 1919–1936.” European Review of Economic History 22, no. 4 (2018): 462-482. https://doi.org/10.1093/ereh/hey006

Martínez-Rodríguez, Susana. “Creating the Sociedad de Responsabilidad Limitada: the use of legal flexibility in Spanish Company Law, 1869–1953.” Business History Review 90, no. 2 (2016): 227-249. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007680515001361

Martínez-Rodríguez, Susana. “History of corporations in Spain in the 20th century: towards Europe.” In Research handbook on the history of corporate and company law. Edward Elgar Publishing, 2018. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784717667.00015

Martínez-Rodríguez, Susana. “Mistresses of company capital: Female partners in multi-owner firms, Spain (1886–1936).” Business History 62, no. 8 (2020): 1373-1394. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2018.1551364

Sweden

Kenny, Seán, and Anders Ögren. “Unlimiting Unlimited Liability: Legal Equality for Swedish Banks with Alternative Shareholder Liability Regimes (1897-1903).” Business History Review (2021). https://doi.org/10.1017/S0007680521000192

Turkey/Ottoman Empire

Ağır, Seven, and Cihan Artunç. "The wealth Tax of 1942 and the disappearance of non-muslim enterprises in Turkey." The Journal of Economic History 79, no. 1 (2019): 201-243. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050718000724

Ağır, Seven, and Cihan Artunç. “Set and forget? the evolution of business law in the Ottoman Empire and Turkey.” Business History Review (2021): 1-36. https://doi.org/10.1017/S000768052000094X

Artunç, Cihan. "Religious minorities and firm ownership in early twentieth‐century Egypt." The Economic History Review 72, no. 3 (2019): 979-1007. https://doi/10.1111/ehr.12769

Artunç, Cihan, and Timothy W. Guinnane. “Partnership as experimentation.” The Journal of Law, Economics, and Organization 35, no. 3 (2019): 455-488. https://doi.org/10.1093/jleo/ewz007 

Artunç, Cihan, and Mohamed Saleh. "The demand for extraterritoriality: Religious minorities in nineteenth‐century Egypt." The Economic History Review 77, no. 3 (2024): 895-927. https://dpo/10.1111/ehr.13302

United States

Bargeron, Leonce, and Kenneth Lehn. “Limited liability and share transferability: An analysis of California firms, 1920–1940.” Journal of Corporate Finance 44 (2017): 451-468. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jcorpfin.2014.05.005

Chandler, Alfred D. “The beginnings of “big business” in American industry.” Business History Review 33, no. 1 (1959): 1-31. https://doi.org/10.2307/3111932

Chandler, Alfred D. “The beginnings of the modern industrial corporation.” Proceedings of the American Philosophical Society 130, no. 4 (1986): 382-389.

Chandler Jr, Alfred D. “The M-form: Industrial groups, American style.” European economic review 19, no. 1 (1982): 3-23. https://doi.org/10.1016/0014-2921(82)90003-4

Chandler Jr, Alfred D. “What is a firm?: A historical perspective.” European Economic Review 36, no. 2-3 (1992): 483-492. https://doi.org/10.1016/0014-2921(92)90106-7

Chandler Jr, Alfred D., and Herman Daems. “Administrative coordination, allocation and monitoring: A comparative analysis of the emergence of accounting and organization in the USA and Europe.” Accounting, Organizations and Society 4, no. 1-2 (1979): 3-20. https://doi.org/10.1016/0361-3682(79)90003-5

Evans, Lewis T., and Neil C. Quigley. “Shareholder liability regimes, principal-agent relationships, and banking industry performance.” The Journal of Law and Economics 38, no. 2 (1995): 497-520. https://doi.org/10.1086/467340

Goolsbee, A. “The Impact of the Corporate Income Tax: Evidence from State Organizational Form Data”. Journal of Public Economics 88, no. 11(2004): 2283–99. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpubeco.2003.05.002

Gordon, Roger H., and Jeffrey K. MacKie-Mason. “Tax distortions to the choice of organizational form.” Journal of Public Economics 55, no. 2 (1994): 279-306. https://doi.org/10.1016/0047-2727(94)90055-8

Guinnane, Timothy, Ron Harris, Naomi R. Lamoreaux, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal. “Putting the Corporation in its Place.” Enterprise & Society 8, no. 3 (2007): 687-729. https://doi.org/10.1093/es/khm067

Guinnane, Timothy W., Ron Harris, Naomi R. Lamoreaux, and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal. “Pouvoir et propriété dans l’entreprise. Pour une histoire internationale des sociétés à responsabilité limitée.” In Annales. Histoire, Sciences Sociales, vol. 63, no. 1, pp. 73-110. https://doi.org/10.1017/S03952649000238

Handlin, Oscar, and Mary F. Handlin. “Origins of the American business corporation.” The Journal of Economic History 5, no. 1 (1945): 1-23. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050700112318

Hilt, Eric. “Incentives in corporations: Evidence from the American whaling industry.” The Journal of Law and Economics 49, no. 1 (2006): 197-227. https://doi.org/10.1086/504057

Hilt, Eric. "When did ownership separate from control? Corporate governance in the early nineteenth century." The Journal of Economic History 68, no. 3 (2008): 645-685.

Hilt, Eric. Corporation Law and the Shift toward Open Access in the Antebellum United States. University of Chicago Press, 2017. https://doi.org/10.7208/9780226426532-007

Hilt, Eric. “Business Organization in American Economic History.” The Oxford Handbook of American Economic History, vol. 1 (2018): 261. https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190882617.001.0001

Hilt, Eric, and Katharine O’Banion. “The limited partnership in New York, 1822–1858: partnerships without kinship.” The Journal of Economic History 69, no. 3 (2009): 615-645. https://doi.org/10.1017/S0022050709001077

Koudijs, Peter, and Laura Salisbury. "Limited liability and investment: Evidence from changes in marital property laws in the US South, 1840–1850." Journal of Financial Economics 138, no. 1 (2020): 1-26. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jfineco.2020.04.003

Koudijs, Peter, Laura Salisbury, and Gurpal Sran. "For richer, for poorer: bankers' liability and bank risk in New England, 1867 to 1880." The Journal of Finance 76, no. 3 (2021): 1541-1599. https://doi.org/10.1111/jofi.13011

Lamm-Tennant, Joan, and Laura T. Starks. “Stock versus mutual ownership structures: the risk implications.” Journal of business (1993): 29-46.

Lamoreaux, Naomi R., and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal. “Entity Shielding and the Development of Business Forms: A Comparative Perspective.” Harv. L. Rev. F. 119 (2005): 238.

Lamoreaux, Naomi R., and Jean-Laurent Rosenthal. “Legal regime and contractual flexibility: A comparison of business’s organizational choices in France and the United States during the era of industrialization.” American law and economics review 7, no. 1 (2005): 28-61. https://doi.org/10.1093/aler/ahi003

Morley, John. “The common law corporation: The power of the trust in Anglo-American business history.” Colum. L. Rev. 116 (2016): 2145.

Sylla, Richard, and Robert E. Wright. “Corporation formation in the antebellum United States in comparative context.” Business History 55, no. 4 (2013): 653-669. https://doi.org/10.1080/00076791.2012.741977

Weinstein, Mark I. “Share price changes and the arrival of limited liability in California.” The Journal of Legal Studies 32, no. 1 (2003): 1-25. https://doi.org/10.1086/344559

Weinstein, Mark I. “Limited liability in California 1928–31: It’s the lawyers.” American Law and Economics Review 7, no. 2 (2005): 439-483. https://doi.org/10.1093/aler/ahi013

Zanjani, George. “Regulation, capital, and the evolution of organizational form in US life insurance.” American Economic Review 97, no. 3 (2007): 973-983. https://doi.org/10.1257/aer.97.3.973

Comparative

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